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Neeraj Chopra- I want to thank the people of India for staying up late. This medal is for all of India. I'm Olympic champion now I'm world champion. Keep working hard in different fields. We have to make a name in the world.
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If Saurabh Netravalkar, who had figures of 2-18 and bowled USA to victory in the super over vs Pakistan, wasn't disgustingly talented enough -- ( He is an engineer at Oracle and an MS in CS from Cornell University.) he's also a damn fine ukelele player. (video from his insta)
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Question to Neeraj- do you take inspiration from Chandrayaan Mission? Neeraj- Yes. All Indians are proud of ISRO. Also very proud of Praggnanandhaa. He played very well against Magnus Carlsen
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What motivates a man who has won everything there is to win? Neeraj Chopra- 'Throwers don't have a finish line'
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Arshad Nadeem - So happy for Neeraj bhai!. India and Pakistan are 1 and 2 in the world. Inshallah we will be 1-2 at the Olympics.
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Absolute scenes in Birmingham. Arshad Nadeem of Pakistan wins javelin throw competition at the CWG with a new Games Record of 90.18m. He beats the World Champion Anderson Peters. He's crying and why shouldn't he. First Pakistani track & field gold medallist at the CWG in 60 years
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A week back Tejaswin Shankar was practising in front of 3 dogs at JLN Stadium, after not being named to the CWG squad despite meeting the AFI QF standard. Included at the last minute after taking the fed to court, today in front of 30000, he wins a high jump bronze in Birmingham.
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A very sweet Hungarian lady (who spoke excellent Hindi btw) wanted a Neeraj Chopra autograph. Neeraj said sure but then realised she meant on the 🇮🇳 flag. 'Waha nahi sign kar sakta' Neeraj tells her. Eventually he signed her shirt sleeve. She was pretty happy all the same.
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Nikhat Zareen. Put some respect on the name. The 26-year-old adds CWG 🥇 to her World 🥇. She beats Ireland's Carly McNaul by a wide 5-0 UD in the final of the women's 50kg division. She won every bout in Birmingham by the same margin. Nikhat made becoming CWG champion look easy.
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At 18, Avinash Sable served as a jawan of 5 Mahar on the Siachen glacier. Now 27, the man from Beed is doing 🇮🇳 proud on the track. He wins🥈in the men's 3000m steeplechase at the CWG with a NR of 8.11.20. It's India's first medal in the event and the 9th time he's broken the NR
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During the COVID-19 lockdown 24-year old Ram Baboo dug ditches under MNREGA. Previously he'd worked as a waiter. But he never lost sight of his goal - to be an athlete. Today he won Asian Games🥉 in the 35km race walk mixed team that allowed 🇮🇳 to equal it's best ever Asiad tally
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2014 🥇 2018 🥇 2022 🥇 Vinesh Phogat is the first Indian woman wrestler to win three consecutive gold medals at the CWG. She didn't drop a point in three matches in the women's 53kg category at Birmingham and pinned the silver medallist. As dominant as it gets.
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🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉 India finish 4th on the medal table at the CWG with 22 gold 17 silver and 23 bronze at Birmingham.
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'Everyone pats themselves if we win medals, but athletes on the fringes won't get support to climb the ladder'. A late bloomer, Paul Eldhose was rejected for a sports scholarship for 'lacking potential'. Today the 25-year-old triple jumper wins a historic CWG🥇with a 17.03m PB
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Arshad Nadeem told me last year after he took silver at the world Championship behind Neeraj Chopra that he wanted to see India and Pakistan finish 1-2 at the Olympics too. Neeraj and Arshad did just that. But the order of medals is reversed. Two 90m + throws for Arshad
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🇮🇳Athletics team lead Anju Bobby George on officiating controversies at Hangzhou Asiad- 'It's calculated. They're trying to cheat us. 1-2 is okay. Continuously this is happening. We are going to protest against all officials. This was deliberate & targeting us' via @sportstarweb
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Nikhat Zareen 🇮🇳 is the champion of the world! This is the marquee flyweight division and she has coasted in style. She's won every bout at World championships by 5-0 unanimous decision
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Axelsen- Lakshya could have won today. But he tensed up because he's gone where no Indian has gone before. I've gone through that myself. He's going to be a real contender at the Olympics in 4 years time.
