Every Indian will be proud today that Mr. Abhinav Bindra won a first ever individual Olympic gold medal for India, in 10 m air rifle shooting at Beijing. Congratulations Abhinav.
It took a few decades for India to get one individual medal in Olympics!!
As it looks, Indian sports scenario is pathetic and stagnant for years. There is a Sports Ministry at the Centre and a ministry in every state. India has won gold medals in hockey several times earlier and this time, India could not even qualify to take part in the games! Mr. Suresh Kalmadi is sitting over the Indian Olympic Association now for years! He only talks rubbish. No action. India with more than a billion people could not produce a few good athletes to bring glory to the country in international sports? India should learn something from China.
There are several reasons: corruption at all levels, favoritism, regionalism, etc, etc. The governments are not serious enough to focus on competitive sports. Money is spent on officials traveling world-wide to study the facilities existing elsewhere! Heads of sports associations are immune to any changes. They behave like virtual dictators!
The only way is to change the system. The selection and decisions with regards to sports should be taken out of the government hands to some extent. The tenure of any sports-head should not be more than five years. Corporate houses should be encouraged to adopt one game to one corporate house basis. For example: Tatas can adopt Foot ball, Reliance – Athletics, Birlas – Hockey and the Indian Government can support Kabaddi, Kho-Kho like Indian games.
Let us hope somebody powerful at the top is reading this blog and do some thing.
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