Tag: Olympic Games
India and Ahmedabad can draw insights from IOC Assessments of 2030 YOG aspirant cities
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Kirsten Coventry hit the pause button in the race to decide the host of the 2036 Olympic Games when she decided to review the…
Memories of Abhinav Bindra winning gold in Beijing 2008 Olympic Games remain fresh
Since 2008, August 11 has been a landmark date for Indian sports lovers. If you need to be prompted, recall the massive Olympic Games gold medal gunned down by Abhinav…
Vijayan Bala’s book is a fragrant bouquet of inspirational legends of Olympic sport
It is the Olympic Year and with just under three months left for the start of the Olympic Games in Paris, a bouquet of memories will spring forth across diverse…
India’s quest for sporting glory: the road ahead calls for more teamwork
You can reach out and feel the euphoria that is hanging in the air ever since Javelin Thrower Neeraj Chopra ended India’s Olympic Games gold medal drought across 2012 and…
Neeraj Chopra’s greatest conquest in Tokyo2020 – His own mind
Neeraj Chopra owned the greatest of sporting stages, winning the Javelin Throw gold in the Olympic Games in Tokyo on Saturday and pinning myriad freeze frames in our minds. Forever….
How PV Sindhu owned her Olympic campaign
She was a fine study of being in the flow as PV Sindhu powered her way – and smartly at that – to her second successive Olympic Games podium in…
Sikki Reddy picks up the pieces, recalibrates goals after tryst with Olympic Games goes bust
She knew that Olympic Games qualification was getting tougher by the day but when it was confirmed that she would not compete in Tokyo2020, Sikki Reddy felt an uneasy emptiness…
India’s Olympic athletes must identify and prepare for threat areas, says mind trainer Mugdha Bavare
The Indian cricket team’s resilience, showcased so tellingly in Melbourne and Sydney, has been the toast of sports lovers. And, to say the least, it is richly deserved. Not only…
My greatest life lessons have come from the shooting range: Abhinav Bindra
There is no one quite like Abhinav Bindra in our country. Not just because he has turned around from being a boy who bunked physical training classes in school to someone who…
Starved of Asian Games success, swimmers benchmarked against world standards
At 20, Maana Patel has seen it all. Yes, by the time she turned 20 in March this year, India’s best backstroke swimmer has already been through injury and…
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