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Journalist with @ESPNIndia | Earlier with @sportstarweb and @The_Hindu | Covered the #TokyoOlympics | Views are mine

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Shyam Vasudevan

10 months

This is 𝐓𝐇𝐄 most important story I've written in my career. Thank you @Phogat_Vinesh & @SakshiMalik for opening up on this very tough subject. For the first time, Vinesh & Sakshi tell the story of their 2023. A story that changed their lives forever.

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2023: the year wrestling changed everything, and yet things remained the same

For the first time, Vinesh and Sakshi tell us in their own words the story of the year: their protest for justice against Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.

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Genuinely needed to watch this twice to realize there were two divers 🤯 No wonder that China have won every Olympic gold since the synchronized 10m platform was introduced in 2000.

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This is Sheetal Devi, India's first armless archer. She's just 17. On her Paralympic debut today: - She broke the world record - Secured a new personal best - Scored 703/720 - Finishes 2nd in the ranking round

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Massive, MAAAAAAAASIVE throw from #NeerajChopra for yet another NR. 89.94m. MASSIVE.

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Absolutely LOVE this from Neeraj Chopra's mother, Saroj. "We are very happy with the silver. For us even the silver feels like a gold. The one who won the gold [Nadeem] is also my child. They all work hard to get there.”

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Asian Games 🥈 medallist Kishore Jena's biggest goal is to see his family debt-free and well-settled. "I don't have any wants in life right now, I just want my family to be happy and debt-free. If there's any money left after I've settled all the debts, then I'll look at buying

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You know what makes #NeerajChopra so easy to admire? The fact that he behaves like he's just one among us. During a media interaction yesterday, the electricity at Neeraj's place went out. What does he do? Apologizes, quickly runs to open the curtains and asks if this lighting

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I held back tears while writing this piece. Here's the significance of Vinesh's win: ▪️ Susaki has never lost to a non-Japanese opponent ▪️ Susaki just 3 losses in her life dating back to 2010 as a 5th grader ▪️ Has an 82-0 international record ▪️ Won gold at Tokyo without

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Super wholesome, this :') He Bing Jiao holds up a tiny Spain pin, in honour of Carolina Marin, while accepting her silver medal 🥈 Marin withdrew from her SF vs Jiao after injuring her knee and Jiao did this to honour her today :') #Paris2024 | #Olympics

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2 months

To understand the significance of what Vinesh Phogat has done, you need to know about how she went through hell and back in the last 18 moths. January 2023: Vinesh, Bajrang & Sakshi take to New Delhi's Jantar Mantar to protest against the WFI chief. Vinesh & other women

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1 year

Why Kishore Kumar Jena's throw today is so special ✨ ▪️ He qualifies for the Paris Olympics 🔥 ▪️ It's the second-best throw by an 🇮🇳 ever ▪️ Sixth best throw by an Asian in history 💪🏽 ▪️ Only 4cm less than what Neeraj threw to win the Olympic 🥇 ▪️ It's his personal best 👏🏽

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Vinesh Phogat competing at the Paris Olympics. You’d be crazy to think that a year ago. Even six months ago, given the year she'd had in 2023. It was a year where she protested against the WFI chief, slept on New Delhi's pavements for 40 days, was beaten and dragged by the

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Under the rules, wrestlers have to show weight twice: on the morning of the preliminary rounds and the morning of the final. Vinesh was within the permissible weight limit of 50kgs yesterday. Her weight is likely to have increased through the day as she replenished herself after

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This time, the tears flowed as I wrote this piece :') Speaking to me in December, Vinesh Phogat told me: "The only thing I have told Bajrang and Sakshi is that I will still fight. I will look him [Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh] in the eye and medal leke aungi main, tu dekh [bring

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1 year

Why athletics is so important to Parul Chaudhary 🥇 "In my village, they used to pass comments if a girl is wearing shorts and running. Unfortunately, this is so common that it is considered normal. If not for athletics, gaon mein rehte toh shaadi vagera ho jaati (smiles) [if I

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2 months

Incredible tribute this from CSK for Neeraj :')

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1 year

LOVE this quote from #NeerajChopra : "I am usually the only 🇮🇳 on the podium and it was so good to have Kishore on the podium at the Asian Games. Hopefully we can have 3 Indians on the podium soon, uska alag hi mazza hoga." #HangzhouAsianGames | #IndiaAtAG22

