When Athletes Travel by Bus and Officials Fly First Class
Musarrat Ullah Jan – KikxNow , digital creator Sports in Pakistan reflects a deeper national illness. It is not a management flaw, it is a mindset. The athlete is treated as a beneficiary, not the core product. The official is seen as the stakeholder. This inversion explains why players pay their own travel, sign forms they never read, and arrive at national competitions already exhausted. It also explains why complaints of mistreatment are received as attitude problems, not administrative failures. The recent handling of travel for the National Games is a classic example. Instead of a coordinated transport plan, every athlete was handed a sum of money and told to “manage it.” This was described as facilitation, but it was simply avoidance of responsibility. A system that claims credit for participation should at least own the cost and the risk. At the most basic level, athletes representing the country should not be deciding between an unreliable bus or a delayed train while...