Sports Science

Did you know India has won a Gold medal in the Asian Games? It was the last gold medal of India that was won in the Asian Games. Midfield maestro Mohammad Yousuf Khan, also best known as the “Galloping Horse” and was rightfully said so as he used to gallop on the pitch like a horse, played a vital role in the win. He was one of the best all-rounder players in Indian football history.

After all these years of glory, there was an unfortunate turn of events when he developed Parkinson’s disease. The legs that created magic on the field by then, struggled to even carry him, and as usual, he was later forgotten by the nation.

K.D Jadhav, a wrestler because of whom the country got its first ever individual Olympic medal in the 1956 Helsinki Olympics. An incredible wrestler who was known to defeat his opponents in minutes thus, getting the name of “The Pocket Dynamo”.

This exceptional wrestler still had to pay for his own expenses to play in the Olympics as there was no one to sponsor him. Later, his life met with a tragic fate. To this day he remains the only Olympian who never received any padma award.

Playing in varied environmental conditions is another challenge faced by sportspersons, so how they overcome it and prepare?

Someone has said rightly “What you eat is what you become”, Diet makes a player or breaks them, let’s find out how?

“Major Dhyan Chand, the Wizard of Hockey, the Gem of India. Almost everybody knows about his glorious career and his enormous contribution to Indian Hockey. The man who rejected Hitler’s offer of Major in the German Army because of his love and loyalty for his nation.
Then what made him say “When I die, the world will cry, but the people of India will not shed a tear for me, I know them.”? How were the later days of his life?

Makhan Singh, an Athlete who won gold and silver at the 1962 Asian Games as well as 16 medals at the National Games, the only Indian athlete ever to have beaten Milkha Singh in the 400 meter race at the 1962 National Games. Represented India in the Olympics and is an Arjuna Awardee.
Every athlete aspires to have a career like him someday, but then what happened that made him leave his glorious career behind and forced him to take on a career as a truck driver? What happened to him and his legacy?