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YES YES YES YES YES

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Is there anything #NeerajChopra cannot do? ▪️ Has won everything there is to win ▪️ Is the perfect competitor ▪️ Will genuinely be happy for you even if you do one better than him ▪️ Shows up to motivate every single 🇮🇳 athlete ▪️ Is legit the nicest guy around

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. @avinash3000m mentioned how Neeraj Chopra won India's 🇮🇳 first athletics gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics on August 7 and hopes to repeat that feat on the same day, three years apart. "I didn't want to make any mistakes, that's why I ran fast from the start. I knew that the

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I had spoken to Nishant Dev before the Olympics, and I'll tell you this: he's a special, special boxer. He's only 23 and believes, or rather knows, that he's meant for greatness. He has this elite, top-tier mentality that not many Indian athletes have. His phone wallpaper is

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Suhas Yathiraj is an IAS Officer, who is the incumbent District Magistrate of Gautam Buddha Nagar in Uttar Pradesh. He won 🥈 at the Tokyo Paralympics and a 🥇 at the 2024 World Championships...and is now one win away from a possible Paralympic 🥇 ! #Paris2024 |

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26,000 people singing Vande Mataram here at Kanteerava. I legit have goosebumps. #SAFFChampionship2023 | #KUWIND | #IndianFootball

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HE'S LITERALLY FLYING! This is beyond, beyond incredible from Sivarajan Solaimalai! 🤯 What mind-blowing agility and fitness, uff 🤌🏽

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A post of appreciation for the veteran Seema Punia 🫡 ▪️ She is Asia's #3 thrower, at the age of 40! ▪️ Began her career in 2000, 23 years ago! ▪️ One of 🇮🇳's best athletes of all time Asian Games 2014 🥇 2018 🥉 2022 🥉 Commonwealth Games 2006 🥈 2010 🥉 2014 🥈 2018 🥈

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With 30 metres to go in the 5000m, 🇮🇳's Parul Chaudhary had already run 7970 meters, including the 3000m steeplechase yesterday, in under 24 hours. Japan's Ririka Hironaka was several metres ahead of her. A lesser athlete might have faded. But, as the lactic acid in her legs

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. @manikabatra_TT beat world #2 🇨🇳 Wang Manyu yesterday. The significance of this win? It's like beating Bolt in the 100m/ defeating Nadal on clay/ overcoming Madrid in the UCL. Undoubtedly, among the biggest results in Indian table tennis 👏🏽

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We often don't realize the kind of sacrifices athletes make in their pursuit of bringing glory to the nation. Take Kishore Kumar Jena, for example. Hailing from Kothasahi village near Puri in Odisha, he has not been home in three years now and really just wants a nice plate of

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BYJU’S will be the official sponsor of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. Wow 🤯

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2 months

Balraj Panwar finishes 23rd among 33 rowers in his maiden Olympic campaign 👏🏽 Funnily, Balraj never dreamt of a career in sport. Having lost his father at 10, he sought a post in the Indian Army so that he could support his family. It was an army coach who asked him to try his

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For someone who literally learnt to row only FOUR YEARS AGO, Balraj Panwar sure has come a long way. He finishes 5th in the single sculls QF and that ends his chances of making it to the medal rounds but doesn't change the fact the Armyman has done supremely well to come this

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Now this is special: Avinash Sable's 8:15.43 in the heats is faster than Tokyo Olympics 🥇 + 2-time World champion Soufiane El Bakkali AND Tokyo Olympics 🥈 + world record holder Lamecha Girma. @avinash3000m has the 5th fastest timing among the 36 runners. I know it's only the

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Yes, Nikhat was beaten today but I have to say this: the draw she got was horrible. A 2-time world champion, unseeded?!?! Why wasn't Nikhat seeded? Because the IOC does not recognize the IBA and hence her IBA-organized World Championship titles are not taken into account.

