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What if Tokyo 2020 Olympics & Paralympics turn out to be exclusively digitized?

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If we look at the current scenario for hosting a sporting event in any region of any country in any corner of the world, we will have a multi-layered structure of things to be taken care of from a healthcare point of view. I feel the COVID-19 pandemic is the most politicized healthcare disaster to try and create a monopoly-like situation for the global economies. This is because some neighboring countries who also tend to be communist from the very core, cannot accept the fact that any other country can have a positive impact in terms of development to be an industrial powerhouse, hence it was necessary to create some distractions. Seems to be political? Sure it does in some ways. This is based on some facts and a few fascinating things that we can think about from what happened with Rugby last year. Japan hosted the 9th edition of the Rugby World Cup in September 2019, and it was clear that they raised the bar of organizing sports events to a new level for others to catch-up. In Jul

The wicket-keeping-batsman era of World Cricket.

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When it comes down to ranking the best sport, we have different views & ranks for all the different flavors & the variety of sporting activities we can find in different corners of the world. Cricket seems to find a spot in Top-10 every year because of the ICC World Cups or the T20 extravaganza or maybe the moneyball that happens around via T20 leagues across Australia, India, South Africa, Pakistan, England & many more. If we compare the top-ranked sport in the world, it is necessary to catch-up with the recently hot-topics going around - the MS Dhoni saga & the wicket-keeping standards he has set for the players to fill for the vacant position.  To get to some answers, we will have to go through a story of which I’d like to call the wicket-keeping-batsman era of world cricket because it is not just MS Dhoni, there has been an equal contribution of Kumar Sangakkara and Adam Gilchrist who have changed the perception of being a solid pillar for the batting unit while be