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The purpose of doing year-end recaps in sport is quite straightforward. You reflect on the year that went by, remember the good moments, rue the bad ones just one last time in hopes of moving on and look ahead.
It is an exercise in nostalgia, and in the sporting world, that is a powerful tool as we know all too well. Usually, you’d close the chapter on the year that was and the mind will pick perhaps one or two moments that will remain with you for a long time. A core memory or two. The rest will slowly but steadily get pushed down to the long-term library, eventually to gather dust. That’s how the brain works, as Inside Out told us. You can’t argue with an animated movie from Pixar.
2021, however, will be a little bit different. The recaps are still done for the same reasons… but how do you just pick a few highlights in Indian sport to carry forward with you when there are so many to choose from?
Your top three favourite sporting moments of 2021?
1. _____
2. _____
3. _____
— The Field (@thefield_in) December 20, 2021
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