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Monthly Archives: October 2008
The alienation of sport
Pune: I’m at the World Juniors. The stadium, situated within a ‘sports city’, is stunning, apparently one of the best exclusive-badminton facilities in the world. As with all other such sport cities, this too is located on the outskirts of Pune city. Such sporting facilities have their problems — they are too far and too initmidating to attract the average man on the street. Continue reading
The Ninasam example
The evidence thus far has been that athletes in non-elitist sports (athletics, wrestling, boxing, football) mostly hail from non-urban areas, but have to relocate to cities to pursue the sport. The question is: can rural or semi-urban areas support sport without having to depend on urban funding?
But perhaps it’s time to look for examples outside sport. Continue reading
Chetan knocks out Sony!
Chetan Anand scored the biggest victory of his career with a straight-sets win over Indonesian world no.5 Sony Dwi Kuncoro at the Danish Open Super Series. Continue reading
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