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India need more people to take up sport for bigger Olympic success: Bindra
Updated On: 30 November, 2023 05:28 PM IST | Bengaluru | PTI
Bindra, the 2008 Beijing Olympics gold medallist in the 10m air rifle, added that India was at a juncture where sport must become a mass movement now. "The by-product of that hopefully will be that more people will be involved in sport. So I believe that the shift in perspective needs to happen and it needs to happen now"
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Abhinav Bindra (Pic: File Pic)
Abhinav Bindra reckons that investing in just elite athletes will not make India a sporting superpower and if the country aspires to take its medals tally to double digits in the Olympics, more people need to enter the playing arenas and sports should not be looked at from the narrow prism of high performance.
India`s top athletes have been receiving tremendous financial support from the government and corporate houses, of late, and the results have only gotten better as elite athletes get to train abroad and they now work with the best support staff.
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