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Nearly a dozen years after last making a pit stop in the Garden City, the Senior National Badminton Championship will return to Bengaluru for its latest edition starting Wednesday. The cream of India’s second-rung talent will be in action in the seven-day long event which will see team championship matches on the first two days…
Denis Kapustin is wholesome in his praise for M. Harikrishnan. Appointed around five months ago as India’s jumps coach, Kapustin, a Russian, couldn’t travel to either Eugene for the World Championships or Birmingham for the Commonwealth Games because of visa-related issues. That did not stop the triple-jumpers Eldhose Paul and Abdulla Aboobacker from clinching the…
Head coach of the Indian men’s cricket team Rahul Dravid won the award for Coach of the Year at the Sportstar Aces Awards 2024 held at the Taj Mahal Palace in Mumbai on Thursday. “I am truly honoured to receive the Sportstar Aces Coach of the Year Award. As a coach, I don’t score any…
Sprinter Dutee Chand escaped unhurt after a truck hit her car near OMP Square in Cuttack, police said on Friday. The incident took place on Thursday evening when Dutee was returning to Bhubaneswar from her native Jajpur district with a friend. Her luxury car suffered damage in the accident. READ: Assam govt not taking initiative…
Despite being the bedrock of the Indian sporting ecosystem, domestic competitions often get the short shrift from the biggest stars. Even the mighty BCCI had to issue a diktat to cricketers to play in them. The Badminton Association of India (BAI) looks set to do the same. After featuring the top players in the 2017…
The World Championship in Singapore has suddenly taken on the flavour of a psychological duel instead of a pure chess match. In the last few games, we have started to see a very clear trend where D. Gukesh is trying to provoke his opponent into a battle, is ready to decline draws and take risks….
The world of sports lost many legends in 2024. Here are a few notable people we lose this past year: FRANZ BECKENBAUER: Franz Beckenbauer, who won the World Cup both as player and coach and became one of Germany’s most beloved personalities with his easy-going charm, passed away in January. Bayern and Germany legend Franz…
Udhayanidhi Stalin, the Tamil Nadu Minister for Sports and Youth Welfare is basking in the glory of having received the Sportstar Aces award in Mumbai earlier this month for the best State for the promotion of sport. “Our goal is to make the State the sports capital of India and that’s the ambition of the…
After the rest day, Gukesh came ready to do battle for Game 7 of the World chess championship in Singapore. He had a new idea in a system which has been played extensively in the past and managed to navigate the middle game expertly. The position was complex and many of the moves were very…
She is a two-time World Champion and has won countless other medals in national and international competitions. But Karnam Malleswari will be forever remembered for the bronze she won in the 69kg weightlifting at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, which made her the first Indian woman to medal at the biggest sporting event in the…
