Cyclone Hudhud fails to defeat the spirit of Athlos 2014

Athlos 6.0 ended on a high note despite Hudhud scare

Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (XIMB) successfully completed its three day Annual Sports meet – Athlos 2014 on 12th of October. Though the sixth edition of this mega sports event was affected by bad weather condition due to cyclone Hudhud, the event witnessed great enthusiasm from players of various colleges in true athletic spirit.

After a great start on Day 1 with X-Enable, Day 2 kicked off with an exciting football match between the students of XIMB and IMI, Bhubaneswar. Sanjeeban from the XIMB team led XIMB to a 6-0 win with two stunning goals. The football series ended with a very interesting final between the XIMB students and the XIMB Alumni which closed on a tie calling for a penalty shootout. The XIMB Alumni team finally bagged the winning spot with the score line 5-3 in the penalty shootout.

The next in series were cricket and volleyball. The cricket match had to be suspended due to the rains but the volleyball event saw great team spirit and zeal in the match between XIMB and IMI, Bhubaneswar, which XIMB went on to win in the end. The XIMB team went on to clinch the volleyball title with beating other teams in the process.

Among the indoor games, the badminton men’s singles, men’s doubles and women’s singles matches were played between XIMB, BIMTech and XIMB Alumni. There was great encouragement and support for both sides with the crowd cheering constantly.

Amidst all of these energetic and lively games, XQuizzite-the Quizzing committee of XIMB conducted a Sports Quiz which had several challenging rounds and after a number of gruelling rounds of quiz, Samuel Koshi and Mirza Farhan from XIMB emerged as the winners. The evening of Day 2 saw intense games of table tennis, carom and chess.

All outdoor games had to be cancelled on Day 3 thanks to the incessant rain caused by the landfall of cyclone Hudhud. Only indoor games like badminton could be played, and that was largely dominated by players from XIMB. XIMB Alumni spearheaded by Girish won the men’s singles, XIMB’s Shristi won the women’s singles, while Digant and Anup led XIMB to victory in the men’s doubles title.

The event was formally closed with an award ceremony in the presence of Fr. Tony Uvary, Associate Director, XIMB and Fr. V. Arockia Das, Coordinator of Student Affairs, XIMB. Neelakanth Veluru, the student coordinator of the Sports Committee of XIMB, gave the vote of thanks.

The overall spirit of the event remained high despite the rough weather. Each of the games had good support from the crowd and the sportsmanship of the players was commendable, there was mutual respect and appreciation for either side, irrespective of a win or a loss.

Hero Xtreme was the title sponsor for the Athlos 6.0 and powered by The Telegraph. Paris Bakery was the partner for X-Enable. Sportskeeda.com was the online media partner, while 92.7 Big FM was the radio partner for the event.

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