Has it gripped me or what? days on end i have been watching Olympics on TV. The passion that these sports stars have is infectious. The passion with which they fight to get their medals and represent the country is amazing. Having been a Badminton player in the past, the game had me hooked till it got over yesterday.. The Chinese domination in the game, the determination the Chinese have, just makes the sport so enjoyable. Every final was every bit worth watching. Nail biting end to the finale in all categories of badminton. Swimming, Tennis, Athletics - Usain Bolt, Yohan Blake what a 100 mt finale that was. Thanks to Indian shooters reaching the finals happened to watch that as well. All in all it has been a welcome change from the cricketing national obsession to watch other sports and watch people from all over the world wildly trying to create a place for themselves in history.
Indians this time have done decently well, whatever little there has been. I wouldn't want to be sarcastic about our performance. Yes it is a little shameful that being the second most populated country in the world we can count our medals down to 3 as of now and most of it in the lower side of the colour palette. But having said that, it's also to be noted that with the non existent government funding of sportsman in this country and with minimal training facilities, it is only the passion of these few sports men and women that would have taken them where they have. We have a long way to go before we become China or USA, with hoards and hoards of good quality sportsman participating in the Olympics and them having that much passion for representing the country. The passion that flows out from us during a IND vs PAK match is what needs to flow out of us for many other sports as well. Instead of suddenly realizing the existence of these sportsmen who do well and exerting excessive expectations on them hence forth, maybe we should realise that we have to only help hone their skills further and ensure proper training for them so that they can live up to our expectations going forward.
In such difficult and unsupportive circumstances we should laud our sportsman who have managed to at least reach somewhere and get our countries name somewhere and hope that our corrupt nation realises the strength of such a large population and what these sportsman can do to place our country on the global map.
Indians this time have done decently well, whatever little there has been. I wouldn't want to be sarcastic about our performance. Yes it is a little shameful that being the second most populated country in the world we can count our medals down to 3 as of now and most of it in the lower side of the colour palette. But having said that, it's also to be noted that with the non existent government funding of sportsman in this country and with minimal training facilities, it is only the passion of these few sports men and women that would have taken them where they have. We have a long way to go before we become China or USA, with hoards and hoards of good quality sportsman participating in the Olympics and them having that much passion for representing the country. The passion that flows out from us during a IND vs PAK match is what needs to flow out of us for many other sports as well. Instead of suddenly realizing the existence of these sportsmen who do well and exerting excessive expectations on them hence forth, maybe we should realise that we have to only help hone their skills further and ensure proper training for them so that they can live up to our expectations going forward.
In such difficult and unsupportive circumstances we should laud our sportsman who have managed to at least reach somewhere and get our countries name somewhere and hope that our corrupt nation realises the strength of such a large population and what these sportsman can do to place our country on the global map.
1 comment:
Very true.. the killing instinct is lacking among us.So we need to have the same feeling like India Pak match.
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