Essays on Sports

Record-setting Rounds of Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods

For a long time, the world of golf knew one man who shone above all others. Jack Nicklaus made history with record-setting rounds, but a star emerged in the new generation with Tiger Woods who took the PGA by storm. Both golfers proved outstanding in...

GolfMy Favourite Player

2 Pages|747 Words

2050

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Indian Female Athletes at the La Olympics

I was 13 when the LA Games – and PT Usha’s Olympic dream – went down. All around me, post an all-too-brief dalliance with optimism, adults were falling back, almost with a sense of relief, into the comfort zone of their favourite pastime – dissing...

IndiaOlympic GamesWomen in Sports

2 Pages|885 Words

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Engaging Women into Sports in India

The life-blood of any sport, as everyone knows, is the fans. In this era of television-centric sports coverage, eyeballs (read: TRPs) are everything. It is viewership that brings in money, whether via tickets or telecast rights or sponsorship or merchandise, and it is money that...

IndiaRecreation and SportsWomen in Sports

1 Page|498 Words

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India’s Accomplishments at the 2008 Summer Olympics at Beijing

The 2008 Summer Olympics at Beijing will always have a very special place in Indian sporting history. It was at these Games that a 25-year-old shooter called Abhinav Bindra, already one of the best in the world in his category (in the qualifying rounds at...

Competitive SportsIndiaOlympic Games

3 Pages|1355 Words

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The Women to Be Proud for in Indian Sport

Who were these girls with the winning ways? Where had they come from? What inspired them to keep going? In sport, as in everything else in life, the truth is to be found not on the podium, but in the back stories. The fascinating thing...

Recreation and SportsWomen in Sports

2 Pages|918 Words

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India’s Performance on the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio

Rio 2016. Anticipation was at fever pitch as India sent her largest contingent ever – 117 athletes – to the Olympics. Unlike in the earlier Games, the 117 were fairly evenly split between male and female athletes – 63 men to 54 women. India came...

Competitive SportsIndiaOlympic Games

2 Pages|848 Words

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The First Individual Golds of India in Olympic Sport

India’s first individual gold on the biggest stage in world sport. You may be thinking of Abhinav Bindra’s Olympic gold medal in 2008, but our first individual gold actually came way back in Heidelberg, Germany at the 1972 Paralympics. Murlikant Petkar, a TELCO employee from...

Competitive SportsIndiaOlympic Games

5 Pages|2212 Words

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The Development of Paralympic Movement in India

What followed over the next fortnight is a blur and holds a touch of the surreal for me. I walked, ran, commuted huge distances to be present at the events where our athletes were. When they began performing - and boy, did they perform! -...

Competitive SportsIndiaRecreation and Sports

4 Pages|1648 Words

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Cricket and Indian National Consciousness

Even as a non-cricket sporting consciousness was slowly developing in India, cricket, India's numero uno sport disconnected from the rest of the sporting universe, was chugging along, unchallenged and unaffected. Growing stronger financially, politically with the governments showing distinct dislike for interference in a body...

CricketIndia

5 Pages|2231 Words

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India's Sporting Legacy: Yes, We Can!

I would like to begin this article with a story. This story begins in Islampur, a small village in Sangli district in Maharashtra, with an apparently friendly wrestling match between the pampered son of a village headman and a 12-year-old boy. Stunningly, the 12-year-old wins...

IndiaRecreation and Sports

5 Pages|2060 Words

1850

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