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Soft Power: Creating a strategic advantage with human resources and technology in Sport

If Soft Power or co-optive power can be seen as an aspect of a nation’s power of getting countries to do want what it wants, India’s push for the establishment of the International…

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EA Sports FIFA : The Sport Within A Sport

“EA Sports, it’s in the game.” When people hear the word FIFA, they most often assume that people aren’t referring to the governing body of world football, but instead are…

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The Roar of The Blue Tigers

“Things that have never happened before happen all the time” – Scott Sagan On a rainy night in Kolkata’s illustrious Salt Lake Stadium, the Indian men’s football team dared to…

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New India deserves the return of Formula One

Majorly due to the success of Netflix’s Drive To Survive, a dramatised documentary of the Formula One season, Formula One has had a huge rise in popularity among global sport…

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Stem Cell Therapy In Sport

Have you wondered how athletes nowadays continue to perform at the highest level well into their 30s? Well, the secret for the success of some of these age-defying, seemingly inhuman…

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Smart use of Artificial Intelligence can help make intelligent decisions in sport

By now, you will be very familiar with cricket’s Decision Review System and the ball-tracking used to assist umpires arrive at decisions. The Win-probability that TV channels now flash on…

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Is rivalry in sport at all levels such a bad thing?

Competition and rivalry. Intrinsic to sport – and, perhaps, life itself. What would sport be without legendary rivarly. Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier in the boxing ring. Australia and England…

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Vishnu Saravanan’s changed mindset makes him compete fearlessly with the world’s best

A phone call may never be the best way to figure out an athlete’s state of mind but Vishnu Saravanan’s calm and assured responses suggest that he was looking back…

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Amit Saroha’s show of Gratitude brings role of Para Athletes’ Escorts to forefront

There are countless reasons and occasions for gratitude to rent the air. And Amit Kumar Saroha has his own. It was not about his fight against adversity after a road…

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Paralympic stars occupy India’s collective mindspace, now nation must build on it

There is much fanfare – and deservedly so – as Indian athletes return home from the Paralympic Games in Tokyo with a large and unprecedented collection of 19 medals, including…

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