Every year, Inter-IIT organizing boards dilly-dally about whether to include chess or not. Alleged that it is not even considered a sport event at times, chess’s staid and sober appearance doesn’t get much fan following even among the Inter-IIT organizers across the country. “Actually, chess was tried only as a trial sport at the Inter-IITs from 2009 to 2011 with Bombay winning all of them, but the organizing IITs refused to conduct it in 2012 and 2013 stating that it wasn’t a physical sport”, says Nitin.
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Day 6: Inter IIT 2016
With the tournaments of most of the sports drawing to a close today(18/12/2016), there was some splendid fight put in by all the teams.
Day 5: Inter IIT 2016
With a silver in 100m and victory in 14 out of 17 matches across six sports today, Madras is definitely on a roll! Presenting
Day 3: Inter IIT 2016
Continuing to show the sportsmanship that IIT Madras is noted for, the contingent has today won 9 out of 11 matches across seven sports
Team Speaks: Hockey
Straight up, hockey is certainly not as easy as it looks. It is arguably a difficult sport which requires a player to be extremely
Team Speaks: Badminton
Badminton is perhaps one of the most complete sports in terms of fitness, sharpness and ability. Having a sharp game and being able to
Team Speaks: Squash
Perhaps the smallest team going to Kanpur for this year’s Inter IIT, the IIT Madras squash team has high hopes. With three out of
Team Speaks: Cricket
As the cricket team readies itself for Inter IIT meet, T5E took the opportunity to interview it. Neema Davis presents excerpts from the unreserved
Team Speaks: Athletics
“Athletics needs more publicity, whatever I have achieved in insti, I have achieved only because of athletics. Even though I have played many team sports, the fighting spirit that I have is because of athletics. I became the Sports Secretary last year mainly because of my experience of being in the athletics team” recounts Bipin, loyally vouching for better years to come for the Institute’s athletics culture.”
Soorya G presents snippets of the interview with the Athletics Team from IIT-M for 51st Inter-IIT Sports Meet.
Team Speaks: Volleyball
By Sharika Mahadevan and Neema Davis As everyone is gearing up for the long-awaited Inter-IIT sports meet at Kanpur, we had the opportunity to