Ministry has to sort out mess soon
If National Sports Federations, reeling under the sudden loss of Government recognition en masse, expected the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports to provide leadership and find a way past…
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…
SGFI gets away with only a gentle rap on its knuckles
A lot of eyebrows have been raised after it became known that the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports would revoke the suspension of the School Games Federation of India…
IPL needs Open Minds Behind Closed Doors
Can you visualise the Indian Premier League being played behind closed doors, as some have suggested, and the thought seems to be gaining ground? Can you imagine the silence when…
Bid to unseat Batra as FIH & IOA Chief meets swift end
An ill-advised international expedition has ground to a halt on Friday, with International Hockey Federation (FIH) Integrity Unit and International Olympic Committee (IOC) Ethics and Compliance Officer both swiftly but…
Coaching: An Athlete’s Perspective
Olympian and 1998 Asian Games bronze medallist Rachita Panda-Mistry and 2004 South Asian Games gold medallist Sandeep Sarkaria paint an athlete’s perspective on coaching at Disha, an Uttar Pradesh Athletics…
Gomathi gets four-year ban
A little over a year after she caught the imagination of fans of sport in India with a gold-medal winning run in the Asian Athletics Championships, Marimuthu Gomathi has been…
Cricket Conversations – The Great Indian Assembly Line
Hemant Kenkre and G Rajaraman strike up a conversation that looks at how the ‘assembly line’ of Indian cricket has changed from schools and universities as well as private tournaments…
EFI, a peculiar federation, looking to anoint another president without election
In keeping with its claim that it administers a peculiar sport to not comply with the National Sports Development Code of India 2011, Equestrian Federation of India (EFI) is preparing…
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…