Sports Trending News -27 June 2021

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1. On 26 June 2021 (Saturday); Sajan Prakash became the first-ever Indian swimmer to qualify for the Olympic Games by breaching the ‘A’ standard time, clocking 1:56:38 secs in the men’s category. 200 mtr butterfly
event at the Sette Colli Trophy in Rome, Italy. The Games ‘A’ standard was set at 1:56.48 seconds & the Sajan Prakash (27 yrs) has completed the run 0.10 seconds faster at the FINA-accredited Olympic qualifier.

2. It is a Historic moment in Indian Swimming !!! Sajan Prakash rewrites the best Indian performance with the timing of 1:56.38 an Olympic qualification “A” time.

3. Hockey India on 26 June announced the nomination of Indian menтАЩs hockey team goalkeeper P. R. Sreejesh and former India womenтАЩs hockey team player Deepika for the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award.

4. The Indian cricket team will play two intra-squad games at the Riverside ground in Durham before the five-match Test series against England as Virat KohliтАЩs men are unlikely to get any warm-up first-class games against county sides.

5. Two-week lockdown imposed in Sydney due to surge in Delta variant cases.

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