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Avinash Sable: Once a mason in Beed, now a Golden steeplechaser

January 01, 2024 9:07 pm

Avinash Sable, 29, worked as a mason in drought-prone Mandwa, a village in Beed district, after an academy in Aurangabad weeded him out as coaches there didn't think he had a future as a distance runner.

Bareilly girl Khushbu takes up Malaysian sport, wins medal, gets Army job

January 01, 2024 9:02 pm

Khushbu wants more girls from Bareilly to take up the sport, and she believes that there will be more like her from the city who will represent India.

Painful shift to new home brought joy to Arjun Singh

January 01, 2024 9:03 pm

Arjun’s uncle Ajit Singh was a canoeist and he enrolled his nephew into an academy when he was only ten.

Until they joined Army, sports was not on the minds of these winners

January 01, 2024 9:04 pm

At the Hangzhou Asian Games, the 27-year-old Arvind combined with Arjun Lal Jat to bring home a silver medal in the lightweight double sculls event.

For many like Harmilan Kaur Bains, representing India runs in the family

January 01, 2024 9:04 pm

When Harmilan won gold in both the 800 metres and the 1500 metres at the Khelo India University Games in 2020, she had told her father not to travel to Bhubaneshwar because she wanted peace of mind before the races.

Petrol pump attendant from Ballabhgarh with no sporting background raised champion athlete

January 01, 2024 9:04 pm

Part-owner of some farmland, and employee at a nearby petrol pump, Jagbir's family neither had the money nor the cultural exposure to raise a top-level international athlete.

School drop-outs and pro contracts: For cricketers, big bucks an incentive and potential pitfall

January 01, 2024 9:09 pm

From Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Yashasvi Jaiswal – who like Varma were part of the U-19 team and made it to the senior level in no time are yet to become graduates.

Walker Ram Baboo's long trek from a remote village to podium shows back of the beyond is not a barrier

January 01, 2024 9:09 pm

Baboo was so determined to make his life and career as an athlete (as a marathoner first) that he travelled to Varanasi when he was just 17 so that he could afford access to train in a stadium.

Access to infra proves a game-changer: How an astroturf and hostel changed lives of tribal girls in Simdega

January 01, 2024 9:07 pm

Salima and Sangita, both hailing from tribal villages even farther inward from Simdega, both availed the use of the hockey training centre run by coach Pratima Barwa.