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 Forty-plus male tennis players either hit the veteran’s circuit or sip martinis in Acapulco. But not India’s Duracell, Leander Paes, who kept winning Grand Slam doubles and mixed-doubles titles.
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		+	==2019==
		+	===An overview: A Year That Promised More===
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2019%2F12%2F28&entity=Ar02010&sk=1E6EC859&mode=text Boria Majumdar, Dec 28, 2019 ''The Times of India'']
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		+	2019 will go down in Indian sport as a year that promised more, while 2020 looks full of possibilities. In cricket, the team played superbly to make the ODI World Cup semi-final, before one bad session against New Zealand ruined their hopes of winning the world title. The team under Virat Kohli continues to lead the world Test Championship rankings and have shown much promise going into 2020.
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		+	In badminton, PV Sindhu’s world championship win was the only major triumph and the last few months have been underwhelming by her standards. While Kento Momota, the men’s world champion, has won 11 tournaments in the year, Sindhu has won just the one world competition. While Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty have had a breakthrough year in doubles, Indian badminton is at a crossroad as we approach the Tokyo Olympics in July 2020.
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		+	The story is hardly different for wrestling and boxing. Bajrang Punia was almost there each time he fought at a major championship and was denied a place in the final of the world championship by the referee, while Amit Panghal won a historic silver in the world boxing championship but could well have won gold and made it bigger.
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		+	The real breakthrough, however, happened in shooting. Leaving the Rio 2016 disappointment behind, Indian shooters have dominated the world stage in 2019. With the introduction of the mixed events, India has done well in both pistol and rifle and made the podium at every world competition they participated in.
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		+	In fact, it isn’t an exaggeration to suggest that on current form India stands to win at least 4-5 medals in shooting in Tokyo and anything less would be deemed underperfor mance. Fifteen Indian shooters have qualified for the Olympics and will be competing in 21 events in Tokyo, a first in India’s Olympic history.
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		+	The other standout feature of the year is that the three men who dominate Indian sport at the moment are all united by a singular chain of thought – emphasis on process. While Kohli continues to hurt because of the ODI World Cup loss, he is aware that process is what will eventually make a difference. Taking the team’s fitness to a different level, he knows he has a huge opportunity in 2020 at the T20 World Cup in Australia.
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		+	That’s where Pullela Gopichand is on the same page. The national badminton coach, aware that things have not gone well for his students in the last few months, gets up every morning at 3.30am to go to his academy. He also knows, however, that the process remains firmly in place and a change of fortune is a logical outcome in the future.
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		+	There’s no reason why Sindhu can’t emulate her Rio feat in Japan next year. And in the long term, Indian badminton looks in good health with multiple youngsters now knocking on the doors of the senior circuit. “We have some excellent players coming up the ranks and it is now on us to mentor them well and get them ready for the challenges in future,” says Gopi.
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		+	The third musketeer has just taken over BCCI’s reins and by doing what he has with the pink ball Test in Kolkata, has demonstrated that with proper processes in place, Test cricket in India can well rival Australia and England. Sourav Ganguly says that first class cricket is his priority, and prompt decision making has always been his forte.
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		+	The other talking point of 2019 is a ‘youth takeover’ of Indian sport. If it is Saurabh Chaudhary, Manu Bhaker, Elavenil Valarivan, Yashaswini Deswal and the lot in shooting, it is Shafali Verma and Jemimah Rodrigues in women’s cricket and Deepak Punia and Ravi Dahiya in wrestling. None of them, for the record, have touched 22 yet. And yet, each of them are now on the cusp of doing consistently well at the world level giving Indian sport new found teeth and muscle.
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		+	There is little doubt India has the team to dominate men’s cricket in the new year. There has rarely been a bowling unit as good and with Virat and Rohit Sharma playing the way they are, few will want to argue against India at the moment.
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		+	And as far as Olympic sports are concerned, anything under 8 medals in Tokyo wouldn’t be satisfactory. While this is a 400% jump in comparison to Rio, with some luck India can touch double digits for the first time in the country’s Olympic history.
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		+	To end with a caveat: the one thing Indian sport needs to do better in 2020 is be a little more consistent. While we had a huge high in football when we drew against Asian champion Qatar, we failed to build on the momentum generated by drawing our next two games against Bangladesh and Afghanistan. The hockey story is the same. While the men and women have both qualified for Tokyo, conceding goals in the last few minutes continues to plague Indian hockey, impacting consistent performance at international competitions.
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		+	While results aren’t always in one’s hands, what matters is what Virat said to me in a recent interview, “Playing for India is a dream. And when the dream turns real, the effort will have to be at its highest. Results are a logical outcome of the effort put in.”
