 Hello everyone. Today, the Department of Mass Communication is going to interact with a few of the people and also some players who are playing for the ongoing Magdalene Olimpita. And now we have Sir Thimson Longomer, who is the sports coordinator of Tehtzo College. Sir, thank you for giving us your time. Please tell us about yourself. Okay, my name is Thimson Longomer and I'm recently the sports coordinator of Tehtzo College. And since the Magdalene Olimpita is coming up, so how is the preparation going on? Okay, the preparation is going quite well, but due to the time constraints, the preparation has become quite hectic. And due to the weather conditions for the past few days, there has been a lot of pressure to finish up at the certain given time. So, I hope we finish on the given time and we are putting the synthetic flooring at the passable court, which will be the first in Magdalene Olimpita. The players will be playing at the synthetic court for these upcoming Magdalene Olimpita and Paralympic Games. Well, that's a very good news for the athletes. So, do you have any message for the aspiring athletes? For the aspiring athletes, I think hard work and dedication should be the key to become a premier athlete. Okay, thank you so much. And now we have Sir Sinti. Thank you so much, Sir, for giving us your time. Please introduce yourself. Hello, my name is Sinti Longomer. I am the Executive Member of the Basketball Federation of India and I am also the Honorary Secretary of the Nagaland Basketball Association and also the President of the Mahpud District Basketball Association. Okay, so, Sir, how do you ensure that the basketball team in Nagaland is well developed? Okay, if I am not wrong, I think basketball as such and has picked up only in the last few years. I think we had hardly any appearance in national tournaments and that was one of the greatest disadvantages. But now, since the last few four years, I think we are making our participation in national tournaments, national championships visible. And that is very important because unless our team goes out and plays with other teams, teams from other states, it is very difficult for our players to improve themselves because they will always see better here. Unless they play with other teams, they will not have that space where they can improve. So that is one thing that I am trying to work on. It is not very easy because we need lots of resources for that. And as of now, we are getting just a very small amount from the youth resource. And so that is something that we need to work out. Another thing that I am looking at is development of coaches and technical officials because if, again, I am not wrong, I think there will be only two NIS coaches, basketball coaches in Nagaland. And that is very few. We have around 12 to 14 districts and we need more coaches. We have no BFI level referees. BFI, they have two level of referees. One is B level and the other is A level. And so we have zero in that. And so we need to work on that. So last year we sent two young men for a referee exam. Hopefully they will get through. I hope this year when we have the BFI exhibit meeting, I think the announcements regarding this qualification of referees will be made. I hope our two names are there. So that is the other thing. Then we also need a lot of coaching camps. For example, we need coaches from outside to come and then train our young players. And to that end, even now, I am thinking about a coaching camp maybe just before the North East Olympics next month. Hopefully we can have four or five coaches from Nagaland and a few others from the other states to come here. And hopefully, if BFI agrees, they will be trained by an international coach. And so that is what we are working out on. And so hopefully this will work out. We need more visibility. Like what you are doing now is very good for me and for basketball in Nagaland. Because people need to see that our players are playing basketball. And the administrators who are there at the level of administration in basketball are also working. And so that is what I want others to see. If people see that we are playing basketball, we are organizing tournaments, then young people will start taking up this game. Already within these few years, I can see that almost all the corners of the map, young people are starting to play basketball. And so that is a very good trend that is coming up. Another thing is we need money. We need corporates to come in. We need sponsors to come in. We need even individual people to come up to help the young players and also the basketball administration so that we can organize tournaments, organize camps, send our young players to play national tournaments. So thank you so much for letting us know. I just want to ask you, what are your thoughts on basketball being accessible to all, regardless of gender and age? I think this is very important because even at the BFI level, now they are asking for more women referees. So we are all trying to take care of. And I think it's very important that this gender issue is taken care of. And I believe that in the next few years, we will have more women referees coming up. In basketball, I am also encouraging women from Nagaland to take up coaching, to take up technical official work and all of that because in Nagaland, people think that basketball is only about playing, but there are so many roles that an individual can play when it comes to basketball. There are spaces for physio. Now games are becoming more scientific and so we need an analyst, data analyst. We need nutritionists, all of that. And so there are a lot of scope and I believe that even the women should come up, take up such jobs and then help basketball grow. Thank you so much sir for giving us your time. We wish you all the best for your upcoming Olympic. Thank you so much for giving us your time. Can you please introduce yourself? My name is Nupen and I'm representing Mokchung District on the ongoing Olympics. I'm the captain of the team and we are 15-17 along with the staff members and all. 17 of us are here to play the game. So we just had our first match today and against the menu and we won today. So that's it. So I would like to ask some few questions. Sure, sure. So how do you prepare, how do you prepare yourself mentally and physically for the ongoing Nagaland Olympics? It was a new thing first of all because the Olympics has been introduced now only for cricket especially. So physically and mentally, when you say physically and mentally, we used to play cricket all the time and we used to represent the states as well. So mentally though, we have to prepare by ourselves only. We have to think about the conditions, which conditions we are going to play because demobil is a hot weather. Now it's winter but when we play during the summer it's very hot and when we come from the colder district, it's very difficult for us. So mentally and physically we have to, before the tournaments we have to come here and stay for some time to accumulate our bodies. So physically it's just we have to prepare to going to gyms and all. We just do our morning exercises and just the gym preparation and all. We just do those. And is there any advice you would like to give to the young athletes? Young athletes? I'm not that old as well. So this young athlete means like the upcoming stars are there, upcoming players are there, those who are very nice, those who are very good and they are there in our team as well. So them, they also have to go through all the harsh things like cricket is not an easy game and it has not been encouraged in Nagaland as well. So now but since I don't know if you know this or not but cricket is the only game where you earn money while playing. So that is the, I encourage the youngsters as well to just go through that if they are really interested in this then just focus fully on that and encouraging the youngsters means I don't have any such kind of encouragement to give them. If they are really interested in them, just go through it and go full heartedly. Thank you so much. Please introduce yourself. So my name is Zakaria Hussain. I am representing Team Plansang in this olympics games and I've been playing cricket for the past couple of years. I've represented district under 19s, under 16s and senior for couple of years. So what inspired you to play cricket? Well my inspiration behind playing cricket is pretty simple. You know I used to be, you know I've studied my, like I've done my schooling on Asomafal High School which was an army school and I was the odd one out because I belonged to the, like my father was a contractor and I was the civilian. So no one treated me differently but yeah I used to feel a little different. But when I started playing cricket it made me feel like I belonged there. No one really cared about what you are or who you are or what you do. They only cared about how you perform. That's all. And how do you handle the pressure of the competition? Well in my opinion there's no pressure inside the field because everyone is contributing equally to you know win the game for the teams and my under pressure there's no such pressure if you put on your 100% effort and everything is calm when you just try to do your best. Not taking extra pressure is pretty simple and however you put on your 100% effort it will result in helping the team. That's all. Thank you. Thank you. 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