Can We Please Stop Counting Medals?
Indian swimming’s medal obsession at the sub-junior level rewards a small handful of swimmers and leaves hundreds of equally hardworking kids feeling like they failed. A swimming parent’s case for celebrating personal bests over podiums.
The Level Pool: Why Mandatory Trials Are the Ordinary Swimmer’s Best Protection
Indian competitive swimming has a class structure. The SFI mandatory trials rule is blunt and imperfect — but it is the ordinary swimmer’s best guarantee that selection will require performance on equal ground, not just a fast time from a facility most Indian families will never see.