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Sports betting has become one of the most popular forms of gambling in recent years and shows no signs of slowing down, even with the local and regional lockdowns that were enforced as a result of the Covid-19 global pandemic that kicked off at the start of 2020. If anything, interest in sports betting has...

Bhavani Devi will become the first fencer ever to represent India at the Olympic Games. En route to realising her dream of Olympic qualification, the Chennai-born fencer was impeded by cultural norms, economic strains and, to some extent, anatomy. Chandalavada Anandha Sundhararam Bhavani Devi’s fencing career started with a lie. Young Bhavani was still in...

“Shane Warne is one of those cricketers who is curiously lovable. The most colorful character in cricket.” – Arunabha Sengupta, Cricket Historian   Shane Warne is often regarded as one of the top bowlers in the history of cricket. His trademark leg-spin bowling has led Australia into the most unexpected victories. Warne held the world...

Pranati Nayak became the second-ever Indian gymnast to qualify for the Olympics when she made the cut to the Tokyo Olympics via continental quota. Dipa Karmakar’s meteoric rise and performance at the 2016 Rio Olympics sent the whole nation into a frenzy. Despite her narrowly missing out on an Olympic medal, her story was one...

Tottenham Hotspur’s 72-day search for appointing a new man to guide their team forward is now finally concluded. Nuno Espírito Santo, most recently of Wolverhampton Wanderers, has been unveiled as the team’s new Head Coach. The 47-year-old joins Spurs on an initial two-year contract. Arriving at Wolves in 2017, Nuno guided the Molineux-based outfit out...

Along with Anirban Lahiri and Aditi Ashok, Udayan Mane makes it a team of three that will be heading to Tokyo as India’s golf representatives. While Anirban sealed the final qualification spot of the 60-man list, Aditi was comfortably inside the cut for the Tokyo Games and was ranked 45th when the list was announced...

The Indian five-member archery contingent is raring to go. With the Olympics knocking on the door, the final four (three men’s and one women’s) quota places for the Olympics were finalised following the national trails in March 2021. The team consists of Atanu Das, Pravin Jadhav, Tarundeep Rai and Deepika Kumari. Having never won an...

Iconic French football club Olympique de Marseille (OM) (www.OM.fr/en), and APO Group (www.APO-opa.com), the leading Pan-African communications consultancy and press release distribution service, today announced a multi-year agreement making APO Group the Official Partner of Olympique de Marseille’s OM Africa (www.OM.fr/en/omafrica) development programme. The agreement, making APO Group the club’s first African partner, was formalized...

For the first time in Indian Olympic history, India will be sending four sailors to the Games. Nethra Kumanan, Vishnu Saravanan, Ganapathy Chengappa K. and Varun Thakkar qualified for the Tokyo Olympics post their strong show at the Mussanah Open Sailing Championships. Kumanan also made history by becoming the first Indian to qualify for the...

A talented weightlifter who has firmly established herself in the top echelons of the sport, Mirabai Chanu is one of India’s best bets to win an Olympic medal at Tokyo 2020. A regular presence at the international stage since 2014, the 26-year-old has bagged numerous titles and accolades along the way. Putting the disappointments of...