{"id":478,"date":"2026-09-09T02:46:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T02:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawkseyexpress.in\/?p=478"},"modified":"2026-09-09T02:46:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T02:46:43","slug":"turn-pressure-into-performance-sports-minister-tells-asian-games-bound-contingent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawkseyexpress.in\/?p=478","title":{"rendered":"Turn pressure into performance, sports minister tells Asian Games-bound contingent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-cdn.publive.online\/fit-in\/1280x960\/greater-kashmir\/media\/media_files\/2026\/04\/13\/mansukh-mandaviya-2026-04-13-23-39-52.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"BYLINE\" style=\"text-align: justify\">New Delhi, Sep 8:&nbsp;Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Tuesday urged the Indian contingent for the Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya to fear no opponent, turn &#8220;pressure into performance&#8221; and build on the country&rsquo;s impressive medal surge at the continental showpiece.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SOFTBODY\" style=\"text-align: justify\">The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) organised a send-off ceremony for the 503-member contingent, with several athletes and teams in attendance. Mandaviya said India&rsquo;s medal tally had risen significantly from the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon to the 2023 edition in Hangzhou and called for the upward trend to continue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span lang=\"EN-IN\">&ldquo;The athletes&rsquo; success also becomes the nation&rsquo;s success. We have a contingent of 503 athletes competing at the upcoming Asian Games. I am confident that we will put up a good performance which will bring about a quantum change in the sports sector,&rdquo; Mandaviya said at the ceremony.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greaterkashmir.com\/sports\/turn-pressure-into-performance-sports-minister-tells-asian-games-bound-contingent-12508759\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Sep 8:&nbsp;Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Tuesday urged the Indian contingent for the Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya to fear no opponent, turn &#8220;pressure into performance&#8221; and build on the country&rsquo;s impressive medal surge at the continental showpiece. The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) organised a send-off ceremony for the 503-member contingent, with several athletes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawkseyexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawkseyexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawkseyexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawkseyexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawkseyexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hawkseyexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawkseyexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawkseyexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawkseyexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawkseyexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}