SPORTS AUG 2020 HELPFUL FOR UPSC 2020

🛑 SPORTS AUG 2020 🛑

💠 Real Madrid and Barcelona
🛑 World Most Valuable Brands in Football

💠 Lewis Hamilton wins :-  
🛑seventh British Grand Prix
🛑 Belgian Grand Prix 2020
🛑 Spanish GP
🛑 Striyan GP 
🛑 Hugurian GP

💠  ‘Fit India Talks’ :- HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank and Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju launch

💠 Spanish Iker Casillas :- legendary Real Madrid goalkeeper announced his retirement

💠 Mullanpur International Cricket Stadium punjab renamed :- Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium

💠 India :- host 2021 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup
💠Australia will host the 2022 edition

💠 Max Verstappen :-  wins 70th Anniversary Grand Prix

💠 Anshula Rao :-Madhya Pradesh Women Cricketer Fails Dope test

💠 Laura Marsh :- England all-rounder announces retirement

💠 AIFF & SAI :- E-Pathshala Portal

💠 Dream11:-  wins IPL title sponsor for Rs 222 cr

💠 INOX Group :-  sponsor Indian team for Tokyo Olympics

💠 Ronnie O’Sullivan :-  sixth World Snooker Championship

💠 Bayern Munich :- 
UEFA Champions League

💠 Sophia Popov :- First female  golfer  from Germany wins Women’s British Open

💠 Kallis, Sthalekar and Zaheer Abbas :- inducted into ICC Cricket Hall of Fame

💠 Poulomi Ghatak retires from Table Tennis ( Kolkata) 

💠 India :- BRICS Games 2021

💠 Ayaka Takahashi :- Japan’s Olympic badminton champion

💠 AIFC +  Football Coaches Australia "-  development of game in India

💠 Dwayne Bravo :-  first bowler to 500 wickets in T20s

💠 Kallis, Sthalekar and Zaheer Abbas :-  inducted into ICC Cricket Hall of Fame

💠 India & Russia :-  joint winners of 2020 Online FIDE Chess Olympiad

    

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