Can we dream of hosting the Olympics?

Yes, we can. India does have all the resources to fulfil the demand of Olympic games. Say finance, land area, manpower, proper planning commission etc. Where we lack is a proper execution of plans and if this problem is solved India is a superpower then. As we all know after the commonwealth games of 2010 India is looked upon as a country with a poor execution and standards. If the youth of today decide to overcome this we can surely host the Olympic games in our country. If we move forward with a positive outlook it can be a great opportunity to retrieve our lost prestige.

"Whatever the mind of man can believe & conceive, it can achieve"-Nepoleon Hill.

i.e If India can believe in hosting Olympic games then it can be true in reality not suddenly but certainly.

The countries, which host this event, are developed already but our nation is still developing & growing. We are not economically very strong that we can host this event right now. India has to be corruption free, terror safe & financially very much healthy. I won't talk about Commonwealth games (2010, India) & its drawbacks because it was our darkest past. We are now looking for our brightest future. Yes, we can think of hosting this mega event. For this, we need to well infrastructure, huge fund & facilities. India needs to internally and externally safe & secured nation from a terrorist point of view. Almost 200 nations & thousands of athletes will participate so we have to take care of them.

Dreaming is good & if we can be social, economically, mentally developed then in next 20-30 years, India will jump one step globally by hosting Olympic games.

As country facing a severe poverty, India should focus on more pressing issues of our time poverty and provide basic necessary facilities to the masses. We much dream of organising such a grand event but we must wait and first direct our resources in the direction of the welfare of the masses elevate them out of poverty make them financially independent and then we all must come together to welcome the world to showcase their sporting spirit.

Before deciding anything about the dream of hosting a huge event like Olympics, we should first look at its pros and cons. Either it will benefit us or make a loss in which extent and terms. Let us first look at its benefits.

1) Imagine a New Delhi 3.0: India got Independence in 1947 and in 1951 we hosted the first Asian Games. It really helped a new capital city get a foothold in connecting with other countries. The second New Delhi upgrade took place during the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Here also we had new roads, flyovers, power augmentation, another Games Village, Delhi Metro work speedup and an upgrade of Indira Gandhi International Airport. One can only imagine what a third upgrade will do to New Delhi if and when it hosts the Olympics.

2) The Olympics is big business and we are ready to capitalise. Olympics are multi-billion dollar affairs. The tourism industry also gets a fillip. Millions of people visit a country for an Olympics and they will also visit other cities and give a boost to the tourism and hospitality industry.

3) A big step in becoming a sporting nation: 4. A big step in becoming a sporting nation: It is desirable to become a big sporting nation. It is very important for school and college students to participate in sports for character building and physical fitness. You can't just focus on academics. You can attract the youth for all games only if we are doing well in all the games. There is too much focus on cricket in India. It is the time we broadened the horizon.

4) We can introduce sports like cricket, Kabaddi, Kho- Kho in Olympics.

So there are many benefits of hosting the biggest festival of sports. If we can host Holly festival like KUMBH Mella where millions of people come daily, then why not Olympics. From my views, the only problem is corruption, which can degrade the quality of management and our reputation. As we have already faced it in Asian games of 2010 at Delhi. So we should try to make a bid on 2028 olympics and execute all plans effectively for global reputation.

Hello Guys,

As per my opinion, India will be more happy if Indians win medals in Olympics and make India proud by hosting their flag in Olympics rather than hosting Olympics in India. We all know that performances of our sports persons are not satisfactory in the Olympics and there are so many reasons for that. They need the support from the government in terms of Infrastructure, coaching, money, economic security etc. Either they do not have Infrastructure and coaches or if Infrastructure and training facilities are available to them are not of Olympics level. Even they do not have enough food and nourishments which is needed for their fitness to participate in the Olympics. Our Olympics participants need motivation for improvement in their performances so I think that we should spend money on the participants and make India proud by their performance in Olympics.

At the same time, I don't want to be negative about the capabilities of our country and want to add that If we keep the problems of our sportspersons away from this topic then yes it would be a privilege to host the Olympics. We already have the experience of hosting commonwealth games so this time we will be more prepared to host the Olympics. Hosting Olympics will attract the attention of the tourists in India. It will make the Indians aware about the other sports.

I would like to conclude that though it is a privilage to host olympics but our priority should be to prepare the participants to perform well in Olympics.

Yes, we can only dream of hosting Olympics.

For hosting such a mega event, we need to be first economically and politically stable. In the present scenario, we lack both.

We have already shown our caliber by hosting commonwealth'12, Worldcup, IPL. To host Olympics, we need to invest a lot of resources in developing sports culture, infrastructure, security. India is known for few sports and the government encourages only these. Moreover, the nation has a lot of problems going on which need to be addressed first rather than dreaming of hosting such a big event such as corruption, poverty. Hosting Olympics will result in incurring a lot of money from the government which can be rather invested in elimination poverty.

I feel India isn't prepared for Olympics now.

India has to invest a lot of money for infrastructure, hostel facilities, tourism, stadium etc. In India, there are a lot of cricket stadiums but the football stadiums are rare. I think poverty, corruption etc are real hurdles. Olympics brings a lot of tourists, but India has to upgrade its tourism facilities. In my opinion, FIFA world Cup is better than Olympics. FIFA world cup needs lesser investment and they are more successful than Olympics.

Yes, I want that our country also hosts Olympics, but it is not possible because as we see last time in Commonwealth, people do lots of corruption which are not good and a drawback for our country. But one day my country also able to host Olympics and there is no corruption in our country and not olympic we lost all of the games which are not hosted in our country now days. Our country is not poor but some people who make it that.

If all the peoples become corruption less so our country leads the world.

Thank you and have a nice day.

Hello everyone,

I would definitely support this idea, that India should host the Olympics. As earlier mentioned below it will attract tourism and even boost it which is beneficial for country's economy etc. But it requires a huge investment which is 'n' times bigger than the profit it might gain from tourism. Also not to forget that India is still a developing nation and yet to be a developed one! It still faces corruption a common term, poverty, unemployment, economy crisis etc. That is why unless some of these issues are solved, it can only be a dream rather than a reality.

Now, India is not prepared for hosting this mega event "Olympics" because of lack of infrastructure problem, corruption problem, little support and knowledge towards other games like football, hockey, badminton, boxing etc. First, we have to develop a country in which every game get equal interest by every people of India. This is not only the responsibility of government but also all the population of India. Besides this corruption and lack of infrastructure is that problem in which currently is in progress. If we do continuously work towards these areas then after 5 years I think that there will be a proud moment of our country to hosting this mega event "Olympics".