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|January 12, 2026
Indian sport moved faster, reached higher and grew stronger-breaking free of cricket's shadow and carrying its momentum toward bigger arenas
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For a nation long hypnotised by the crack of willow on leather, the last decade sounded a different note.
The first stirrings came in Rio 2016, where a young P.V. Sindhu smashed her way to Olympic silver, then returned from Tokyo (2021) with bronze and a world title in between (2019).
This story is from the January 12, 2026 edition of India Today.
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