Six Billion and One Bronze!

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.

In my words.

Its only lacking of encouragement from the society and family. Let us see in cricket participating teams is 11 (at most 12). So how will be India as world winner. Its only coming from society encouragement. Sachin gives for India cricket fever so he was getting Bharat ratna. Dhyan chand gives for India 8 gold medals. So he didn't getting at least Padma vibhushan. This is the encouragement in India and with the politics also.

100 jamaica's is equal to one India but in olympics 28 india's is equal to jamaica. Let us remove love in one sporting game. From now on words lets try to love our nation. This is only we will giving for our nation.

Thank you.

Don't blame only the politics. We are lacking of winning youth in our country. Hard Determination to excel has vanished from their mind because of Hip Hop and Western Life Style ( only followed in Dressing & odd Relationships). Rememnber Great Milkha Singh, P.T.Usha, Dhanraj Pillay who just kept working hard to make it.

We can donate to Swamis and Deras but cannot contribute for deserving sportsmen at our level where politics has nothing to do with. We also have to take the responsibilty as politicians do not increase the population at 1 child / 2 second. We have to blame ourseleves that increasing population is snatching sources and opppurtunities.

I think We should not blame government, its one's individual effort. Problem arises in our family. All parents want to make their child an engineering, doctor not a sportsman and this discouragement from their own family not let the talented child or sportsman to achieve their goal and win hundreds of medal.

Encouragement and support from family as well as others are also important to motivate the talented person.

Sometimes due to financial problem also the poor children cannot able to reach and participate the national level competition even they are talented, so here Government has to provide some facilities and infrastructure for the poor people.

The politicians and the sports policies of India are the root cause of this. Some days back, there was a meeting at Indian olympic association to discuss the preparations of the upcoming olympics. The meeting was conducted for full 6 hours and only one sentence to the meeting agenda was said by an officer. "hum achha perform karenge". The whole meeting was full of politics and everyone there was more interested in retaining their posts. This is just a small example. This careless attitude towards olympics is the root cause of our humiliation there. Besides this, there are not state-of-art training facilities.

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.

This is really a good topic for discussion, the problem with our country is corruption, involvement of politicians in sports. Their are three things which should be transparent and these are- money, politics, sports.

Politicians should not be allowed to take decision on their own in choosing the player to play at international level, procedure should be transparent, deserving sportsman should get chance.

Money earned from cricket like game should be shared in other sports, so that every sport can get a chance to prosper.

Education system should provide the facility for sports.

The prime reason for such a disappointing figure for medals despite having second largest population in the world is the lack of funding for sports other than cricket due to which these sports cannot avail a good quality coach and proper training. Also choosing cricket as an option is always safe and lucrative option in India.

The main problem is also that what will be their source of Bread and Butter after olympics as the tournaments for sports other than cricket are not done at regular intervals and they have to do some other part time jobs or business for their survival.

Six billion and one bronze! That is what the topic contains too many reasons, of course, this ratio is negligible, first of all, awareness is must, I mean to say due to lack of awareness regarding sports, its competitions, and most important is scholarship in sports availed by government is the major reason, second thing is mob irrespective of talent, the one having a talent or ability in any sport activity are pulled by family, this is the matter of lack of assurance to family, which can be improved by awareness camps and fruitful facility to family.

Hi, my dear readers!

Six billion and One Bronze is a good topic to discussion. In my point of view it absolutely correct. In our country parents are not encourage to participate sports that're our Indians mentality. Parents think only.

My daughter/son will be settle in engineering field or doctor field extra but no one think to settle in sports. No role in the education system to sports and our Indian politics are not good don't encourage to sports that is why our situation is like this. If above problems are solved then Indian sports will be good.