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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 ...

Who is accountable for an athlete’s behavior on & off the field?

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A blessing or blight: How can COVID-19 help in effective understanding of grassroots development in Sports?

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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...

BWF’s futuristic approach & accession planning for global sports development.

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Source: https://corporate.bwfbadminton.com/about/ Considerably one of the fastest sport Badminton, has a history of its own. A game invented in India (back then British India) which was popular amongst only emigrant officers of the British India Army. In the early days Badminton was known as Poona or Poonah, named after the Garrison Town of Poona (now Pune). Some say that the first draft was in Garrison Town of Poona and others say that the rules were first drafted back in Badminton (country estate), from which the game derives its name. In the next 6-Olympics events, Atlanta (1996), Sydney (2000), Athens (2004), Beijing (2008), London (2012), and Rio (2016) badminton made a considerable impact with substantial development in terms of viewership, number of individuals being named World Champions, significant increase in no. of players associating with the sport in different regions of 193 global members. In 2005, International Badminton Federation was renamed t...

Long Term Athlete Development (LTAD) Model, Stage 5 'Train to Compete'

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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...