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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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Looking at 2021: Record Olympic haul for India, Federer s Wimbledon aspirations and I-League without the big two
Mohun Bagan celebrate their title win after beating Aizawl.
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The return of the I-League
The 2019-20 I-League was suspended just as things were starting to heat up. Sure, (the old) Mohun Bagan had run away with the title, but with a minimum of four matches each left and just three points separating second from eighth, it would have been another belter of a season climax.
The league will hope it can pick things up from where it had left off, even though they will be without their two biggest draws. East Bengal and Mohun Bagan have new prefixes, new investors, and are in the ISL now. How the I-League handles this - in terms of dipping viewership, commercial attractiveness and stakeholder interest - will go a long way in shaping the future of football in India.
Asian Wrestling Championship: Sakshi Malik, Vikesh Phogat, Divya Karnan win silver medal
Sakshi (60kg) And Divya Kakran (69kg) Failed To Last The Entire Six Minutes During Their Gold-medal Bouts But Vinesh (55kg) Put A Good Fight Before Going Down. PTI | Updated on: 12 May 2017, 11:12:32 PM
New Delhi:
Rio Olympics bronze medalist Sakshi Malik along with Vinesh Phogat and Divya Kakran have won silver medal in their respective weight categories at the Asian Wrestling Championship.
India was hoping them to win the Gold medal but all the three lost to their respective Japanese opponents, who proved to be too strong for them.