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	India couldn't qualify for the world cup despite its large population and football following, but most of the qualifying countries have fewer people than our states and even cities. A look:		India couldn't qualify for the world cup despite its large population and football following, but most of the qualifying countries have fewer people than our states and even cities. A look:
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	Until 1990, India’s medal tally in Asian Games was far better than in CWG. As China and Korea became sporting powerhouses, India’s relative performance between the two championships reversed.		Until 1990, India’s medal tally in Asian Games was far better than in CWG. As China and Korea became sporting powerhouses, India’s relative performance between the two championships reversed.
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		+	=National sports federations (NSFs)=
		+	==2020: 54 NSFs de-recognised==
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2020%2F06%2F26&entity=Ar02015&sk=1BA59B48&mode=text Sabi Hussain, June 26, 2020: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	An unprecedented situation has developed in Indian sports. 54 national sports federations (NSFs) – including nine belonging to the ‘high priority’ category – have been left without the sports ministry’s annual recognition, rendering them ineligible for the government’s financial grant and assistance for training and competition. Add to this list the Indian Golf Union (IGU), School Games Federation of India (SGFI) and Rowing Federation of India (RFI) and the count grows to 57 NSFs.
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		+	The federations, which had been crawling back to normalcy after three months of countrywide lockdown, received a shocker from the sports ministry on Thursday afternoon when they were told that their provisional annual recognition stood ‘withdrawn’ on the directions of the Delhi High Court. The ministry had granted recognition to NSFs on two separate occasions. For 54 NSFs, the ministry had issued notification earlier this month on June 2, while the affidavit to grant recognition to IGU, SGFI and RFI was sent to the court on June 16.
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		+	“…to this ministry’s letter of even dated 02.06.2020 regarding ‘Renewal of annual recognition of National Sports Federations for the year 2020’ and to say that in compliance of the order dated 24.06.2020 passed by the Hon’ble Delhi Court, the department’s letter of even number dated 02.06.2020 granting provisional annual recognition to 54 NSFs stands withdrawn,” wrote SPS Tomar, ministry’s deputy secretary, to Sports Authority of India (SAI) director general Sandeep Pradhan.
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		+	It’s been learnt that the ministry is contemplating filing a ‘Special Leave Petition’ (SLP) next week with a higher bench of the court, seeking directions to implement its June 2 order and grant the provisional annual recognition to all NSFs. The ministry isn’t particularly happy with the legal team for its abject surrender and recalling the affidavit filed on June 16, which stated grant of provisional recognition to IGU, SGFI and RFI. The ministry is of the view that it can’t go to the court every time for its approval to recognise NSFs.
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		+	However, the ministry and the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) – both parties in the court – can’t escape the blame for negligence for overriding the court’s February 7 order which had categorically directed the two to file affidavits detailing steps taken towards recognition, derecognition, and creation of ad-hoc bodies in the NSFs, and not to grant any fresh recognition without first approaching the court and seeking its consent. The ministry and the IOA had decided to extend provisional recognition to NSFs until September 30, 2020.
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		+	In an interesting turn of events, the two-judge bench of the court, headed by Justice Hima Kohli and Justice Najmi Waziri, rapped the ministry on its knuckles for trying to “overreach” the court’s February 7 order, which had made it mandatory to inform the bench in advance “while seeking to take any decision in relation to the NSFs”.
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		+	The issue involved a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by senior Supreme Court lawyer, Rahul Mehra, in the High Court in 2010 which had sought a probe into the functioning of various sports bodies, including Hockey India (HI) and Indian Olympic Association (IOA).
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		+	Justice Kohli and Justice Waziri, during a hearing through video conferencing, told the ministry’s standing counsel Anil Soni to withdraw annual recognition to 54 NSFs and maintain status quo ante. On Thursday, the ministry “recalled” its order granting provisional recognition to NSFs, while also withdrawing its June 16 affidavit from the court.
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		+	===WHY DID THIS HAPPEN?===
		+	According to annexure 15 of the 2011 sports code, the ministry is supposed to receive the performance chart of every NSF latest by December 15 of every year and, after evaluating and considering the submission, grants the annual recognition by January end. This time, the ministry didn’t follow the procedure and delayed granting the recognition. Mehra alleged that the ministry chose the pandemic time to arbitrarily grant the provisional recognition to shield those NSFs which had committed irregularities. The way forward for the ministry is to file a ‘Special Leave Petition’ (SLP) with a higher bench of the court after it withdrew its affidavit filed on June 16.
