Women’s Football: Indian team to play against Brazil in an exposure tour before AFC Women’s Asian Cup 2022
The Indian Women's Football team will play against Brazil for the first time; will also take on Chile and Venezuela for their AFC Women's Asian Cup 2022 preparation. The Indian Women’s Football team is gearing up for the AFC Women's Asian Cup by regularly playing international friendly matches. In October 2021, they played four friendlies in the UAE and in...
Chess: India now has 72 Grandmasters; Mitrabha Guha becomes the latest to achieve the feat
Kolkata-based Chess player, Mitrabha Guha, becomes India's 72nd Grandmaster, two days later India got its 71st Gradmaster Sankalp Gupta. Mitrabha Guha completed the requirement of becoming a Grandmaster by securing his third and final GM norm at GM Third Saturday Mix 220- Novi Sad, Serbia. He defeated GM Nikola Sedlak of Serbia in the penultimate ninth round. The 20-year old...
Odisha, the hub of Indian Hockey, is ready to host the Junior Men’s Hockey World Cup 2021
The Junior Men's Hockey World Cup is scheduled to be held in Bhubaneshwar from 24th November to 5th December. Odisha reaffirmed its growing stature as the hub for Hockey by getting the rights to host the Junior Men's Hockey World Cup 2021. Odisha along with Uttar Pradesh expressed interest in hosting the event. But the eastern-Indian state was picked for...
Chess: Sankalp Gupta becomes India’s 71st Grandmaster
18-year old Sankalp Gupta secured the three required GM norms in just 24 days toachieve the Grandmaster title. Sankalp Gupta has become India’s 71st Grandmaster by scoring 6.5 points in the GM Ask 3 round-robin event at Arandjelovac in Serbia. He won five games, drew three, and lost one to Rudik Makrarian (Russia) to take second place in the chess...
Sjoerd Marijne’s bitter-sweet relationship with Indian Hockey ends in a sour tone
Sjoerd Marijne, who guided the Indian Women's Hockey team to their best-ever Olympic outing, has ended his tenure with Hockey India. But he is yet to receive his final salary from SAI and a reward from UP government. Sjoerd Marijne was first appointed the head coach of the Indian Women’s Team in February 2017. But just after 7 months of...
Cheerleading as sport- Rewind to Johnny Campbell on 2nd November, 1898 at Minnesota
Though Cheerleading originated in Britain, but an American is regarded as the first Cheerleader. Johnny Campbell’s Cheerleading at a Football match in 1898 made him the very first cheerleader and November 2 the official birth date of organized Cheerleading. Cheerleading is an organized sports activity; it combines dance, gymnastics, and stunt elements, performed by cheerleaders in one-or two minutes, to...
14-year old Tajamul Islam fights all her way to win World Kickboxing Champion title
Tajamul Islam is a remarkable athlete in Kickboxing whose grit and passion for her art will inspire other young athletes for generations to come. Young Tajamul Islam from Kashmir has won the title of World Kickboxing Champion at Cairo in Egypt, after defeating Lalina from Argentina, in the final. This is 14-year-old Tajamul's second World Kickboxing Champion title, after the...
In this T20 World Cup, Cricket Namibia resurges under their ‘golden generation’ of players
Namibia reached the T20 World Cup second round for the first time when they defeated Ireland by eight wickets. The lowest-ranked team in the tournament is now placed in the same super 12 category as India, Pakistan, New Zealand, Afghanistan and Scotland. Resurgence, that is the word that can be applied to Namibian cricket. After a long absence of 18-years...
‘Messing’ with the ‘Tradition’ of the sport, T20 Cricket takes blistering steps into its 7th World Cup
The curtailed form of Cricket, Twenty20, has changed the whole cricketing landscape. The formula of hitting hard and scoring high has made a lot of the 'traditional' Cricket lovers indifferent to this format. However, like its blistering pace, T20 Cricket has reached quickly to its 7th World Cup that is being played at Oman after one-year postponement due to...
India gets its 21st Woman Grandmaster; but isn’t it still a gender disparity packaged as a title?
Divya Deshmukh created history after becoming India's 21st Woman Grandmaster (WGM) at just 15-years old. However, with FIDE's separate Grandmaster title for women, the underlying problem of gender bias remains in Chess. Divya Deshmukh became the country's youngest Women Grandmaster after she got her 2nd International Master (IM) at First Saturday Grand Master (GM) in Budapest. In a total of...