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Put 5 Burj Khalifas in front of Sunil Chhetri and he'll still find a way to score a header. #ISL | #MCFCBFC

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1 year

While the rest of the Indian team was celebrating the win over Lebanon, guess what Sunil Chhetri did? The 🇮🇳 skipper picked up all the water bottles + bibs, put them by the Indian bench & then went on to celebrate with the boys. Chhetri. 👑 #SAFFChampionship | #IndianFootball

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There was never any doubt. Avinash Sable was the fastest man in the field. He remained the fastest man through the race. ⚡️ The other runners were not even in the same frame as him, such was his pace! 🔥 My favourite part was how he began celebrating some 15m before the finish

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#NeerajChopra : I always dreamt that like how the Germans, Czech or Finnish have dominated javelin, we should also have 3-4 🇮🇳 throwers at a world level. It feels good that we Indians are doing [dominating the javelin field]. Jena and I did well at the Asian Games and that was

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Neeraj Chopra is legit the epitome of consistency. Neeraj has competed in 17 events since the Tokyo Olympics and won 9 of them. The other eight times, he's finished second. In those events, he's dipped below 85m only once 👏🏽 #LausanneDL 🇨🇭 | #NeerajChopra | #Athletics

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#NeerajChopra : "I feel very good. First round I threw 89.94m, close to 90m, so I feel very good. I thought I can throw over 90m today. It's okay I have more competitions this year."

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Chin up, @Shailisingh012 . ▪️ She missed out on a medal today by 2cm. ▪️ She had missed out on the gold medal at the 2021 U20 World Championships by 1cm. She is 19. Her day will come. She will be back. #HangzhouAsianGames | #IndiaAtAG22 | #IndianAthletics

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Why Parul Chaudhary is an absolute SUPERSTAR✨ ▪️ Becomes the first athlete in Asian Games history to medal in the women's steeplechase as well as 5000m 👏🏽 ▪️ First 🇮🇳 woman to win an Asian Games 5000m gold 🔥 ▪️ Won 🥇 in 5000m and 🥈 in steeplechase in less than 24 hours 💪🏽

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India, a first time finalist, leads 14-time champions Indonesia 2-0 in the #ThomasCup2022 final. You're telling me this is real....? 🤯

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1 year

I spoke to @JeaksonT on the flag he carried at the prize ceremony. Here's what he said ⤵️ #SAFFChampionship2023 | #KUWIND | #IndianFootball | @ESPNIndia

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20 medals. 20 medals!!!!! 🥇🥇🥇 🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈 🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉 India have gone past their 19 medals from Tokyo. This is 🇮🇳's greatest performance at the Paralympics. EVER. 👏🏽 #Paris2024 | #Paralympics

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I know it makes no sense BUT HANG THIS VIDEO IN THE LOUVREEEEEEEEEEE! Vinesh, you absolute, absolute champion 🫡

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How #NeerajChopra played a tiny role in #KiranBaliyan 's 🥉 medal yesterday ✨ Kiran was a ball of nerves before her event and with 15 minutes to go, a familiar face popped up near the call room. Neeraj! “I met Neeraj bhaiya right before my event and he said darna mat. Tension

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CLUTCH NEERAJ, CLUTCH! He brings out a season's best of 89.49m to clinch the second spot 🔥 What a phenomenal final attempt, uff 🤌🏽 #LausanneDL 🇨🇭 | #NeerajChopra | #Athletics

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This is such a lovely picture :') Just look at how proudly Nitesh holds that gold medal with both hands ♥️ HAS to be one of the happiest pictures I've seen in a while 😁 #Paris2024 | #Paralympics

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"I just want to enjoy this race, mujhe khulke bhaagna hai [I want to run freely]," Avinash Sable told me a week ago. "I've always run at the pace of others, but this one time I want to run at my pace, based on how my body reacts. I want to run freely and enjoy the 3000m

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You know what makes Kartik Kumar and Gulveer Singh's medals so special? The fact that they both ran the fastest race of their lives 🤯 ▪️ Karthik reduced his earlier personal best by a stunning 40 seconds to win silver 🥈 ▪️ Gulveer ran 37 seconds faster than his best to bag

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VINESH PHOGAT WILL LEAVE PARIS WITH AN OLYMPIC MEDAL TO HER NAME. THERE IS NO GREATER REDEMPTION STORY IN INDIAN SPORT!!!! #Paris2024 | #Olympics | #Wrestling

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1 year

A HUGE upset in women's kabaddi as defending champions Iran have been BEATEN by Chinese Taipei! 😱 And it was a comprehensive win at that: Chinese Taipei won 35-24. Which means India will now face Chinese Taipei, the only team they did not beat in the group stage, in tomorrow's

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#MirabaiChanu has just lifted 88kgs - 1.79 times her bodyweight - for a new snatch PB and #CommonwealthGames record.

