India's Champions Deserve Better: The Urgent Case for Boosting Sports Budget

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Wed, 15 July 2026

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India's Champions Deserve Better: The Urgent Case for Boosting Sports Budget India’s Champions Deserve Better. A nation that celebrates medals should never leave its heroes standing on the roadside, pleading with an auto-rickshaw driver to carry the very equipment that made history possible. Just hours after winning Gold and creating national records, India’s athletes were forced to explain that their fragile pole vault equipment wouldn’t break during the ride home — because no official support arrived for them. While cricket enjoys unimaginable wealth and spotlight, countless athletes in athletics, MMA, and other sports continue fighting battles far beyond the field. Behind every medal is pain, sacrifice, injuries, hunger, discipline, and years of struggle. Yet many of India’s finest tale