2: HIGHLIGHTS - Jitendra Joshi of SportzConsult on Mumbai Games a Multi-Sport Olympian-style extravaganza
This episode comprises the highlights of our conversation with Jitendra joshi, Co-founder of Sportzconsult whose decade plus efforts saw the unfurling of this grand sporting celebration called Mumbai Games. With nearly 16 different sports to participate from including badminton, table tennis, chess, judo, skating, squash, tennis, basketball and also carrom, it is touted to be the world\u2019s first city level franchise-based, multi-sport, multi-age sports extravaganza.\n\xa0\nJitendra along with his team wove together this fantastic initiative to get every Mumbaikar out to play a real game and ditch that smartphone. Jitendra takes us through what inspired him to set up Mumbai Games and how his team went about it, how amateurs and professionals can both enjoy this event without feeling intimidated or unchallenged, the experience of kickstaring a sporting event as ambitious as this, Jitendra\u2019s own passions which apart from sports of course is also music and how Mumbai Games is fundamentally about embracing a sport and having fun for life.