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Aman Sehrawat wins bronze in the men's 57kg category at the Olympics. He beats Darian Cruz of Puerto Rico 13-5 in the medal playoff. Aman is the 5th Olympic medallist from Chhatrasal akhara which is to Indian wrestling what La Massia is to football. For Aman though Chhatrasal
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Please quote original sources. Don't steal original content from smaller handles and pass it off as your own. Also don't make up stuff that didn't happen. In short don't be like this guy. (Source - the guy who took this pic in Budapest)
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This is Neeraj Chopra, Olympic Gold Medalist. After winning the #WorldAthleticsChamps in Budapest yesterday, A hungarian fan came to him with an Indian flag and asked him to sign it for her. Subedar Neeraj Chopra humbly denied and said “ Sorry Mam, it is a violation of my flag
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Aman Sehrawat - My parents always wanted me to be a wrestler. They didn't know anything about the Olympics but they wanted me to be a wrestler. I dedicate this medal to my parents and to the nation.
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Neeraj (on whether he would invite Arshad Nadeem 🇵🇰 for lunch at home in Khandra) Yes of course. Why only Arshad, all are welcome. In our culture it is normal to feed anyone who comes home. I hope we have a friendly competition in 🇮🇳 where people from outside can come & compete
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No Indian woman wrestler has ever made two Olympic teams. Vinesh Phogat just earned her third Olympic quota. Massive moment for one the greats of Indian sport. But there's at least one person who won't be very happy with this.
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GOLD!!! Neeraj Chopra, the farmer's son from Khandra village in Haryana's Panipat, never had a formal javelin coach growing up, learned watching videos on @YouTube is now at age 20, a gold medal winner at the #CWG2018 he wins with a throw of 86.47m!
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Ernakulam's Eldhose Paul and Abdullah Aboobacker become the first 🇮🇳 men to finish 1-2 in any event at the CWG. There's just 1 cm between them on the podium in the men's triple jump at Birmingham. Paul jumps 17.03m and Aboobacker jumps 17.02m to create history at the 2022 CWG
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Three years ago, Manu Bhaker and her coach Jaspal Rana had the most bitter of falling outs ahead of the Tokyo Olympics. The games ended in disaster for her. Rana expected she would never speak to him again. Then last year out of the blue, she called him for help once again last
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Amazing Achanta Sharath Kamal! 2006 CWG🥇🥇 2010 CWG 🥇🥉🥉 2014 CWG 🥈 2018 CWG 🥇🥈🥉 2022 CWG 🥇🥇🥇🥈 At 40, he wins his 7th Commonwealth Games🥇. He beats Liam Pitchford to win the men's singles title at Birmingham, 16 years after he won it in Melbourne.
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So first time finalist India will play 14 time champions Indonesia in the Thomas Cup finals. Who would have thought of it?!
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This year Lakshya Sen has beaten- 2021 Olympic champion Viktor Axelsen 2021 Olympic bronze medal winner Anthony Ginting 2021 World champion Loh Kean Yew 2021 World bronze medalist Anders Antonsen 2021 All England champion Lee Jii Zia
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What a magical bit of history for these ladies! The Indian lawn bowls women's team of Rupa Rani Tirkey, Nayanmoni Saikia, Lovely Choubey and Pinki Singh have won 🇮🇳 their first CWG 🥇 in the sport. They beat South Africa 17-10 to win the women's fours event
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At one point in the javelin throw at the Asian Games, unheralded Kishore Jena took a shock lead over Olympic & World champ Neeraj Chopra with a PB of 86.77m. Later he is asked what was going through his mind at that moment. "Mere ko pata hi tha ki bhaisaab maar hi denge!"
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1960 Milkha Singh 1984 PT Usha 2000 Gurcharan Singh 2004 Leander Paes/Mahesh Bhupathi 2012 Joydeep Karmakar 2016 Abhinav Bindra, Dipa Karmakar, Sania Mirza/Rohan Bopanna 2020 Aditi Ashok
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Nikhat Zareen confirms first medal for 🇮🇳 at the 2022 Women's Boxing World Championships. She beats Charley-Sian Davison of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 5-0 in the QF of the 52kg competition. This is the first world medal for Nikhat.
