Citius, Altius, Fortius. This is the motto of olympics. These three Latin words mean "Swifter, Higher, Stronger." These words are a source of motivation for the athletes all over the world to achieve excellence in sports. Olympics is not just a sports competition today but a question of national pride and honour throughout the world. Our country also participates in olympics. 80 years back, our hockey team announced arrival of India on international sports arena by winning a gold. Dream run continued till 1964. But from thereon, there is a haunting silence. We get a single medal sometimes in olympics and that is all our 1 billion nation has to show in world sports gala. Father of modern olympics, Pierre d Coubratine once said that participation is more important than winning. Our olympians have taken it to heart.
There were few olympics in between where we failed to won a single medal. Australia suffered same humiliation in 1976 olympics. They revamped the whole system and started to nurture talent from school and college level. Their trainees in government sports hostel do not have to worry about jobs and future. Government take care of everything. They are given proper exposure to foreign tournaments. Resuts were there to see when Australia finished fourth in overall medal tally in 2000 olympics. China did not send its team till 1984 olympics because they were against sending the team just for sake of participation. Today they are best sporting nation in world after US.
Well, I am not going to lecture about how India can improve its performance in olympics. It is of no use. Olympics are from 9-19 August. For sure from 20Th to end of august, we will see angry reactions from public and media. Our 24-hour TV channel will show clipping of people blaming players and federation for national humiliation. There will be articles in newspapers about how to produce champions at ground level. Yuck......I am bored of it man. You guys are doing same things in postmortems of last three olympics. I can bet if India win the champions trophy(of course cricket's guys.we cannot qualify for hockey's for last 4 years), the following month, everyone will forget about all this olympic fiasco. Well, you can ask why I am even bothering about debacle at olympics. It is not as important as injustice met out to our crickets in Sydney test match. Right!!!!!!!. We need a halle gebrselassie to remind our athletes about Citius, Altius, Fortius. Now I will not tell you about him. Try on google.
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It's pretty easy to write abt what the situation should be as compared to others. But have a look at the conditions of our country. almost all the grat athletes had startde well in a young age. In India it is almost impossible. Here the first thing parents force on their child, as soon as he starts walking and talking is the need to earn money. That means either child is forces to study if its possible or he is sent to learn some work. In either case the possibility of developing athletic skiils is minimal.
Besides, govt apathy and the lack of monetary incentives are other prominent factors.
anyway nice focus and that to before India fails at olympics(part abt australian trg camps is from five mistakes of my life i think :))
It is easy to produce movies like CHAK DE..INDIA but expecting it to happen in real life is somewhat next to impossible specially in INDIA.Where every kid wants to be either Sachin tendulkar or Dhoni...but none wants to look out onto some other sport.
Becz of the money associated with cricket no one thinks abt anything else.Forget abt national pride and all this fuss.......no one cares of it; even i dont bother abt national pride.Becz this national pride is acknowledged once in a while taht too when Pakistan attacks on LOC or we lose out in sm major sports tournament like Olympis or failing to Qualify in a big league.
So, take a chill pill and dont bother abt it a much. OK......
becz i bet u guys nd gals out there dnt know ... that an INDIAN player defeated PETE SAMPRAS once..... DO YOU KNOW REALLY......?
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