Cricket and Then Some | Sports
India's exploits in cricket were inarguable, but its successes in other sports were sporadic. Tokyo 2020 will be an opportunity to set that record straight.
Very rarely has it happened in a country's history that a decade starts as an opportunity and also ends as one. We blew the opportunity the Commonwealth Games (CWG) offered in 2010, and it is critical for the future of Indian Olympic sport that we make full use of Tokyo 2020 to bring things back on track. India, for the record, won 101 medals at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi. Yet what people remember about the Games is a story of mismanagement; it is corruption that takes centre stage in public memory.
The fact that India won three medals at the Beijing Games in 2008 in its traditionally strong disciplines-shooting, boxing and wrestling-meant that a real national sporting
