Importance of promoting sports other than cricket
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The cheering crowd, over-enthusiastic sports lovers and news channels can be heard roaring during any championship or World Cups held across the globe, but this phenomenon has one condition – the sport should only be cricket. There are only a few people who know things related to other sports like shooting, tennis, shot put etc.
India does not have a dearth of potential or talent. If a sport is popular and well-represented in a country, it will be well funded and will become a popular sport. There would be many more talented players winning medals for our country in other sports which are not so popular today in our country. In a more developed country, all sports are given importance and funding, which leads to better training and infrastructure and, therefore, better performances. But in a country like India with so many other problems, we cannot be bothered with giving the same amount of attention to many sports. So the popular sport in which we do well gets all the infrastructure and limelight. The facilities provided to sportspersons other than cricket players is not even a fraction of which is provided to players of foreign countries. One of the great examples of this is India was not able to participate in FIFA World Cup because of a lack of proper equipment. Hockey is the national sport of India but even then most people have negligible knowledge about it and won’t be able to name even two to three hockey players.
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