Lucas brings a variety of experience and skills to his new position.
In his upcoming book, Sjoerd Marijne wrote that Manpreet Singh asked a player 'to stop playing well' so that his friends could get in the Indian hockey team.
Lovlina Borgohain alleged that she endured similar treatment before the World Championship in Istanbul and she fears that something similar will happen again.
The World Cup will be staged by Bhubaneswar and Rourkela from January 13 to 29.
The IIT-M had signed an MoU with the Sports Authority of India to focus on making the nation self-reliant in sports technology and high-performance sports equipment.
Sports Minister Anurag Thakur on Friday launched three major initiatives, including a revised scheme of cash awards.
Thakur was talking to reporters after inspecting sports facilities in Bhopal.
Sexual harassment cases are emerging in Indian sports, intermittently. Recently a female cyclist had accused national coach of inappropriate behaviour.
The coach threatened the cyclist that he will destroy her career if she will not sleep with him. The female was so terrified that she feared for her life.
Manush Shah, another player who had also filed a writ petition, remains a reserve player with no changes made in the men's squad.
Ashish Kumar last competed at the 2021 World Gymnastics Championships but had to leave midway after suffering an elbow injury.
Aruna Budda Reddy had levelled her allegations against coach Rohit Jaiswal, who was earlier given a clean-chit by the Gymnastics Federation of India.
Neeraj Chopra will be taking the field for the first time in 10 months when he competes at the Paavo Nurmi Games.
Deepika Kumari represented India at the Asian Games in 2010, 2014 and 2018, winning a team bronze in Guangzhou 12 years ago.
The centre is operational in the disciplines of athletics, swimming, powerlifting and table tennis.
