Is Michael Phelps going Britney’s way?

Swimming sensation Michael Phelps was recently in news for smoking marijuana. A picture that claimed to have been taken in November 2008 at a party showed him smoking marijuana.Michael Phelps facing Three Months Ban after this incident. authorities have taken this move after realizing that how badly this incident can effect the young followers of Michael Phelps.



After hearing the news the first question comes in to mind is that is the over achievement in young age makes one vulnerable towards habits like drug addiction, alcoholism that almost every young achiever in world remains in news for any of these addiction.

There is no scarcity of examples if we start to count the names of achievers who became addict of some sort of drug or became alcoholic after achieving success in their young age. Michael Jackson, Mike Tyson, Britney Spears are the few names of our over achievers who got addicted in the past.

The Swiss tennis star Martina Hingis retired after found test positive for cocaine at Wimbledon in year 2007. A two years ban was also imposed on her. Although she denied all charges and claimed that she is absolutely innocent and said this after the incident “I've never taken drugs and I am 100 per cent innocent. The reason I have come out with this is because I do not want to have a fight with anti-doping authorities."

Same was the case with Diego Maradona. He was suspended from Italian league for 15 months after found test positive for cocaine use. He again found test positive in World Cup 1994 for ephedrine. But appreciating news is that he bucked the addiction and became national team coach in 2008.

However Michael Phelps apologized to his fans and admirers for this act and promised that this situation will not occur again in future. And all his admirers including me are optimistic that this was a unique incident and Phelps will fulfill his promise.

One way Improve sports ?

In America little boys wanted to play tennis and baseball and now they play near their house and at school. In Europe the same situation exists but the game is different this time it is football and tennis. But in India the situation is wholly changed here only one thing is high lightened - Cricket. That is not what we had ever dreamed off. As this required no infrastructure. School authorities take money on the name of sports. I never heard anybody saying that his or her school gave them the chance to play boxing, tennis, billiards, golf and even something else similar. They only gave chances for kho-kho and volleyball mostly. Did anyone heard of a basketball team for long. Oh sorry! even Indian basketball team. Of course no! would be the answer. If the sports are not so much recognized then how can we here about them and can we even sit still at our place. We must increase our demand for increasing infrastructure of sports.

Listening to the words of Billiards champion Pankaj Advani in the field of Improving sportswe confront various other possibilities. He said last weak that "School authorities must give chance to children to chose their sports. They must provide facilities for every sports and game. As, we all know that when someone think of 100% and starts the work can just reach an achievement of only 75%. So, raising the voice and being confident in regards to the requirements of sports can only make achieve something to people in need.