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100gm more, 1 kg less. What a day
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INDIA ARE THE 2022 THOMAS CUP CHAMPIONS!!! Kidambi Srikanth beats Jonatan Christie 21-15 23-21 as 🇮🇳 beat 14-time champions Indonesia 3-0 to win a historic first #ThomasCup in the 73 year history of the tournament.
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This is a bit of history. The Indian lawn bowls women's team of Rupa Rani Tirkey, Nayanmoni Saikia, Lovely Choubey and Pinki Singh have won India's first ever CWG medal in the sport. They beat New Zealand 16-13 to make the final of the women's fours event and are assure of silver
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Jeremy Lalrinnunga wins gold 🥇 In May this year, Jeremy Lalrinnunga posted this picture of the CWG gold medal as his phone wallpaper. Now he has one for real. The 19-year-old from Mizoram lifts a total of 300kg to win India's 🇮🇳second gold, in the 67kg division at the 2022 CWG.
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Neeraj Chopra wins his second Diamond League title of the season with a throw of 87.66m at Lausanne. Incidentally Neeraj has now thrown more than the 87.58m (which won him gold at the Tokyo Olympics) in 7 of the 8 competitions he's competed in since the Tokyo Games.
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For the first time in nearly a decade and a half 🇮🇳 has a boxing world champion not named Mary Kom. Instead it's Nizamabad's Nikhat Zareen who joins that very exclusive club.
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🇮🇳 team of Kapil, Sridhar, Rupal and Priya Mohan win 🥈 in the 4x400m mixed relay at the U20 world athletics championships in Colombia. They clock 3.17.76 finish just .07 seconds behind gold medal winners USA and more than 2 seconds faster than Jamaica 3.19.98
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Naveen beats Pakistan's Muhammad Tahir 9-0 to win gold in the men's 74kg freestyle wrestling competition at Birmingham. At 19, he's got to be the youngest Indian men's freestyle wrestler to win CWG gold.
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What a difference a single place makes. Arjun Babuta tried to compose himself after finishing 4th at the Olympics. He can't and breaks down. Teammate Elavenil hugs him and guides him away from the broadcasters. @sportstarweb
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Everyone out there playing cricket. Ashwin playing chess. Knowledgeable Chennai cricketer.
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Guessing the Hotstar guy who passed on badminton rights pretty nervous right now.
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GREATNESS!! GOLD!!! REMEMBER THE NAME🏅Neeraj Chopra, the farmer's son from Khandra,India, makes history. He isn't just at the top of the heap, he's in the stratosphere. He throws 87.58m to win the javelin throw at the Tokyo Olympics.
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Yashvir Singh is the latest Indian javelin thrower to cross the 80m barrier. The 21-year-old from Rajasthan wins gold at the Indian Grand Prix 4 in Bhubaneswar with a throw of 82.13m
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Incidentally this is the first time an Indian has topped qualification at any athletics event at the Olympics. Already a bit of history by Neeraj Chopra.
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One and done. Neeraj Chopra qualifies for the Olympic javelin final with his very first throw in qualification. 86.65m places him ahead of Johannes Vetter who was considered the gold medal favorite going in.
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HS Prannoy has done it again! On a dodgy right ankle, he comes back from a game down to beat WR 13 Rasmus Gemke 13-21 21-9 21- 12 as India beat Denmark 3-2 in the SF of the Thomas Cup and make their first final in the 73 year history of the world men's team competition
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I'd met Aman early in 2023 when he was just beginning his bid to cement his place as India's 57kg representative. At that time Olympic silver medalist Ravi Dahiya was still India's number 1 wrestler. Aman though was adamant he would get to the Olympics and medal. He even put
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On Sunday, Achinta Sheuli dedicated his CWG weightlifting gold to older brother Alok. The family destitute after the death of their father, Alok Sheuli gave up his own promising career and worked as a labourer so that Achinta could pursue his own dream.
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Sakshi Malik wins gold in the women's 62kg category at the CWG. She comes back from 0-4 to pin U-23 world champion Ana Godinez of Canada. First CWG gold for Sakshi who has a silver in 2014 and bronze in 2018.
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Rafael Nadal casually walked back to his cab after the Opening ceremony in Paris. Cheerfully posed for pics with anyone who asked. @sportstarweb
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Tai Tzu Ying in tears. Ratchanok hugs her. The two have played each other 35 times in one of badmintons legendary rivalries. Now Ratchanok has beaten Tai Tzu at the Olympics probably for the last time.
