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  BIOGRAPHY OF MAJOR DHYAN CHAND   A legend of Indian hockey, Dhyan Chand is considered to be one of the best players to have ever played the sport. Star of the Indian hockey team that dominated the sport in the years before World War II, the prolific Dhyan Chand played a key role in India’s three consecutive gold hauls at the Olympic Games - in 1928, 1932 and 1936. Such was Dhyan Chand’s mastery of the game and so dazzling was his ball control that he earned the epithets 'Hockey Wizard' and 'The Magician'. Dhyan Chand started playing hockey seriously during his stint with the British Indian Army and between 1922 and 1926, he competed in numerous army hockey tournaments and regimental games. Born Dhyan Singh in Allahabad, he was called ‘Chand’ - moon in Hindi - by his peers because he would often practice at night under the moonlight after his duty hours. He had impressed observers of the game during his days in the army and when the newly-formed Indian Ho

                      BIOGRAPHY OF MEERA BAI SANU                                From lifting firewood as a kid to being elevated onto international podiums, weightlifter Saikhom Mirabai Chanu's story is one of a remarkable rise. Mirabai Chanu sprung to international prominence at the age of 20, when she bagged the silver medal in the 48kg category at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Scotland. Then at the national trials for the Rio 2016 Olympics, Mirabai Chanu broke a 12-year-old national record held by seven-time World championships medallist Kunjarani Devi to book her place in the Indian team for the Games. The record aside, her total of 192kg at the selection trials would position Mirabai Chanu as a medal contender at the Rio Olympics. But in Brazil, Mirabai Chanu failed to flourish, unable to execute any of her three attempts in 'clean and jerk' and only one correct effort in the 'snatch'. Returning home with a DNF (Did not Finish) against her name, was n

  1. It wasn’t the first attempt at reviving the Olympics           Even after the Romans snuffed out the classical Greek games in 393 A.D., the Olympic flame had continued to simmer. Informal Olympic festivals took place as early as the 1600s, and the 19th century brought a series of local revivals including the JEUX OLMPIQUES SCANDINAVES in Sweden and the ZAPPAS Olympics in Greece. In England, meanwhile, a doctor named William Penny Brookes started the annual WENLOCK Olympian Games, which attracted athletes from around the country. The fledging Olympic movement eventually coalesced in the 1890s under Pierre de Coubertin, a French baron who gathered support for an international athletic competition to be held in a different city every four years. During a meeting in Paris in 1894, he and several dozen other members of the Olympic Congress voted to host the inaugural games in Athens. 2.   Most countries didn’t send official Olympic teams.          Despite the best efforts of Pierre de