Webinar on 'Tokyo Olympics 2020 India's Journey and Expectations' held
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, July 03 2021:
National Sports University (NSU), Manipur, organised a National webinar on 'Tokyo Olympics 2020- India's Journey and Expectations' today.
A press release issued by the Registrar of NSU Manipur informed that the webinar was inaugurated by Padma Bhushan and Dronacharya Awardee P Gopichand as chief guest and it was presided by RC Mishra, IAS (Retd) and Vice-Chancellor of National Sports University and it was attended by 746 participants.
Speaking on the occasion, P Gopichand appreciated and thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju for their historical and passionate efforts to facilitate diverse needs of Indian Athletes who are going to participate in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
He also expressed his hope that this Olympics will be memorable for India and the athletes will return with a big haul of medals.
He also emphasised the importance of improving grassroots coaching and training for aspiring athletes.
RC Mishra while sharing views on India's journey and our expectations from Tokyo, highlighted the efforts of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports to make Prime Minister vision of using "Sports as a great means of national integration, reality, and to promote excellence in sports that enhance the sense of achievement, national pride and patriotism".
He also emphasised that India should host Olympics in 2036 or 2040 and said that this single decision alone will transform India's sporting landscape and India can take a quantum jump in spreading sporting culture, developing sporting infrastructure and above all in achieving all round excellence in sports performance.
He also expressed hope that Indian athletes will set a new record in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
While stressing on the importance of the role played by higher educational institutes in preparing world-class athletes in developed countries, he suggested that National Sports University can lead the joint efforts in developing curriculum for schools or providing high-quality research to the coaches, athletes, sports scientists, and administrators.
Captain of 1980 Olympics Gold medal winner Indian Hockey team V Bhaskaran, World Championship medallist and former Olympian long jumper Anju Bobby George, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Awardee N Kunjarani Devi and Deputy Chair of National CoachingAcademy, Malaysia Dr Lim Boon Hooi were also present during the inaugural ceremony as special guests.
During the technical sessions, President of Hockey India Gyanendro Ningombam, Former Regional Director of SAI Guwahati Dr Subhash Basumatary, Dronacharya Awardee Coach Nagapuri Ramesh, Former member of Indian Football team Gouramangi Singh, former Secretary (Sports) AIU Dr Gurdeep Singh, former Vice-Chancellor of Swarnim Gujarat Sports University Dr Jatin Soni, Pro Vice-Chancellor of Manav Rachna Prof GL Khanna, and Sports Psychologist for Olympians Sanjana Kiran shared their opinions on various sub-themes of the webinar The national webinar was organized with the technical support provided by the Physical Foundation of India (PEFI) .