{"id":9238,"date":"2012-08-16T14:43:55","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T14:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=9238"},"modified":"2012-08-16T14:43:55","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T14:43:55","slug":"narang-wants-his-medal-to-go-on-nationwide-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=9238","title":{"rendered":"Narang wants his medal to go on nationwide tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/00%20gagan.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"gagan\" width=\"200\" style=\"margin: 6px; float: left;\" \/>New Delhi:<\/strong> Ace Indian shooter Gagan Narang wants his London Olympics bronze medal to go on a nationwide tour as he believes the medal belongs to the country and it also would inspire the next generation to embrace the sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want my medal to travel across the country so that it inspires the coming generation,\u201d Gagn said during a felicitation function organised by Manav Rachna International University.<\/p>\n<p>Narang who won the bronze medal in the 10 m Air Rifle event at the recently concluded Olympics wants the whole nation to touch and see the medal..<\/p>\n<p>Idea of putting his medal on the display struck while he read the Olympic motto which said \u201cInspire A Generation.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was in the bus when I read the Olympic motto which said Inspire A Generation. So I want the entire population to see and touch my medal. The medal belongs to the whole nation and I want to inspire,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The 29 year old shooter however has not thought of a plan as to how to go about it but then said that he would soon chalk out a plan on that.<\/p>\n<p>Narang\u2019s family had to sell a plot of land during Gagan\u2019s early shooting days to buy a good rifle and he agreed to the fact that shooting is a \u2018class\u2019 sport but then wants to change it into a \u2018mass\u2019 sport. <\/p>\n<p>The Khel Ratna awardee who pioneers the Gun for Glory academy in Pune said that it was very necessary for the sport have good exposure at the grass-root level as that would help the sport to develop in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Giving a special mention to Gun for Glory academy and the shooting range at the Manav Rachna he said these kinds of facilities is the need of the hour for the game and he would involve himself with such kind of initiatives as far as possible to take the game to its zenith.<\/p>\n<p>Answering the stereotype question of why only six medals when India has a population of 1.2 billion he said, \u201cIndia does not have a sporting culture. If we take China\u2019s example they end up with so many medals because they have sports deep rooted in their culture. In order to win more medals we would require 100 Sushil Kumar or 100 Vijender Singh. We need to have many options and develop and make the competition so fierce amongst ourselves that an athlete who is ranked 5th or 6th in the country can also come back with medal,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe initiative (to produce champions) has to start from schools and a sport culture has to be imbibed. We need more corporate support and if the system supports, then the road becomes a lot easier and as a player one can then pursue their targets without bothering about anything,\u201d said Narang.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Samikshan Dutta Choudhury<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Indian Sports News Network<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Ace Indian shooter Gagan Narang wants his London Olympics bronze medal to go on a nationwide tour as he believes the medal belongs to the country and it also would inspire the next generation to embrace the sport. &#8220;I want my medal to travel across the country so that it inspires the coming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[355,280],"class_list":["post-9238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-latest","tag-gagan-narang","tag-london-olympics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Narang wants his medal to go on nationwide tour - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; 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