Father, Sushil Kumar biggest inspirations for Babita PhogatCommonwealth gold medallist in wrestling, Babita Kumari Phogat, on Friday said that winning the Olympic Gold for India was her top priority at the moment. She pointed out there was an entire lifetime - Woman dribbles circles around men, teaches them a better game
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History is being re-written and there is a queer similarity with what happened 15 years ago. A girl is again making boys taste defeat in Dangals across Haryana and Punjab. - Kolkata man savours India’s victory in blind cricket World Cup
When Virat Kohli and his boys were striding steadily towards victory against Bangladesh in Hyderabad recently, another bunch of cricketers in Bengaluru brought glory to the country by trouncing - Wrestler who turned into tennis star
It's not often that sportspersons can switch sport and make an instant connection, but that's what happened in Krishan Hooda's case. - Paralympics aspirant waits for wheelchair
Making a potent statement about the right to life is the second most tenacious thing Shailesh Kumar loves doing on a wheelchair.The first one, for the 23-yearold, is racing like a tornado. - Varanasi plays Vedic cricket
Commentary in Sanskrit “Ete krikidah chatrah dandchalanartham aagamishyanti (student is arriving at the batting crease)”. - Barodian hits fastest T20 hundred
Shah, who was playing for Reliance team in the Kiran More Premier League T20 tournament in the city, scored 100 runs off just 30 balls against Baroda Sports Club at Reliance Stadium. He is the first - 17-year-old son of farmer puts poor facilities under mat to win gold
Gurpreet Singh, member of the managing committee of Khanna wrestling center, said, "DSP Mukesh Kumar runs Miri Piri Akhara with the help of other wrestling enthusiasts. We have produced many national - 2 Kannagi Nagar tenement girls flying to US for special training
- No lessons learned: Boxing event goes on without safety checks
The event was conducted at the Madurai Race Stadium and saw the participation of several students from rural areas. However, the boxing match was conducted inside a ring constructed using concrete. - Sandwich-selling mom and daughter uplift themselves, become champion powerlifters
- In these villages, girls still fight for the right pitch
While the block buster may have succeed ed in sending across the message that girls are in no way lesser to boys, villages in this belt, particularly Tusa and Dango, are yet to catch up with the - Tamil's first sports biopic to be on Rio star Mariyappan
- This Rajasthan town is changing the face of para sports in India
At RD Singh’s free academy, the differently abled run up sand hills with tyres and hack at shrubs to build biceps. While the gym may be improvised, the results are not. - Why it's tough to raise an Olympian
Parents of Olympians give up jobs, get into debt and ignore the jibes of relatives to raise a child who may or may not make a podium finish. Parents of a few Indian sporting champions explain how they - Not just sand & wind, Marina to soon host rowing & sailing
- Will the Kolkata's new-found interest in gymnastic sustain for long?
Minara Begum, who has been coaching national-level gymnasts for 30 years, was surprised to receive a call from a parent soon after Dipa Karmakar finished fourth in the Olympics. - Pargat's stick therapy: Hockey high, nasha bye
- How the Anglo-Indian community created two No 1 hockey teams
That Golden Age was between 1928 and 1956. Some pundits, however, would narrow it down to the period 1928-1936, when India, in its first three Olympics, annihilated all opposition, with the incredible - Why Messi isn’t the greatest footballer ever
To deserve the exalted epithet requires some more checked boxes than Messi has. A footballer must succeed for both club and country on the biggest stage. He should revel in pressure encounters, excel - How not to score a self-goal at Euro 2016
If you think a red card is something to do with Chinese citizenship and Red Devils are a voodoo cult, you may need these handy survival tips to get through cocktail and watercooler conversations over - Kabaddi delivers a googly
Rahul Chaudhari, captain of Telugu Titans, was invited by a local sports club in Vijayanagar, Andhra Pradesh, to be the chief guest at a kabaddi match last month. But the game was delayed because - Love aaj, kal rape?
- Where everyone is a team manager
Fans of cricket, football, kabaddi and hockey are taking to fantasy sport sites where they can buy teams and decide game strategies. - Riding a wave of social surfing
Along the TN and Kerala coast, fishermen turned surf instructors are helping local boys stay in school and off drugs.
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