The Football Association announced Chelsea as the winner of the 2019-20 Women’s Super League and awarded the 2019-20 Women’s Championship title to Aston Villa. The Blues were in second place but with one game in hand over Manchester City who were a point ahead when it was decided the league is to finish prematurely due […]
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World silver-medallist Amit Panghal and the seasoned Vikas Krishan were nominated for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award by the Boxing Federation of India, which picked only Olympic-bound names as its nominees for the annual honours. BFI has nominated world bronze-winning trio of Lovlina Borgohain under 69kg, Simranjit Kaur under 64kg, and Manish Kaushik under
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The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has awarded the hosting rights of the AFC Women’s Asian Cup 2022 to India for the first time since 1979. Women’s Asian Cup will be held in the second half of the year 2020. Women players are expected to bring social revolution in the event. The football tournament will feature
Sports Authority of India (SAI) has deposited Rs.30,000 each to 2,749 Khelo India athletes as out of pocket allowance (OPA) amid the COVID-19 lockdown. The total sum of the amount is Rs.8.25 crore in all. SAI announced that a total of 2893 athletes will be given the OPA for the period. The funds for the
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Times Centre for Learning Limited (TCLL) recently signed an MOU with the Sports Authority Gujarat to impart training for personality and skill development for aspiring athletes across Gujarat. The MoU aims to train over 2000 young and aspiring athletes across Gujarat in areas such as Anand, Nadiad, Tapi, Porbandar, Surat, and Himmat Nagar. The participants
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Japanese tennis player Naomi Osaka has become the world’s highest-paid female athlete. She has replaced US rival, Serena Williams, from the top spot. Osaka’s record $37.4 million in earnings surpasses Serena Williams, who, with $36 million in earnings, previously held the title as the world’s highest-earning female athlete. Osaka’s lucrative deal with Nike, which paid
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The FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup 2021 has been rescheduled between 17 February and 7 March. The recommendations were made by the FIFA-Confederations COVID-19 Working Group, the Bureau of the FIFA Council. FIFA announced that the tournament will keep original eligibility criteria which are the players born on or after 1 January 2003 and on
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Indian cricket team has lost the top spot in the ICC Test rankings to Australia dropping to third after their stupendous 2016-17 record was eliminated from the annual update as per rules. India dropped in the ladder largely because the record of 12 Tests victories and just one Test defeat in 2016-17 was removed in
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World Champion PV Sindhu unveiled as one of the ambassadors for Badminton World Federation’s (BWF) ‘i am badminton’ awareness campaign. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The “I am badminton campaign” provides a platform for the players to express their love and respect for badminton by advocating and committing to clean and honest play. BWF’s
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India will be hosting the 2020 Asian Boxing Championship which is expected to be held during November-December. The host city is yet to be announced later. The announcement was made by the National Federation President Ajay Singh. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points BFI got the hosting rights in February 2020. Asian Boxing Championships were
