Category: Other Sport
Ministry must ensure athletes’ safe return to training before advocating competition
Athletes’ overall health, not just securing them from the outbreak of COVID-19, must always be kept in mind when planning the resumption of competitive sport. It becomes obvious that when…
Second class citizens?
The Indian swimmers’ hearts sank collectively when they discovered that their sport was not part of the Standard Operating Procedure released by the Sports Authority of India (SAI) a week…
Delayed, Ministry list of recognised NSFs draws mixed reaction from sports fraternity
The list of National Sports Federations (NSF) granted annual recognition by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports is out after an inordinate delay. Comprising 54 NSFs, it has ruffled…
Teenager Chhavi Kohli envisions some changes in fencing
Chhavi Kohli wears a mature head on young shoulders and despite doing multiple things during Lockdown, she lets her mind visit a future when she can resume fencing without undue…
Keeping mind open in times of Lockdown
Nothing would have prepared athletes at the elite, development and amateur levels for sport to come to a grinding halt. It is inevitable that none of them would have made…
Just one Grade I horse-rider combination in National event: Federation makes little effort to enhance competition
Nitin Gupta ignores lack of competitors to introduce Vanilla Sky to great heights The National Equestrian Championship (Show Jumping) 2020 concluded at the Tollygunge Club in Kolkata on Sunday and…
Bogey! Ministry favours IGU within weeks of rejecting plea for recognition
In a surprise U-turn, the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has granted an ‘interim recognition’ to the Indian Golf Union (IGU) within weeks of its decision not to give…
Neeraj Chopra strikes Asian Games gold with monk-like composure
Through the evening at the Asian Games, the monk in Neeraj Chopra was in evidence. The Indian star was so intent on internalising everything that he was palpably shut off to everything…
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