India's overall tally of 107 medals accounted for 6.7% of the total medals up for grabs. But its 29 medals in athletics made up 20.1% of the total track & field medals on offer.
Jena speaks about his Asian Games 2023 experience, 1st encounter with javelin throw, relationship with Neeraj Chopra, training regime & plans for Paris Olympics.
Punia, who lost out at Asian Games, was supported by fellow wrestlers & INDIA alliance. The Oppn bloc lauded him for ‘facing a goon, while demanding justice for women wrestlers’.
This was India’s third gold in women’s kabaddi. India won gold in the 2010 and 2014 editions but settled for a silver in 2018 after losing to Iran in the final.
Sindhu, currently ranked 15th, looked a pale shadow of herself against world No.5 Bingjiao, losing 16-21, 12-21 in just 47 minutes to bow out of the competition.
Avesh Khan took three wickets for 32 while Ravi Bishnoi picked up three scalps by conceding 24. Arshdeep Singh got two wickets and Sai Kishore picked up one wicket.
Kim's lift, achieved with the 20-year-old's third snatch of the women's final, eclipsed the previous record of 110kg set in 2021 by Taiwan's star weightlifter, Kuo Hsing-chun.
MP and besieged former Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh questions ad-hoc committee's decision to give direct entry to Asiad to Bajrang Punia & Vinesh Phogat.
From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.
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