Halfway through the 37th National Games here in Goa, the state sports minister Govind Gaude has already chalked out plans to "put to use" modern infrastructure as well as expensive equipment being used for the fortnight-long multi-discipline competition in the state
While Services were the runaway 4-2 winners against strong Kerala in the day's first match, Manipur didn't have it easy against Punjab. The northeastern state, however, had the last laugh as they managed a 2-1 victory in the end
Dhinidhi Desinghu and her Karnataka teammate Nina Venkatesh had entered the last day of the swimming competition with five gold medals each and it was clear that whoever would bag the 100m freestyle crown would earn the record of winning the maximum gold medals
Ramble's association with the sport is more than three decades, first as a player and then as the secretary general of Bowls Malaysia, from 1997 to 2013
Over 160 bikers riding bikes took out an awareness rally from Margao to Panaji to urge residents of Goa to turned up on Sunday in large numbers to witness high-quality sports action in the 37th National Games being held across the state
The 21-year-old led Maharashtra 1-2 with an aggregate time of 1:14.06s with her teammate Sanjana Joshi took the silver after last edition gold medallist Pragya Mohan of Gujarat, who had finished second, was disqualified for taking external help to set up her broken cycle pedal. This was Mohi
The Punjab shooter pipped her statemate Sift Kaur Samra for the top spot on the podium with a total of 458.9 against Samra's 458.2. Madhya Pradesh's Ashi Chouksey finished with the bronze medal with a cumulative total of 445.5.
Both Chopra and Jena have qualified for the Paris Olympics, leaving just one more slot available for an Indian athlete to grab as every National Olympics Committee is only allowed to send a maximum of three players per discipline.
Legendary boxer MC Mary Kom has inspired a generation of sportspersons, especially women athletes across disciplines, and one among them is wrestler Neetu Sarkar, who battled age-old patriarchy and financial odds to carve her own path to glory even after giving birth to twins at the tender a