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INDIA --- Why Unable to win Gold in Olympics .?....
@shivamani10 (11035)
Hyderabad, India
August 16, 2016 9:43pm CST
India is the second country having the largest population of 1.26 billion and the first being China with a population of 1.35 billion . Unfortunately, it is unable to represent and show the performance to the desired extent as compared to China in almost all Olympics. Winning a bronze medal has become a great achievement whereas it is totally different in the case of China. In some Olympics, it topped the list of Countries winning the highest number of Gold Medal.
Can you guess the reasons for such poor performance?
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@shivamani10 (11035)
• Hyderabad, India
17 Aug 16
you are right. Parents do not allow their children to take part in sports and children also do not take it as profession. as well.
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@anamika161088 (11866)
• India
17 Aug 16
@shivamani10 Totally agree with you. Here mostly people think that sports is not a good carrier option. Everyone wants their kids to be doctor/engineer/CA/MBA.
@Mike197602 (15505)
• United Kingdom
17 Aug 16
I can't guess...I'm too busy looking at the GB count
We are smashing other countries with significantly bigger populations
Probably will be our biggest year in the history of the olympics
We are smashing other countries with significantly bigger populations
Probably will be our biggest year in the history of the olympics2 people like this
@Mike197602 (15505)
• United Kingdom
17 Aug 16
just noticed that's 2012 info...we've got more medals now so probably India has too.
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@snowy22315 (180694)
• United States
17 Aug 16
Maybe sports are not as important in India as they are in some countries.
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@shivamani10 (11035)
• Hyderabad, India
26 Aug 16
The Sports Authorities swallow the food items meant for the sports personnel in their houses and save their monthly expenditure on food. Shameless creatures on the earth.
@shivamani10 (11035)
• Hyderabad, India
26 Aug 16
Just they neglect sports This is not a professional course for Indians.
@shivamani10 (11035)
• Hyderabad, India
26 Aug 16
The Sports Authorities always feel shortage of funds. They always feel hungry for funds and eat away with their families whenever they are released. They will not hesitate to sell the sports shoes and Jerseys meant for the sportsmen/ women. They will distribute to different colleges and schools in rotations. Is it not surprising?
@122037 (284)
• Vancouver, British Columbia
26 Aug 16
China has a whole sound system to foster the elites. Government start selecting the potential elites from kids when they around in age 5 (depend on what sports they are going to do). Then, government will cover all the training and basic life expense for them if they can stay in the elites group.
@shivamani10 (11035)
• Hyderabad, India
26 Aug 16
I also read an article on that. They train the kids vigorously and some of the exercises they undergo are scary. They will be weeping. I have seen some photographs also. When their age is meant for kidding why they should undergo torture by the Govt., Just for medals? looks obscure.
@122037 (284)
• Vancouver, British Columbia
26 Aug 16
@shivamani10, To be an elite, it is hard. But Government is not torturing them. In our concept, there are three ways to success : 1 .get a good education and get a decent job. 2, become a businessman, 3. become an elite. If the kid wants to become an elite, she or he has to sacrifice the time in playing and education. It sounds unfair. But it acceptable in Chiese society, because elite has a high status in China.
@lucalucky (1839)
• Italy
20 Aug 16
For sure there are a lot of different reasons but the question is also, why India doesn't want cricket in the Olympic Games? The Olympic Committee is trying to have cricket in the future but seems tha International Cricket Council is not so sure to be involved and India seems to be the most important country that doesn't want cricket in the Olympics.
@shivamani10 (11035)
• Hyderabad, India
26 Aug 16
If Cricket is introduced in Olympics it will change the very nature of Olympics. Cricket will spoil the events as well as the very concept of Olympics. I am not for it.
@Letranknight2015 (51957)
• Philippines
17 Aug 16
There's always the next olympics, we had decades before we even got a silver medal. Nothing to worry about, they did their best.
@Sun7788 (260)
• Changzhou, China
17 Aug 16
Well, We don't do very well in Rio Olymics compared with the previous Olympic games. Recently team GB has surpassed China In the number of gold medals.
I think it is more important that the Indian people can go in for all kinds of sports and keep a good health than just a few people get some gold medal.
@shivamani10 (11035)
• Hyderabad, India
26 Aug 16
GB did well. They improved a lot. We improved otherwise.
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@anamika161088 (11866)
• India
17 Aug 16
I think there can be multiple reasons. It is better to ask the problems from athletes and try to implement the needed things. I hope it will help in improving the count next time.
@shivamani10 (11035)
• Hyderabad, India
26 Aug 16
They will not reveals the sorry state of affairs that prevail.
