Neeraj Chopra who is only second individual gold medalist at the Olympics after shooter Abhinav Bindra. Neeraj before won a silver in Paris already won a javelin gold in Tokyo Olympic. In India balancing sports along with education is a vast duty in India. While a some excel, the higher percentage of individuals has to oblation one for the other. Tokyo Olympic champion Javelin ace Neeraj Chopra suggested both can managed equally in a correct way.
In more than 1.4 billon people of India, people are doing well in studies and make a steady career is more welcoming compare to chasing a career in sports. There are causes for it as one necessaries to enter a proper ecosystem to excel along with tireless and dedication to make a name for himself in a specific discipline in sports.
Neeraj Chopra said to Lallantop “If you talk about studies and sports, I feel both can be managed equally. The biggest example of this are the athletes from United States of America.
Tokyo Olympics gold medalist added “At the Olympics, the United States of America team comprises mostly student athletes from universities and win more medals than others. I think in India, the schools and universities should adopt the same and once integrated, India will see a big rise in sports,”
In Indian household Cricket is work shipped as God but as concerned to non-cricket sports, India till now lag behind by a big gap as compared to other Asian or European countries. Having said that, things have changed for better in the past 10 years.
For securing a collective 13 Olympic medals in between 2000 to 2016, India have come a long way. Out of 13 medals 7 came in Tokyo Olympics 2020 and 6 in Paris Olympics 2024 in the last two editions of Olympics.
Why sports is important?
According to Neeraj Chopra, sports is not only about winning medals at Olympics, but its much more than that. “Playing sports doesn’t only mean, ‘go and win medals at Olympics’.
Haryana lad who captured a silver in Paris Olympics last year told ” Things have changed in our country now. Even COVID also taught us that we need to play sports to keep ourselves physically fit, boost our immune system,”
