Tag: Swimming
Sajan Prakash misses Olympic berth by 1.32 seconds, but improves world rank
Sajan Prakash was left wishing for stiffer competition than he had got in winning the 200m Butterfly gold in the Uzbekistan Open Swimming Championship in Tashkent on Tuesday. Racing against…
SFI-Swimming SA partnership can help Indian swimmers’ fortunes look up over time
Swimming Federation of India’s desire to grow the sport has found expression in the form of a partnership agreement with Swimming South Africa. Coming in the wake of the ambitious…
Kenisha Gupta holds out hope as bright prospect
Kenisha Gupta holds out hope to the Indian swimming community. Over the past couple of years, the six-footer from Mumbai has drawn attention as India’s brightest prospect. For a nation…
SFI must introspect key swimmers’ decision to stay away from National Camp
Swimming Federation of India, which has shed its inertia and made some right moves in the past few months, will have to try and understand why some of the leading…
Chahat Arora logs two Best Indian Performances in Thailand Swimming Championships
Chahat Arora, Annie Jain and Bhavya Sachdeva became the first Indians to race in a national championship in seven months when they took part in the Thailand Swimming Championships in…
With narrow vision, inadequate planning, SFI is caught napping
You would have expected the Swimming Federation of India to have everything in place when the country’s competitive swimmers resume the sport. It would only be fair to believe that…
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…
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…
Careful Srihari Nataraj will not rush into a pool without assessing health risk
His own memories of the arduous journey to peak fitness after recovering from Dengue fever four years ago will guide India’s backstroke swimming ace, Srihari Nataraj, when he decides on…
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