Is there an unwarranted discrimination between Olympic and non-Olympic sports? Well, multiple world champion Pankaj Advani certainly seems to think so and it is not too difficult to see why.


Pankaj Advani recently said that India can improve in the world of sports only if all disciplines are treated at par

Government support, funding and focus are today concentrated on Olympic sports and it tends to dish out treatment which, while not exactly step-motherly, falls short of the ideal to sports which do not figure in the Olympics.

There is little doubt that the four-year extravaganza carries huge prestige and honour to the athletes who win a medal of whatever hue. This is because they prove to the world that they can run faster, jump higher or are stronger than the best in the world. Over time, the Olympic motto of citius, altius and fortius, has been extended to sports that bear scant relation to those three words.