What Is Wrong with Indian Sports and Its Authorities?
“,”body”:” For me, India at Beijing Olympics is not all about the medals that we managed to get this time. When India is poised to make a record haul in the Olympics,there are other stories that we tend to forget in the ensuing euphoria and one of them is Monika Devi’s.\n In every article that is churned out by the press, she is referred to as a medal hope and if something was to happen, it could have been this Olympics. Unfortunately the sports authorities of India never allowed her to participate in the Beijing Olympics, framing false allegations of doping.\nThough this controversy has conjured up a vile and vicious regionalistic hue, it is of no wonder that it happened so.\nThe north-eastern states are a power house in Indian sports except cricket and this very reason makes me admire them. Manipur; a small state among the seven-north eastern states have produced weightlifters, archers and footballers galore. \nThe Indian system has unfortunately failed to reward them for any of thes
