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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 ...

Acknowledged by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in the 2012 London Olympics, Late. Balbir Singh Dosanjh aka  Balbir Singh (Sr)  was named among the  World’s 16 Greatest Icons across all Sports . He was amongst the few who took Olympic movement to newer heights, similar to what he said on  “Walk the Talk”  with Mr. Shekhar Gupta, "It is really special for someone to experience your team winning & your national flag is going higher & higher in the sky." Being a sports fanatic & a keen follower, we often come across weird stories & instances that an athlete shares about him/her or their team members. One of the strongholds of Late. Balbir Singh (Sr) was that he was obsessed with hockey - because of the history he has with the sport, and also because his father was obsessed with the National Flag  [Source:  Hindustan Times ] .   The obsession, which the athletes & sports management professional like to call it th...

As citizens, we often realize the change in our routines pretty quickly and adapt to it quite well. No doubt, this COVID-19 pandemic has done a considerable amount of damage to the psyche of a normal individual as it has done to the economies around the world. Statistics show, more & more people are tested +ve for COVID-19, no. of deaths are also increasing day by day [COVID-2019 situation reports] . But, how can the “lockdown” help in effective grassroots development in Sports? By Antriksh Jaiswal & Hitesh Mangtani . The global economies are hit hard by this healthcare disaster and sportswriters across the world have written extensively on how this is impacting sports across the globe. They have deliberately pointed out the gloom-ridden impact of what experts have termed as a deadly virus. Not to miss the suspension of sporting events of national and international importance. Now try & recollect instances from the past, Sports has been the savior f...

Source: Symbiosis School of Sports Sciences (SSSS) | Institutional Social Responsibility (ISR) 2019-2020 | Clicked by SSSS Social Media Team. Cramming to challenge the Challenges .  Fred Devito (Juma, N. 2019), “If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you.” Implementing change is the toughest part in any system, and when it comes to our own lives, we (humans) are highly reluctant towards changing ourselves whether that points us towards effectiveness to achieve our objectives in order to fulfill the needs and wants. It is easier to point out the changes in others or the flaws in the process for further enhancement or defects in that particular process, but it is never easy to self-analyze and judge what we have done or what possibly went wrong from our end, is it? Especially in Sports, it is very necessary for the athletes to rapidly adapt to situations, rules & regulations, support staff, coaches, family difficulties and what not. In other words, a...