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"JAI INDIA" SCREAMS NAVDEEP AS HE WINS SILVER! 🥈 ▪️ Temporarily broke the Paralympic Games record 🚀 ▪️ Improved his personal best by over 3m 🔥 ▪️ Broke his personal best not once but thrice (!!!!) ▪️ Wins his career's biggest medal 💯 #Paris2024 | #Paralympics2024

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INDIA BEAT SOUTH KOREA 56-23 👏🏽 Is that a statement or what? A fantastic way to bounce back after a late collapse that saw them tie with Chinese Taipei yesterday. Three takeaways from the game: ▪️ Excellent display from the raiders; Pushpa was particularly good while Pooja

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Kerala Blasters. That's the tweet. #KBFC | #YennumYellow | #ISL

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Balraj Panwar, you beauty! 🔥 Having lost his father at a young age, Balraj Panwar sought a post in the Indian Army to be able to fend for his family. Little did he know that within four years of joining the Army, he would become the only rower to represent India at #Paris2024

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Dhiraj Bommadevara's maiden Olympic campaign also comes to an end...and it will be a bittersweet one for him. He lost in the men's singles via a shootoff because his arrow was further away from the centre than his opponent's: the margin of loss was a mere 2.4cm. The Indian

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Genuinely thought Nishant Dev had done enough to win that bout. I'll never really understand how the judging works in boxing man...sigh #Paris2024 | #Olympics

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What a moment this was - both players sink to their knees after an exhausting, grueling 54-stroke rally. Those 62 seconds felt like eternity! #Badminton #TeamIndia | #Olympics | @sportstarweb

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To go through all that drama of celebrities congratulating her BEFORE her event began...to go through all this false start nonsense right before her race...and still run sub-13s and win silver...that really is the stuff of champions. 🫡 Hats off, @JyothiYarraji 🙌🏽

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Here's why we should celebrate Antim Panghal's Asian Games bronze medal today 🥉 All of 19, she's had five major events over the last three-odd months that have resulted in three medals, an Olympic quota and plenty of history. July 2023: Fought and won the trials for the Asian

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Seeing @Phogat_Vinesh smile after winning the Olympic quota was genuinely heartwarming...especially considering what she's gone through. 2023 was hell for her: death threats, sleeping on dusty sidewalks, being beaten and arrested by the police, public humiliation, false promises

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Neeraj Chopra has competed in 16 events since the Tokyo Olympics and won 9 of them. The other seven times, he's finished second. In those events, he's only dipped below 85m once. Consistent. #Paris2024 | #Olympics | #Athletics

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Golden age for Kerala football 💫 #SantoshTrophy champions: Kerala I-League reigning champions: Gokulam Kerala Indian Women's League defending champions: Gokulam Kerala ISL runners up: Kerala Blasters

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Lakshya Sen, you thing of beauty. What an incredible comeback and what an astounding win! Man's built different. #ThomasCup2022

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VINESH PHOGAT HAS BEATEN SUSAKI! I REPEAT, VINESH PHOGAT HAS BEATEN YUI SUSAKI! VINESH PHOGAT, WHAT HAVE YOU DONEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

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KIRAN BALIYAN WINS 🇮🇳's FIRST ATHLETICS MEDAL! 🥉 - She records her life's second-best throw of 17.36m to win bronze in the women's shot put - This is India’s first shot put medal at the Asian Games in 72 years. Barbara Webster won bronze in 1951 - This is Kiran's biggest

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India's national wrestling coach alleges that the North Korean wrestler intentionally injured Nisha Dahiya. Quotes via PTI: "It was 100 percent intentional, they hurt her intentionally. We had seen, there was an instruction from the Korean corner. They attacked the joint. They

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Sumit Antil 🤝 Neeraj Chopra @sumit_javelin says @Neeraj_chopra1 and him chat every 15 days and Neeraj had passed along a message to him before the Paralympics: "Paris main mahaul accha hai. Don't try anything new [because of the pressure], stick to what you do best, and you

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EVERY. SINGLE. INDIAN. 🇮🇳. MEDALLIST. AT. THE. PARA. ASIAN. GAMES. 👏🏽 Because they rightfully deserve the recognition. 🥇 Sumit Antil [Javelin, F64] - WORLD RECORD 🥇 Sundar Singh Gurjar [Javelin, F46] - WORLD RECORD 🥇 Sheetal Devi [Archery, Women's Compound Open] 🥇 Pramod

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Fun fact: This is Avinash Sable's first senior-level gold in an international competition! 🥇 He has absolutely dominated the field in 🇮🇳, breaking the national record NINE times, but this is the first time he's won a major event 👏🏽 Asian Games 🥇 Commonwealth Games 🥈 Asian

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"Gold lana hai, GOLD!" Vinesh Phogat tells her mother. VINESH. IS. NOT. DONE.

