Six Billion and One Bronze!

In other countries like America by participating in sports one can survive due to plenty of opportunities (NFL, NBA, WWF, Boxing). In India it is worthless. Nowadays few coming up they are like IPL for cricket, IHL for Hockey, IBL for Badminton. I hope there should more for other sports as well like wrestling, gymnastics, shooting, archery, swimming. TV anchors should bring out super talents like dance show or India got talent in the stage for sports also and should encourage to get into sports by awarding them. It is not to blame parents. Politician son goes to politics since more money involved, actor son goes for movie acting since it gives money. So encouragement should come from childhood. Doctors son will choose MBBS to take care original Hospital. So all village young people should encourage by giving good sports facility, since forming with sports have a good combination for a healthy body.

Ya its a really a sad story that a country which ranks 2nd in terms of population in the world just brings one medal in the Olympics.

This is mainly because of lack of infrastructure being provided for the development of other sports besides cricket also people should turn their attention to other games rather than cricket and also the media should play a important role in the promotion of other sports.

I agree with Tasneem. This is the fact in India that noone wants to make his/her career in Sports except cricket because they are not earning money for them. And this is common human psychology that we don't want to do that thing in which we are not getting any results (in terms of money). So for it the Government should make the sports field remunerative. In it media should come forward to make others sports like our national game i.e., Hockey popularise between youngsters and personalities from glamour world should also come forward to encourage youth for sports as today's youth idolise them.

Sports has certainly swept from hands of a sportsman to politicians. And we know how well they play, and easily they get GOLD INSTEAD organisation for even to add a platinum medal and can guaranty achieving it is a blindfolded attempt for our politicians.

That one bronze was a struggle of our players which is a respectable achievement which should not be criticized.

Hi, this is Yogananda.

My suggestion on this topic is we have 1.252 billion people in India. But we get total of 6 medals (2 silver and 4 bronze). We so many talented persons are there but they have no money political power. It full based on caste & recommendation and influence and politics. Of course, its international but money can do this.

First of all, I want to say that the reason why many Indians fail to win medals is that we need to change our education system. When I was in 5th standard, we had two physical education (PE) periods, but by the time I reached 9th standard, we had only one PE period. This shows that our Indian schools don't prioritize sports. Instead, they focus on extra classes to help students score higher marks. Do any schools conduct extra classes to guide sports students? Suppose a student gets selected for a state-level competition by some luck. In that case, politics often take over, and only those with money can participate at the national or Olympic level. We are missing out on real talent.

Why do countries like the USA and Australia win more medals? It's because they focus equally on sports. In their schools, teachers guide students based on their strengths those good at studies are guided accordingly, and those talented in sports are nurtured. Everyone follows different paths. But here in India, we only follow one path academics. People are often unaware that athletes earn more than many in IT or government jobs.

The reason that we are not good in Olympics is that we are nowhere near the USAs of the world in spending on athletes, we spend a good amount of money on cricket we flourish today as a result.