Seeking resources from the respective authorities and being resourceful are the two fundamental principles on which Olympians base their performance is a key point that our speaker and a senior Olympian Mr Parag Patil mentioned. In his talk, he also emphasised the importance of information on competitor’s performance, trends, strategies adopted by competitors and technologies being used by other countries. 

He believes in gathering information from all the sources and then constructing local strategies for his athletes. So, although strategy building is a combined effort of the athlete and him, nutritionist, physiotherapist, and people in MIS come together as support system for implementation of the strategies thus planned. But, importantly in sports, he mentioned, many strategies are built and executed in the spur of the moment and that requires building mental strength.