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Special moment for Indian tennis. WR 137 Sumit Nagal beats WR 27 Alexander Bublik 6-4 6-2 7-6 (5) in the first Round of the Australian Open. Someone's going to have to tell me if this is the first win by an 🇮🇳 men's singles player over a seeded player since Ramesh Krishnan
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Vinesh Phogat will finish last in the women's 50kg category at the Olympics after failing to make weight by less than a 100 grams. Cuba’s Yuznelys Guzman will wrestle in the Olympic final. Oksana Livach and Yui Susaki will wrestle for the Olympic bronze. Every one of them was
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Six hours of training with a 1.4kg pistol every day for 6 years will leave a mark. "It's something that will never go away," says Manu Bhaker of the bruising on her shooting hand. Neither will the two Olympic bronze medals either. @sportstarweb
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I don't think there's been a bigger upset than this since the time I've seen women's wrestling! Vinesh beats Susaki. Vinesh beats Susaki. The path to gold is clear!!
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Talk about longevity! 17 years after he won gold at the Athens Paralympics, 40 year old Devendra Jhajharia is on the Paralympic podium yet again, winning silver in the F46 category at Tokyo. What's more he does it with a new personal best of 64.35m.
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Lakshya Sen beats defending champion Lee Jii Zia 21-13 12-21 21-19 to reach the final of the All England badminton championships. 21 years after Pullela Gopichand won it, another Indian is within touching distance of the All England title.
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Got a feeling 🇮🇳 women's cricket team will beat Australia, win gold and steal other sports thunder.
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4 years ago, Sanket Sargar was making a paan for a customer, when he saw P Gururaja win a🥈at the Gold Coast CWG. "I decided agli baar mai jaunga," he says. The 21-year old lifter from Sangli did that, winning 🇮🇳 its first medal at the Birmingham CWG.
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PV Sindhu 2014🥉 2018🥈 2022🥇 It's remarkable that a player of PV Sindhu's calibre with multiple World and Olympic medals had never won a women's singles gold at Commonwealth Games. She corrects that at her 3 CWG beating Michelle Li 21-15, 21-13 in the final at Birmingham.
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Just a touch of nerves in the end but Kidambi Srikanth controlled the deciding game for the most part. He beats WR 3 Anders Antonsen 21-18 12-21 21-15 to give India a 2-1 lead in the SF of the Thomas Cup. One win away from a historic first final!
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One and done. Neeraj Chopra qualifies for the Olympic javelin final with his very first throw in qualification. 86.65m places him ahead of Johannes Vetter who was considered the gold medal favorite going in.
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407 seconds is what it take Ravi Dahiya to win gold in the men's 57kg division at the CWG. He beats Nigeria's Ebikewenimo Welson by superiority 2 minutes and 16 seconds in the final. No fuss. Had won his first match vs NZ in 74 seconds and second vs Pakistan in 197 seconds.
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Vinesh Phogat is getting hand shakes all along the mixed zone. She doesn't speak though. 'I'll talk after the final' she says. In any case her wrestling has been making a statement for her today. @sportstarweb
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1-0 to 🇮🇳 Lakshya Sen lost three straight matches in the Thomas Cup but wins when it matters most. Comes back from a horror first game and 7-11 in the decider to beat Oly bronze medalist Anthony Ginting 8-21 21-17 21-16. He puts India into the lead in #ThomasCup final.
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Aman Sehrawat didn't sulk brood after losing in the Olympic semifinals. He had a nearly 5kg weight cut ahead of him. 'Ek baar me wazan nahi banna tha. 3 session lage' he says. He says he was working out until 3am in the training hall trying to shed the last couple of hundred
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Murali Sreeshankar couldn't compete and nearly died after his appendix burst just before the 2018 CWG. The 23-year-old from Palakkad has returned to win 🥈 in the men's long jump at the 2022 CWG. In his 2nd last effort he jumps 8.08m - same as Laqan Nairn but loses on countback.
