All eyes on Narsingh Yadav at freestyle wrestling nationals
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Fri, Jan 22 2021 19:42 IST |
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Noida, Jan 22 : Narsingh Yadav, the 2015 World Championships bronze medallist (74kg), will play in his first competition at the national level since serving a four-year doping ban on Saturday when he competes in men s National Freestyle Wrestling Championships here.
Yadav, who was banned before the 2016 Rio Olympics after failing two dope tests for anabolic steroid methandienone, made his international comeback in the Individual World Cup held in Belgrade, Serbia, from December 12 to 18. He lost to Germany s Osman Kubilay Cakici in a close opening-round bout.
Wrestling in time of coronavirus: How the pandemic impacted India’s traditional dangal circuit
With the forced cancellations of all the competitions in 2020, there has been a severe impact on the traditional way of life for the Indian pehelwan. Updated Jan 14, 2021 · 06:52 pm A wrestling match during the farmers protest on the Delhi border. | PTI
akharas in Delhi’s alleys and by-lanes resumed operations too. However, as the world adjusted to the pandemic, India’s traditional wrestling form of kushti remained stuck.
The pandemic has left the grounds of India’s dangal circuit, which usually attract thousands in a tangle of locks and limbs, barren. Since all the competitions on this circuit, which wrestlers rely for daily wage and food were cancelled in 2020, there has been a severe impact on the traditional way of life for the Indian pehelwan.
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A year in which Covid s long shadow paused sports events globally
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New Delhi, Dec 30 : The year started with the anticipation that is characteristic to an Olympic year. This time, however, there were also rumblings of uncertainty in the background. The coronavirus pandemic had started to make itself heard outside of China and before the end of the first month of the year, major sports events started falling to the pandemic.
The Tokyo Olympics was scheduled to start on July 24 and the calendar until that date was crammed with last minute qualifiers for a number of sports. For India, the initial blows came in the form of the Asian boxing Olympic qualifiers, which were scheduled to be held in Wuhan the city that ended up becoming ground zero for the virus being postponed and shifted to Amman, Jordan, and the women s hockey team s tour to China b
In limited sports action in 2020, Indian boxers delivered knockout punch
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New Delhi, Dec 30 : Year 2020 was supposed to one in which words associated with the Olympics were expected to dominate the sports headlines. Instead, it was terms like pandemic, postponement, behind closed doors, uncertainty and, more recently, vaccine that swept the world as coronavirus forced people shut themselves up in their homes, quarantine centres and, in the case of many sportspersons, hostel rooms of sports facilities.
It was in March that the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared Covid-19 as a pandemic and by the end of the month, the Tokyo Olympics, which was scheduled to start from July 24, was postponed to July 23, 2021. India declared a nationwide lockdown on March 25 which brought the sports cal