Every year, India celebrates National Sports Day on August 29 and has been observing since 2012. The day was chosen to honour the hockey hero Major Dhyan Chand whose birth anniversary falls on this day. The celebration is an opportunity to create awareness about the importance of sporting activities in everyday life and focus on fitness and health. One of the most coveted awards for sports is the Major Dhyan Chand Award, the highest award for lifetime achievement in sports in India. Sport is a great equaliser, bringing the people in the community together. The pride associated with doing well brings discipline to the individual. Sport and physical activity are essential to staying fit and healthy. Physical activity improves mental health, helps beat negative thoughts, lowers stress and depression, and strengthens the immune system. In celebrating the achievements of legends like the legendary Dhyan Chand, one should recall the determination and challenging work they put in by him to achieve success. National Sports Day is also an occasion to revise and encourage indigenous sports, like Kho Kho, Kabaddi, and Marble games. Practising them revives the connection with our heritage.
Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, it has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination.
Nelson Mandela
Every year, India celebrates National Sports Day on August 29, observed since 2012. The day was chosen to honour the hockey legend Major Dhyan Chand whose birth anniversary falls on this day. The celebration is an opportunity to create awareness about the importance of sporting activities in everyday life and focus on fitness and health.
Major Dhyan Chand was a legend in Indian and international hockey. His contributions won gold medals in hockey in the Olympics for India (1928, 1932 and 1936). In a career spanning between 1926-1949, it is reported that he scored 570 goals. One of the most coveted and the highest award for lifetime achievement in sports and games in India is named after him, Major Dhyan Chand Award.
Activities relating to sports and Physical Education are essential for impactful human resource development. When you excel in sports and sense of achievement evokes a sense of pride and internal satisfaction. Participation in sports helps promote good health and an opportunity to develop comradeship and aid in overall personality development.
Sports are important to staying fit and healthy. Sport is a great equaliser, bringing the people in the community together. The pride associated with doing well brings discipline to the individual. Physical activity improves mental health, helps beat negative thoughts, lowers stress and depression, and strengthens the immune system.
National Sports Day is also an occasion to revise and encourage indigenous sports, like Kho Kho, Kabaddi, and Marble games. Practising them revives the connection with our heritage.
In celebrating the achievements of legends like the legendary Dhyan Chand, one should recall the determination and challenging work they put in by him to achieve success.
The joy and happiness in seeing the sportsperson’s success reflect all of us being connected. If not anything, do your regular walk and exercise, it helps in ensuring good health.
When people throw stones at you, you turn them into milestones.
Sachin Tendulkar
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