2020Sports

Cancer. A horrific childhood accident. Polio. Crippling poverty. Loneliness. Anxiety attacks. A last-minute meniscus injury. A COVID scare and training disruption. These are just some battles fought by the…

Weightlifters are perpetually willing themselves through injuries to some part of body or another. On Saturday, with a silver medal at Tokyo 2020 Mirabai Chanu finally recuperated from a five-year-long throbbing…

When Rani Rampal started playing hockey, all she had was her 'zid' and 'junoon'. On the cusp of her second Olympics, she still swears by the fire that burns within. Firstpost profiles the Indian women's hockey…

The awards are given away each year by the country's president on 29 August, the National Sports Day which is also the birth anniversary of hockey legend Major Dhyan Chand. The Olympics will run from 23 July to 8…