The wrestlers live in boarding schools, many of them since childhood. EL PAÍS visited them during their training sessions, to ...

Crowds cheer as muscular men in tight loincloths slap sacred scented soil on their bulging thighs and arms for a mud wrestling bout in India. "When we fight, we sweat," said 33-year-old Mauli Jamdade, ...

In this photograph taken on April 30, 2025, junior wrestlers train at the Shree Shahu Vijayi Gangavesh Talim, a residential gymnasium in Kolhapur, in India's Maharashtra state. [AFP] Crowds cheer as ...