From 100-plus medals in the Asian Games to best-ever performances in the world championships, 2023 has been a year of key positives for Indian sports. And we aren't even talking about cricket
It’s perhaps telling that Neeraj Chopra, who became the world champion and won the gold medal at the Asian Games as well, isn’t even India’s biggest sports story this year.
You can attribute it partly to the benchmarks that the champion javelin-thrower has set for himself—winning the Olympics in 2021 and the coveted Diamond League in 2022—where anything less qualifies as an upset and not vice-versa. But it’s equally the spate of other achievements emerging through the year that have signalled India’s growing might as a sports nation.