Friday, February 6, 2009

What should be the secret for India to win more medals in olympics

As renowned intellectual Albert Camus said-“Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless life stifles and dies.” What lacks in team from India in Olympics is willingness to win, reasons are may like poor rate of recognition, even if they are winner(leaving exceptional case of Abhinav Bindra and Vijendra singh in 2008 Olympics, and that too seem to be co-incidental)they are treated like no other than a normal sportsperson. Why in our nation Cricket is a national sport and others are considered detrimental? But that is not the issue we are discussing upon, we are looking forward to a strategy which in forth-coming Olympics should be implemented. If we look at the tally of Beijing Olympics-2008, china had won 100 in which 52 are gold medals, as comparative to its previous 2004 Olympics scores that was 63 medals and in which 32 gold medals were there. Similarly, USA won previously in 2004, 102 medals with 36 gold and this time it raised to 110 and 36 gold. The myth is that only they can, we can’t. Fact is that in China and Cuba like nation every sport is given equal amount of funds. Along with that Chinese strategy is that they participate in not truly global competition categories they prefer those where they can use their traditional skills. But the best example to influence us is of United Kingdom where similar to our cricket obsession they have Rugby and soccer; yet they are excelling in both Olympics and their favourite sports. As Facts show that in 1996 UK hardly win 14 medals and in 2000 it became 114, in 2004 it is 94, but in 2008 it again scored 194. So in crux we can say that without compromising with the popularity of any other sport we too can promote and provoke our youth to get involve in Olympics. I’ll suggest lets be hypothetical about the tally and will promote it like 12 medals by 2012.Sounds jingoistic? So it is, after all its all about being enthusiastic.
Ergo, Our 3 primary targets to improve should be- 1) Archery, 2) Boxing and 3) Shooting. Only detail planning is required. As an instance, problem occurred with female archery team, Mangal singh unable to handle pressure while shooting during the elimination round in Olympics-2008. One prime aspect should be that advance selection should be done and for that India can take Asian Games-2010 as its basic ground for final selection. The winners in this competition can be finally shortlisted but before that this competition should be taken as final stage for selection and for that too India should take its best trump cards to play. Since India is traditionally dexterities in Boxing, therefore it should be taken gravely, As we know along with power houses like Cuba, turkey and East Europe will be the tough competitors, and we can’t ignore the upcoming talents from Thai and Tajikistan. For boxing there is always one thing considered important that is fresh flesh. Hence our two young boxers vijender and jitender can also able to create romance in field of boxing.
Things which should be taken care are that our strategy should be flexible and new. Extra baggage should be avoided like athletes, who are not doing well at all, they can only be selected when they are able to prove themselves as deserving. Problems like lack of physio in sushil kumar’s case, when he needed a physio, his coach was playing the dual role of physio and mentor both, where as there were 4 physios with the athlete group. May be if sushil kumar had been able to get a physio at that point of time, maybe we are able to get few more medals in our hands. Well even the experiments could be donein tennis and badminton too as we already have a grand slam winner pair of sania mirza & leander paes. But apart from that many a things could also emerge as an amalgamation.Finally let us expect that apart from all politics, our sportsmen can emerge as the true people and can show some integrity.

1 comment:

  1. The only way India can grab more medals in Olympics is if we start concentrating on the grass root level talent, the guys who have motivation and willingness to perform and have nothing to loose, someone who has NO other choice but to PERFORM! NOT someone who comes from a BIG FAMILY and has n no. of EXIT options if he/she doesn't PERFORM...

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