One of the youngest players, Aditi Ashok (19) is making waves in the Golf arena. Aditi has levelled up and qualified for the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship on the LPGA, thus becoming the first female from the country to play in the prestigious meet. Aditi Ashok becomes first Indian to qualify for LPGA To… https://t.co/Sm46E5KoxN via @thefield_in […]
The last time Indian gymnasts shone at the Summer Games was 52 years ago. It took a young, energetic and graceful 22-year-old to to put the spotlight on a sport for India that we had never thought we even participated in. Dipa Karmakar became the first Indian woman gymnast to qualify for the Rio Olympics in 2016 and also became […]
Even Iran’s most conservative elements cheered for Kimia Alizadeh who, on Thursday, became the first Iranian woman to win an Olympics medal
OP Jaisha fainted after completing her Rio marathon run, and claims there were no Indian officials to provide water and support at designated points
Whether you are a sports fan or not, you were probably glued to your TV screen over the last 10 days, watching Olympians Dipa Karmakar, PV Sindhu, Sakshi Malik, Vinesh Phogat, Deepika Kumari, Aditi Ashok and Heena Sidhu perform at the Rio games this year. No one can deny that they took us high, whether they brought home medals or not. […]
Rio 2016 made history for India. As our women Olympians took over, India sat up and watched, stunned. What was happening there? Well, PV Sindhu and Sakshi Mallik snatched their wins at badminton and wrestling respectively; Dipa Karmakar did the death vault at gymnastics, and Aditi Ashok battled on at golf. These events that took place there made two huge changes […]
On August 17 this year, at the Rio Olympics, 18-year-old Aditi Ashok, the youngest in the fray, made history by being India’s only golfer at the Games.
“Malik’s desire to train in the ‘man’s game’ of wrestling was not just inappropriate, it needed to be eliminated.”
When China’s He Zi stepped up on the podium to receive her silver medal in the women’s 3m springboard competition at Rio after the diving event, she wasn’t expecting what happened next. Her boyfriend Qin Kai, a diving team colleague who had won a bronze in the 3m men’s synchro, stepped up to the podium, […]
Even as women athletes are shattering records, the media continues to view them through the sexism prism
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