4 min readAug 8, 2022 10:34 PM IST Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday heaped praise on India’s medal winners at the Commonwealth Games, lauding P V Sindhu as “phenomenal” and Lakshya Sen as “India’s pride” after both won gold in women’s and men’s singles in badminton. He also praised the women’s cricket team for…
Heath Matthews, the man who patches up Lakshya Sen’s body, after yet another of his bruising matches, ordered him to go sit in an icebath which is “10 degree flipping cold”, for an additional 30 minutes, after his semifinal at the Commonwealth Games. “It really helps you revive,” Sen starts explaining diligently, before wickedly adding,…
INDIA’S BIG-TICKET shuttlers, P V Sindhu, Lakshya Sen and the doubles team of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, woke up on Monday morning in bleak Birmingham, and settled some serious scores. The background score of the OTT mobster series Peaky Blinders, which plays on loop at all venues, was apt for the occasion given that…
From the beats of Bhangra to the power-packed performance of ‘Apache Indian,’ it was a carnivalesque atmosphere at the refurbished Alexander Stadium here, as a dazzling closing ceremony brought the curtains down on the high-octane edition of the 2022 Commonwealth Games. More than 4,500 athletes competed from 72 countries over the past 11 days. India…
3 min readUpdated: Aug 9, 2022 08:56 AM IST From Lakshya Sen throwing his racquet in the crowd after winning the gold medal match to the return of the band Black Sabbath to the power-packed performance of ‘Apache Indian.’ Here are some memorable visuals from Day 11 of the Commonwealth Games, which will be etched…
The building of the single-storey school run by a trust has seen better days. So has the old drinking-water well adjoining the nearby ancient temple. Bang opposite a four-decade-old akhara run from within the temple grounds is one of the newer boxing academies Bhiwani. In an open courtyard of the school hang two punching bags….
A day after winning a historic silver in the men’s 3000 metre steeplechase, Avinash Sable was overcome with emotion when looking back at the time he first broke the national record in 2018. Sable took a few moments to pay tribute to late distance coach Nikolai Snesarev, his mentor who made him shed his self-doubts….
AT THE Birmingham Commonwealth Games, the city’s matador motif The Bull, has assumed iconic status from the Opening Ceremony. It now stands — snorting nostrils plus grappling hook tail and all — at the Centenary Square. While the original fiery Bull was freed from its metaphorical shackles and calmed down during the ceremony, the actual…
5 min readUpdated: Aug 11, 2022 07:38 AM IST “Sath Mein Girenge, Sath Mein Uthenge, Hum Hai Team India, Hum Sath Mein Chalenge!” [We’ll fall together, we’ll rise together, we’re Team India, we’ll walk together] After agonisingly missing out on the Commonwealth Games women’s cricket gold against Australia, Jemimah Rodrigues put down a heartfelt note…
2 min readUpdated: Aug 10, 2022 05:43 PM IST India’s Bhavani Devi won the gold medal in the ongoing Commonwealth Fencing Championship here, defending the title she won last time.The 42nd-ranked Indian fencer defeated second-seeded Australian Veronika Vasileva 15-10 in the senior women’s sabre individual category final on Tuesday. Since becoming the first Indian fencer…
