NEW DELHI: Double Paris Olympic medalist Manu Bhaker’s father Ram Kishan Bhaker launched a scathing assault on the government after his daughter was ignored for this 12 months’s Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna awards.
He expressed remorse over encouraging his daughter to pursue a profession in sports and suggested different dad and mom to steer their youngsters away from Olympic sports. Instead, he urged specializing in training to assist them develop into IAS or IPS officers, enabling them to have authority over 1000’s of athletes.
“It is also my fault that I encouraged Manu into sports. To the entire country’s parents, I would like to say don’t get your kids into sports but if you need money then get them into cricket and if you need power then make them IAS/ IPS or UPSC aspirants,” he advised PTI.
“They are talking about hosting the 2036 Olympics but where are you going to get them from when you discourage them like this. As a parent, I would like to tell other parents not to get their kids into an Olympic sport, get them educated instead when they become IAS/ IPS then they will have command over lakhs of players on who should get the Khel Ratna,” he added.
In August, Manu turned impartial India’s first athlete to win two medals in a single version of the Olympics with her bronze-profitable present within the 10m air pistol particular person and 10m air pistol combined group occasions.
