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TopicSport psychology

Topic: sport psychology

When Pullela Gopichand asked PV Sindhu to scream during her matches. It’s sport psychology

In ‘The Champion Within’, Dr Samir Parikh and Divya Jain use sport psychology to show what lies behind the mental strength of some of the world’s greatest athletes.

Elite athletes are generally smarter than us. There’s one reason

Babe Ruth was far from an example of athletic prowess. But scored higher than the average population in every psychological test he did.

On Camera

Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.