Abhinav Olympic Thoughts

Finally India got an Olympic Gold in individual event, shooting. Congrats Abhinav Bindra!. We all are proud of you.



Till now our Gold was only for team events and that too limited to hockey. If we count the number of medals India won from the year country started participating in the games, its only 18, as on this day this time. Where as many other nations (mostly developed countries) gets this many medals in a single Olympic game (for example the US already got 22 from 2008 Olympics). Why is it so?

It is the right time or high time to look into it. These days, India eats drinks and sleeps only Cricket. No other sport or game is promoted. Many of the athletes are coming from poor financial background. Some of them don’t even have money for a decent three meals per day. When one is struggling to meet both ends, how can they afford supplements and personal trainers? And the facilities available to them?

If we take the list of highest tax payers in India, we can see cricket players and not even a single person from any other sports (I think this year, a lady politician who is supposed to be from a poor financial background beat them all !! no, she is not corrupt…how can she be??? ). Some cricket players already made wealth for the next 10 generations or so. This is the root problem. I love cricket but still, I can’t help telling the truth.

Take the case of this year’s Gold medalist. One way, this is his personal achievement. He is a millionaire and hence he could afford everything best in his event, shooting. He has got a personal ranch for practice and a personal coach from Germany (a Swizz lady). Talk to any India athlete. Are they satisfied with what they got? NO will be the answer except for insults. In the present tragic situation, it is very difficult to consider sports as a career unless one is into cricket.

Billions are generated in cricket. The cricketing body in India is the richest in the world compared to its counterparts. If the rulers can’t find any money to support other sports, they better tax the cricket and cricketers and use that exclusively (yes, please don’t eat up this fund too, for God’s or Satan’s sake (I don’t know whom these politicians represent))for supporting other sports.

When will we get a Mister for Sports who love sports for real? A person who understands sports and who believe that what this country lack is not talent but the infrastructure and the way other sports and people involved in it are treated like?