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Decorated Champion Boxer Cecilia Brækhus Steps Up To Fight Cris Cyborg When No Fighter In ...

Edit Inquisitr 31 Jul 2016
In MMA today, clearly the most dominant female fighter in the sport, hands down, is Cristiane Justino, professionally known as Cris Cyborg ... women can make in the sport ... [Photo by Lars Baron/Bongarts/Getty Images]It should be reported that Cris Cyborg is no stranger is stepping out of MMA to fight in another combat sport ... Boxing just happens to be the next combat sport Cyborg wants to try her hand in....

Women in Sports

Edit The Himalayan 31 Jul 2016
Though more women are participating in sports and sporting events, the audience still prefers a men’s match to a women’s ... With the advocacy of gender equality and equal treatment for all in our society, apparently women’s participation in the sports is increasing ...  Time is one of the major factors and women’s participation in sports is more recent as compared to that of men....

Report nails local politics behind Jarkhar sports trials cancellation

Edit The Times of India 31 Jul 2016
The report submitted by deputy director, sports, education department, Mewa Singh, to education minister Daljeet Singh Cheema confirmed the conspiracy and local politics behind the cancellation of sports wing trials in Jarkhar that left 36 budding hockey players in the lurch. The education department runs two sports wings in Ludhiana, one at ......

Minister’s fund helps Kiwi kids into sport (New Zealand Government)

Edit Public Technologies 31 Jul 2016
Sport and Recreation Minister Jonathan Coleman has awarded a number of grants to enable more Kiwi kids to play winter sport. 'Participating in sport is a key part of a Kiwi childhood ... 'However, for some kids and their families the costs associated with sport, such as gear, uniforms and membership fees, are a real barrier to participating and competing ... Papakura High received $2,900 for sporting equipment....

Abhishek Bachchan reveals his passion for Kabaddi

Edit The Hindu 31 Jul 2016
He is a celebrity in his own right, but his passion for what he calls a truly Indian sport, kabaddi, is something which is palpable every time Jaipur Pink Panthers enters the court in the Star Sports Pro Kabaddi League season ... Abhishek said his passion for the sport started after he watched his father and Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan play the game in a Hindi movie....

State to get 52 green playfields

Edit The Hindu 31 Jul 2016
“We received proposals from the Sports Authority of Andhra Pradesh (SAAP) for 52 playfields in the State ... “Coaches from cities and towns will visit these playfields once in 15 days for ......

Drug cheats will be a minority at Olympics

Edit Scotsman 31 Jul 2016
Being in the business of simultaneously promoting and policing sport is incompatible ... It represented a first global and concerted effort to tackle drugs in sport 11 years after the biggest scandal ever to occur at an Olympic Games, when Ben Johnson tested positive after winning the 100 metres ... It isn't clear why, because the greatest investigation into drugs in sport was undertaken in Canada in the aftermath of the Johnson scandal....

SAG Infrastructure devt responsibility handed to Ghale

Edit The Himalayan 31 Jul 2016
Similarly, the meeting decided to establish South Asian Games Secretariat at the International Sports Complex in Satdobato, Lalitpur. National Sports Council Vice-president Lama Tendi Sherpa, Nepal Olympic Committee President Jeevan Ram Shrestha, secretaries of various ministries among other were present in the meeting....

Gurung opens swimming pool

Edit The Himalayan 31 Jul 2016
Star swimmer Shirish Gurung inaugurated the swimming pool here at Dhanyentari Sports Pvt Ltd in Dhumbarahi ... President of Dhanyentari Sports, Madan Koirala honoured Gurung, who is set to participate in the Rio Olympic Games slated for August 5-21 in Brazil ... Koirala also felicitated the individuals who helped Dhanyentari Sports in constructing the pool and futsal....

70 Thiruvananthapuram school students taken ill with suspected food poisoning

Edit The Hindu 31 Jul 2016
Raja Sports School at Mailam, Thiruvananthapuram, were taken ill and 27 of them admitted to the Government Medical College Hospital (MCH) here since the early hours on Saturday following suspected food poisoning. The general condition of the students currently under treatment in the wards is satisfactory, MCH authorities said ... Senior Sports and Education department officials also visited the students in the hospital....

70 students taken ill with suspected food poisoning

Edit The Hindu 31 Jul 2016
Raja Sports School at Mailam, Thiruvananthapuram, were taken ill and 27 of them admitted to the Government Medical College Hospital (MCH) here since the early hours on Saturday following suspected food poisoning. The general condition of the students currently under treatment in the wards is satisfactory, MCH authorities said ... Senior Sports and Education department officials also visited the students in the hospital....

Refugee athletes to show world how sports transfer their lives through Rio 2016

Edit Xinhua 31 Jul 2016
RIO DE JANEIRO, July 30 (Xinhua) -- Yusra Mardini and her teammates from the first ever Refugee Olympic Team (ROT) told a press conference here on Saturday that bearing the Olympic flag in the upcoming Rio Games is a life-changing opportunity ... "I was able to open my eyes through sports and made to have faith in others ... "We felt really sad about the war in our country but we did not give up on sports," he said....

Six packs! Not just for men

Edit DNA India 31 Jul 2016
Like Mumbai resident Karuna Waghmare, who was always interested in sports and confesses to a fascination for bodybuilding ... Having won a slew of titles in competitions such as Miss India 2015 Sports Physique, Miss Asia 2015 Fitness Physique and Asian Championship 2015 Fitness Physique, Rathore takes pleasure in busting the popular myth that lifting weights will turn women into men....
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