Posted by admin on Aug 24, 2012 in Recreation | 0 comments Though the Indian national anthem was not heard its athletes climbed the medal?s podium at London 2012. It was undoubtedly their most successful outing although India and Abhinav Bindra missed the gold this time around.
A total of 6 medals pronounced Indian?s best ever performance at the Summer Olympic Games since the modern games came into effect.
Even after all this we have people cribbing about India?s performance and how we sank to 55th on the medals table after having finished 50th in Beijing four years ago.
Indians rarely pursue sports seriously leaving apart the aspiring cricketers. The number of youngsters wanting to take up sports as a career is as few as the goals of the Indian hockey team in the recently concluded Olympics.
Our poor sports system prevents a talented sports person from the blossoming into a professional. Our sporting talent is extinguished due to lack of proper infrastructure, support from the government in terms of financial aid in the form of sponsors or right guidance from capable coaches. Families do not cheer on their young ones to settle for sports as a career option in India.
Then why are we crying hoarse over the fact that we could win only a handful of medals in the just concluded summer Olympics without possessing a culture for sports running in our lineage?
Olympic glory requires money, coaches, good diet, training abroad which come in short supply at the right time for most of the aspiring sportsmen in India. It is the correct output for what we have sown through the years with the exception of rare gems still enabling the Indian tricolor to flutter behind the medal?s podium.
Barcelona 1992 had plenty of first round exits, Atlanta 1996 it was a bronze for Leander Paes in tennis, Sydney 2000 was a jolting experience for most Indian followers back home as Karnam Malleshwari among 52 brought back a bronze, then three medals in Beijing 2008 portrays that feats of Indian athletes has turned.
The number of Indians making it into the finals of their respective events means we can finally enjoy our countrymen on the prime stage of the sporting realm
Source: http://www.infoskillhub.com/recreation/sparkling-indian-athletes-at-london-olympic-2012/
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