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		+	===WHY IS THIS ANNUAL RECOGNITION IMPORTANT?===
		+	NSFs, priority or non-priority sports, largely depend on the government funding to manage their everyday expenses. In its absence, they would struggle to hold their national championships and certificates won at the meet wouldn’t have any validity. NSFs would find it difficult to organise national camps and hold tournaments. Railways concessions can’t be availed any longer to travel for camps and meets. For Tokyo Olympic probables, the NSFs in 14 sports disciplines would struggle to fund training camps. No business house and corporate will like to associate itself with a de-recognised federation, leading to a sponsorship crunch. Smaller NSFs will suffer the most as the CSR activities aren’t happening due to economic setbacks suffered because of the pandemic. For SAI, it would be difficult to arrange and fund camps for all NSFs.
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		+	===WHAT’S THE ROLE OF IOC AND INTERNATIONAL BODIES?===
		+	The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and international federations (IFs) have limited role to play in this development. The IOC calls for autonomy in the IOA and NSFs, with no government interference. But granting recognition or derecognising an NSF is the ministry’s prerogative. The ministry can argue that it was following the law of the land and was acting on the court’s directive. It could very well say that the government wasn’t directly interfering into the matter.
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	=Near Misses=		=Near Misses=

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−	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2018%2F12%2F28&entity=Ar02410&sk=989D1505&mode=text&fbclid=IwAR2fHVRA4mcz5eCU_laOBRZZX3be8Vj-jy9IHBQYyEEG7qaOnEfP11y7AMo December 28, 2018: ''The Times of India'']
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−	Cameron Bancroft stuffing yellow sandpaper in his underpants will go down among the most bizarre of scenes witnessed anywhere in the world of sport. Who stuffs sandpaper inside underpants? And that too bright yellow in colour, the sort that can’t be missed. Australia paid a heavy penalty as Bancroft’s not-so-secret act, apparently at David Warner’s behest and with tacit understanding of Steve Smith, had the entire team in the dock. Allegations of ball-tampering, not new to Test cricket, surfaced yet again and with it came a storm that blew away Australia’s selfstyled cultural superiority that other cricket teams have tried copying over the years. Cricket Australia, left shame-faced in the aftermath, banned Smith and Warner for a year and Bancroft for nine months and made way for a flurry of changes in their administration.
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−	~~===MITHALI-POWAR SPAT===~~
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−	If women’s cricket ever hoped to make the headlines on the front pages of newspaper, 2018 turned out to be that year, albeit for all the wrong reasons. A spat between India’s senior-most woman cricketer Mithali Raj and interim coach Ramesh Powar — one that took place in the Caribbean in November, when India participated in the World T20 — took women’s cricket by a storm when letters written by these two individuals to the BCCI got leaked to the media and all hell broke loose. Matters didn’t end with the leaking of letters. The fight between Mithali and Powar even left the members of the Supreme Courtappointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) divided with Vinod Rai and Diana Edulji falling out with each other and making public statements of disagreement over Mithali’s allegations and the eventual sidelining of Powar. Rai appointed a fresh ad-hoc committee, disputed by Edulji, to pick a new coach and it settled for former batsman WV Raman to take over.
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−	The BCCI CEO has stayed in news for over a good two years now, thanks to the Supreme Court handing him unprecedented powers (powers had earlier predominantly rested with elected members) to run day-to-day affairs in the game. But news never got Johri’s goat the way it did in October this year, when a tweet – later deleted – made unsubstantiated allegations of sexual harassment against the 52-year-old. Two more allegations soon cropped up. An independent inquiry was called upon and a three-member committee investigated the allegations, eventually reaching the conclusion that the CEO wasn’t guilty. For all the bitterness these sequence of events threw up, they left Indian cricket administration divided and in tatters.
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−	~~===SHAMI’S MARITAL WOES===~~
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−	The year turned out to be a tumultuous one for Team India pacer Mohammed Shami. He found himself in news when his estranged wife Hasin Jahan came up with a flurry of allegations – ranging from infidelity, corruption and domestic violence – and filed a police complaint in Kolkata under various sections of the IPC. The BCCI, in the meantime, instructed its Anti-Corruption Unit to look into allegations of corruption and put the bowler’s central contract on hold. The pacer had to sweat it out, both legally and cricket-wise to hold his ground against Jahan, claim the legal and higher moral ground, and join the team on the tour of England.
