One of world's best training centres: Anju Bobby George, Shivendra Singh praise SAI NCOE Bengaluru

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The Sports Authority of India's National Centre of Excellence (NCOE) in Bengaluru today stands as a symbol of India's sporting ambition. The transformation of India's sports infrastructure over the past decade has been remarkable. The SAI NCOE Bengaluru is now being hailed as one of the world's best training centres. Former world championship medallist and India's legendary long jumper Anju Bobby George couldn't hide her pride in how far the facility has come. Anju Bobby George had trained extensively at SAI Bengaluru during her playing career

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00:00A lot of improvement has been there and I've heard that there will be much more improvement coming forward.

00:19These many years I was here and I can see the changes, a lot of good infrastructure,

00:25administration, a lot of changes and it's a full package I can say.

00:37And I can vouch the place where we are standing, it's one of the world's best training places.

00:43The food is a world class, I've never seen any changes before.

00:52When I was a player, there were no facilities here.

00:56So, if I was a player, there was one of the professionals coming back home.

01:12Don't you have to make these changes before.

01:16You are going to make these changes.

01:20It's a long time ago.

01:22I just came here a couple of times but my father was here when he was playing volleyball

01:47back then it was very different lot of improvement has been there and I've heard that there will be much more improvement coming forward

01:58so I think only me but also hockey players, Olympic medalists have been here, they have been training here

02:06either camps and also Neeraj have come here

02:10so for every athlete this centre is very important and definitely to make sure everything is on point

02:17I am extremely proud to say that I was a SAI NCOE Bangalore athlete and I got India's first world championship medal training here

02:37so this is my home ground and these many years I was here and I can see the changes, a lot of good infrastructure, administration, lot of changes

02:58and it's a full package I can say and a lot of athletes now you can see the ground is packed

03:06and the hostel facilities improved and training facilities improved, multiple athletic tracks, hockey tracks

03:15so it is a kind of I can say that the full and their change and the performance also change accordingly

03:23the centre can beat any world class centre

03:26definitely, actually I was there in Europe, I was there in America and I trained almost every part in the world

03:32and I can watch the place where we are standing, it is one of the world's best training places

03:39when I come here I can never go outside

03:54the facilities here, the oxygen level here you can see, the greenery, the food in the world class

04:01I've never seen any changes before

04:03because when I was here as a player there were no facilities here

04:07there was no rehab centre, there was no extra gym for players

04:10there was no extra gym, there was no other athletes in the world

04:12in the world in the world

04:13there was one spa and one hydro

04:17so now there is a different recovery centre for the hockey centre

04:20and other athletes for the recovery centre

04:22so now you don't have to wait for your time

04:24you can do your time and you can do rehab and recover

04:29food, food, food, food and food

04:31there is a huge role in the world

04:32there are dietary restrictions here, there are nutrition

04:34you can tell how much food you should eat, how much food you should eat

04:38so for some of us, it helps us a lot

04:42from my point of view, there are changes in the last 10 years

04:46now the main thing is infrastructure

04:48you can see, there were other countries in the world

04:52Europe, America, which were almost the world

04:55standard Olympic training centre

04:58now the size centre is the same

05:03the outside international athletes, foreign athletes

05:06we are the same

05:07we are the same

05:09the facilities, the equipment, the equipment, the equipment, the equipment

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05:18as well

05:19they are the same

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05:24in the entire centre

05:25has interesting adventures

05:26there has a lot of these things

05:28and there is infrastructure

05:29you see, let us see

05:31recoveryал shows

05:32there is evenOTC

05:33for me

05:36there is that

05:37there was one or two

05:39many athletes

05:41it was really

05:42very difficult

05:43well

05:45so recovery was very low.

05:47Also, the recovery experts and supporting staff has increased.

05:51Then, the equipment has increased.

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