New Delhi sources have stated that Union minister and Olympic silver medalist Rajyavardhan Rathore has emphasized on the value of mental strength in sports, and has said his shooting career has given him the ability to gauge what is going on in the mind of a sportsperson in a competitive environment.
He has said sports relate to the mind a lot, to a degree now that he can see sportsmen and know exactly what is going on in their minds to a large extent especially when they are in a competitive environment.
He has said Rathore, 46, had won silver in double trap shooting at the 2004 Athens Olympics and the body language can speak volumes for what is going on in their (sportspersons') minds, and how they target and how they meet their target and during the Olympics, when he was on television, they have started calling him the 'pop psychologist.
