Every year Laureas Sports awards are given to fellicitate the best happening in sports(its sports and not cricket). This year the ceremony was in Abu Dhabi. I was least amazed that none of the cricketing greats were even nominated among different categories. Roger federer has been consecutively awarded the best sports person for two years. Usain bolt took the honours this time around.
Sachin with his double century made news only in the subcontinent as we have cricket culture and not sports culture. Sports have never been our strength with poor infrastructure and politicization of sports personnel. Hockey being our so called national sports, we dont even have enough hockey astro turfs in our country. Netherlands a country of ths size of gujarat has more hockey turfs than we in India have...
Vancouver winter olympics were a sight to watch where our asian country like china,korea and japan brought honour and prestige to their own country. There is no doubt that we have plethora of such talents but not ready to bring it beyond cricket.
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