Vikram Jain @nomadicvik

It has been absolutely stunning - rise if France from nothing to one of the top countries now in world badminton across all modes - men's singles, men's doubles, mixed doubles. Denmark now has a European partner in top countries. Good for spread of badminton

Rambo @monster_zero123

2 weeks ago

French badminton before today: 0 Golds French badminton after today: 2 Golds Greatest day in french badminton history. Leapfrogs india in the all time gold medal count in a single day🥲

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@IndiaSportsHub Wouldn't 2 goals diff suffice as even if tied of gd, goal scored for india will be higher than argentina

@IndiaSportsHub But then if argentina beat England by large margin their gd would be impossible to beat. Can't see a way out here

If Noni Madueke is playing then Gabriel Martinelli should at least be in the squad. Especially when we’ve not bought a marquee LW to replace him. Ian Wright is spot on with that point he made.

@indianhockey Dahed any hopes now. Should have drawn this one at least

"It really makes me feel uncomfortable" 😳 Ian Wright doesn't agree with Arsenal's treatment of Gabriel Martinelli after the Brazilian was left out of the match day squad for the Gunners' opening day victory against Coventry ❌

🗣"I just need a pen" He could have chosen a move away "snake" if he wanted cos he was on all time career form. Just like Piers and Wrighty said, HE DESERVES BETTER!!!

There are so many stories around Gavaskar, Viv and the batters in the 1970s and early 80s who did not use helmets and had wholly inadequate body protection to protect them from express bowlers. It was undoubtedly scary and took nerves of steel. Now think of rushing towards such a delivery at full speed, trying to put off the hitter or stop the ball. That's what makes the likes of penalty rushers like Salima Tete and Amit Rohidas legends, they are the first line of attack, running full tilt at the penalty corner specialist who is trying to hit or flick a ball at terrifying speed. The sheer raw courage is breathtaking, it requires something special to get oneself up for it match after match, especially when you have been hit more than once, as both have. I cannot get over how they do it!

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@NavinSports Didn't follow that intently but why was Krishan Pathak totally out of squad for some time. Even if some disciplinary issue it could be managed. His quality seems a definite higher level than options we have now

@billiwaligf Likely both recently moved to Gurgaon and yet to be culturally immersed

@TeaChaiLa 100%. Having him on field at time of PC was pure dread

Him and Paddy Upton have been behind the scenes heroes for so many of our sports.

Wayne Lombard, Ph.D. @waynelombard

2 weeks ago

Thanks @virenrasquinha. But massive shout out to my whole Sports Science & Medicine team! Im just steering the ship. Still lots of work to do to get even better. But lots of positives so far.

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@catdaddyissues @sattuontherun He has been kind enough to host me at his place. He had the ticket too but couldn't join

India v Pak was worth the cross country travel. Not a dull moment

@OtakuProcess

Even in parking lot of yesterday's patch I could find kids trying dribbles and control exercises. In Germany it is just an amateur sport (even in NL) but adoption in youth is another level here

Jaspreet Singh @JaspritSingh09

2 weeks ago

The thriving social #hockey culture of the Netherlands. #HWC2026 @WagenerStadium #Amsterdam

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@gar_i_ma So much nostalgia with it. Hope it finds adoption in children of today as well

@Niharika__rao @rahul__and Big congrats @Niharika__rao 🎉

Let me explain what this whole fight is about, because it is very different from what the tweet by the Japanese official makes it sound like. Back in 2015, India and Japan signed the Mumbai to Ahmedabad bullet train deal. 508 km. India would use Japan's Shinkansen trains and Shinkansen technology. Japan put up a massive soft loan, covering most of the cost, at almost no interest, 0.1 percent, to be repaid over 50 years. On paper it sounded amazing. Cheap money, world class trains. But every such loan has a catch. Cheap Japanese money came tied to buying Japanese things. Their trains. Their coaches. Their signal system. Their price, largely on their terms. That is normal. No country lends billions out of pure love. They lend to sell their own industry. Then two things went wrong, and this is where his anger comes from. One, the price. The Japanese Shinkansen trainsets turned out to be extremely expensive. India felt it was being overcharged for the rolling stock. So, talks hit a wall. Two, the timeline. The newest Japanese trains, the E10 series, would reportedly only be ready for India around 2032. India did not want to sit on a finished 1.08 lakh crore track with no trains to run on it. So India made a call. And this is the part I am proud of. Instead of waiting and overpaying, India decided to run its own trains first. BEML in Bengaluru got an order to build indigenous high speed trainsets at about 866 crore each, designed to run at 280 kmph. India will open the line with Indian made trains on the Surat to Vapi stretch around 2027, and bring in the Japanese Shinkansen later. And the signal system, the thing he is bitter about, India switched from Japan's DS-ATC to the European ETCS Level 2 system. The same family already used on the Delhi Meerut rapid rail. That is what he means by Japan being excluded from the signal system. India looked at the Japanese option, found it too costly and too slow, and picked a different one. Now let me be fair, because I cannot be blind just because I am pro India. He is not lying about everything. India is genuinely a tough, frustrating negotiator. We change our mind. We push for our own interest till the last minute. We renegotiate things others thought were settled. To a Japanese official raised on politeness and fixed agreements, this feels like betrayal. But flip it around and look at it from our seat. Our job is not to protect Japanese honour. Our job is to get India a bullet train at a fair price, that runs soon, and that builds Indian factories in the process. On all three, changing course was the right call. Waiting till 2032 and overpaying for imported trains would have been the polite choice. It would also have been the stupid choice. There is a bigger thing hiding under his frustration, and I think it is the real reason for the anger. For decades, the deal was simple. Rich countries gave loans and technology, and poorer countries said thank you and bought whatever came bundled with it. You took the money, you took their trains, you did not argue. India argued. India took the loan, then insisted on its own trains, its own signal system, its own factories getting the work. We used their money to build our capability instead of just renting theirs. That is what stings them. Not that we were reckless. That we refused to stay the junior partner in our own project. I will give the Japanese side genuine credit. Their engineering is world class. In 60 years, the Shinkansen has never had a passenger death from a derailment or collision. That safety record is worth respecting. Their frustration with our chaos is also probably fair on a human level. Working with India can be maddening. Anyone who has managed an Indian project knows this. For me, the real issue is what’s in it for our country. India has the track. India is building its own trains for it. India picked its own signal system. India got a 50 year loan at almost zero interest. And India will still get the Shinkansen later, on better terms than the original bundle. If that is what Indian recklessness produces, I will take it every single time. Be tough. Be a nightmare to negotiate with. Just make sure the country wins at the end of it. :)

Shashank Mattoo @MattooShashank

2 months ago

1.5 million views on this tweet by ex-Japan minister blaming India for delays in Indo-Japanese Shinkansen project “Sheer recklessness of the Indian side..” “They just don’t keep promises..” “The minister in charge was awful..”

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The biggest scam humanity has collectively accepted as normal, according to Claude