First
of all, a big congrats to Gagan Narang for giving India its first medal in
London Olympics. We can hope for more in the coming days.
India
is having more than 120 crore people. But still we struggle at every Olympics
to get some medals. Countries with very less population produce good athletes
and earn a few medals at Olympics. We are not behind any country in human
resource. But we fail to provide right environment for them to come up to the
international standard. It is very unfortunate that only cricketers are getting
enough support from government and even from the society. Only during Olympics
or Asian games, we remember other sports activities. Sponsors are also
interested only in cricket as it is generating huge revenue.
It
is high time for the govt and the sports ministry to do at least something for
sports activities other than cricket. We can hope that at least in next
Olympics, our players will be more equipped to face the international competition.
