Satya Vardhan Singh

In   1985 the Indian Olympic Association recognized the Taekwondo Federation of India &  Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports granted it official recognition in the year 1988. Taekwondo as a sport was rapidly growing like anything, any game in India with the right talents but greed, the essence of business started emerging in this sport.  Now when in the year 2019 District Taekwondo Association Varanasi started conducting Black Belt Test for a total payable price of Rs. 1857 /- only then it marked many questions on the system. People now stated think of the 90's time when they use to pay Rs. 5000/- for the same and value of Rs 5000/- use to really huge then what is used to be nowadays. In the '90s people used to wait for at least a minimum of 2 years time to get their black belt once they appear for it and they are declared passed. It can be easily calculated when 100s of athletes are giving black belt exams what kind of revenue used to be received. This has been the ...

 When we say sports business then we think of revenue or profit from various sports leagues, sports goods, and services, or sports equipment but in the biggest democratic country do we ever think in our country a business of making athletes fool, pocketing money from athletes by making fake promises to athletes, selling dreams to athletes and their parents.    Yes, this is true this is the new trend in the sports business in our country, I am not talking about this practice in British Era but about the present situation.  In our country continuously our athletes are been exploited in sports. Taekwondo one of the beautiful Olympic sport is one of the sports in our country where we are having continuous scams, athletes' exploitation. Even people at a higher level in Taekwondo are bypassing the court by doing the same thing in a different way.  The article is self-explanatory, salute to Mr. Vinayak the journalist who brought this in front of everyone in the nation,...