Lucknow, July 27, 2012: ‘Saharasri’ Subrata Roy Sahara, Managing Worker & Chairman of
Sahara India Pariwar, a major business conglomerate and prime promoter &
patron of sports in India, was invited by the Indian Contingent’s Committee at Olympics
Games Village at Olympic Park, London, prior to the start of the one of the
world’s biggest sports extravaganza, to motivate the Indian sportspersons. He
met the Indian sportspersons of various disciplines including boxing,
wrestling, shooting, archery, hockey, tennis, etc. and gave a motivational
session conveyed his heartiest wishes to the Indian sportsperson in a form of a
short speech to motivate them to perform their best. The contingent was also
shown a motivational film produced by Sahara India Pariwar. The CDs of the
motivational film were also given to all the Indian sportspersons in the
Olympics Games Village.
‘Saharasri’ Subrata Roy Sahara,
Managing Worker & Chairman, Sahara India Pariwar, said, “Apart from being a celebration of sports, Olympics is
also a battle. With the mood of celebration, enthusiasm and zeal, one should
participate in this battle. The scope of winning in this battle emanates from
the fact when one puts its life’s best performance without any pressure of
winning medals. What I have experienced in my life is that one should leave the
fruits of success to the Almighty and one should also remember that the
Almighty blesses only those people who deliver their best. Hence, you should
perform your best.” In the end he said, “Being an elder to you, I convey my
Aashirwaad to all of you for success.”
Besides, Sahara had earlier announced that it will
award 5 kg medal of pure gold to the Indian sportsmen winning gold medals, 3 kg
medal of pure gold to silver medalists and 2 Kg medal of pure gold to the
bronze medalists, each, in the London Olympics 2012. For the team sports, each
player of team winning gold medal will get 1 kg gold each, players of team
winning silver medal will get 600 grams of gold each and players of team
winning bronze medal will get 400 grams of gold each.
Sahara India Pariwar has adopted Indian Boxing, Wrestling,
Archery, Shooting, Track & Field and Tennis covering support of a total of
101 sportsmen in these 6 games who are potential medal winners, until after
London Olympics 2012. For the upcoming London Olympics 2012, a total of 32
Indian Sportsmen that are supported by Sahara India Pariwar, belonging to
various sports disciplines, have qualified for the London Olympics 2012. Out of
these qualified 32 sportspersons, 5 belong to Wrestling, 8 are from Boxing, 11
from Shooting, 6 from Archery, 1 belong to Athletics and 1 from Tennis.
The sponsor of Indian Cricket and Hockey (Men & Women National
and Junior Hockey Teams), Sahara Group under its company, Sahara Adventure
Sports Limited, owns the Pune IPL team and co-owns the Sahara Force India
Formula 1 Team. Apart from this, it has extended support to the Indian
Volleyball by sponsoring the Men’s National Teams (Senior & Junior) for a
span of 4 years till 2016.
ABOUT SAHARA INDIA PARIWAR
Sahara India Pariwar is a
major business conglomerate in India with operations in multiple sectors,
including financial services, life insurance, mutual funds, housing
finance, infrastructure & housing,
print and television news media, entertainment channels, cinema production,
consumer merchandise retail, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, sports,
and information technology.
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