Chennai: Youthink Foundation and Sunshine Senior Secondary School co-hosted a felicitation and interaction of Indian players who have been selected to participate in the Tokyo Olympics.
Among the special guests at the event were the director of Sunshine Senior Secondary School and the daughter of Chief Minister M K Stalin, Senthamarai Sabarisan, the founder of Youthink Foundation Abdul Gani and the general secretary of the Indian Olympic Association, Rajiv Mehta.
Dutee Chand, the sprinter; C A Bhavani Devi, the fencer, Sharath Kamal and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, the table tennis players; Varun Thakkar and K C Ganapathy, the sailor duo, Sajan Prakash, the swimmer were the Olympian panellists who interacted with students.
It was followed by a question and answer session with the Olympians and the students in the 12th grade at Sunshine Senior Secondary School. The Indian Olympians, who answered the students’ questions at the time, assured the youngsters that they could achieve in the sport if they worked hard and put in their effort.
Further, they demanded that all schools should give encouragement and training to the students on sports as much as they give importance to education.