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Achanta Sharath Kamal 2006 CWG🥇🥇 2010 CWG 🥇🥉🥉 2014 CWG 🥈 2018 CWG 🥇🥈🥉 2022 CWG 🥇🥇🥈? At 40, he's won his 7th Commonwealth Games🥇. He partners Sreeja Akula to win mixed doubles🥇. He's already won men's team 🥇 and men's double 🥈. And he has the singles final left!
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Like mother like daughter! At the Busan Asian Games Madhuri Singh won 🥈 in the 800m 21 years later Her daughter Harmilan Bains wins 🥈 in the 800m at Hangzhou Asian Games. @sportstarweb
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1cm. That's what Shaili Singh falls short of gold by! She wins silver in the women's long jump at the U-20 Athletics Worlds' with a wind assisted clearance of 6.59m. Gold to Maja Askag of Sweden with a jump of 6.60m.But this won't be the last we have heard of the girl from Jhansi
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Now this will be a rivalry for the ages! Looking forward to wherever Neeraj Chopra and Arshad Nadeem can compete against each other! They need to prepone the Asian Games ASAP.
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Manisha Moun confirms second medal for 🇮🇳 at the 2022 Women's Boxing World Championships with a 4-1 split decision win over Naamun Monkhor of Mongolia 🇲🇳 in the 57kg QF.
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India go 3/3 in badminton Satwik Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty win men's doubles gold at Birmingham with a 21-15 21-13 win over England's Ben Lane and Sean Vendy. First time India have won 3 gold medals in badminton at the CWG.
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Neetu Ghanghas qualified for the CWG after Oly🥉Mary Kom suffered an injury in the selection trial between the two. 21-year-old from Bhiwani wins 48kg🥇at Birmingham with a performance Kom would be proud of. Bts Demi Jade Rezstan of England by UD. Dominated every bout at the CWG
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Chirag Shetty & Satwik Rankireddy create history. They become the first Indians to win badminton🥇at the Asian Games. They beat 🇰🇷 Choi Solgyu & Kim Wonho 21-18 21-16 to claim men's doubles title at Hangzhou. Incredible moment from the 🇮🇳pair who will be World No.1 next week
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Olympic wrestling medallists Bajrang Punia, Sakshi Malik, and others including World medallists Vinesh Phogat and Anshu Malik are participating in a sit in protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. They are protesting the Wrestling Federation of India.
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During the COVID-19 lockdown 24-year old Ram Baboo dug ditches under MNREGA. Previously he'd worked as a waiter. But he never lost sight of his goal - to be an athlete. Today he won Asian Games🥉 in the 35km race walk mixed team that allowed 📷 to equal it's best ever Asiad tally
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@jon_selvaraj
jonathan selvaraj
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Selfie duties go to Sarabjot Singh this time around!
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jonathan selvaraj
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Strong lungi game from Paul Eldhose in the men's triple jump final. Etta has gone into the lead with a personal best of 17.03m with three jumps to go at Birmingham
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@jon_selvaraj
jonathan selvaraj
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GOLD FOR INDIA!! Nikhat Zareen 🇮🇳 beats Jitpong Jutmas 🇹🇭 by 5-0 UD to win gold in the 52kg division at the Women's boxing world Championships. Nikhat is the first Indian apart from Mary Kom to have won gold at the boxing world Championships in the last 14 years.
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@jon_selvaraj
jonathan selvaraj
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India win table tennis men's team🥇. Achanta Sharath Kamal loses for the first time in the tournament but Harmeet Desai & G Sathiyan first partner to win doubles and then win their respective singles matches as 🇮🇳 beat Singapore 3-1 in the CWG 2022 to retain their🥇from 2018.
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jonathan selvaraj
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Hockey bronze worth more than it's weight in gold. Finally we enter double digits in the Olympic medal tally! Not being too clever. A hockey medal is honestly worth so much more than an individual one. 16 medals. 16 stories of inspiration for so many different states.
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jonathan selvaraj
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Vinesh Phogat becomes the first 🇮🇳 woman wrestler to win a second medal at the World championships. She beats European champ Jonna Malmgren 8-0 to win 🥉in the 53 kg category at the 2022 Worlds. Great comeback for the 2019 🌎 🥉 winner after a shock loss in her opening bout.
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jonathan selvaraj
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What a moment! HS Prannoy finally gets the World medal he's deserved. He does it in the best way possible, beating reigning Olympic and World Champ Viktor Axelsen 13-21 21-15 21-16 in Copenhagen Worlds QF. He's has at least a bronze, but after such a long wait why not more!
