Having regularly sent its paddlers to the Olympic Games since Seoul in 1988, it took 24 years for India to acknowledge the importance of a table tennis coach before Bhawani Mukherjee was awarded the D

Braving evening rains, the 38-member Indian probables kick-started their preparatory camp for the Nehru Cup under new national coach Wim Koevermans in Bengaluru on Friday.

As the Indian hockey team gets set to make a concerted bid in their comeback Games following the heartbreak of missing out at Beijing four years ago, former international Ashish Ballal pointed to the