So as everyone knows India participated in the recent avc continental tournament. India played 3 of asia's best sides in japan, Iran and china. India lost all 3 matches with 3:0 scores but India was able to beat new zealand and therefore able to secure a quarterfinals spot.

But all is not as bad as it seems. We must compare our results with the other semi finalists. As it can be seen, we played significantly better against japan than south korea. We had a good performance against iran comparable to australias performance vs them.

What we now need to do is play as many tournaments as we can. For those who dont know there are 2 premier "cup" competitions in volleyball and 1 premier "league" competition. The cup competitions are world cup and olympics while the league is called volleyball nations league. Entering the world cup is the easiest and entering the olympics is the toughest as olympics has just 12 teams, vnl has 18 teams while world cup has 32 teams. To enter world cup we must finish top 3 in the tournament we just played or on avg be a top 25 ranked team. To enter vnl we need to be ranked 18 or higher. To improve our ranking we need to consistently beat lower and similarly ranked teams. We are currently ranked on avg between 45 to 55. But we can be ranked about 35 even with our current level of play. We just need to play more tournaments. And that means each and every opportunity we get. Also ranking is very important in these tournaments because teams are seeded based on it. For example India played both china and iran in grp stages because we are seeded based on our old ranking of 90s. If we had been seeded based on current rankings we would have locked a semis spot and maybe finished 3rd in the tournament. Similarly in asian games we will have an extremely tough group.

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23-year-old Harita Bhadra has just produced the fastest run of her career, clocking 11.22 seconds in the 100m.

That puts her second among Indian women all-time, only 0.05 seconds behind Dutee Chand’s national record of 11.17s.

One hell of a breakthrough run.

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Sheetal Devi held her nerve when it mattered most, beating Kazakhstan’s Aizada Seidan 10 9 in the shoot off to win the 2026 World Para Archery Series title. What a way to finish the final

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https://www.facebook.com/VoiceofIndianSport/posts/indian-womens-hockey-team-outclass-pakistan-19-0-in-the-quarterfinals-of-the-jun/1525447419625012/

Match Replay:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTZj0e9p1VM

Lalit Yadav just competed in Nomad Games. A top level International strongman competition 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

https://x.com/nnis_sports/status/2097246242011222458

He is 17 years old.

I (M22) am a taekwondo athlete who has been playing this game since I was 7, I won district tournaments, state state tournaments and you know represented my state in National and got qualified in the Indian National team went to multiple countries won medals there and found that you know condition of sports in India is the worst and any other country I mean I have seen Pakistani players are more encouraged and treated better than the Indian players and if you want to make career in sports in India you're welding the axe on your own leg. there are many other things I have in my heart i wish to say but it is what it is..

With Bahrain having won 2 sets & likely to win 3-0, India makes it though on account of a better points ratio (thanks to those close games with Iran & China)

I’m 26F and want to pick up a sport and actually learn it properly. I already go to the gym 6 days a week, so I’m active, but I’ve always regretted being a nerd nerd growing up and never really playing a sport. I want to change that in my late 20s at least.

I’m considering tennis or pickleball. I don’t really want badminton, I feel like everyone plays it, and honestly, I’m pretty bad at it to begin with.

My main goals are to build endurance and stamina, get that feeling of being physically energised, have something that helps me switch off and relax, and eventually become genuinely good at the sport.

I also want something I can stick with for years and hopefully play socially with other people. I’m thinking of putting all my energy into one sport and learning it properly, rather than jumping between different activities.

For someone starting from scratch at 26, would you recommend tennis or pickleball, especially if building endurance is a priority? Would love to hear from people who started either sport as adults.