Greatness cannot be measured only on Olympic showing: Advani

Mumbai, Mar 20:
Ace cuiest Pankaj Advani believes the greatness of athletes cannot be solely measured on their performance in quadrennial events like the Olympics.
“What I feel is that our perception of sport… Or rather we measure sporting greatness based on our performance in four years, that I find very difficult to understand and I feel that needs to be changed,” Pankaj said when asked whether he feels frustrated that both snooker and billiards are not in the Olympics.
“Just because a sport is not in the Olympics, just because our sport is in not in the Olympics, doesn’t mean we are working less harder than others,” the 16-time World Billiards and Snooker Champion said.
He was speaking before the Times of India Sports Awards scheduled to be held this evening in suburban Sahar.
“Whether a sport is in the Olympics or not, it still requires skill, hard-work, mental toughness, and also the fact that we are putting our focus on quadrennial events where is the consistency, today an athlete may win tournament after tournament year after year, may win 3 World Titles in four years, but when it comes to Olympics, that person may not come close to a medal , so our sporting greatness or our sporting performance cannot be defined by what we do in once four years and that for me is something we need to change our perception on,” explained Advani. (PTI)

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