New Delhi: India on Thursday announced a 215-member athlete contingent across 16 disciplines for the Commonwealth Games beginning on July 28 in Birmingham. On the sidelines of the send-off ceremony for the CWG bound athletes, IOA acting president Anil Khanna called it a ”gender-neutral contingent” with 108 men and 107 women being part of the […]
Monaco: Legendary Indian long jumper Anju Bobby George has been bestowed with the Woman of the Year Award by World Athletics for grooming talent in the country and advocating gender equality. The 44-year-old Anju, the only Indian to have won a medal in the World Championships with a long jump bronze in the 2003 edition, […]
New Delhi: Anju Bobby George, 2003 World Athletics Championships women’s Long Jump bronze medallist, was on Monday confirmed as the Athletes Commission representative in the Indian Olympic Association Executive Board. At a meeting of the IOA Executive Board at the Olympic Bhavan here on Monday, there was some confusion about who would represent the Athletes […]
