Sporting disgrace of the highest order
Updated On: 23 October, 2013 07:30 AM IST | | MiD DAY Correspondent
The squalid conditions that Sandeep Tulsi Yadav, a World Championships bronze medal-winning wrestler, and Narsingh Yadav, the city's only representative at the London Olympics, are being forced to endure at Sports Authority of India's Kandivli campus (MiD DAY Oct 22) shows the kind of sporting sensitivity our administrators possess
The squalid conditions that Sandeep Tulsi Yadav, a World Championships bronze medal-winning wrestler, and Narsingh Yadav, the city’s only representative at the London Olympics, are being forced to endure at Sports Authority of India’s Kandivli campus (MiD DAY Oct 22) shows the kind of sporting sensitivity our administrators possess.u00a0
But this is not exactly unexpected considering what Lalit Bhanot, the 2010 Commonwealth Games’ official spokesperson had said in defence of the paan-stained, messy rooms at the Games Village. “Everyone,” he said, “has different standards about cleanliness. The Westerners have different standards, we have different standards.”
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