Six Billion and One Bronze!

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Saibhushan said:   1 decade ago
Hi to all, and i'm happy to discuss on this topic.
First of all i want to say don't blame our country and our politics.
because we are the people who elects our politicians,the first mistake is with in us.
and second thing is that
do we really encourage olympic's?
No,
HOW MANY OF U SAW THE BEIJING OLYMPICS AND THE CRICKET WORLD CUP 2011 ???
the answer is in your silence.

and coming to our government ANNOUNCES 1 CRORE FOR YUVARAJ SINGH FOR HITTING 6 SIXES.
Till now any government of india announces single np for any hockey player and its our national game..
it is very sad to say our hockey players get RS/2100 per match and our cricket player will get 2 lacks per match.
Unless we don't have certain encouragement WE WONT ABLE GET SUCCESS IN LIFE.
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Nayeem said:   1 decade ago
As an Indian we should first draw a thick line between politics, money and sports. To bring every thing on right track, politics, money use and sports should be very transparent. Until these three things are not transparent and free from money flood, we should be ready to accept such result.

Let me now discuss these three majors are getting mixed with each other and how can we avoid it into three points :

1. Politics : There isn't any thing left like patriotism in politician now. Money is all which is driving all our politicians (vote for money is recent major scam). There is huge influence of politics in sports too, due to which our true sportsmen are missing. Politician plan well not to promote good talented, but their own kins. Also, sports management and conduction has merely became a another way of filling pocket in quick time (CWG the recent scam). Now the question is how can we over come from this curse.. Answer is establishment of transparent policies, and selection of sportsmen should be through that channel only (example : there should be an independent body which should select and promote deserved sportsmen like Election Commission where govt. can't do anything)

2. Money : Money should be used in its best possible way. Money earned from Cricket must also be shared with other sports in creation of other sports infrastructure, payments for sportsmen. We know that India has most revenue from Cricket, but money earned from it should be shared in other sports. We have to think in all directions in all sports bodies.

3. Sports : We as Indian should think in giving respect and support for other sports also, so that our players in other sports get encouragement. Also, we should change our angle of thinking towards hard work. To defend this hard work point i would like to ask a question, why indian batting is far better (one of the best in world) than indian bowling? Answer is : we don't want to do hard work. Right from childhood we appraise a player who hits a six, but give very less appraise ( or I can say nil) to a bowler who has sweat a lot to take a precious wicket. So, in India every wants to become batsmen but nobody wants to become bowler. We want everything without doing much effort.

To summarize my view all I can say is until unless we bring a lot of changes in view and approach we are not going to get anything except this result of one bronze being world's second largest in population.
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Chandrasekar kalasalingam university said:   1 decade ago
Six billion but one bronze. All due to us. We are responsible for that. Not only us INDIAN GOVERNMENT also. Parent always concentrate their child in studies. They didn't encourage their child to participate in sport. Off-course some of the parent will encourage their child to participate in sport. And they playing for INDIA.

We have to take our own interest to participate in sports up to that you can blame others. Sitting at home and critizing is very easy one unless we play there.

Government is also major fact for this. They are not giving fair amount of salary for those who plays for India or for their particular state. They didn't coach their players well. No need of foreign coaches required. Indian coaches are well enough to train.

Government should support them. Bichung bhutia (former Indian football captain) said "India in football world-cup may happens after 800 years from here". There are lot of young talent in India. The Government and their parent should encourage them.

In china, America& Australia etc there are separate schools for gymnastics, swimming and some other sports events. They practice throughout the day (24*7). So they bags lots of medal in Olympics. Indians too had lots of talent. And they will do it for India.
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Abhishek said:   1 decade ago
First of all I would like to say please don't blame politician. It is our fault. Why we voted them. The second thing is please stop blaming others for wrong reasons. If you have the will power you will get what you want. And the third thing if we want to change the system then we have to change ourselves first. We should promote our child whatever they want to do. Don't force them and don't discourage them. Encourage them in their likes.
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Mickey kumar said:   1 decade ago
From my thinking, In India their is a more corruption and this is because of politicians. India has a more talented persons but few come in picture because of lack of encouragement which is necessary for every persons. By the encouragement normal persons can be switched into the talented persons by practicing. But India does not have that environment. Mostly Indian parents desires for their child to be a doctor, engineer not anything else. And during the olympics 2012 their was a few sportsmans achived a bronze medal and not one got a gold medal. This is totally because of lack of encouragement. India government have also selected a persons which is from their kins. So, this is also the cause of lower talented persons. Besides, Indian government should make authority to Respective Indian Sports players to select a person for the respective sports. And there should be a lot of provisions for the player which would encourage to everyone participate in their respective games. And India which we forgotten many games, this would create a interest in every sportsmen and our youth revived their talents.
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Chandrasekhar meruvu said:   1 decade ago
Hello friends let discuss.

