Wednesday, August 13, 2008

India and Olympics- Whats next

Abhinav Bindra recently bagged gold medal at Olympics making whole nation proud.
The back ground for achieving this medal help in throwing light on why India never get into top list of achievers at Olympics.
Bindra is from a very well-to-do background and his father opened a shooting range for him when he was young. Now, he has even gifted his son a 5 star hotel as a gift for winning the medal.
Even Bindra himself has commentd that cricket alone can never tak India into big league of sports world.
Given right environment and support, Indian have it in them to crack top position. But what is n the ground in sharp contrast.
Pathetic sports complex and services, no financial support, no encouragement, etc etc..
All money been allocated is eaten up by corrruption and rest is not spent.
Even after winning this time and knowing what exactly the problem is, it is sad that in my view, govt is still not waking up for the vision as sports power.

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