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In this photograph taken on April 30, 2025, junior wrestlers train at the Shree Shahu Vijayi Gangavesh Talim, a residential gymnasium in Kolhapur, in India's Maharashtra state. [AFP] Crowds cheer as ...

Kushti is a sport with roots dating back 2,500 years in India. Today, wrestlers leave their hometowns as children to live and train at wrestling academies, called talims. The lifestyle at a talim is ...

India has already secured three gold medals in wrestling at this year's Commonwealth Games in New Delhi. The recent champions attribute their talent to India's traditional wrestling arenas, also known ...

PARIS — The Indian wrestler who failed to make weight for her gold-medal bout at the 2024 Paris Olympics has abruptly retired. Vinesh Phogat, who would have been India's first Olympic medalist in ...

Crowds cheer as muscular men in tight loincloths slap sacred scented soil on their bulging thighs and arms for a mud wrestling bout in India. "When we fight, we sweat," said 33-year-old Mauli Jamdade, ...