Ep 238: The State of Indian Sport
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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I'd Rather Concentrate on Academics Than on Coaching
There are many federations where at best they hold the nationals, and that's once a year. If you can only simp bring more competitions at the junior level, lot of the other stuff solves itself. You'll have academies that pick up coaches that get interested. But you have to build a demand for coaching and micro organizations to grow around sport. And one we cannot avoid is the issue of age fraud. In india, one of the largest issues which turn so many parents away is age cheating. That's across all sports. Talk about cricket or about football. I don't think there's a sport that hasn't been touched by age fraud,. People falsifying their age.
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