Men’s national hockey camp to conclude a week earlier on December 12
Hockey | November 25, 2020 19:50 ISTThe players will reassemble for camp again on January 5 after a three-week break.
The players will reassemble for camp again on January 5 after a three-week break.
The Sports Authority of India (SAI) on Friday said that the Uttar Pradesh Police has arrested three persons, including a former kabaddi player, for fleecing athletes through a false advertisement for Khelo India Games.
SAI said the advertisement used "logos of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Sports Authority of India and Khelo India, which misled several athletes to believe it to be a government advertisement."
The Sports Authority of India (SAI) Regional Centre in Zirakpur will serve as one of the main centres in the northern belt.
The two-month training camp began from October 15 and is scheduled to run until December 14.
With the focus firmly on qualifying for 2021 Tokyo Olympics, the Indian table tennis players on Wednesday resumed their training after almost seven months at the national camp in Sonepat.
The team is currently taking part in the national coaching camp at the Sports Authority of India (SAI) facility in Bengaluru amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Ankit was admitted to the Bhagwan Dass Hospital on October 14 after testing positive for the dreaded virus during a national camp at the SAI Northern Regional Centre.
This is the second time in two months that the camp has been postponed, the first being in August, when NRAI was forced to call it off in view of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sports Authority of India (SAI) logo has been changed for the first time since the apex sports body's inception in 1982.
The president and secretary-general of Handball Federation of India (HFI) on Sunday decided to bury the hatchet after a public fallout and work together for the betterment of the sport in the country.
The Sports Authority of India (SAI), in the first phase in early June, had allowed training for only Olympic-bound athletes at its various centres.
SAI will also bear the cost for Srikanth's COVID-19 testing that is required to be done before he takes part in the competition.
During AFI web seminar, the president of AFI Adille Sumariwalla said they have requested the government to provide 2021 Tokyo Olympic-bound athletes with COVID-19 vaccines as soon as they as are out.
SAI said that the athletes, coaches and support staff "have to undergo RT-PCR test for COVID19, 96 hours before travelling to the centres and would be allowed to enter the centre on the production of COVID-19 negative certificate.
The national camp is scrapped after it became clear that players would not get any relaxation on the mandatory COVID-19 seven-day quarantine period
The revamped policy exempts eminent sports persons from taking the online test.
The camp, to continue till September 27, is being organised to help 26 players prepare for the Thomas and Uber Cup tournaments, beginning in Aarhus, Denmark from October 3.
The SAI said shooters of Target Olympic Podium scheme and those at the National Centre of Excellence (NCOE) at the Karni Singh Shooting Range here will begin training from September 2.
John resigned from his post on August 18 with immediate effect, citing health safety concerns due to the rising COVID-19 cases in India.
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