India's wait for its second World Athletics Championship medal turned out to be even longer than for its second Olympic individual gold, and coincidentally it's the same person who has broken both the 19-year and 13-year droughts. Unless we nurture future athletes by providing them the best of training facilities and international exposure less the red tape, our medals shall come rarely and far between. Also politicians should be totally kept out of sports. Olympic bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain's twitter rant against her coach not being allowed to train her citing politics should be an eye opener as to how these netas destroy everything they put their hands to. In a billion plus country riven apart by strife, sports persons are the only credible role models and unfortunately we are too short of them. Besides worrying about who would win the 2024 general elections we should focus more on where to find the next Neeraj Chopra, there could be one in the neighbouring village hurling the javelin beyond 90 mts, we have to find them and give them wings.
