Welcome to ESPN India’s each day weblog, the place we deliver you all of the information from the dynamic world of Indian sports activities: from the wide range of Olympic sports activities to franchise leagues.
July has loads of sporting motion happening (together with the largest occasion of all of them, the Paris Olympics) – which you’ll find listed out in ESPN India’s sporting calendar.
What’s on at the moment?
Aside from the chess, there’s not an entire lot happening at the moment as India’s athletes proceed to fine-tune their preparations for the Paris Olympics. You’ll be able to atone for that through our tales: Listed here are India’s prime 10 medal hopes and this is a more in-depth take a look at the place their medals could possibly be gained or misplaced. Additionally this is a cheat sheet to organize your self for Olympic-centered dialog – The right way to sound like an knowledgeable when the Olympics is on ft. repechages, bogeys and ippons.
There’s additionally some background studying for Indian Olympic sports activities followers – The Indian pioneers whose Olympic glory opened doorways for future champions and Each medal India has gained on the Olympics.
What occurred yesterday?
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Chess: World championship challenger D Gukesh suffered a catastrophic day of blitz chess, dropping six of his 9 video games in Day 4 of the SuperUnited Speedy & Blitz match in Croatia.
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Golf: Olympic-bound Aditi Ashok shot three birdies within the final 4 holes of the third spherical to leap 22 locations to tied-22 on the Amundi Evian Championship.
You could find all the small print of yesterday’s occasions, right here.