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Qila Raipur Sports Festival, popularly known as the Rural Olympics, is held annually in Qila Raipur (near Ludhiana), in Punjab, India.[1][2] Competitions are held for major Punjabi rural sports, include cart-race, athletic events and rope pulling.
In February each year, Ludhiana becomes the destination for hundreds of sports enthusiasts, including foreigners. They come to Qila Raipur to see the special breed of bullocks, camels, dogs, mules and other animals competing in competitive events. The most prestigious winners have attended. In the year of the Olympics 2008, Hakam and Naib Singh Nagrath from village Kalsian, Punjab took the 1st place prize. They also won first in gujjaral and phalewal.[what language is this?] They are known in Punjab as the men who hold the greatest passion in the sport.[3][4]
^"Qila Raipur Sports Festival begins". The Tribune. Retrieved 20 February 2020. With the 79th chapter of Qila Raipur Sports Festival, popularly known as the Mini-Olympics, commencing tomorrow, sports enthusiasts have already started visiting the stadium.
^Khan, Ahmer. "India's Rural Olympics". The Diplomat. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
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station is connected to other metro cities. It also has Sahnewal, Doraha, QilaRaipur railway stations which serve cargo and passenger trains. Vande Bharat...
edition. The QilaRaipurSportsFestival has been celebrating traditional Punjabi sports since 1933. The Association of Traditional Sports and Games, India...
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after a very influential architect named Lakhna Ahir, who built the fort Qila Lakhna. From 1350 onwards, Lucknow and parts of the Awadh region were ruled...
the National School of Drama Repertory at Purana Qila, Delhi in the 1970s and later at the Festival of India, London in 1982. Nehru was a prolific writer...
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