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#SunilChhetri : Let's not talk about prep, man. After a game like this, you don't want me in trouble. Prep or no prep, boys here or not here, 17 players or 30, all that is behind us. We'll give all that we have [in the next game]. Whatever we talk about now will not affect us in

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He Bing Jiao announced her retirement today and I think it's so wholesome that the last time she was on a badminton court, she held up a tiny Spain pin in honour of Carolina Marin :') #Badminton | #Paris2024

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How a 3am phone call saved Kishore Jena's career and gave India its second javelin hero ✨ Back in July 2023, Kishore Kumar Jena contemplated quitting sport. Cooped up in a hotel room after a competition in Beirut, Kishore wept all night before making a tear-filled phone call to

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Shyam Vasudevan

2 months

Neera Chopra's 89.49m throw today is his: ▪️ Career's 2nd best throw 💪🏽 ▪️ Season's best throw 💯 #LausanneDL 🇨🇭 | #NeerajChopra | #Athletics

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Shyam Vasudevan

1 year

Huge evening ahead from an #IndianAthletics perspective: ▪️ Tajinder Pal Singh Toor in shot put ▪️ Sreeshankar and Jeswin in long jump ▪️ Avinash Sable in 3000m steeplechase ▪️ Seema Punia in discus throw ▪️ Harmilan Bains and Deeksha in women's 1500m ▪️ Jinson Johnson and Ajay

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Shyam Vasudevan

1 year

From two weeks of 5am alarms and sleepless nights to coffee+Redbull-powered days, I had incredible fun covering the #HangzhouAsianGames 😅 From live blogs to reports, features and big-picture stories, we at @ESPNIndia did it all and you can read the best of our work here:

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Shyam Vasudevan

1 year

“The bare minimum is a national record.” That’s what @TejaswinShankar told me on September 20, when I asked him what his goal for the Asian Games was. 13 days later, he came good on that: breaking the national record, winning silver and clinching 🇮🇳's first decathlon medal at

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Shyam Vasudevan

1 year

There's domination, and then there's the 🇮🇳 men's kabaddi team's 61-14 win over 🇵🇰 ▪️ India win by FORTY-SEVEN points 🔥 ▪️ India have now beaten Pakistan in each of their 8 games at the Asian Games 💯 ▪️ India inflicted SIX All Outs on Pakistan 😱 ▪️ India are undefeated at the

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1 month

Take a bow, Ravi Rongali 🫡 He misses out on a medal, but should be mighty proud of himself. Ravi broke his personal best thrice - the only Indian to do that so far at the Games 👏🏽 Ravi walked off after his last attempt by pointing to the India flag on his jersey...he really

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Shyam Vasudevan

2 months

Neeraj Chopra speaks on the Vinesh Phogat situation 🗣️ "If she gets the medal, it will be really good. If such a situation didn't arise then she would have got the medal for sure. If you don't get the medal, then it feels like something is missing...people will remember her for

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Shyam Vasudevan

2 months

Gianmarco Tamberi was in the hospital 3 hours ago. He'd puked blood twice. He's been struggling with kidney issues in the lead-up to Paris. Could have very easily pulled out today. But he chooses to compete, clears 2.22m before bowing out at 2.27m. Not the result he wanted,

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Shyam Vasudevan

1 year

- Had almost a 24hr+ travel to China - Reached some 18hrs ago - Zero rest over the last 2 days - Not a SINGLE training session - No time to acclimatize to conditions Kudos to the 🇮🇳team for the brave display they put up today. #CHNvsIND | #AsianGames2023 | #IndianFootball

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Shyam Vasudevan

9 months

Whatta collab @DanishSait x @IgorStimac x @IndianFootball 🤌🏽 Proper riot this video is. Stimac dancing to "my name is Lakhan" and Chhetri's "meh" was too good 😂

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Shyam Vasudevan

1 year

#NeerajChopra : Everyone said this was the only medal left for me to win and I've won it today. I still have to cross the 90m mark [laughs]...I felt it'd happen today, but the medal was more important. I've won the 🥇now & will work harder going ahead.

