India had a population of 1 billion in 2004 but managed to win only one medal in the 2004 Olympics held in Athens. India had a population of 1.4 billion in the year 2008 but managed to win only three medals in the Olympics.
China on the other side having population pretty close to our population won a total of 100 medals. Why is there so much difference in performance when the population is nearly the same?
The first factor is the government’s attitude towards games and sports. The Indian Government does not finance any tournament whether it is football, hockey, gymnastics, archery, shooting, boxing, wrestling, and many other sports. The Indian Government lacks professionalism. The government is happy with mediocre performers and nothing more than that whereas the Chinese Government takes steps and makes Institutes where they identify their respective talents and recruits them in their team and then trains them until they become professionals and bring medals for their country. In India we need some professional coaches like Luis Scholari, Zico, Maradona and many others who can change the way of the game we approach it. Great stars have emerged in Badminton like Saina Nehwal, Aakash Prakash because of Pullela Gopichand continuously coaching them without any stress. This is the result of good coaching but still the Indian Government does not finance sports like badminton.
The next thing players lack is ”consistency”. Rajyawardhan Singh Rathod earned a silver medal in 2004 Athens Olympics and won the lone medalist from India. So, of course he was made the captain of the Indian team going to Beijing Olympics in 2008.But did he perform as he was expected to do? No, he failed terribly and let the whole country but Abhinav Bindra saved the countries dignity in shooting!
If you all remember in 1911 Mohun-Bagan football team defeated the English team without wearing any boots whereas the opposition was wearing boots but still the Indian Government does not finance the famous sport of Football. Many try to influence Millionaires like Vijay Mallya, Anil Ambani and others to finance sports like football so that many Indians enter the sport.
Please try to perform well in the fields of sport and try to take India’s name to a higher level. I am trying my level best as I am a state player and trying my level best to enter the Basketball National Team.
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| Author: pravesh surana 23 Mar 2009 | Member Level: Gold Points : 1 |
dear ankit,
it was written excellent..
looking forward for more articles like this
regards
pravesh
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| Author: J.Divakar Jain 23 Mar 2009 | Member Level: Silver Points : 2 |
Excelling in the International arena is not dependent only on the governmental financial support, since finance is not the only component for success. The parameters for highest achievement are: 1. A highest degree of ambition in the mind of the child. 2. Equalling ambition in the minds of the parents 3. Required level of natural talent in the child 4. a TRUE capable coach 5. Financial capability of the parents 6. Support and encouragement from the educational institution wherein the child is studying 7.Support of the MEDIA. Only when all the above mentioned parameters are met fully only then,I repeat "ONLY THEN " the child "MIGHT" achieve, since there are many slips in-between, which can cause the failure. Failure of anyone of the above will cause the failure even when the other parameters are met, like the L.B.W. conditions in cricket. I am mentioning these out of my experience and not on any theory. Here governmental support financially is of minuscule importance, since any child performing will immediately attract the public attention and the financial support would pour-in. Remember the Orissa marathon child. Hence let the sportsmen and women stop crowing about the governmental support but concentrate on achievements. As a matter of fact as far the government is kept that much the better for the sports and the sportsmen. the biggest drawback for the low level in sports is because the sports is just at the hobby level and not at the professional level. We are far far away from that goal. The periodical achievements of like of Milka Singh {Ath), a P.T.Usha, a Prakash Padukone,A Gavaskar,etc are all a flash in the pan. All of them are product of natural talent and not out of any effort by any other than the sportsman concerned. It is a very complex issue. and can not be achieved in a jiffy. A lot of concerted effort is needed and I do not see that happening in the near future. (divakarjain)
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