The Minister of Sports Anurag Thakur said that Indian universities must give us Olympians if the country must improve the performance of the Tokyo game at the future Olympics.
“We need to involve the university.
The University must be our oasis of our Olympians.
If you look globally, see Stanford, they won 26 medals this time …
at the last Olympics in Rio, they won around 27 medals.
So we need to learn from They.
And that’s why Modi’s Prime Minister started a university sports game under the Khelo India program, “said Thakur times now Rahul Shivshankar.
“One country-one sport, one corporate sport.
Why isn’t one sports district too? We really need to work that way.
You see small countries and even universities.
They are working on certain sports and they put it Their energy, money, and infrastructure to win medals in their respective regions.
So India also needs to understand which they can do well, “Thakur added.
Thakur said the company’s house had to advance and adopt Olympic sports.
“We need to involve more corporations into this.
We need to hold a more responsible sports federation and make sports federations more professional in their work and in their approach too.
So when we ask the corporate sector to be involved, every company must adopt one Olympic discipline And support it with their best abilities in the district, state, whatever level they can …
We need a company and business leader to think of sports, if we want our nation to bring sports and sportsmen far more seriously.
“Give an example of a cricket board ( BCCI) Thakur said: “We created a lot of infrastructure in cricket, where we now have many academies, stadiums.
There is no single rupee spent by any government; this has been made by BCCI.” We can do the same as involving more Many corporations into this; They can create infrastructure.
Globally, you have seen that the stadium was built by many companies.
They built it, they had them and gave it to various federations to run it.
It can be done here.
City Corporations can also do it, like BMC can move forward for example.
“Thakur said India had to look among the top 25 countries at the Olympics 2028.” When we celebrate the 75th year independence year, let’s also target for the next 25 years where we want to reach the short term.
We must have short term, middle and long-term goals.
As far as the 2028 Olympics, India must be seen among the top 25 countries and for the next few years, we must target to be the top 10 countries in the world.
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The University must be our oasis of Olympians: Minister of Sports
