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Coaching elite athletes is mostly about mental aspect of sport, says Jaspal Rana 

It is not often that a top-flight sports coach opens up the treasure trove of learnings. You sense that most play their cards close their chest, not wanting others to…

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Posted in Asian Games Opinion Shooting

Why Indian shooting is in a mess

Indian shooting faces its moments of truth in the next 13 months. There has been many a slip between the proverbial cup and the lip in the last nine years. Why…

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Posted in Audio Olympic Games

Tokyo2020: Countdown show on All India Radio

A rich range of voices are brought together to be a part of the Countdown to Tokyo 2020 on All India Radio. Originally broadcast in three parts of 20 minutes…

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Chinki Yadav and the art of avoiding ‘paralysis by analysis’

It was hard to discern whether Chinki Yadav was elated at having won 25m Pistol gold in the ISSF World Cup 2021 New Delhi or relieved at having emerged as…

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Dronacharya Award: Do selection panel’s reasons for overlooking Jaspal Rana stick?

The dust just refuses to settle down on National Sports Awards committee’s decision to overlook pistol coach Jaspal Rana for the Dronacharya Award this year when it seemed that he…

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