The Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), Shyamanta Das discusses the review article, ‘Psychological ramifications of detraining effects in sportspersons amidst the COVID-19 pandemic: a consensus compendium’ by Jerrin Shaji Kizhakkekara, Shijo John Joseph, and Guru S Gowda, and published in the January-June 2021, Volume 12 Issue 1 of OJPAS® in this fortnight’s Mind Matters column, titled “Sportspersons amidst the COVID-19 pandemic” in Horizon, the Friday supplement with The Assam Tribune.