Author(s): Dr. Rajanna and Dr. Prasannakumar Shivasharanappa

Abstract:
Sports and games provide a common platform where sportspersons from different regions, professing different religion and faiths, speaking different languages, having different customs and traditions interact with each other in a harmonious congenial atmosphere. Players forget all their differences and emerge as a homogenous group. Such type of thinking, insight and mental approach can play positive role in nation building. Sports and games help in creating such understanding and can play a very decisive and pivotal role in bringing about national integration. Sports and games have been an integral part of Indian culture. The country has always admired and regarded its outstanding sportspersons as national heroes/heroines. These sportspersons have been the role models for younger generation who continued to inspire them towards the attainment of greater heights in chosen sporting endeavors. The current article highlights the physiological variables affecting the players.

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