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−	~~===SERENA STEALS OSAKA’S LIMELIGHT===~~
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−	Serena Williams’ reputation as someone who accepts losses graciously got a dent after she lost to Japan’s Naomi Osaka in the US Open final. It was supposed to be the Japanese youngster’s crowning moment of glory, but Serena’s heated argument with chair umpire Carlos Ramos became the talking point of the contest. The 23-time Grand Slam winner was seen seeking guidance from her coach Patrick Mouratoglou. She was given a code violation for ‘off-court coaching’ and was also docked a point for breaking her racquet. Serena went on to accuse chair umpire Ramos of being a ‘thief’ and sexist.
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−	~~===RONALDO’S RAPE CHARGE===~~
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−	Cristiano Ronaldo’s move from Spain to Italy was the most talked about transfer news in the summer as he switched loyalties from Real Madrid to Juventus. However, even before he landed in Turin, the Portuguese superstar got embroiled in sexual assault charges. He was accused by a former model of attacking and raping her in his Las Vegas hotel penthouse suite in 2009. Kathryn Mayorga, 34, accused Ronaldo in a 32-page complaint filed with a district court in Nevada. Ronaldo vehemently denied the rape accusations.
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−	~~===BOXING IN DANGER OF BEING PUNCHED OUT AT OLYMPICS===~~
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−	Boxing is in danger of being expelled from the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. Reason: In October, AIBA, the governing body for boxing, elected Gafur Rakhimov, a man the US Treasury Department has described as “one of Uzbekistan’s leading criminals” as its president. A month later, it emerged that the International Olympic Committee is contemplating expelling boxing’s international federation from Tokyo.
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−	Jose Mourinho signed Paul Pogba for Manchester United for a then-world record fee of £89m in August 2016, but the pair had a fractious relationship before the Portuguese’s sacking in December. Mourinho had accused Pogba of lack of respect for his teammates and the club’s fans with the nature of his performance in a Premier League game. In a post-match dressing down delivered in front of the entire team, Mourinho is reported to have called Pogba “a virus”. Pogba, reportedly, was admonished with the words: “You don’t play. You don’t respect players and supporters. And you kill the mentality of the good honest people around you.” Pogba’s conduct after Mourinho’s sacking was questioned in the media by Gary Neville, who accused him of “dancing on the manager’s grave” following a social media post showing the midfielder smirking once the news broke. Pogba, however, closed the chapter by praising Mourinho after the coach’s departure.
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−	~~===WHEN HEGERBERG WAS ASKED TO TWERK===~~
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−	Moments after Norwegian soccer star Ada Hegerberg was honored in Paris as the first female winner of the Ballon d’Or — a major soccer award — Martin Solveig, a co-host of the ceremony asked Hegerberg if she knew how to twerk. Hegerberg, 23, responded with a “no” while looking uncomfortable onstage. The awkward exchange led to backlash on social media and an apology from Solveig. Hegerberg — who ended up dancing with Solveig, a French DJ, to a Frank Sinatra song for a few seconds — said after the ceremony that Solveig “came to me after and was really sad that it went that way. I didn’t think about it at that moment. I didn’t consider it as sexual harassment or anything.”
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−	~~===DOPE GHOST CONTINUES TO HAUNT INDIAN SPORT===~~
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−	The ghost of doping continued to haunt India sport this year too. In May, two-time Commonwealth Games champion, weightlifter Sanjita Chanu, tested positive for a banned anabolic steroid and was provisionally suspended by the international federation. The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) said that Sanjita, who had won gold in the women’s 53kg category in the Gold Coast CWG, has tested positive for testosterone. Chanu was provisionally suspended by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF). The case took a dramatic turn when the IWF admitted to committing a mistake in giving the exact sample number of Sanjita in its report of her failed dope test. This prompted the embattled weightlifter to demand an inquiry. It got uglier when it emerged that Nirmala Sheoran, one of India’s top women 400m runners, tested positive for a banned substance. To India’s embarrassment, the result came after Sheoran’s sample was retested in the WADA-accredited laboratory in Montreal after it showed negative in (NDTL) in the Capital.
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−	Soon after landing in Gold Coast for the Commonwealth Games in April, the Indian contingent got into trouble amid speculation that syringes were found in rooms of Indian boxers – a violation of the event’s ‘no needle policy’. Of course, there was no dope-related embarrassment. Subsequently, the Commonwealth Games Federation summoned an unidentified national association, believed to be India, for a meeting with its medical commission. Later the doctor of the country’s boxing team was let off with a reprimand as he was found guilty of not disposing needles safely after injecting vitamins to a fatigued boxer.

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 [https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2018%2F12%2F28&entity=Ar02410&sk=989D1505&mode=text&fbclid=IwAR2fHVRA4mcz5eCU_laOBRZZX3be8Vj-jy9IHBQYyEEG7qaOnEfP11y7AMo  December 28, 2018: ''The Times of India'']
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 The year that’s going by had its share of moments and incidents which made news for all the wrong reasons.
