{"id":54256,"date":"2019-02-05T11:24:52","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T11:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=54256"},"modified":"2019-02-05T11:24:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T11:24:53","slug":"abhinav-bindra-pullela-gopichand-in-jury-for-indian-sports-honours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/abhinav-bindra-pullela-gopichand-in-jury-for-indian-sports-honours\/","title":{"rendered":"Abhinav Bindra, Pullela Gopichand in jury for Indian Sports Honours"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">India&#8217;s first and only individual Olympic gold-medallist Abhinav Bindra and national badminton coach Pullela Gopichand have been named jury members for the second Indian Sports Honours to be presented here on February 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Indian hockey captain Sardar Singh, tennis veteran Mahesh Bhupathi, legendary athlete PT Usha and former shooter Anjali Bhagwat are also a part of the selection panel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The award an athlete gets is just not for that individual but it also recognises the team and support staff which is committed for the athlete&#8217;s success, the award is just not a reflection of an individual&#8217;s success but it reflects his\/her team&#8217;s efforts too,&#8221; shooting ace Bindra said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Indian Sports Honours is a joint initiative of RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group and the Virat Kohli Foundation. The members of jury recently came together in Kolkata to select the winners which were nominated in every category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The nominations were shortlisted by Sports Journalist Federation of India and voted by over 200 journalists to select the final nominees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s first and only individual Olympic gold-medallist Abhinav Bindra and national badminton coach Pullela Gopichand have been named jury members for the second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54258,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54256\/revisions\/54258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}