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The Sports Ministry has earmarked Rs 100 crore for the funding of athletes under the Target Olympic Podium Scheme TOPS for their preparations for 2020 Olympics, according to Sports Authority of India Director General Neelam Kapur. The Sports Ministry has earmarked Rs 100 crore for the funding of athletes under the Target Olympic Podium Scheme. ANI The TOPS, which was launched in September 2014, is a flagship programme of the sports ministry to provide financial assistance to potential Olympic med
stanley becher al winners. Athletes have also been given financial assistance to prepare for Commonwealth Games and Asian Games under the TOPS. We have kept a ballpark approximate figure of Rs 100 crores for 2020 Olympics. The sports minister has instructed that there shouldnt be any shortage of funds for the athletes in TOPS, Kapur told PTI. With TOPS, we have tried to take a holistic approach. We are consulting the national federations, national observers taking their feedbacks and after going through all the data the final selection is made by the Mi
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stanley cup canada ablished in a bid to fine tune Indias preparations for the 2020 Olympics and build a sustainable sports ecosystem in the country. Active since September, the Secretariat consists of a team of professionals with management and sporting expertise that oversees the functioning of TOPS. Through TOPS, the government has been working to provide assistance to not o Kglt Fifa scandal: An insight into the organization Sepp Blatter built
For quite some time, the Santosh Trophy has been a suspect affair. Squeezed at the end of the football calendar, often at the expense of an essential recovery period for professional players after a strenuous I-League, the countrys most prestigious senior inter-state football championship has lost its sheen. HT Image This time, the World Cup has provided the players with a much-needed break after I-League 3 ended in May. However, the tournament will miss the national team players
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