{"id":8726,"date":"2017-02-12T10:34:40","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T05:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=8726"},"modified":"2017-02-12T10:34:40","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T05:04:40","slug":"kashmiri-youth-led-team-india-wins-spirit-award-in-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=8726","title":{"rendered":"Kashmiri Youth Led \u2018Team India\u2019 Wins \u2018Spirit Award\u2019 in USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

SRINAGAR:<\/strong> A snow-sculpting Indian team led by Baramulla-based youth, Zahoor Din Lone, has won \u201cSpirit Award\u201d at the 27th International Snow Sculpture Championship, held at Breckenridge, USA from January 24, 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n

The \u2018Team India\u2019 comprised of four members as per the championship rules.<\/em><\/p>\n

The four artists\/snow sportsperson to represent team India are Zahoor Din Lone, Sunil Kushwaha, Ravi Prakash, and Mridul Kumar Upadhyay.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is for the first time when a team from India is participating in any international snow sports championship.<\/em><\/p>\n

This year sixteen teams from around the world \u2014 China, Finland, Germany (Theil), Great Britain (Annaly), Iceland, India (Callisto), Italy, Mexico, Mongolia (Erdene), Mongolia (Tserendash), Sweden, Turkey, USA-Breckenridge, USA-Loveland, USA-Vermont, USA-Wisconsin (Tomczak) \u2014 began their work of hand-carving 25 ton blocks of snow in Breckenridge, Colorado of United States.<\/em><\/p>\n

While talking to a local news gathering agency, PTK, from United States, Zahoor Din Lone said that they were proud to represent India at an international platform.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is like a dream come true to represent India in Snow sports championship as India has never participated in this sport,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n

However, he added, \u201cthe team managed their requirements at their own, besides arrangements by the championship organizers. Once we made headlines in the televisions and newspapers by qualifying for the championship, people were promising support, but once we approached them, especially government authorities, they keep passing the buck.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Lone added that the even he himself awaits any logistic support from the Jammu and Kashmir Sports Council as they assured the same earlier.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe were supported and encouraged by the organizers and other teams a lot. We won hearts with our hard work, passion, dedication, nature and positive attitude. We tried to promote India as not only a warm country but a perfect destination for snow based tourism too and we could do that through qualifying in this international Championship,\u201d he told PTK.<\/em><\/p>\n

Jubilant after receiving the award, the team has decided to practice more so as to improve their art and focus more on international snow sculpting Championships around the world.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAlso, we\u2019ll use our experience to promote snow sculpting and snow-based tourism in India through training of snow Sculpting and organizing national and international snow sculpting Championships in India if given proper support,\u201d the team adds.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SRINAGAR: A snow-sculpting Indian team led by Baramulla-based youth, Zahoor Din Lone, has won \u201cSpirit Award\u201d at the 27th International Snow Sculpture Championship, held at Breckenridge, USA from January 24, 2017. The \u2018Team India\u2019 comprised of four members as per the championship rules. The four artists\/snow sportsperson to represent team India are Zahoor Din Lone, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}