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Celebrating Indian Hockey. The final session on day 2 of the Tata Steel Trailblazers sports conclave organised by RevSportz witnessed a fascinating conversation. Moderated by Boria Majumdar, this session had some of the biggest names of the game. PR Sreejesh, Harmanpreet Singh, Hockey India president Dilip Tirkey, secretary Bholanath Singh, India women’s coach Harendra Singh and Rahul Todi, the MD of Shrachi Group and owner of the Shrachi Rarh Bengal Tigers, were the speakers. Sharing anecdotes and tales of success and failure, they made it a riveting session. Celebrating the revival of Indian hockey, two successive Olympic bronze medals and…

Artificial intelligence, augmented reality: A number of things are impacting sports these days. Technology is the in thing and it is considered to be indispensable. This session of the Tata Steel Trailblazers sports conclave organised by RevSportz was about Technology in Sport. The speakers were India’s chief badminton coach PullelaGopichand, long jump world championship bronze medallist Anju Bobby George, squash star Saurav Ghoshal, shooter and shooting coach Joydeep Karmakar and Divyajot Ahluwalia, the director of WT Vision. “AI is the buzzword,” said Ahluwalia. “Augmented reality is well accepted in sports. It enhances capability. A lot of investment has been made…

D Gukesh came to Kolkata to attend the RevSportz’s Trailblazers 3.0 Conclave on Thursday. His session was at midday on Friday. Dinner was laid out for all the guests last evening, but the world chess champion was still shy enough to turn up, more comfortable to order his food via an app instead. Once he was ushered into the dinner table, he became comfortable and enjoyed Rosogolla. But this is how Gukesh is. The crown hasn’t changed him. The 18-year-old remains humility personified. At heart, he remains a teenager whose eyes light up while talking about MS Dhoni. “MS Dhoni…

Session 4 of the Tata Steel Trailblazers sports conclave conducted by RevSportz was a fascinating one. The subject was: Menarche to Menopause. It’s a serious issue faced byfemale athletes. They don’t usually speak about it. They go through it and keep performing. Sharmistha Gooptu of RevSportz was the moderator of the event. In attendance were Olympic medal winners MirabaiChanu and Lovlina Borgohain. Joining them were Dr Swati Mishra, Bhavna Singh, the vice-president of BSV, and Meenu Agarwal, the founder of Food and Wellness. Periods are a critical matter to address for women athletes. They go through these tough phases and…

Purely from monetary terms, the Olympics is a $15 billion event. India wants to host it in 2036, but is it a logical idea for a country that is not a sporting superpower? Far from it. Mahesh Bhupathi, former World No. 1 doubles player and winner of multiple Grand Slam titles, answered in the affirmative. “We must host the Olympics, be it in 2036 or 2046,” he said at the RevSportz Trailblazers 3.0 Conclave on Friday. Bhupathi knows the challenges that sport, cricket aside, faces in India. “The BCCI filters down the money to the U-14 level; to the districts…

Venkatesh Iyer, the Kolkata Knight Riders all-rounder, observed that India are the favourites to win the Champion Trophy final. The Men in Blue will lock horns against New Zealand in the summit clash on Sunday (March 9). On day two of RevSportz’s Trailblazers Conclave 3.0, Iyer also said that Rinku Singh is the funniest guy in the KKR set-up, but it was very tough to make Gautam Gambhir smile. In terms of assessing Gambhir, Iyer observed that his achievements speak for itself. He is very competitive and only victory gives him happiness. Iyer also shared his affection for Kolkata as…

India’s Paralympic revolution was the topic of discussion in the first session on Day 2 of the Tata Steel Trailblazers sports conclave organised by RevSportz. Present on stage were Paralympic stars Yogesh Kathuniya, Navdeep Singh, former India hockey player Viren Rasquinha, and Dr Ameya Kagali, the chief team physician for India at the Paris Paralympics 2024, where India won 29 medals. The panellists agreed that things have got better in Paralympics, or para sports. It’s something that the average sports follower doesn’t comprehend. For people in general, sports is only about able-bodied athletes. That’s wrong. Sports is about inclusivity and…

The No. 3 position was a problem area for India in the Test series in Australia. Eventually, the 3-1 defeat was down to the fact that India didn’t put enough runs on the board. All the while, it felt like maybe the selectors missed a trick by not picking Cheteshwar Pujara. The next red-ball assignment is a five-Test series in England, starting in June. Will Pujara be picked? “I’m playing domestic cricket. If given a chance, I’m ready to grab it with both hands. The hunger is even more. When you are older, you need to work even harder,” said…

“Corporate India has failed sport,” said Adille Sumariwalla, the president of the Athletics Federation of India. He cited examples. “How many corporate houses, except a few like the Tata (Group), have been supporting sport? I’m not talking about cricket. But in other sport, if they are doing it they are supporting the top athletes.” Sumariwalla stressed that going beyond the crème de la crème, sport needs corporate support at grassroots. The discourse set up the second session of the RevSportz Trailblazers 3.0 Conclave that was moderated by RevSportz’s co-founder and COO Sharmistha Gooptu. Other than Sumariwalla, the panel had Jaswinder…

“Didi, where do get a pistol for cheap?” Manu Bhaker was candid on how life has changed after the double bronze winning feat at the Paris Olympics. She is still a child, who loves her aloo paratha, but doesn’t indulge a lot into those. She was yearning for the third medal all right, but she realises the importance of being realistic. “I know how difficult it is to finish fourth,” said Manu at the Tata Steel Trailblazers 3.0 Conclave organised by RevSportz. “Indian shooters are brilliant. We are right there at top and we are naturally good at it. We…