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 Cameron Bancroft stuffing yellow sandpaper in his underpants will go down among the most bizarre of scenes witnessed anywhere in the world of sport. Who stuffs sandpaper inside underpants? And that too bright yellow in colour, the sort that can’t be missed. Australia paid a heavy penalty as Bancroft’s not-so-secret act, apparently at David Warner’s behest and with tacit understanding of Steve Smith, had the entire team in the dock. Allegations of ball-tampering, not new to Test cricket, surfaced yet again and with it came a storm that blew away Australia’s selfstyled cultural superiority that other cricket teams have tried copying over the years. Cricket Australia, left shame-faced in the aftermath, banned Smith and Warner for a year and Bancroft for nine months and made way for a flurry of changes in their administration.
-==MITHALI-POWAR SPAT==
+===MITHALI-POWAR SPAT===
 If women’s cricket ever hoped to make the headlines on the front pages of newspaper, 2018 turned out to be that year, albeit for all the wrong reasons. A spat between India’s senior-most woman cricketer Mithali Raj and interim coach Ramesh Powar — one that took place in the Caribbean in November, when India participated in the World T20 — took women’s cricket by a storm when letters written by these two individuals to the BCCI got leaked to the media and all hell broke loose. Matters didn’t end with the leaking of letters. The fight between Mithali and Powar even left the members of the Supreme Courtappointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) divided with Vinod Rai and Diana Edulji falling out with each other and making public statements of disagreement over Mithali’s allegations and the eventual sidelining of Powar. Rai appointed a fresh ad-hoc committee, disputed by Edulji, to pick a new coach and it settled for former batsman WV Raman to take over.
-==JOHRI FACES HEAT==
+===JOHRI FACES HEAT===
 The BCCI CEO has stayed in news for over a good two years now, thanks to the Supreme Court handing him unprecedented powers (powers had earlier predominantly rested with elected members) to run day-to-day affairs in the game. But news never got Johri’s goat the way it did in October this year, when a tweet – later deleted – made unsubstantiated allegations of sexual harassment against the 52-year-old. Two more allegations soon cropped up. An independent inquiry was called upon and a three-member committee investigated the allegations, eventually reaching the conclusion that the CEO wasn’t guilty. For all the bitterness these sequence of events threw up, they left Indian cricket administration divided and in tatters.
-==SHAMI’S MARITAL WOES==
+===SHAMI’S MARITAL WOES===
 The year turned out to be a tumultuous one for Team India pacer Mohammed Shami. He found himself in news when his estranged wife Hasin Jahan came up with a flurry of allegations – ranging from infidelity, corruption and domestic violence – and filed a police complaint in Kolkata under various sections of the IPC. The BCCI, in the meantime, instructed its Anti-Corruption Unit to look into allegations of corruption and put the bowler’s central contract on hold. The pacer had to sweat it out, both legally and cricket-wise to hold his ground against Jahan, claim the legal and higher moral ground, and join the team on the tour of England.
-==SERENA STEALS OSAKA’S LIMELIGHT==
+===SERENA STEALS OSAKA’S LIMELIGHT===
 Serena Williams’ reputation as someone who accepts losses graciously got a dent after she lost to Japan’s Naomi Osaka in the US Open final. It was supposed to be the Japanese youngster’s crowning moment of glory, but Serena’s heated argument with chair umpire Carlos Ramos became the talking point of the contest. The 23-time Grand Slam winner was seen seeking guidance from her coach Patrick Mouratoglou. She was given a code violation for ‘off-court coaching’ and was also docked a point for breaking her racquet. Serena went on to accuse chair umpire Ramos of being a ‘thief’ and sexist.
-==RONALDO’S RAPE CHARGE==
+===RONALDO’S RAPE CHARGE===
 Cristiano Ronaldo’s move from Spain to Italy was the most talked about transfer news in the summer as he switched loyalties from Real Madrid to Juventus. However, even before he landed in Turin, the Portuguese superstar got embroiled in sexual assault charges. He was accused by a former model of attacking and raping her in his Las Vegas hotel penthouse suite in 2009. Kathryn Mayorga, 34, accused Ronaldo in a 32-page complaint filed with a district court in Nevada. Ronaldo vehemently denied the rape accusations.
