Team L&M Siddharth Vishwakarma was climbing up the ladder of Indian tennis in 2018 and topped off the year by winning the Fenesta Open National Tennis Championships the same year. And one would have hoped that he would start building on that success thereafter. Instead, he dropped off the circuit and started coaching in a […]Read More
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News, Lifestyle & Entertainment stories - all at one placeTeam L&M For Manipur’s Leimapokpum Sanatombi Chanu, winning a Gold medal is a routine affair. The veteran Wushu player bagged her fourth Gold, and fifth overall National Games medal when she topped the standings in the Tai Chi event of Wushu’s Taolu division here. But what makes her Gold at the Campal Open Ground special […]Read More
Team L&M Legendary boxer MC Mary Kom has inspired a generation of sportspersons, especially women athletes across disciplines, and one among them is wrestler Neetu Sarkar, who battled age-old patriarchy and financial odds to carve her own path to glory even after giving birth to twins at the tender age of 14. Neetu’s rise from […]Read More
Team L&M Dhinidhi Desinghu isn’t your regular teenager. The 2010-born swimmer doesn’t really bother about “exploring” things in life and according to her coach is the “best at listening to instructions and implementing them.” The 13-year-old describes herself as a complete introvert before adding, “Five years ago, if you had tried to speak to me, […]Read More
Team L&M For boxing enthusiasts, Niharika Gonella is a familiar name. And the tears rolling down her cheeks after the heart-breaking RSC loss against 2017 junior world champion Ankushita Bora of Assam in the last year’s National Games in Gujarat are fresh in everyone’s mind. On Wednesday, Niharika, representing Goa, began her campaign in the […]Read More
Team L&M Gujarat’s promising 400m hurdler Dhaval Utekar had only one thought when he landed in Goa for the 37th National Games. He wanted to finish ahead of competition in the 400m hurdles and end the domestic season on a high. “It was a do or die situation for me. It was one last domestic […]Read More
Team L&M Hours after bagging a gold in the women’s 50m Rifle 3P event at the ongoing 37th National Games in Goa on Saturday, two-time world championships medallist Anjum Moudgil preferred to spend the rest of the day, strolling across some of the popular beaches around the coastal state. The Punjab shooter pipped her statemate […]Read More
Team L&M Karnataka’s Bhaskar Balachandra has maintained a fine balancing act in his life between his role as a Billiards player and running his family business of silk sarees. However, on Monday, it was all about taking care of business on the billiards table as the 52-year-old defeated Maharashtra’s Rohan Jambusaria 3-1 in the Men’s […]Read More
Team L&M Rani Rampal, one of India’s most decorated hockey players, has had a special connection with the National Games. She was first scouted for the national team back in 2007 when she was just 14 years old in the Games held at Guwahati, Assam, and her career was fast-tracked thereafter. The 28-year-old has since played […]Read More
Team L&M A Bronze Medal in Pencak Silat at the 37th National Games in Goa has come as a fresh ray of hope for Tilok Kutum, the Assam youngster who was forced to quit the sport due to acute financial crisis. Hailing from the world’s largest river island in Majuli, Tilok made a comeback to […]Read More