India is fielding a jumbo contingent of around 650 athletes at the Asian Games in Hangzhou. Sreeshankar has had a good year too, with six 8m-plus jumps, but did not qualify for the final of the World Championships, while China’s Jianan Wang made the last 12 after a season-best 8.34m. India expects to follow up good show in archery India …
Often an individual finds routine boring after retirement. Coach GP Sharma during a training session of weightlifters in Lucknow on Thursday One can spot Sharma in and around Lucknow’s KD Singh ‘Babu’ Stadium every morning at the famous Gupta tea shop after finishing a three-hour training stint with 50 young lifters, including 25 girls, at Sports Authority of India’s regional …
LUCKNOW The event organized by the Yogi Adityanath-led UP government to felicitate Tokyo-returned sporting icons of India was big and grand in every way. Clips of PV Sindhu’s stellar performance in the badminton court, fine display of skills by wrestlers Ravi Kumar Dahiya, Bajrang Punia and others like Mirabai Chanu and Lovlina Borgohain entertained the 10,000-odd young athletes who came …