Six Billion and One Bronze!

Hi, Friends!

It's good to hear your valuable opinions.

Yes, I do feel the same. Being the 2nd largest population it is really a matter of shame for us that we hardly can manage to achieve 1 bronze (Sakshi Malik) and 1 silver (P V Sindhu). But the major concern is who is to be blamed for the present scenario?

If we look at our administrative system then yes the government does not take any initiative for the budding athletes in order to promote their talents. Due to which their future is dark if sports are chosen as career options in India, this bears a clear testimony why parents stop their children to pursue sports as a career option. The next thing is those who get into sports profession have to struggle a lot. They have to defy the odds in order to seek proper equipment, necessary training etc. So the lack of infrastructure also plays a pivotal role towards the present condition of sports. Poverty can also be blamed because most of the athletes have to kill their interest and give up because of their financial stature. Thus I feel that the government is totally responsible for the present scenario. If politics is taken out from sports and talent is given opportunity then I surely believe that India will perform better and bring glory to our nation.

Surely it is so distressing to hear this news that out of six billion of people we had won only one bronze and gold this olympics! But the main question to be asked that who is stalling the Indian athletes to take the big leap?Is it our own system or not?

I think that firstly our civic bodies or our system is greatly responsible for this situation. We (our system) have no elite coaching plans for emerging players at state or national level. We can take example of a sprinter Seema Antil having best achievement of clinching a gold medal at 2014 Asian Games at Incheon concedes that she didn't get right grooming during her transition years. There are no customised plans for talented athletes, no state-of -the-art facillities, no scientific backup.

Second point is there is lack of job security in this field. This is the very huge problem for the athletes who get mired in into various injuries and got sidelined.

Also there are some recalcitrant athletes who make India shamed. For example a 17 year old javelin thrower Rohit Yadhav failed a dope test at a national youth meet and was stripped of his Asian Youth championship silver last year. List of such athletes is endless.

So there shall be some customised plans for the atheletes at the junior level. Also system should care about the job security assurance and right grooming for the emerging athletes. Also our national level athletes should focus on improving their technique instead of focusing on latest food supplements.

After reading the entire discussion all I could learn was many are pointing out the politicians and rest other are talking about the fault in the system, while there is another group who is talking about the game cricket. Here I just want to ask everybody one question, How many of us go out during elections and vote? How do you cast your vote by looking the face of the minister or by looking the work he/she has done? Why everybody is just talking about the cricket game and not about others?

Our ministers are the person whom we choose and its all our fault that Indian political system is full of corrupts and wrong politicians, take an example of country like USA people choose that person to lead them who thinks about the public first and then about himself but here in India the votes are caste on the basis of payment. During recent elections my driver told that he voted for XYZ party cause they were giving everybody who is voting Rs. 500/-, its not his fault here also the fault is ours only cause all the literate people are busy sitting in their ac villa and bungalows and enjoying the money where as the illiterate and poor people are going out and casting their votes.

Coming to games why curse cricket everybody celebrates when India wins a match but nobody even remember the name of a single hockey player, not to forget that hockey is our national game, when we only won't show any interest in games politicians will also play towards cricket cause they know people will see cricket match and they will gain popularity by going and looking into matters of that particular game, and popularity will give them votes.

Returning back to the topic six billion and one bronze means the talent which is present in our country of six billion its just that one person is having the talent to come up and fight for the country India is a leading giant in the software, companies are coming from abroad and taking the talent why that is not utilized in India, India is a land of opportunity and filled with talented people its just that talent is to be nurtured and focused then only India will transform from developing country to developed country and all this can be done only when we have this courage to stand up for ourselves or have this courage to elect the correct person. Think what we are doing and then and only then we will be six billion gold and one.

Olympics at Rio began with a lot of hopes and anticipations. Our athletes pushing really hard to make it to the top and fans cheering everywhere. This year was expected to be a different story. Dipa Karmakar became the first Indian female gymnast at Olympics and finished fourth at the Women's Vault Gymnastic events. A bronze and a silver by Sakshi Malik and PV Sindhu and we were done already. There are several reasons which together constitute to India's poor performance at Olympics.

1) Lack of sports culture.

