The Time of India editorial yesterday
advice that ,"the government sport funding should seed a new, professional
and autonomous body to create a grassroots structure and elite-level programme.
This must be accompanied with reforms in some 67 sports federations – all of
whom are politicised "–is a timely
one . what is the use of showering one or two silver and bronze metal
winners crores and crores of rupee after their achievement after making them
suffer in every possible manner through out their training period . Only such
candidates with supportive parents who
sacrifice a lot to help their children to achieve their sports dreams reach
this level .What about hundreds or
thousands of potential candidates with dreams to achieve in the sports fields especcial
from the villages? They are forced to give up their goals in sports due to poverty,
lack of good food, basic sports tools, training support and decent scholarships
and disappear from the sports practice and
end up as ordinary laborers. Now it is
time to stop endless celebration of the
poor show of India
in the Olympics medal tally and think of constructive actions . It is better
for the government to leave sports alone and entrust to a private professional
body giving only financial support and such bodies should be headed only by
experts in the sports field . No political person should come nay where near sports
bodies .
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