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Leslie Xavier
Tokyo 2020: The Wait Begins Now, For a Better Games
09 Aug 2020
Tokyo 2020, The Olympic Fortnight (Series): Today would have marked the final day of the Tokyo Olympics, if everything had gone to plan. As it is, sometimes things not going to plan helps other plans…
Newsclick Sports Production
The Big Games Debate Part 2: India's Greatest Underdog Stories (Tokyo 2020, The Olympic Fortnight Series)
09 Aug 2020
Newsclick Sports bring out India's greatest underdog stories from the Olympic Games.
Newsclick Sports
The Big Games Debate Part 1: India's G.O.A.T. (Tokyo 2020, The Olympic Fortnight Series)
08 Aug 2020
Newsclick Sports deliberates and picks India's greatest of all time Olympian.
Leslie Xavier
Integrity via Harmony: The Cuban Boxing Philosophy That Shaped India
07 Aug 2020
Tokyo 2020, The Olympic Fortnight (Series): India’s boxing roots may go deep, but over the past three decades they have been shaped by Cuban coaches and pugilists, whose influence shows not just in…
Jaydeep Basu
Barefoot Reality: Indian Football’s First Wave of Modernisation a Repercussion of Helsinki Disaster
06 Aug 2020
Tokyo 2020, The Olympic Fortnight (Series): The idea that Indians did not wear boots because they could not afford them has been disproved many times over in recent times. The team played barefoot…
Aaryanshi Mohan
eSports and Olympics: Evolutionary Dilemma Gets Real in Virtual World
05 Aug 2020
Tokyo 2020, The Olympic Fortnight (Series): Every movement needs to evolve and so it is with the Olympics. The questions on its evolution revolve around technology and the inclusion of eSports into…
Leslie Xavier
Tradition Meets Trial: A Clash to Define India’s Middleweight Contender For Tokyo
04 Aug 2020
Tokyo 2020, The Olympic Fortnight (Series): Four names, with impressive resumes, each better than the rest. It seems logical to let them loose on one another and pick the winner to represent India at…
Vaibhav Raghunandan
A Larger Design: Ten Step History of Art at the Summer Olympics
03 Aug 2020
Tokyo 2020, The Olympic Fortnight (Series): To notice art one needs to take a step outside the moment. The Olympic podium is always about the moment. So, the medal — a symbol of achievement and glory…
Leslie Xavier
Beaten Over Time: How Athletics Supplanted the West Indian Fast Bowling Tradition | Outside Edge
02 Aug 2020
Tokyo 2020, The Olympic Fortnight (Series): Over the years, the indelible image of the West Indian quicks tearing through the top order has faded away, instead replaced by Jamaican quicks tearing off…
Leslie Xavier
Run for Your Life. Running is Life
01 Aug 2020
Tokyo 2020, The Olympic Fortnight (Series): Carl Lewis and Haile Gebrselassie. Two countries. Two continents. Two cultures. And two different ways to run. For Lewis, the sprint was an expression of…