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Feb 23, 2020

Asian Wrestling Championships

The absence of Chinese and North Korean wrestlers impacted the quality of the women's section at the Senior Asian Championships and India was the biggest beneficiary, winning three golds and a silver.
Divya Kakran (68kg), Pinki (55kg) and Sarita (59kg) ensured gold medals for India while Nirmala Devi won the silver (50kg) in the Asian Wrestling Championships.
With Japan also sending a largely second-string squad – barring former world champion Mayu Mukaida -- the Indians were favourites for medals. Barring the 50kg, the other four weight categories in action on the day had seven or fewer competitors, forcing the organisers to conduct bouts in Nordic (round-robin) format.

Feb 22, 2020

National Municipal Games Kicks

The first 'National Municipal School Games' was inaugurated at the Dr. Sahib Singh Verma Stadium in Kakrola near Dwarka, Delhi.
The three-day event was hosted by the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC). Over 500 students from across India participated in the event.
The students were from schools run by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), Pune Municipal Corporation and Amravati Municipal Corporation, besides those from Delhi's three civic corporations, the Delhi Cantonment Board and New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC).
Competitions like throwball, table tennis, volleyball, chess, football, kabaddi, kho-kho, pope skipping were organised on the first two days. The prize distribution was be held in the closing ceremony on February 22.

Feb 21, 2020

ESPN's Female Sportsperson of the Year Award

World champion shuttler P. V. Sindhu won the ESPN's Female Sportsperson of the Year award for a third consecutive time while young shooter Saurabh Chaudhary bagged the honour in the male category.
Sprinter Dutee Chand became the first winner of the Courage award for being inspirational both on and off the field. Ace chess player Koneru Humpy won the award for the Comeback of the Year. Wrestler Deepak Punia bagged coveted ESPN's Emerging Sports Person of the Year award.
Chief National Badminton Coach Pullela Gopichand claimed the Coach of the Year award, for nurturing two Olympic medalists in Saina Nehwal and Sindhu. Sindhu's World Championship win, the first by an Indian in badminton, has also been selected as the Moment of the Year.
Manu Bhaker-Saurabh Chaudhary grabbed the Team of the Year honour. Manasi Joshi won Differently-abled Athlete of the Year/Para-Athlete of the Year award. Hockey legend Balbir Singh Senior, one of independent India's most celebrated Olympians, has been conferred with ESPN's Lifetime Achievement award. ESPN Multi-Sport Awards recognized achievements across 10 categories.

Feb 20, 2020

India to Host 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup

India will host the 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup. India was awarded the tournament by the Asian Football Confederation's (AFC) Women's Committee.
It was felt that India, which will also host the FIFA Women's U-17 World Cup later this year, was best placed among the three bidders — Chinese Taipei and Uzbekistan were the other competing candidates — to maximise the promotion of the women's game.
The venues proposed by India — D.Y. Patil Stadium, Trans Stadia Arena and Fatorda Stadium — are also being used in the FIFA tournaments.

Venues for FIFA U-17 Women's WC Announced

The stage is set for the future stars of women's football as the match schedule and host cities for the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup India 2020™ were unveiled by FIFA and the Local Organising Committee (LOC), alongside the Official Slogan for the tournament.
Ahmedabad, Bhubaneswar, Guwahati, Kolkata and Navi Mumbai have been confirmed as the five host cities of the tournament.
Sixteen teams featuring the rising stars of women's football will compete across 32 matches to lift the coveted trophy in Navi Mumbai on 21st November.
Kick Off The Dream™ was unveiled as official slogan.

Feb 19, 2020

NADA Bans Javelin Thrower Amit Dahiya for Four Years

The Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel (ADDP) has passed an order to National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) to ban javelin thrower Amit Dahiya for four years for sending wrong sample collection and trying to cheat officials during the 2^nd National Javelin throw open Championship 2019 held at Sonipat in Haryana.
Amit Dahiya finished 3rd in 2019 National Javelin throw open Championship and the National Anti-Doping Agency officials asked him to furnish the dope sample but he instead sent another person sample collection.
NADA temporarily banned him for violating rule 2.3 of NADA anti-doping rules on July 16, 2019 and presented the case to ADDP in January 2020.

T20 Mumbai League Franchisees Threaten to Boycott

All eight owners of the T20 Mumbai have threatened to pull out of the local league in case Probability Sports - which has been handed the responsibility to plan, market and conduct the league by the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) - continues to be involved in the league.
Representatives of all the eight owners had a meeting with MCA president Vijay Patil at the MCA club in Bandra-Kurla Complex. The eight team owners submitted a joint letter to Patil, asking him to intervene and ensure smooth conduct of the event.
Probability Sports - a firm jointly formed by IIFL and Wizcraft only for T20 Mumbai's conduct - has been handed over a five-year deal for the conduct of the league by MCA. While MCA is paid an undisclosed annual sum - around Rs. 3 crore per annum - for five years, Probability Sports virtually runs the league. For the inaugural edition, the six franchisees had entered into a bilateral agreement with Probability Sports.

Sunil Kumar Wins Gold in Asian Wrestling Greco-Roman Championship

Sunil Kumar became the first Indian wrestler in 27 years to win a Greco-Roman gold at the Asian Wrestling Championships. Sunil defeated Azat Salidinov of Kyrgyzstan 5-0 to clinch the 87 kg title after a come-from-behind win in his semi-final bout.
The last Indian Greco-Roman wrestler to win gold at the Asian Championships was Pappyu Yadav who won the 48 kg title in 1993.
Earlier, Sunil on his way to the final made an impressive comeback in the semi-final bout. He came back from 1-8 down to win the bout 12-8.
Arjun Halakurki (55 kg) won bronze after beating Donghyeok Won of Korea.

Golf Great Mickey Wright Passes Away

One of the most successful women's golfers of all time, Mickey Wright, died at the age of 85.
The American won 13 majors and 82 LPGA Tour titles to sit second on the all-time women's major list behind countrywoman Patty Berg (15), who died in 2006.
Wright was the dominant force in golf in the late 1950s and 1960s, winning four US Women's Opens and four Women's PGA Championships among her major haul.
She retired at the age of 34 in 1969.

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