-==BOXING IN DANGER OF BEING PUNCHED OUT AT OLYMPICS==
+===BOXING IN DANGER OF BEING PUNCHED OUT AT OLYMPICS===
 Boxing is in danger of being expelled from the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. Reason: In October, AIBA, the governing body for boxing, elected Gafur Rakhimov, a man the US Treasury Department has described as “one of Uzbekistan’s leading criminals” as its president. A month later, it emerged that the International Olympic Committee is contemplating expelling boxing’s international federation from Tokyo.
-==MOURINHO-POGBA FALLOUT==
+===MOURINHO-POGBA FALLOUT===
 Jose Mourinho signed Paul Pogba for Manchester United for a then-world record fee of £89m in August 2016, but the pair had a fractious relationship before the Portuguese’s sacking in December. Mourinho had accused Pogba of lack of respect for his teammates and the club’s fans with the nature of his performance in a Premier League game. In a post-match dressing down delivered in front of the entire team, Mourinho is reported to have called Pogba “a virus”. Pogba, reportedly, was admonished with the words: “You don’t play. You don’t respect players and supporters. And you kill the mentality of the good honest people around you.” Pogba’s conduct after Mourinho’s sacking was questioned in the media by Gary Neville, who accused him of “dancing on the manager’s grave” following a social media post showing the midfielder smirking once the news broke. Pogba, however, closed the chapter by praising Mourinho after the coach’s departure.
-==WHEN HEGERBERG WAS ASKED TO TWERK==
+===WHEN HEGERBERG WAS ASKED TO TWERK===
 Moments after Norwegian soccer star Ada Hegerberg was honored in Paris as the first female winner of the Ballon d’Or — a major soccer award — Martin Solveig, a co-host of the ceremony asked Hegerberg if she knew how to twerk. Hegerberg, 23, responded with a “no” while looking uncomfortable onstage. The awkward exchange led to backlash on social media and an apology from Solveig. Hegerberg — who ended up dancing with Solveig, a French DJ, to a Frank Sinatra song for a few seconds — said after the ceremony that Solveig “came to me after and was really sad that it went that way. I didn’t think about it at that moment. I didn’t consider it as sexual harassment or anything.”
-==DOPE GHOST CONTINUES TO HAUNT INDIAN SPORT==
+===DOPE GHOST CONTINUES TO HAUNT INDIAN SPORT===
 The ghost of doping continued to haunt India sport this year too. In May, two-time Commonwealth Games champion, weightlifter Sanjita Chanu, tested positive for a banned anabolic steroid and was provisionally suspended by the international federation. The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) said that Sanjita, who had won gold in the women’s 53kg category in the Gold Coast CWG, has tested positive for testosterone. Chanu was provisionally suspended by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF). The case took a dramatic turn when the IWF admitted to committing a mistake in giving the exact sample number of Sanjita in its report of her failed dope test. This prompted the embattled weightlifter to demand an inquiry. It got uglier when it emerged that Nirmala Sheoran, one of India’s top women 400m runners, tested positive for a banned substance. To India’s embarrassment, the result came after Sheoran’s sample was retested in the WADA-accredited laboratory in Montreal after it showed negative in (NDTL) in the Capital.
-==SYRINGE TROUBLE FOR INDIA AT COMMONWEALTH GAMES==
+===SYRINGE TROUBLE FOR INDIA AT COMMONWEALTH GAMES===
 Soon after landing in Gold Coast for the Commonwealth Games in April, the Indian contingent got into trouble amid speculation that syringes were found in rooms of Indian boxers – a violation of the event’s ‘no needle policy’. Of course, there was no dope-related embarrassment. Subsequently, the Commonwealth Games Federation summoned an unidentified national association, believed to be India, for a meeting with its medical commission. Later the doctor of the country’s boxing team was let off with a reprimand as he was found guilty of not disposing needles safely after injecting vitamins to a fatigued boxer.

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	India couldn't qualify for the world cup despite its large population and football following, but most of the qualifying countries have fewer people than our states and even cities. A look:		India couldn't qualify for the world cup despite its large population and football following, but most of the qualifying countries have fewer people than our states and even cities. A look:
		+
		+	=Year-wise developments=
		+	=2018=
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2018%2F12%2F28&entity=Ar02410&sk=989D1505&mode=text&fbclid=IwAR2fHVRA4mcz5eCU_laOBRZZX3be8Vj-jy9IHBQYyEEG7qaOnEfP11y7AMo December 28, 2018: ''The Times of India'']
		+
		+
		+	The year that’s going by had its share of moments and incidents which made news for all the wrong reasons.