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Shyam Vasudevan

2 years

For those who blinked and missed it....here's how #NeerajChopra cruised into the #WCHOregon22 final. This is the first time Neeraj has made the final.

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Shyam Vasudevan

1 year

An absolute j.o.k.e. that this goal was disallowed. Floodlight robbery, this. #MASIND | #IndianFootball

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Shyam Vasudevan

3 months

Manika Batra and Sreeja Akula have done what no 🇮🇳 singles table tennis player has done before them: enter the round of 16 at the Olympics 💪🏽 This is undoubtedly a performance they should be proud of 👏🏽 #Paris2024 | #Olympics

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Shyam Vasudevan

9 months

SUMIT NAGAL! 🔥 This is the first time in 35 years that an Indian 🇮🇳 has beaten a seeded player at a Grand Slam. #AO24 | #ausopen

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Shyam Vasudevan

2 months

There's a handwritten inscription above Aman Sehrawat's bed at the Chhatrasal Stadium: "If it were easy, everyone would do it." It wasn't an easy ride. But here he is now: Aman is an Olympic medallist 🥉 and only the fifth Indian male wrestler to win an Olympic medal.

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Shyam Vasudevan

2 months

Wasn't a 100% fit. It's exactly 2 weeks since his Olympic silver. Been a tough year with that troublesome groin. Was 4th with 2 throws left today. But Neeraj does simply what only Neeraj can do: produces his life's 2nd-best throw & 2024's best to finish second. Nothing but

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Shyam Vasudevan

1 month

HISTORY IN PARIS! 💫 INDIA HAVE JUST WON THEIR 20TH MEDAL, WHICH IS THEIR BEST-EVER TALLY AT THE PARALYMPICS 🔥 #Paris2024 | #Paralympics2024

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Shyam Vasudevan

3 years

The goal post is my temple. I wanted to pay homage to it after the win. I began playing in 2000, I've waited 21 years for this medal, says @16Sreejesh . THALAIVAR 🔥 #Hockeyindia #Olympics @sportstarweb

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Shyam Vasudevan

1 year

26 August 2018 @SreeshankarM finished 6th at the 2018 Asian Games. He clutched the sand, looked straight at the cameras and said "I will be back." 1 October 2023 Sreeshankar wins 🥈 at the Asian Games. A man of his word 💯 #HangzhouAsianGames | #IndiaAtAG22 |

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Shyam Vasudevan

1 year

INDIA BEAT PAKISTAN TO WIN THE MEN'S TEAM GOLD MEDAL IN SQUASH! 🥇 ABHAY SINGH SAVES TWO MATCHPOINTS TO WIN THE DECIDER! WHAT A GAMEEEEEEEEE 🤯 #HangzhouAsianGames | #IndiaAtAG22

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Shyam Vasudevan

1 year

Saurav Ghosal - one of the flagbearers of 🇮🇳 squash 👏🏽 ▪️ Won his second Asian Games singles silver today🥈 ▪️ This is his ninth Asian Games medal 🔥 ▪️ Played his first Asian Games back in 2006 😱 ▪️ Has won at least a medal in each of the last 5 Asian Games editions 💯 ▪️ He's

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Shyam Vasudevan

1 year

THREAD 🧵 It’s been a week since THAT men’s javelin final at the #HangzhouAsianGames ✨ #NeerajChopra defended his title and #KishoreKumarJena won silver, qualified for the Paris Olympics and recorded a new personal best [the best by an Indian other than Neeraj!!] From a

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Shyam Vasudevan

10 months

There's a gentleman in this video who has 8 garlands around his neck and is being interviewed by numerous folks....the man to his left is the newly elected president of the #WFI . The irony of it all.

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ANI

10 months

#WATCH | Newly elected president of the Wrestling Federation of India Sanjay Singh arrives at the residence of former WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. Former WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh says "This is not my personal victory, this is the victory of the wrestlers of

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Shyam Vasudevan

2 months

Vinesh Phogat, imo, is India's greatest wrestler ever. Farewell, legend ✨

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