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Beyond Medals and Leagues: India's Sports Crisis Lies in Vanishing Courts and Silent Athletes

MUMBAI — While India celebrates Olympic medals and franchise leagues, sports lawyers Aahna Mehrotra and Riya Rajkumar Sharma argue the nation's sporting future hangs on a far more mundane question: where will tomorrow's athletes play? In a revealing Bombay Sport Exchange episode, the legal duo dismantled the mythology of elite performance, exposing how crumbling infrastructure, urban space crises and institutional intimidation create invisible barriers long before talent reaches national camps.