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Silent, Inert or Watchful? What is the AIFF’s Game Plan to Address the Elephant in the I-League Room?
14 Oct 2020
Live sporting action has returned to India. The action though hasn’t been restricted to the field at the I-League qualifiers in Kolkata. Over the past few days a club, a club owner, a coach have been…
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More Than Just a Game: Naomi Osaka’s US Open Title Win is a Trinket. The Message is the Grand Slam
13 Sep 2020
US Open champion Naomi Osaka, a 22 year old of Haitian-Japanese descent, made a public stand against racial injustice at Flushing Meadows with an unwavering, uncompromising insistence on doing it on…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The Walk: An Olympian, a Worker and a Home Yet to be Defined
30 Jul 2020
Tokyo 2020, The Olympic fortnight (Series): A conversation about walking means different things to different people. For the many who walked back home in the initial stages of this badly-planned…
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No More Than a Billboard: Mohun Bagan’s Myopia Encapsulates New India
30 Jul 2020
Mohun Bagan’s crest and name appearing on the NASDAQ Billboard at Times Square has gone viral online. Fans, club officials, onlookers and even FIFA have applauded the club’s global reach. Take a step…
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Bajrang Punia Enigma: A Patient Indian, An Impatient Wrestler
27 Jul 2020
Tokyo 2020, the Olympic Fortnight (Series): In life, one of India’s brightest medal prospects is a picture of calm. Patient beyond measure and positive to boot. On the mat, Bajrang Punia’s aggression…