28-Mar-2021 0
Renowned sports magazine Sportstar has honoured Odisha with the Sortstar Aces Award ‘Giants of the Decade’. Odisha bagged the award as Best State for Promotion of Sports for the Decade 2011 to 2020. Hockey Olympian M M Somaya handed over the award to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik at a special function organised at Loka Seva Bhawan in Bhubaneswar today.
But according a report published in Sportstar magazine, Odisha State government won the Best State for the Promotion of Sport honour in the 2021 edition of the Sportstar Aces Awards. This was the third win in a row for Odisha Government in the Sportstar annual awards, having won the award in 2019 and 2020 as well.
The Sportstar Aces Awards 2021 celebrated the consistency of performance and the impact of sports stars in the decade between 2011 and 2020, honouring 31 winners across Indian sports in this year’s ‘Giants of the Decade’ special.
The esteemed jury comprised of cricket legend Sunil Gavaskar, Olympic gold medallist and former India hockey captain M M Somaya, nine-time national badminton champion Aparna Popat, five time world chess champion Viswanathan Anand, Olympian shooter Anjali Bhagwat and former India football captain Bhaichung Bhutia.
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