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@jon_selvaraj
jonathan selvaraj
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It's Manu Bhaker (and Sarabjot Singh's) world. We are just living in it!
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jonathan selvaraj
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Is this the Kerala model everyone's talking of? Eldhose Paul and Abdullah Aboobacker become the first 🇮🇳 men to finish🥇-🥈 in any event at the CWG. There's just 1 cm between them on the podium in the men's triple jump at Birmingham. Paul jumps 17.03m and Aboobacker jumps 17.02m
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@jon_selvaraj
jonathan selvaraj
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HS Prannoy does it. He beats Leong Jun Hao of Malaysia 21-13 21-8 in the deciding match of the Thomas Cup QF. Kidambi Srikanth, Chirag Shetty & S Rankireddy are the other winners as 🇮🇳 beat 🇲🇾 3-2 to be assured of a first ever medal in 73 years of the Badminton Men's team c'ships
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jonathan selvaraj
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🇮🇳 boxers to win gold at the World Championships. Mary Kom 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇 Sarita Devi 🥇 Jenny RL 🥇 Lekha KC 🥇 Nikhat Zareen 🥇
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@jon_selvaraj
jonathan selvaraj
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Jeakson Singh for sure going to create some controversy with this move. The 🇮🇳 defender collects his SAFF championships winners medal wearing what I think is the Kangleipak flag which is synonymous with Meitei nationalism
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@jon_selvaraj
jonathan selvaraj
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Major major upset. Gayathri Pullela Gopichand, 19, & Treesa Jolly, 18, save two match points to beat World silver medalists & WR 2 Lee So-hee and Shin Seung Chan of S Korea 14-21 22-20 21-15. The world rank 56 pair from India are against all expectations into the All England SF!
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@jon_selvaraj
jonathan selvaraj
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What makes Aman happy apart from an Olympic medal? Kaju Katli, which he can now eat after managing weight for so long Tarak Mehta ka Ooltah Chashma
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jonathan selvaraj
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World class contest between 🇮🇳 & 🇮🇳in javelin throw at the Asian Games. Neeraj Chopra who comes out on top. he defends his 2018 title. But just how good was Kishor Jena. In his first international year, he throws a 87.54m PB and he pushes Neeraj to 88.88m, his best throw of 2023
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jonathan selvaraj
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🇮🇳will play for gold 🥇 in the badminton mixed team event. Lakshya Sen beats world champ Loh Kean Yew 21-18 21-15 as India beat Singapore 3-0 in the SF of the mixed team event at the CWG. 🇮🇳 will now defend their CWG gold against Malaysia in a repeat of the 2018 Gold Coast Final
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jonathan selvaraj
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Parveen Hooda confirms third medal of the session for 🇮🇳. She beats Shoira Zulkaynarova of Tajikistan by a 5-0 UD in the women's 63kg category of the 2022 women's boxing world championships.
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jonathan selvaraj
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Not steeplechase, its a Sable-chase. Avinash Sable is so far ahead of the rest of the field that they aren't even in the picture as he finishes. Sable wins🥇in the men's 3000m steeplechase with a time of 8.19.53. It's India's first gold medal in athletics at this Asian Games
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@jon_selvaraj
jonathan selvaraj
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Five years ago Mirabai Chanu battled depression after failing in the most dramatic fashion possible in the Rio Olympics failing every a single lift in the clean ans jerk. Today she found redemption in equally dramatic style becoming the first Indian to medal at the Tokyo Olympics
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jonathan selvaraj
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Mirabai Chanu wins silver in the women's 49kg category with a total of 203kg at the Tokyo Olympics. India win their first medal at the Tokyo Olympics.
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@jon_selvaraj
jonathan selvaraj
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89.30m for Neeraj Chopra in his second throw at the Paavo Nurmi Games!. A new National Record in just his second throw since the Olympic Games.!
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Achinta Sheuli wins 🇮🇳's third🥇 of the 2022 CWG. The 20-year-old weightlifter from Deulpur in Bengal's Howrah district lifts a total of 313kg (143 snatch + 170 Clean & Jerk) to win the men's 73kg division at Birmingham. He finishes 10kg ahead of Erry Hidayat of Malaysia.
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