First We must point on the current educational system. All private school management and parents are giving their first preference to studies, ok well its not blamable but the thing is they are not considering any other option other than that even in second place 1) studies, 2) studies, 3) studies, 4) studies, . Until our funeral we had to study. That is the main point they are thinking. Now a days private school management are becoming commercial. Schools without playground had no permission to start but they are showing that they had play ground, but the thing is that is not a playground it is parking place of the vehicles.

In future we even don't find players, artists, dancers, painters,.. We only see the educated fools. I promise that I give full freedom to my child.

Thanking you.
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Vidya said:   1 decade ago
Six Billion and One Bronze! This condition of India can be solved by Giving importance to Sports equal to Academics. Importance for Studies in India is so Badly rooted that Sports are considered as waste of Time by Parents. This attitude of parents is again because of lesser Opportunities for Sports and dilemma that their Children may not be able to procure Success and Luxury which they think can be easily obtained being Engineer or an MBA graduate.

Such posts really addresses the problems of Middle class People of Indians which is a Major class.

So if Education system is reviewed with compulsory SPORTS Just like Academics, Eligibility should be assigned for sports to enter the next level of Degree/Standard from the SCHOOL LEVEL, with standardized Amenities Provided in Educational Institutions (only then they should be licensed).

Then Efficient and talented SPORTSMAN shall be produced under the Right guidance from Childhood. When such a SPORTSMEN addresses the Nation apparently He will gain GOLD not just BRONZE. And the Opportunities increases as a result.

This impacts the future generation to get motivated and hence the PERCEPTION TOWARDS IMPORTANCE OF SPORTS changes radically.
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Tani ray said:   1 decade ago
This itself shows that are "system is just not happening"! if you see the olympics medals tally India is way way behind. Other sports apart from just cricket should be taken seriously. Hockey for instance is our national game. Don't you think it should be changed to cricket rather. Why is that only when somebody bags a medal that then he/she is highlighted? abhinav bindra was showered with money after his victory at the olymics. But he is already such a rich guy, why spend so much on him?ther are so many poor athletes who need sponsors. Do they ever get it?the government should really concentrate on the struggling athletes, they should be given proper ground to nurture there talents. Proper coaching should be provided. If this done properly there may be a day soon we see India rising up at the medals tally.
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Samara said:   9 years ago
India has a population of 6 billion and is hardly able to secure a single bronze medal. It's not because our country doesn't have talent. This is due to following reasons:.

> Our education system doesn't permit us to take out some time for sports. Parents want children to concentrate on their studies rather than on the sport.

> Our country is lacking behind in proving good facilities and coach to the sports person. It doesn't have much money to invest in sports because major chunks of money go into the pockets of corrupt officials.

> Because of lack of facilities, domestic players are unable to compete at international level.

> In India, cricket enjoys a special status as compared to any other sport. In spite of hockey being our national sport, cricket enjoys a special position. That is why our country is performing well in one area and is the worst in the rest.
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Riti said:   1 decade ago
In my opinion we are the nation of the billion but at the time to get the medals we are fail behind this their are several reasons to led down the growing players. Mostly when a good players want to become international player in their sports he does not have enough capital to buy a expensive tools because most of the sports tools are to expensive they can't afford these tools.

The another reason is that most of the parents in India want their child become become engineer, docter, lawyer etc. They treated sports as a hobby not as a carrier. They think that their child want to go to spoil her/him future in sports then they do not allow to play any sports yo their child.

But when we talk about the other nation which have a population half of less then the India. They doing well in sports because in that nation sports is treated carrier and the players are indulged in their sports from the childhood that why they are getting medals and that makes a large differance.
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