SK Uthappa OLY

HockeyIndia 🇮🇳🏑 Double Olympian 🇬🇧 🇧🇷 , Indian oil corporation Ltd⛽️ Chelsea FC⚽️. Gamer 🎮, Dog Lover 🐶Kodava 😎

[The Khel India @TheKhelIndia]

Both Dev Meena & Kuldeep Kumar broke the National Record in the Pole Vault at the Nationals earlier.

And after creating history, the champions had to carry their poles like this in a rickshaw🤦‍♂️😣

Our pole vaulters deserve much better facilities!

[kodava tribe @KodavaT]

Legacy & Tradition
This can happen only in Kodava Hockey!
Three generations, one passion, one team. 🏑
From father to sons, daughter in law 2 grandchildren,this is the spirit of the Kodava Hockey Festival, whr hockey is not just a game, a legacy passed down through generations.

[SPORTS ARENA🇮🇳 @SportsArena1234]

MINERVA FC HAS DEFEATED LIVERPOOL FC AT THE MIC CUP

Amazing stuff 🤩👏 by our U15 boys 👏👏👏 as they defeated Liverpool FC 6-0 to reach the QF of MIC Cup

What an amazing performance by our lads against the top tier European club 💙❤️🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

Every now and then sport produces a moment that challenges an old assumption

This rocket-like free kick from Manisha was one of those moments

Challenged the assumption that raw football talent doesn’t exist in India

Our real challenge is to locate it early and build an ecosystem that can nurture it

Because the rockets are clearly there.

We just need more launchpads

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽💪🏽

[Lakshya Sen @lakshya_sen]

Overwhelmed with the support. The encouragement means a lot and inspires me to do better.
Missed the target this time but I absolutely gave my all.
Good things are coming I'm sure.

Thank you all! 🙌

[Abhinav A. Bindra OLY @Abhinav_Bindra]

Not every inspiring sporting story ends with a trophy. Over the last few days, Lakshya Sen has shown India what courage, resilience and belief truly look like. His run to another All England final, through extraordinary wins and immense physical pain, has been about far more than a result. He has reminded young India that greatness lies not only in winning, but in the honesty of effort, the dignity of the fight and the strength to keep believing. I am Proud of you, @lakshya_sen . Very, very proud.

[The Khel India @TheKhelIndia]

Dev Meena on why they didn’t send the Pole Vault poles via luggage:

- Takes 2–3 days, impossible with back-to-back competitions

- Poles are fragile fiberglass, needing careful handling

- Carrying 10 poles worth ₹20L+

Railways need to find a solution!

[Sundeep Misra @MisraSundeep]

In a country that is laying the foundations of becoming a sporting superpower, the image of a National Coach and a former pole vaulter, Ghanshyam Yadav from the DSWY Academy, Bhopal begging a railway official is a devastating reality check. Ghanshyam was travelling with National Record holder Dev Meena and Kuldeep Yadav, two of India’s most promising pole vaulters. In a nation of 1.4 billion, where millions are stranded every day in the chaos of transit, Meena is supposed to be the exception. Instead, he became the rule.

Imagine, if Dev Meena, the national record holder, instead of Ghanshyam, was folding his hands in a desperate plea to a railway official; it would be the most honest but brutal portrait of Indian athletics. As a nation, we have reduced a champion to a beggar. It is Ghanshyam who understood that Meena’s dignity shouldn’t be tampered with. A rising star shouldn’t feel that the system has left him to fend for himself.

The son of a farmer, Meena grew up in the fields that built his strength which now clears a 5.40m bar. Yet, we humbled this National Record Holder at Panvel station. Told him his records, his precocious talent, his dream of winning an Asian Games gold, going to the Olympic Games means nothing.

His Rs 2 lakh carbon-fibre poles, the tools he relies on, worships, were treated like “unauthorized scrap.”

As a nation, we celebrate the ‘struggle’ after the medal is won. But we won’t think twice before humiliating the athlete while they are still in the trenches. Couldn’t the TTE have just paused, shown a bit of empathy, maybe, just googled to figure out who this athlete was? But, no, he made him stand for five hours, begging not for luxury, not for his own seat but for the right to carry his dreams, his tools home.

Meena is a NR holder. Imagine the lesser ones, struggling up the steps, trying to remain afloat. We aren’t building a sporting culture. We are digging a graveyard for talent. Meena, Ghanshyam, Kuldeep are not just athletes, they are the symbols of talent currently being suffocated by an indifferent bureaucracy. While the system is busy printing posters of politicians, film stars, the real Champions are folding their hands.
#polevault #devmeena

[nnis Sports @nnis_sports]

🚨 India’s top pole vaulter de-boarded and detained: the 5-metre jump and the 5-hour wait

Pole vault is one of the toughest events in athletics — and travelling with poles makes it even harder.

This time, the challenge came from Indian Railways officials.

Watch how India’s top pole vaulters were de-boarded and left unheard, despite following procedure.

🎥 Watch the video to know more.

#Athletics #IndianAthletics @afiindia @RailMinIndia @AshwiniVaishnaw @Media_SAI @mansukhmandviya @narendramodi

[SK Uthappa OLY @Uthappask]

Appreciation post ! 🙌🏼👏🏼
What can’t @manpreetpawar07 do ?
Running the whole pitch with the ball without the ball. Penalty corner 1st runner in defence, penalty corner injector !
Man this guy has wings indeed @redbullindia
#respect #machine @HockeyIndiaLeag

[SK Uthappa OLY @Uthappask]

Still don’t understand the reason behind the poor audience turn out in Chennai.

Chennai people always loved to watch Good hockey !
#hockeyindialeague #HIL26

[The Khel India @TheKhelIndia]

SHEETAL DEVI BECOMING WORLD CHAMPION 🏆🥺

India's First Ever Individual Para World Champion! 🇮🇳

[SK Uthappa OLY @Uthappask]

Big game for the boys tonight.
Cmon @TheHockeyIndia !!! #hockeyindia #FIHMensJuniorWorldCup #RisingStars

[Chelsea FC @ChelseaFC]

We have to settle for a point.

#CFC | #CHEARS

[SK Uthappa OLY @Uthappask]

What a performance ! 👏🏼 a point with the best player sent off !
10v11 for almost an hour 🙌🏼👏🏼
@ChelseaFC #CHEARS

[SK Uthappa OLY @Uthappask]

Statement victory ! @ChelseaFC
Pick your man of the match ?
Enzo Maresca is my pick 😀
#Estevao #CHEBAR
#championskicharcha

[Chelsea FC @ChelseaFC]

WHAT A NIGHT! 🤩

#CFC | #UCL

[Chelsea FC @ChelseaFC]

We have lift off.

#CFC | #UCL

[The Khel India @TheKhelIndia]

INDIA ARE THE WORLD CHAMPIONS 🏆🥹

- Our Women's Team lifts Blind World Cup 2025!

[ಸನಾತನ (सनातन) @sanatan_kannada]

Bengaluru residents: When handing waste to pourakarmikas, don’t toss used sanitary pads, adult/baby diapers, or condoms openly. They’re humans too! From now on, wrap them in a cover, mark with ❌, and keep separate for easy segregation. Treat pourakarmikas as one of us.

#RespectPourakarmikas

@GBA_office @drnagalakshmi_c