: A sports culture beyond Olympics: To find lasting success, India needs to start at the very bottom #IndiaNEWS India’s campaign at the Tokyo Olympics was a story of two weeks. Even though weightlifter

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A sports culture beyond Olympics: To find lasting success, India needs to start at the very bottom #IndiaNEWS
India’s campaign at the Tokyo Olympics was a story of two weeks. Even though weightlifter Mirabai Chanu opened the country’s account with a silver on the very first day of competition, the opening week was largely about the struggles of the fancied shooters to win medals after arriving in Japan as contenders. And the usual question about why a country with over a billion people can’t win medals at the Olympics began to rear its head on various forums.The second week started with medals from boxer Lovlina Borgohain and shuttler PV Sindhu, then the men’s hockey team won their first medal in 41 years. Soon, wrestlers finished on the podium for the fourth straight Games. Then, Neeraj Chopra provided the icing on the cake with the country’s second individual gold and the first in track and field by hurling the javelin to 87.58m to end India’s campaign on a high. As if by magic, the questions vanished.Some experts were quick to term the country’s best-ever performance in the Olympic Games as a potential gamechanger that can help build the much-talked about sports culture and lay the foundation for India to produce many more champions in the future.If only it was as simple as winning...Read more

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