Paddy Upton warns against extended stay in bio-bubble

Paddy Upton said sports’ governing bodies are not doing enough research to address the issue.

Former India mental conditioning coach Paddy Upton on Friday implored sports bodies across the globe, including the BCCI, to conduct extensive studies and prevent athletes from developing mental illnesses due to extended stay in bio-secure bubbles.

Upton said sports’ governing bodies are not doing enough research to address the issue. “Because we haven’t done enough research to get feedback from different players-what were their unique challenges-we have all these medical people saying we can’t approve this drug and that drug until we done the trials, but have we gathered the research?

“There have been a lot of bio-bubble around the world but I haven’t seen a large-scale interventions where the ICC, badminton guys, football people or BCCI say lets do an extensive study to get feedback from players to understand the dynamics,” Upton said.

“I don’t think we have seen the fallout yet. There is a potential we will see more fallouts with more mental problems and illness because of extended bio-bubble. I think some of them are preventable but we are not doing all we can to prevent them, so we have to wait until that happens.”

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