Sunday, May 02, 2004
Accountability of sports administrators
The maverick KPSGill continues to hold Indian hockey to ransom. And the rascal is putting in jeopardy Indian hokey's Olympic dreams :-( My blood boils when ppl like him get away with dropping senior players and also make statements that they cannot play continuosly for 70 min. As Baljit Singh Saini stated in his rejoinder, there is no basis on which Gill can make such conclusions.
The most irritating part in this is that these officials have aboslutely no accountability. If with this "experimental' side, if India fares poorly in Olympics, will Mr.Gill be held accountable and asked to step down??? As Harsha Bhogle said in an article in IE, accountability by cricket administrators is really needed now, esp with big bucks coming into games like cricket and hockey.
What India hockey needs today is a rebellion of the kind Prakash Padukone did in 1997 for Indian badminton. Dhanraj Pillay - with all the publicity he has - is the right person, although I'm not sure how much support he wud recieve from the other players. Hope thingz will turn for better for Indian hockey.
Let knwoledge come from all directions.
- BhagavadGita
The maverick KPSGill continues to hold Indian hockey to ransom. And the rascal is putting in jeopardy Indian hokey's Olympic dreams :-( My blood boils when ppl like him get away with dropping senior players and also make statements that they cannot play continuosly for 70 min. As Baljit Singh Saini stated in his rejoinder, there is no basis on which Gill can make such conclusions.
The most irritating part in this is that these officials have aboslutely no accountability. If with this "experimental' side, if India fares poorly in Olympics, will Mr.Gill be held accountable and asked to step down??? As Harsha Bhogle said in an article in IE, accountability by cricket administrators is really needed now, esp with big bucks coming into games like cricket and hockey.
What India hockey needs today is a rebellion of the kind Prakash Padukone did in 1997 for Indian badminton. Dhanraj Pillay - with all the publicity he has - is the right person, although I'm not sure how much support he wud recieve from the other players. Hope thingz will turn for better for Indian hockey.
Let knwoledge come from all directions.
- BhagavadGita
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