		+
		+	==SANDPAPERGATE==
		+
		+	Cameron Bancroft stuffing yellow sandpaper in his underpants will go down among the most bizarre of scenes witnessed anywhere in the world of sport. Who stuffs sandpaper inside underpants? And that too bright yellow in colour, the sort that can’t be missed. Australia paid a heavy penalty as Bancroft’s not-so-secret act, apparently at David Warner’s behest and with tacit understanding of Steve Smith, had the entire team in the dock. Allegations of ball-tampering, not new to Test cricket, surfaced yet again and with it came a storm that blew away Australia’s selfstyled cultural superiority that other cricket teams have tried copying over the years. Cricket Australia, left shame-faced in the aftermath, banned Smith and Warner for a year and Bancroft for nine months and made way for a flurry of changes in their administration.
		+
		+
		+	==MITHALI-POWAR SPAT==
		+
		+	If women’s cricket ever hoped to make the headlines on the front pages of newspaper, 2018 turned out to be that year, albeit for all the wrong reasons. A spat between India’s senior-most woman cricketer Mithali Raj and interim coach Ramesh Powar — one that took place in the Caribbean in November, when India participated in the World T20 — took women’s cricket by a storm when letters written by these two individuals to the BCCI got leaked to the media and all hell broke loose. Matters didn’t end with the leaking of letters. The fight between Mithali and Powar even left the members of the Supreme Courtappointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) divided with Vinod Rai and Diana Edulji falling out with each other and making public statements of disagreement over Mithali’s allegations and the eventual sidelining of Powar. Rai appointed a fresh ad-hoc committee, disputed by Edulji, to pick a new coach and it settled for former batsman WV Raman to take over.
		+
		+
		+	==JOHRI FACES HEAT==
		+
		+	The BCCI CEO has stayed in news for over a good two years now, thanks to the Supreme Court handing him unprecedented powers (powers had earlier predominantly rested with elected members) to run day-to-day affairs in the game. But news never got Johri’s goat the way it did in October this year, when a tweet – later deleted – made unsubstantiated allegations of sexual harassment against the 52-year-old. Two more allegations soon cropped up. An independent inquiry was called upon and a three-member committee investigated the allegations, eventually reaching the conclusion that the CEO wasn’t guilty. For all the bitterness these sequence of events threw up, they left Indian cricket administration divided and in tatters.
		+
		+
		+	==SHAMI’S MARITAL WOES==
		+
		+	The year turned out to be a tumultuous one for Team India pacer Mohammed Shami. He found himself in news when his estranged wife Hasin Jahan came up with a flurry of allegations – ranging from infidelity, corruption and domestic violence – and filed a police complaint in Kolkata under various sections of the IPC. The BCCI, in the meantime, instructed its Anti-Corruption Unit to look into allegations of corruption and put the bowler’s central contract on hold. The pacer had to sweat it out, both legally and cricket-wise to hold his ground against Jahan, claim the legal and higher moral ground, and join the team on the tour of England.
		+
		+
		+	==SERENA STEALS OSAKA’S LIMELIGHT==
		+
		+	Serena Williams’ reputation as someone who accepts losses graciously got a dent after she lost to Japan’s Naomi Osaka in the US Open final. It was supposed to be the Japanese youngster’s crowning moment of glory, but Serena’s heated argument with chair umpire Carlos Ramos became the talking point of the contest. The 23-time Grand Slam winner was seen seeking guidance from her coach Patrick Mouratoglou. She was given a code violation for ‘off-court coaching’ and was also docked a point for breaking her racquet. Serena went on to accuse chair umpire Ramos of being a ‘thief’ and sexist.
		+
		+
		+	==RONALDO’S RAPE CHARGE==
		+
		+	Cristiano Ronaldo’s move from Spain to Italy was the most talked about transfer news in the summer as he switched loyalties from Real Madrid to Juventus. However, even before he landed in Turin, the Portuguese superstar got embroiled in sexual assault charges. He was accused by a former model of attacking and raping her in his Las Vegas hotel penthouse suite in 2009. Kathryn Mayorga, 34, accused Ronaldo in a 32-page complaint filed with a district court in Nevada. Ronaldo vehemently denied the rape accusations.
		+
		+
		+	==BOXING IN DANGER OF BEING PUNCHED OUT AT OLYMPICS==
		+
		+	Boxing is in danger of being expelled from the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. Reason: In October, AIBA, the governing body for boxing, elected Gafur Rakhimov, a man the US Treasury Department has described as “one of Uzbekistan’s leading criminals” as its president. A month later, it emerged that the International Olympic Committee is contemplating expelling boxing’s international federation from Tokyo.
