Can we dream of hosting the Olympics?

Hello everyone,

At this moment, I don't think that India is capable enough of hosting the Olympics, reasons been-.

1- A large amount of money is spent in hosting the Olympics. For e.g, the total expenditure of the Rio Olympics is estimated to be around $4. 6 billion, and that of London Olympics 2012 is around $15 billion. In case of India, being a developing country, spending such a huge amount may not be a wise decision. Instead, we should spend this money on other fields like in medicines, science, technology, research etc.

2- India is constantly in threat of terrorist attacks, and has witnessed a number of ceasefire violations by Pakistan. In order to host the Olympics, India first needs to address the security issues which are pertaining here. In order to ensure the security of around 25000 delegates/representatives (or more) from different nations, a large amount of money, as well as security personnel, are needed.

3- India had hosted the 2010 Commonwealth games, in which around 71 countries participated. This was supposed to be the proud moment for India, but eventually, became the shameful moment, because of the various scams, poor management and several other controversies.

Keeping in mind, the above points, I think that at this present scenario, India is not in the position to host Olympics. Thanks a lot.

I must say that currently there is no need to spend money on such ambitious and extravagant plans. India has lot of other problems to deal with. It would take a huge amount of money for the government to build a convincingly world-class arena to host an Olympic event. And this could make way for some high-ranking, influential and corrupt officials to fill their own pockets by using the government funds allocated to the development of arena to stage the event.

We recently saw that there was a strong feeling of dissent among the general public of Brazil and Rio De Janeiro in particular, because of excessively huge funds being allocated for the games while there were many problems in the management of the city which required proper attention and efforts to deal with. It was the public who would suffer when the city authorities could not have enough funds to keep the infrastructure of the city running smoothly.

Greece is another example, which is still suffering from a financial crisis partly because of huge spendings on the hosting of Olympic games in Athens in 2004. It is not that the hosting of Olympic games was the only reason for financial downfall of Greece- corruption in government has also played a major role in it. But allocating a huge budget for the games certainly took its toll on the relatively small economy of the nation.

And do we really need to mention that how badly we performed when it came to hosting a major sporting event in the form of Commonwealth Games in 2010? Do we really think that India has come a long way since then and has improved significantly on corruption index since then? Do we really think that the current ruling party is very efficient and "clean" enough to carry out its supposed tasks of "healthy and corruption free rule" without any issues? I think the answer to all of these is no. There are lot of issues to deal with at the moment and it is not wise to think of hosting an event as big as Olympics.

We are still at that level where the government is campaigning to encourage usage and building of more and more toilets and where you can find stray animals ranging from dogs, cows, buffalos, pigs and what not, roaming across the streets of the cities making it a ridiculously attractive sight for the tourists to capture and advertise the other side of the so-called "Incredible India" in their respective homelands.

Well, hosting such an event would, without doubt, make us proud as a nation and will give an example of our progress and potential power to the world. But it seems a far-fetched task for now and even if it isn't, it should not be high on the priority list of our government. Because it is the proper governance, improved standard of living, protection of rights of every citizen, unbiased judicial system and the dedication of the government to curb the corrupt practices, which all the citizens expect from their leaders in the first place. Such benchmarks should not be our priority right now and let such events be an opportunity for wealthy and developed nations to showcase their wealth.

In the long run, hosting of such an extravagant and glitzy event will only be as relevant as being a part of record books and history and might be occasionally asked in any of the competitive examinations here and there.

According to my point of view, this is a good idea to host Olympics as it will be helpful to represent India in the field of sports and games among the world but before this step.

India has to be well prepared to participate in this Olympics.

Yes.

There are no taxes levied on dreaming. And what I think is we are already working hard to achieve a good position in the world of Olympics. With great determination and willingness to achieve something, nothing's impossible. Basically hosting Olympics in India is like a goal. And there are many things we need to fix up while slowly moving towards the goal. Like proper road facilities, giving importance to different games and not only cricket and achieving economic stability. If we, in the near future are able to achieve this, then I believe. India will surely host a major Olympics event.

Yes, we can. Why not?

India is under developing nation, so this is right time built useful infrastructure according to needs.

In the other side it's all in the government hand. They should think for nation like international sports amenities and infrastructure. Government is doing well.

Hello,

I feel that nothing is impossible for India but yes some corrupt people will create a problem and make India ashamed at International level. We have seen it in 2010 commonwealth games in Delhi. Yes, it's an ashamed for all the Indians as what happened because of the poor infrastructure and we became a matter of laugh at International level.

But I believe if the employees who really feel for India can take part on it so we have enough infrastructure to make our dream to host the Olympics. Yes but it should be for India's respect not for the good shake for some corrupt employee.

Hi,

Let's think positive and take it as a privilege to conduct or to host Olympics in India. Definitely, we have so much of workplace to accommodate than other countries and to make it a success. It is also a beneficiary to India in getting the funds and gives employment to most of the people though it is short term. Our economic growth also will lead to drastic change as the areas like Tourism, Transportation usage etc will take the profits.

To make the event successful Govt has to take certain measures in order to avoid corruption, developing and improving the existing infrastructure.

Hello friends,

In 2010, Delhi hosted Common wealth games. But Indian authorities were criticized with the management and poor infrastructure. Complain were so much that we Indian felt ashamed. When comes to hosting Olympics, Question is who should we trust with management as corruption is everywhere, it's better to develop current Players and training academy of sports, sorry to say right now we can't waste money and still get ashamed by international players and countries.

So We should not dream about hosting Olympics.

Right now we can't dream of hosting the Olympic, it's not the right time as well. We all are dreaming of hosting the Olympic in spite of seeing our status or past performance in the Olympic, we guys expect a lot from our participants but no one have ever thought how much difficult it would be for the participants to practised in India where there are no proper arena for their practices, they even don't have money for their proper diets, so how they will be able to win medals for their nation. So, in my opinion, it would be better for our nation to support our athletes by providing proper arena for their practices and to provide money for their hard work and diet in spite of wasting a big amount in dreaming or planning of hosting the Olympic.

Of course, we can. When we can host commonwealth games why can't we host Olympics? The only difference would be that it would be on a large scale thus will require more contribution to make it successful.

So, first of all, India will need to improve its infrastructure. Without proper infrastructure, no sports can be played. But more importantly by infrastructure, we don't need only big buildings but what we require is sports complex with the most updated technology which should be at par with rest world.

Secondly and I think personally the most significant is there should be proper drinking and sanitation facilities so that players do not face any kind of difficulties.

Thirdly, India needs to improve its road and problem of traffic should be properly dealt. Right now, maximum cities of India are facing frequent power cuts. So the problem of electricity should be completely eradicated because without light we can't do anything. Last is that Indians need a little more hospitable and there are various reports in the news that we call some other country people by some names which should not happen in any case. As being Indian, we are carrying our nation's pride and by making fun of others and by teasing them and calling them with names is just showing how ill mannered we are.

India is a country of welcoming people believing in Athithi Devo Bhava. So we can definitely represent and host Olympics and let people know what they missed till now.