World Sports

Badminton  Guru Gopichand and his Hall of Fame:  The former All-England champion's academy is the nursery and finishing school of Indian shuttlers   Jana Gana Mana Adhinayaka Jaya he Bharata Bhagya Vidhaata...' The strains of the National Anthem pierce the strong morning wind blowing past the portico of the Pullela Gopichand Badminton Academy in the Gachibowli area of Hyderabad. Singing the anthem are the best of Indian badminton: Saina Nehwal, Parupalli Kashyap, P.V. Sindhu, RMV Guru Sai Dutt and at least 20 others. It is a ritual they perform twice a week for inspiration. Pullela Gopichand Before stepping inside the academy, many of the players bend down, touch the floor and then their forehead. It is a gesture that tells you what this gurukul means to each one of them. If they were badminton players 10 years ago in India, an academy like this would have been unthinkable. Today it is a dream come true, thanks to the perseverance of one man-national badminton coach

The birth of football in India and its glory days The victorious Mohun Bagan team with the IFA Shield : 1911 The past 3-4 years have seen India host the Indian Super League (ISL) and most recently, the FIFA U-17 World Cup. The inaugural match of the World Cup saw hosts India being beaten 3-0 by the United States and despite this huge loss, pundits praised India's performance, claiming that it was too good for "newcomers" like India. Since some years, words like "newcomers", "new entrants" have been used frequently by the sports media to describe Indian football, especially since the start of the ISL. Usage of such words might lead one to believe that India is really an unskilled, backward nation in terms of football with absolutely zero history and heritage. Yes, there are people who believe India started playing football only in the 21st century, but, the reality is quite the opposite. Indian football actually has a rich football heritage

" Greatest World Champion in lndian history for any sports "   Wizard Pankaj Advani made his international competitive debut at the Asian Billiards Championship 2002, held at Bangalore, in which he finished as a finalist. After an amateur World Snooker Champion title win in 2003, he won the IBSF World Billiards Championship in 2005 at Qawra, Malta, where he became the first to achieve a "grand double" by winning both the time and point formats, a feat he repeated at the 2008 event in Bangalore. He is the only Indian to have won the amateur world title in both snooker and billiards. Pankaj Advani wins 24th World title in Doha & 11th Asian Cup title in 2 week this september months 2021.  when he triumphed at the IBSF 6-Red Snooker World Cup with a victory over Pakistan's Babar Masih in the final. Advani, who won his 11th Asian title last week, started the final with a comfortable 42-13 win in the opening frame. Pankaj ensured a clean slate of wins over the

" The  Golden Era of Indian Hockey  " Indian-Olympic-Hockey Team of 1928 The Golden Era in Indian Hockey lasted for 28 years between 1928 to 1956. Between 1928-1956 India at the Olympics, won the gold medal consecutively, 6 times. India played 24 Olympic matches, won all 24, scored 178 goals (at an average of 7.43 goals per match) and conceded only 7 goals. India has also won gold medals at the 1964 and the 1980 Olympics, taking the total gold tally to 8. The first sporting achievement of independent India was the 1948 Olympic hockey gold medal. Over 25,000 spectators watched the 1948 Olympic hockey final between India and Britain, played at Wembley. This was the first time that India and Britain played an official hockey match, and India went on to beat Britain 4-0. That was the first time that India's national flag was displayed and India's national anthem, Jana Gana Mana, was played at an Olympic venue. So dominant was the Indian hockey team of old that it too

Jallikattu: A Tradition started by Bhagwan Shri  Krishna! Jallikattu is a sport of bull-taming or bull-grappling. In this sport, an agitated bull is released into the playing arena from an enclosure. The participants athletically leap on the bull, either trying to subdue it, or hold on to its hump long enough to grab the bag of coins tied to the bull’s horns as prize. These days, instead of a bag of coins, a token cloth is tied to the horns. The ancient Tamil Sangam literature (3rd century BCE – 4th century CE) mentions bull-grapping as popular sport amongst the Velir chieftains who ruled in different parts of the ancient Tamil State . The Velirs or Ay-Velirs (the prefix Ay denotes the Ayar cowherd community) belonged to the Yadava dynasty of Krishna, who had migrated southwards, most probably after the collapse of the Indus Valley civilization (starting at around c.1900 BCE) and settled in different parts of Southern India. The relation between the Velirs and the Yadava dynast