Chasing medals, ignoring history
Rupinder SinghNew Delhi, March 6 -- In a year when the sporting calendar is dominated by the looming spectacle of the Commonwealth Games and the Asian Games, India's sporting establishment is busy doing what it does best: counting medals before they are even won. Committee rooms buzz with projections, spreadsheets fill with hopeful tallies, and administrators debate whether the country will return home with a haul big enough to declare "progress."But amid all that arithmetic, a far more uncomfortable question lingers: Is anyone thinking about breaking records?Not global ones, not even continental ones, just India's own records. If they were, someone might notice that a number of national athletics records have been gathering dust for decade...
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