guntur veteran badminton player gutta jwala has asked students to keep in mind that only sportspersons can become world champions she said that ignoring sports and games would cost them dearly in the future jwala was addressing students at vignan mahotsav a mega sports and cultural event at vignan university near here on thursday the campus teemed with thousands of students who arrived here to take part in different sports cultural and academic competitions addressing the students jwala said sports and games would also keep young brains fit to take up global challenges she asked students to concentrate on physical fitness along with studies she asked students not to confine themselves to the four walls of the classrooms if they really wanted to become tomorrows championschief executive officer of itc agro business division sanjeev rangrass said there was no substitute to hard work to realise goals he asked the students to take failures as stepping stones for success and keep learning till they achieved better results he said every student should introspect whether they deserve the success they have achieved and improve it further by hard work vignan educational institutions group chairman dr lavu rathaiah said students should not miss physical fitness schedules for any reason he said keeping fit was key to achieving success and that vignan university had launched credits for physical fitness to keep students ahead of others he said they have been organising vignan mahotsav for the 16 years to encourage youth to take extracurricular activities seriously he said vignan university believed that holistic development of students was possible only by allowing them to take part in sports and cultural activities participation in interuniversity intercollegiate competitions will help students become true leaders as they would learn many things he said