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Indian judo team withdraws from Olympic qualifiers after two players test COVID positive

5:00 pm April 7, 2021

New Delhi: A 12-member Indian judo team was forced to withdraw from the ongoing Asia-Oceania Olympic qualifiers in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan after two judokas — Ajay Yadav and Ritu — tested positive for COVID-19 just before the start of the tournament. Yadav, a 73kg class judoka, and Ritu (52kg) tested positive in the second test conducted […]

Bajrang takes COVID-19 vaccine shot

11:28 pm March 18, 2021

New Delhi: Tokyo Olympics-bound wrestler Bajrang Punia on Thursday received his first dose of COVID-19 vaccine after rejoining the national camp at the Sports Authority of India (SAI) centre in Sonepat. The elite 65 kg wrestler recently won gold at the Matteo Pellicone event in Rome, where he showed improvement on his leg defence. “I […]

SAI sanctions Mirabai Chanu’s training programme in US

11:34 pm September 28, 2020

New Delhi: The Sports Authority of India’s Mission Olympic Cell (MOC) on Monday sanctioned Rs 40 lakh for star weightlifter Mirabai Chanu’s two-month long overseas training in Kansas, USA. The decision was taken during MOC’s virtual meeting, held to discuss financial proposals of over Rs 1.5 crores in six sports — shooting, badminton, boxing, para […]

India has burned me pretty deeply: wrestling coach Cook on sacking

3:33 pm July 5, 2020

New Delhi: “Burned deeply” by his abrupt exit as Indian women’s wrestling coach, Andrew Cook is still trying to figure out what went wrong in his stint during which he did what was required of him. The American had joined the national camp in early 2019 but fell out with the Sports Authority of India (SAI) and Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) after […]

Indian hockey teams turn tech-savvy during lockdown

3:33 pm May 19, 2020

Bengaluru: The Indian men and women’s hockey teams have turned tech-savvy in order to maintain social distancing while continuing with their indoor workout regime during the coronavirus-forced lockdown. The core probable group housed in the Sports Authority of India Centre here suspended high-intensity hockey training in the third week of March following a nationwide lockdown. […]

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