Wrestling
From the Scale to the Date Sheet: Indian Wrestling's Real Bout Is Being Fought Off the CalendarIn that hall in Sonipat, the first dand begins at 4:40 in the morning. The...
From the Akhada to the Auction Floor: The Paper Trail of Indian Wrestling Where Five Golds Become a Russian DetourIn a Delhi hotel conference hall on a January 2026 afternoon, hands kept goin...
The 100 Grams of Paris Were Decided by Quota Arithmetic, Not by a ScaleOn the morning of 7 August 2026, in the weigh-in room at the North Paris Aren...
The Injury Hidden in Nine Points: An Injury-Surveillance Audit of Indian WrestlingThe tape stops at 1:47 of the second period. A 74kg bout. The attacker shoots...
The 100-Gram Ledger: Paris's Scale, Haryana's Map, and a Rule Built to BreakAugust 7, 2026. Shortly after half past six in the morning, inside the hall...
The Weigh-In Slip, the Trial Date and Those Hundred Grams: Indian Wrestling's Real Bout Is on the Calendar, Not the MatSeven twenty in the morning. A row of plastic chairs outside the weigh-in roo...
One Hundred Grams: The Scale, the Timeline, and a Morning No Calendar ApprovedOn the evening of 6 August 2026, the women's 50kg freestyle semifinal ended a...
Paris, 100 Grams: Vinesh Phogat's Disqualification Was Decided in the Weight-Cut Calendar, Not on the MatSeven-thirty in the morning, August 7, 2026, the weighing room at the...
The 150 Grams on the Trial List: Where India's Wrestling Exemption Ledger Stops Adding UpThe April 2026 selection-trial sheet had two names with the bout count left...
Shoulder, Scale and Mat: Auditing Indian Wrestling's Injury LedgerAugust 5, 2026. Paris, evening session. Mat B, women's 68kg freestyle...
The Broom Before the Bout: The Payroll Beneath India's Eight Wrestling MedalsHyderabad, 2026. Ten minutes on foot from Charminar, an akhara that is sevent...
From the Akhada to the Auction Floor: The Paper Trail of Indian Wrestling Where Five Golds Become a Russian DetourIn a Delhi hotel conference hall on a January 2026 afternoon, hands kept goin...
The 100 Grams of Paris Were Decided by Quota Arithmetic, Not by a ScaleOn the morning of 7 August 2026, in the weigh-in room at the North Paris Aren...
The Injury Hidden in Nine Points: An Injury-Surveillance Audit of Indian WrestlingThe tape stops at 1:47 of the second period. A 74kg bout. The attacker shoots...
The 100-Gram Ledger: Paris's Scale, Haryana's Map, and a Rule Built to BreakAugust 7, 2026. Shortly after half past six in the morning, inside the hall...
The Weigh-In Slip, the Trial Date and Those Hundred Grams: Indian Wrestling's Real Bout Is on the Calendar, Not the MatSeven twenty in the morning. A row of plastic chairs outside the weigh-in roo...
One Hundred Grams: The Scale, the Timeline, and a Morning No Calendar ApprovedOn the evening of 6 August 2026, the women's 50kg freestyle semifinal ended a...
Paris, 100 Grams: Vinesh Phogat's Disqualification Was Decided in the Weight-Cut Calendar, Not on the MatSeven-thirty in the morning, August 7, 2026, the weighing room at the...
The 150 Grams on the Trial List: Where India's Wrestling Exemption Ledger Stops Adding UpThe April 2026 selection-trial sheet had two names with the bout count left...
Shoulder, Scale and Mat: Auditing Indian Wrestling's Injury LedgerAugust 5, 2026. Paris, evening session. Mat B, women's 68kg freestyle...
The Broom Before the Bout: The Payroll Beneath India's Eight Wrestling MedalsHyderabad, 2026. Ten minutes on foot from Charminar, an akhara that is sevent...
