The vanishing stars of MGU: A crisis in Kerala’s athletic talent pool
2 weeks, 4 days ago

The vanishing stars of MGU: A crisis in Kerala’s athletic talent pool

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Shiny Wilson still sweats when she talks about Mahatma Gandhi University’s debut in the all-India varsities athletics championship in 1983-84. The Kottayam-based university had just come in being then and Shiny ran six events, winning three golds, and played a big role in MGU winning the women’s team championship that year. “And the 400m was held just 20 minutes after the 1500m final.” Shiny, at Pala’s Alphonsa College then, went on to become the first female Indian track athlete to enter the Olympics semifinal at Los Angeles 1984, in her favourite 800m where she also won Asian titles. “It’s a problem getting quality athletes in Kerala, getting jobs is not easy here and youngsters try to go abroad after completing plus two,” said Thankachan Mathew, the athletics coach at Alphonsa College, the MGU women’s champion. And the State Government’s support for athletes is less now, funds don’t come on time and sports hostel athletes don’t get kits.” Binu George Varghese, Dean and Director, MGU’s School of Physical Education and Sports Sciences, brought in another angle.

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