Unless there is a synergized sports culture, you are not going to win a string of medals. A fundamental overhaul is needed and urgently so. -Boria Mazumdaar. Without sports culture, athletes are left out of the supportive environment that is strongly needed in the shaping of better-performing bunch of athletes.

2) Poverty and lack of education.

There is a lack of strong foundation for sportsperson in India. While pursuing their interest in sports they also have to take care of their economic factors and pay a part of their attention towards earning livelihood or education for some. You do not get spared from exams in schools for pursuing sports.

3) Infrastructure.

We do lack the proper infrastructure for training and practice session of athletes that could make them more competent and well equipped to deal with world class athletes. It could have been far better of our athletes have access to better infrastructure and get to play all across the country to stay well practised.

4) Lack of encouragement.

Right from the very beginning youth of India is discouraged to take sports as a career. Parents are more obsessed with the likes of medical and engineering. And for girls, the scenario is worse with an obnoxious list of drawbacks and hindrances they have to face before they could persuade their parents to let them play. Most of us are forced to quit sports, in order to do something that would give them better job security.

Our athletes might not have bagged many medals, but they sure are trying harder and doing better. In years to come with more emphasis towards the development of infrastructure and providing world class facilities for their training, I am sure our athletes will make India proud. More importantly, our encouragement and media focus over sports other than just cricket could do wonders.

As we have all ready seen most of the topic have been covered by my friends, but there is one important thing that has not discussed is media coverage. We usually see media does not give much attention to other sports comparatively cricket. So media has very important role in promoting other sports. Its all because of media vijender singh, abhinav bindra, etc they came in lime light. They inspire people to join particular sport.

India leads in population but is in bottom of medal tally. Who is responsible for this? we people only, we talk about India's poor show in olympics but how much we encourage it. We even don't know about much games other than cricket. In our country sports is not given equal respect as studies. From beginning our parents, school doesnt give much emphasis on sports as to studies.

Hello, friends.

Six billion and one bronze. There are several reasons for this.

- First one is that the total population of a country doesn't have any relation with Olympics medal. What really affect it is the part of the population that actively participate in sports activities.

- In India, the academics is given more importance than sports. We have many good universities but very few good sports universities.

Yes it is really shameful for all of us. With the second highest population in the world we could only managed to achieve 2 medals. But I don't think there is any shortage of talent in this great nation. But I believe that there is lack of infrastructure to get these talents perform at the world stage. A very cause of this is the so called Politics of India. People choose to play just for getting government jobs under sports quota. Government is building up new IITs but with no concern to build a Olympics Stadium. We are not even nominated for hosting great events. India's sports needs to distribute its focus on all games rather than spending all on only one sport.

We all remember that everyone's first friend/teacher is none other than our parents. Most of them don't consider sports as a career option for their children and do not encourage them in that direction. They don't know how sports would be a career option. All citizens should be made aware of the career in sports. They consider sports as a thing just to pass time. We all think education is the only thing for us to excel in life. That's correct but they also consider the interests of their children and also try to find out which suits their children. There are many other career opportunities like music, dance, acting, sports, writing and so on. Parents duty is to find out which attracts their children and encourage them in that direction. What makes their children happy. If they enjoy what they are doing, no one can stop them from excelling in their career. So my sincere advice to all, just observe which is the interest of your kids from childhood. Medals will follow automatically.

Hello friends!

Six Billion and One Bronze, these five words speak the current condition of India in commonwealth games. When a small boy/girl is studying school their parents focus on getting them good marks in exams rather than cultivating his/her hobbies in sports. As people want their children to be doctor or scientist or engineer rarely parents support their children for sports. They just end up the conversation saying "It's not your cup of tea". This improvisation should be done by Indian Education System by adding sports as a subject and encouraging students for participating in every sports.

Another problem is that India is obsessed with cricket those parents who encourage their child they want them to become a cricketer. In commonwealth games only 2 swimmers are sent for representing India! this is a brutal truth. As cricket has got fame and money involved in it, so everybody wants to be cricketer. After Mr. Milkha Singh there has not been a single person to continue his victory streak. After cricketers retire they still get into limelight with commentary or something like that but does anyone care when a gold medalist of discus throw retire. They live an ordinary life inspite of giving so much to team India. Indians love to play football then why are they not participating in FIFA representing India?

On those five words anyone can give a lecture of two to three hours but there should be some steps taken for prevention of it.

Thank you.