From landing a job as a junior ticket collector to leading the Indian Women’s Hockey team in the Rio 2016 Olympics and now travelling to the Tokyo Olympics as an experienced and crucial member of the squad, it’s been a long journey for Pukhrambam Sushila Chanu. In 2016 Rio Olympic …

Sometimes regarded as one of the greatest athletes ever to have lived, ‘Babe’ Didrikson Zaharias, byname of Mildred Ella Zaharias, holds more records and medals than any other 20th-century athlete. Mildred Ella Didrikson achieved particular success in Basketball, Baseball and Track and Field. However, she is most widely known because …

“I can’t keep calm when Dueball’s on”. That is what Pankaj Bhardwaj has to say about how much the sport means to him.  For the uninitiated, Dueball is a hybrid sport that was both invented and developed by Firoz Khan on Indian soil in Nagpur. It has quickly gone on …

The Olympic organisers have announced that the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be held in the absence of any spectators in the host city of Tokyo, with resurgence in the number of coronavirus cases that have forced Japan to declare a “State of Emergency” in the capital, for the entire duration …

Two-time Olympic winning legend of India Keshav Datt, passed away due to age-related issues. The formidable centre halfback breathed his last, aged 95 at his own residence in Kolkata. With his death, India lost the last remaining member of the legendary Olympic-winning team of 1948. Hockey India President Gyanendro Ningombam …

The Olympic Refugee Team comprising of 29 athletes will be representing the Olympic Flag in this edition of Olympics at Tokyo. Abdullah Sediqi – Taekondo Tekondo has been a guiding light for Abdullah Sediqi since he fled from Afghanistan. Sediqi feared for his life in his native place after he …

The Olympic Refugee Team will participate in the Tokyo Olympics 2020 as a symbol of hope for every refugee around the planet. Over the past ten years the refugee population around the world has increased by more than two times. The number of people who have been forcibly displaced all …

As per the Japanese concept of ‘Ikigai’, which is about finding purpose in life while doing something dear to the heart, Siddhi Kapoor’s passion, vocation, profession, and mission, the four components of the theory, are in playing Golf. Growing up in Kolkata, Siddhi Kapoor started at six and “was one …

Owing to the Coronavirus crisis, the selected athletes for the Olympics are facing a real challenge to remain both physically and mentally fit. Sportsavour got in touch with Mreenal Chakraborty, the Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Mental Toughness Trainer, to get his take on the whole situation. The Olympic …

The name of Laurel Hubbard absolutely blew up on the internet when she was selected by New Zealand, to compete in the Women’s Weighlifting at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. This will make her the first-ever openly transgender athlete to compete at the Olympics. You would be hard-pressed to find much, …