		+
		+
		+	==MOURINHO-POGBA FALLOUT==
		+
		+	Jose Mourinho signed Paul Pogba for Manchester United for a then-world record fee of £89m in August 2016, but the pair had a fractious relationship before the Portuguese’s sacking in December. Mourinho had accused Pogba of lack of respect for his teammates and the club’s fans with the nature of his performance in a Premier League game. In a post-match dressing down delivered in front of the entire team, Mourinho is reported to have called Pogba “a virus”. Pogba, reportedly, was admonished with the words: “You don’t play. You don’t respect players and supporters. And you kill the mentality of the good honest people around you.” Pogba’s conduct after Mourinho’s sacking was questioned in the media by Gary Neville, who accused him of “dancing on the manager’s grave” following a social media post showing the midfielder smirking once the news broke. Pogba, however, closed the chapter by praising Mourinho after the coach’s departure.
		+
		+
		+	==WHEN HEGERBERG WAS ASKED TO TWERK==
		+
		+	Moments after Norwegian soccer star Ada Hegerberg was honored in Paris as the first female winner of the Ballon d’Or — a major soccer award — Martin Solveig, a co-host of the ceremony asked Hegerberg if she knew how to twerk. Hegerberg, 23, responded with a “no” while looking uncomfortable onstage. The awkward exchange led to backlash on social media and an apology from Solveig. Hegerberg — who ended up dancing with Solveig, a French DJ, to a Frank Sinatra song for a few seconds — said after the ceremony that Solveig “came to me after and was really sad that it went that way. I didn’t think about it at that moment. I didn’t consider it as sexual harassment or anything.”
		+
		+
		+	==DOPE GHOST CONTINUES TO HAUNT INDIAN SPORT==
		+
		+	The ghost of doping continued to haunt India sport this year too. In May, two-time Commonwealth Games champion, weightlifter Sanjita Chanu, tested positive for a banned anabolic steroid and was provisionally suspended by the international federation. The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) said that Sanjita, who had won gold in the women’s 53kg category in the Gold Coast CWG, has tested positive for testosterone. Chanu was provisionally suspended by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF). The case took a dramatic turn when the IWF admitted to committing a mistake in giving the exact sample number of Sanjita in its report of her failed dope test. This prompted the embattled weightlifter to demand an inquiry. It got uglier when it emerged that Nirmala Sheoran, one of India’s top women 400m runners, tested positive for a banned substance. To India’s embarrassment, the result came after Sheoran’s sample was retested in the WADA-accredited laboratory in Montreal after it showed negative in (NDTL) in the Capital.
		+
		+
		+	==SYRINGE TROUBLE FOR INDIA AT COMMONWEALTH GAMES==
		+
		+	Soon after landing in Gold Coast for the Commonwealth Games in April, the Indian contingent got into trouble amid speculation that syringes were found in rooms of Indian boxers – a violation of the event’s ‘no needle policy’. Of course, there was no dope-related embarrassment. Subsequently, the Commonwealth Games Federation summoned an unidentified national association, believed to be India, for a meeting with its medical commission. Later the doctor of the country’s boxing team was let off with a reprimand as he was found guilty of not disposing needles safely after injecting vitamins to a fatigued boxer.

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 =Foreign clubs=
 == Indian sportsmen in foreign clubs ==

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		+
		+	=Incentives by governments, official agencies=
		+	==2018: IOA to hand out cash awards to athletes==
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2018%2F09%2F20&entity=Ar02803&sk=4A985D7A&mode=text Sabi Hussain, In a first, IOA to hand out cash awards to athletes, September 21, 2018: ''The Times of India'']
		+
		+
		+	For the first time in its history, the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) will give away cash awards to the medal winners of the Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games. IOA had never felicitated the medallists of any multi-sport event with monetary rewards.
		+
		+	IOA will give each gold medallist a cheque of Rs 5 lakh, silver medallist Rs 3 lakh and bronze medallist Rs 2 lakh at a ceremony in the Capital on September 23.
		+
		+	According to IOA secretary general Rajeev Mehta, the trend will continue in the future as well. “There’s always a first time and this is the start of a new trend in the IOA. We will be rewarding the Asiad medallists since they have done the country proud,” he said, while informing that the Gold Coast CWG medallists won’t be extended the favour.
		+
		+	It’s been understood that the IOA will use the sponsors’ money to reward the medallists. Recently, the sports ministry felicitated the Asiad medallists with cash awards after India registered its best-ever medal haul in the history of the Games. Gold medallists were given Rs 40 lakh, while silver and bronze winners received Rs 20 and Rs 10 lakh each.
		+
		+	India won 69 medals at the Games – 15 gold, 24 silver and 30 bronze.

	=Multi-country tournaments and India=		=Multi-country tournaments and India=