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Leslie Xavier
Dodgy Star and Missing Bouts: Déjà vu for Indian Boxing as Mary Kom Avoids Nikhat Zareen
08 Aug 2019
Not for the first time MC Mary Kom has used her influence and force of personality to avoid trials for selection. Like many Indian sports stars, her pioneering heroism is now self serving and…
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
Hima Das’ Gold Medals and the Need for a Realistic Perspective
22 Jul 2019
For a nation starved of sporting success outside of cricket, any success is glorious. But, it is time to change that culture and understand the context of victories and the standards involved. Hima…
Leslie Xavier
Reid Between the Lines: Hockey India Appoints New Coach
09 Apr 2019
Hockey India has appointed Australian Graham Reid as the coach of the Indian men’s team. But will Reid, who is the 26th coach India have had in the last 25 years, be given enough time to implement…
Vaibhav Raghunandan
Hockey 2024: FIH’s Global Expansion Dreams and the Turf Realities
17 Dec 2018
On the sidelines of the FIH Men’s Hockey World Cup in Bhubaneswar, the International Hockey Federation announced its ‘Hockey 2024’ programme, a framework for global expansion of the game starting…
Leslie Xavier
The Alchemy of Desire: Belgium’s Decade Long Journey to the Pinnacle of Hockey
17 Dec 2018
Ten years after the Beijing Olympics, when their project took hold, Belgium are FIH Men’s Hockey World Cup Champions. And now, at the pinnacle of the sport, their story has only just begun.
Leslie Xavier
Shooting Ace Gagan Narang on Mentoring, Competing, Olympic Dreams and Indian Hockey
12 Dec 2018
Gagan Narang, who took some time out from his training schedule to catch the action at the FIH Men's Hockey World Cup in Bhubaneswar, is fully focused to hit peak and medal-winning form at the Tokyo…
Leslie Xavier
Jab, Hook and Smog for Gold: Top Women Boxers to Suffer Delhi’s Pollution at World Championships
14 Nov 2018
Experts and athletes share similar concerns over staging of an international sporting event in Delhi at this time of the year. With pollution a major taking point, administrative shortsightedness may…
Leslie Xavier
Mary Kom: Boxing World Moves On, India Remains Unchanged
13 Nov 2018
Ahead of the AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships in New Delhi, five-time champion and Olympic medallist MC Mary Kom, never one to pull punches, challenges the next generation of Indian boxers to…
Leslie Xavier
Bajrang Punia’s New-Found ‘Strengths’ Cost Him Gold at Wrestling World Championships
23 Oct 2018
Bajrang Punia ended up with a silver medal in the 65kg freestyle category at the United World Wrestling (UWW) World Championships in Budapest, losing 9-16 to Japan’s Takuto Otoguro in the final.