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Would you call yourself ‘a fan’ or ‘an antagonist’?

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Image Reference: https://joelkimmel.com/tag/sports-fans/ “My favorite part of the game is the opportunity to play - Mike Singletary” . We all have had an equal number of opportunities in our lifetime. Some may appear when ‘we want them’, many of those would only appear to us ‘when deserve them’, but sooner or later we will get a chance to prove ourselves. Being an athlete this task is even harder, since you have a constant pressure of being watched, judged, and often criticized by many known personalities & mostly the people we don’t know, the fans aka well-wishers or commonly known as followers/supporters .  An athlete, always waits for the right moment with his full potential to grab that opportunity in-order to prove his/her worth to the people around & to the people who may or may not have heard the name or had a glance of their performances. Grabbing that opportunities will reveal its challenges where the responsibilities are relatively tough with an additional layer ...

Is it really cricket versus other dimensions of sport, in India?

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There have been multiple discussions and debates on social media platforms and we have been watching people share details of athlete's achievement in their respective sport and in the caption, they often describe cricket, being the only reason for that sport and the athlete for not getting the respect she/he deserves or request the viewers to pay attention over the win of other dimensions of sports specifically when Indian Cricket registers a win.  Personally, I am totally against the fact of criticizing just one game to be the sole reason, why other sporting dimensions are unable to make that impact without people noticing the efforts and story of those athletes, because of endless reasons.  Is it really cricket that is responsible for other sports not growing in India or is it the people of India not accepting the culture of being a sports-educated society who gives equal importance to studies as well as physical activity for our children to grow both physic...