India, Dec. 31 -- The 2025 season has come to an end but some of the top performances of Indian athletes have surprisingly gone unnoticed by the Mission Olympic Cell (MOC) that runs the Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) - the union government programme that provides financial and holistic support to athletes for achieving their goal of Olympics success.

The updated list shared with HT following the MOC meeting on December 10 has some glaring omissions. The discipline affected most is shooting that gave India three medals at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The TOPS core group has been updated, going from 49 athletes in eight Olympic disciplines (on April 30) to 57. The development group has grown from 112 to 130 athletes, but both lists are ye...