Author: Rahul Giri

-G Rajaraman Some dreams are agonizingly distant, and some tantalisingly close. A bunch of endurance cyclists, training hard in the outskirts of Guwahati, believes that it can pull off something special in the Asian Games in the Chinese city of Hangzhou later this year. A few seasons ago, this would have been dismissed as pipedream since India could not even put together full squads. Aware that a contribution by the cyclists can boost India’s Asian Games medal tally – after all, a total of 72 cycling medals were on offer in the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta –…

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 The latest episode of Backstage with Boria Season 4 features star Indian table tennis player Manika Batra. With the WTT Star Contender Goa 2023, set to begin from February 27, all eyes will be on Manika as she will spearhead the Indian challenge in Women’s singles with Sreeja Akula and Suhana Saini. But her biggest motivation is to win a medal in Paris 2024 in the mixed doubles category pairing with Sathiyan Gnansekaran. The current Mixed Doubles World Ranked No 5 are India’s best bet in Table Tennis in Paris 2024 . Watch the special interview of Manika Batra…

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The latest episode of Backstage with Boria Season 4 features star Indian table tennis player Manika Batra. With the WTT Star Contender Goa 2023, set to begin from February 27, all eyes will be on Manika as she will spearhead the Indian challenge in Women’s singles with Sreeja Akula and Suhana Saini. But her biggest motivation is to win a medal in Paris 2024 in the mixed doubles category pairing with Sathiyan Gnansekaran. The current Mixed Doubles World Ranked No 5 are India’s best bet in Table Tennis in Paris 2024 Manika Batra on Backstage with Boria Season 4 said,…

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Rather than being dismayed by their loss, South Africa should look to Australia for inspiration. Lanning’s team is perhaps the most dominant sports side in the world right now, proud torchbearers of a great tradition. On February 26, in the women’s World T20 final at Newlands, Ellyse Perry and Meg Lanning scored just 17 runs off 16 balls. Megan Schutt took one wicket, but also conceded four of the 11 fours that South Africa struck during the run chase. Perry bowled just one wicket-less over for five runs. Jess Jonassen was whacked for two sixes in her three overs.…

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