{"id":155975,"date":"2021-12-24T19:16:13","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T13:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=155975"},"modified":"2021-12-24T19:18:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T13:48:08","slug":"on-sports-culture-every-sportsperson-is-a-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/on-sports-culture-every-sportsperson-is-a-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"On Sports Culture – Every sportsperson is a champion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

News: \u00a0<\/strong>The belief that unless you are winning, you are not a champion is a fallacy. The very fact of participating in sport makes you a champion, and it\u2019s time to recognize that.<\/p>\n

Over the last decade, India\u2019s sporting culture has seen tremendous improvement in terms of<\/p>\n

-Parental support,<\/p>\n

-The expansion of government and corporate programs such as Khelo India, Fit India, and TOPS,<\/p>\n

-The overall social acceptance of sports as a career.<\/p>\n

However, there is a lack of attention towards people who are not able to succeed in sports even after giving their best hard work.<\/p>\n

The complete lack of definition about what makes a successful sports career further exacerbates this situation.<\/p>\n

How Success in academic is different from Success in Sports?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Sports\u2019 definition of \u201csuccess\u201d is largely borrowed from academia. In academics, almost everyone succeeds eventually.<\/p>\n

Whereas, In sports, it\u2019s the reverse. This eventually leaves less than 5 percent of those entering sport as good enough to be termed a \u201csuccess\u201d. These are people who win medals at the Olympics, World Championships, World Cups, etc.<\/p>\n

While others end up being categorized as \u201cfailures\u201d and exit the sport at some stage or the other. Adding to their miseries, the lack of viable post-playing career options as a safety net makes their exit more painful.<\/p>\n

Why do we need to look at education and sport from different lenses?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Firstly, <\/strong>in school\/education, the number of successful\/promoted\/graduated\/pass students is very high. Whereas in sports, medals are the sole benchmarks of success. Out of many finalists, only one will emerge as the winner.<\/p>\n

Secondly,<\/strong> in education, people move on from board results. Whereas, in sport, people leave when they actually fail.<\/p>\n

Thirdly<\/strong>, institutions have the support of positive, constructive alumni. But in sport, the scenario is like an organization that has to fire people and the attitude of the people\/players is like employees who are laid off.<\/p>\n

What needs to be done?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

It is important to celebrate the stories of, 95% of people, who have taken successful careers outside sports. Unless these stories are celebrated like our Olympic and world champions, we will be missing out and losing huge human potential.<\/p>\n

What is the way forward?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Sport gives us values for life, be it lessons about \u201cfailure\u201d or the foundation for our health or the fun and re-creation.<\/p>\n

It teaches discipline, the attitude of hard work, awareness and intelligence, planning, and teamwork.<\/p>\n

These benefits in physical and cognitive areas should encourage each one of us to play sport.<\/p>\n

The positives of sport are immense, but the abnormality discussed above needs to be challenged to have a sustained model for growth in our country.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong> This post is based on the article \u201cEvery sportsperson is a champion\u201d<\/strong> published in Indian Express <\/strong>on 24th \u00a0\u00a0Dec<\/strong> 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News: \u00a0The belief that unless you are winning, you are not a champion is a fallacy. The very fact of participating in sport makes you a champion, and it\u2019s time to recognize that. Over the last decade, India\u2019s sporting culture has seen tremendous improvement in terms of -Parental support, -The expansion of government and corporate… Continue reading On Sports Culture – Every sportsperson is a champion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10500],"class_list":["post-155975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700784579,"cached_date":1704671403},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}