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Happy to see sports coming back: Gopi
The Hindu
Sporting activity is coming back to life over a year after the COVID-19 pandemic put brakes on it and badminton coach P. Gopichand couldn’t be happier. At ‘The Drona Factor – Sculpting the Arjuna’s or
Sporting activity is coming back to life over a year after the COVID-19 pandemic put brakes on it and badminton coach P. Gopichand couldn’t be happier. At ‘The Drona Factor – Sculpting the Arjuna’s organised by FICCI Ladies Organisation here on Saturday, Mr Gopichand said the pandemic disrupted several sports careers but he was glad that many athletes exhibited a fighting spirit and handled setbacks well. “At the same time, the pandemic gave them time to work on their weaknesses and catch up with what they always longed for,” he said. On the occasion, the coach said that six courts were coming up at his academy in Gachibowli, thanks to the support of Kotak, along with a Sports Science Centre and a Coach Development Centre.![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.