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Wrestler Ravinder Settles for Silver at UWW Under-23 World Championships
31 Oct 2019
Ravinder went down 3-5 in a tight bout against Kyrgyzstan’s Ulukbek Zholdoshbekov in the final of the 61kg category at the UWW Under-23 World Championships.
Vaibhav Raghunandan
MC Mary Kom vs Nikhat Zareen: The Bout Indian Boxing Needs But May Not Get
18 Oct 2019
Nikhat Zareen, who has appealed to the sports minister to get a chance to fight MC Mary Kom and earn the right to represent the country in the Olympic qualifier tournament next year, is not the first…
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Deepak Punia’s Silver High Point as India Return With Five Medals from World Wrestling Championships
23 Sep 2019
Deepak Punia, Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat highlighted the potential of India’s wrestling ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. At the same time the Championships underlined the difficult…
Leslie Xavier
Mat Finished: A Wrestling Icon’s Bout Against Time
22 Sep 2019
Sushil Kumar changed the paradigm for wrestling in India in more ways than one. But time and age are the two opponents that even Indian wrestling’s game changer can’t beat. And the failures pile up…
Leslie Xavier
Bajrang Punia's Loss at World Wrestling Championships was Fair, Here is Why
20 Sep 2019
The tendency to blame officiating after tight losses like Bajrang Punia suffered at the UWW World Wrestling Championships must be offset by an objective realisation that the better wrestler doesn’t…
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Vinesh Phogat Wins Bronze at World Wrestling Championships, Qualifies for Tokyo Olympics
18 Sep 2019
Despite an early round loss against Japan’s Mayu Mukaida, Vinesh Phogat bounced back to win bronze via repechage at the UWW World Wrestling Championships. The Olympic berth secured, it is time for…
Leslie Xavier
National Sports Day 2019: What’s the Big Idea?
29 Aug 2019
Indian sports national award system — for the Arjuna, Dronacharya and Khel Ratna — insults the man in honour of whom it is instituted. The spirit of Dhyan Chand demands sportsmen never need to play…
Leslie Xavier
Great Expectations Peter To a Damp Squib At Indian Wrestling Trials for UWW World Championships
26 Jul 2019
The Wrestling Federation of India’s selection trials for the 2019 UWW World Championships carried extra significance as the event act as qualifiers for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The quality of the…
Leslie Xavier
Bajrang Punia’s Millennial Dilemma: India’s Olympic Favourite Shows Chinks in Defensive Armour
08 May 2019
Over the past year, despite his meteoric rise, Bajrang Punia’s two losses are a cause for concern. Both came against young, attack-minded wrestlers who disregarded the Indian’s reputation and put his…
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Pooja Dhanda Wins Bronze at UWW World Wrestling Championships
26 Oct 2018
Pooja Dhanda, who grabbed a silver at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, is the fourth Indian woman wrestler to have won a medal (all bronze) at the World Championships, following Alka Tomar (2006), Geeta…