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Missed catching up on the latest in Indian sport? Worry not as we give you the lowdown on the top stories of the past week. Vapormax 2020 .1. India claim Hockey Junior World Cup titleIndia won the Hockey Junior World Cup on Sunday, defeating Belgium 2-1 in Lucknow thanks to goals from Gurjant Singh and Simranjeet Singh. India, playing their third junior World Cup final, became only the second team after Germany to win the junior title on more than one occasion, having defeated Argentina to win the tournament for the first time in 2001.Read more:?Indian juniors soak up win, aim for bigger stage2. Atletico de Kolkata win ISL 2016Atletico de Kolkata came back from trailing 1-0 in the first half of the Indian Super League (ISL) final - and then 2-0 in the penalty shootout - against Kerala Blasters, before pulling through to win 4-3 to claim their second ISL title in three years in Kochi on Sunday. The two teams had previously met in the 2014 final where ATK had beaten Kerala 1-0.Read more:?Mohd Rafi and other great numbers from ISL 20163. Vijender Singh retains his WBO Asia Pacific super middleweight titleVijender Singh defended his WBO Asia-Pacific Super Middleweight title with an emphatic win over Tanzanias Francis Cheka. The end came early, just under two minutes into the third round of what was scheduled to be a ten-round contest.Read more:?Vijender will be fighting for bigger titles in 2017 - manager4. Kidambi Srikanth wants to get back on courtSrikanth is back after a three-month injury layoff and is ready to step on the court. He spoke to ESPN about not being able to get over the loss to Lin Dan at the Rio Olympics and his hopes from the Premier Badminton League (PBL).Read more:?Need to work on my consistency: Srikanth5. Aditi Ashok named Rookie of the YearAditi Ashok won the Ladies European Tour (LET) Rookie of the Year award after a stellar 2016 in which she became the first Indian to win two consecutive titles in her first year on the tour. After becoming the first Indian woman to represent the country in golf at the Rio Olympics, the 18-year-old from Bangalore won back-to-back titles at the Indian Open and the Qatar Ladies Open.Read more:?Aditi Ashok named 2016 Rookie of the Year6. Sindhu loses in the semis of the Dubai finalsPV Sindhu lost to South Koreas Sung Ji Hyun 21-15, 18-21, 21-15 in the semifinals of the Dubai World Superseries Finals on Saturday.After beating Carolina Marin in her last group game of the tournament to exact some measure of revenge for her defeat in Rio, Sindhu, ranked five places below World No. 5 Sung, gave the South Korean a tough fight before succumbing to pressure in the deciding game.Read more:?Dubai World Superseries Finals: Sindhu goes down fighting in semis Vapormax For Sale . -- Golden State Warriors coach Mark Jackson asked his players a simple question during Fridays morning shootaround: How many of them had ever been on a team 14 games over . Cheap Vapormax . After dropping their final six games of December, the Wild opened the new calendar year with four consecutive wins. Following a loss to Colorado on Saturday, Minnesota rebounded the following night to blank Nashville 4-0, but then had the tables turned on them Tuesday. https://www.cheapvapormaxoutlet.com/ . Just as Montreal was settling into the first full working week of a new year, the Impact announced the appointment of their new head coach. Eager to expedite the growth of basketball in a largely untapped market of nearly 1.3 billion people, the NBA announced plans on Tuesday to open a training facility for top prospects in India.The announcement marks a major step forward in the effort to recruit athletes from India and develop talent to compete at the highest international levels, and it comes a month after the launch of similar facilities in Hangzhou, Jinan and Urumqi, China. NBA Academy India will focus on instruction for athletes ages 14 to 18 and will be located in the National Capital Region. It is scheduled to begin operation in April 2017 and will provide academic education through a school partnership.Our mission with this academy is to develop and grow basketball in India, NBA vice president of international basketball operations Brooks Meek said. Its focused on improving the level of the players on the national team and to really give a vision to Indian kids that theres a chance and a pathway for them in basketball.NBA representatives will hold a series of scouting camps across the country to select the first 24 male scholarship athletes that will attend and reside at NBA Academy India. Those prospects will be selected by February 2017. The league is also in the process of selecting coaches, scouts and consultants who will staff and instruct at the academy. The academy plans to begin assembling a roster of top female athletes to train there soon after the facility begins operation.The strategy is a holistic approach, Meek said. This is off-court and on-court education, all of the things we feel that we want to have a direct impact on influencing the 360-degree development of an elite basketball player.NBA Academy India prospects will play against top domestic adult teams and also compete internationally. Ultimately, the most promising players at NBA Academy India will be considered for promotion to the NBA Global Academy, which the league recently established in partnership with Basketball Australia in Canberra as an international hub for the training of elite prospects.What we want to do is schedule the toughest and best competition for these kids to play against, knowing that its not about wins and losses, Meek said. Its about player development and achieving your best by playing against the best. Thats a key strategic point for all of these academies.Meek was part of the initial NBA delegation to India in 2005, sent to gather information, scout facilitiess and lay the groundwork for the growth of basketball in the worlds second-most populous nation. Vapormax 2021. Six years later, the NBA officially planted a flag by establishing an office in Mumbai. Since turning its attention to India, the NBA has held 1,500-plus grassroots events across the country, reaching more than 3.5 million youths and thousands of physical education teachers and coaches, thereby creating the framework of a network where gifted athletes can be discovered.Recently, the NBA Jump talent search tapped 22-year-old Palpreet Singh Brar as the top player among a field of 32 prospects from across India. He then tried out for the NBA Developmental League and was drafted last month by the Long Island Nets, although he did not make the teams season-opening roster. Meek said the NBA would hold a similar set of scouting events, focused on younger athletes, to select the first group of NBA Academy India students.Although still in the formative stage, basketball is undeniably on the rise in India. Many NBA players have made promotional visits to India over the years, including Chris Bosh, Dwight Howard, Pau Gasol and Kevin Garnett. Earlier this year, Dallas Mavericks guard Seth Curry and Chicago Bulls center Robin Lopez conducted youth clinics in Noida and Mumbai.Some other key developments in recent years:May 2013: Mumbai native Vivek Ranadive purchases a majority stake in the NBAs Sacramento Kings.July 2014: The India mens national team defeats China for the first time, stunning the top-ranked hosts of the FIBA Asia Cup in Wuhan.April 2015: Canadian center Sim Bhullar becomes the first player of Indian descent to appear in an NBA game.June 2015: Punjab native Satnam Singh becomes the first player from India ever selected in the NBA draft when the Dallas Mavericks identify him in the second round -- No. 52 overall. (He currently plays for the Texas Legends of the NBA Developmental League and has yet to appear in an official NBA game.)September 2016: India again upset top-ranked China, this time at the FIBA Asia Challenge in Tehran. India ultimately lost in the quarterfinals to eventual champions Iran.The next landmark will occur in April when NBA Academy India creates a virtual pipeline connecting boys and girls from every corner of the nation to the highest levels of competition around the world. ' ' '