As India claims to have the world’s second largest population, it’s hard to believe that country’s largest-ever delegation of 120 athletes could manage to win just two medals – one silver and one bronze – in the just concluded Rio de Janeiro Olympics 2016. Such a dismal performance raises many questions on India’s pathetic sports body, brimming with corruption. Lacking basic sports facilities and world-classes coaches, India’s sports body needs more hands to be healed. Critics and experts believe sports body refurbishment, government voluntarism and corruption removal can be the key to moving forward. It may however take years to revamp the whole sports body in India.
To make sure India does better in the subsequent sports events both national and international, a nationwide survey on the problems, which have deep infiltrated India’s sports body, is the first step to improve as a sporting nation. Olympic level athletes cannot be produced overnights. It’s a years-long process that requires money, time and efforts.
Athletes in India are overwhelmed by lack of finance and shortfall of sports facilities. From identifying the right talent to encouraging them to grow as topnotch athletes, India’s sports well-wishers have many responsibilities on their shoulders to produce eminent future Olympians and to enter the new world of hopes and possibilities.
Interference of non-sportsmen, politicians and bureaucrats in sports is one of the many reasons why Indian athletes fail to prove worthy of the expectations reposed in them. So, the sports bodies in India should be handed over to sportsmen, who possess adequate sports understanding. Moreover, athletes should be inducted based on their skills, and not their financial status. Also, there should be an impartial and transparent selection policy. Those who have talent but lack finance should be given possible financial help. These could possibly the best remedial steps to dream of a better tomorrow.
To make sure India does better in the subsequent sports events both national and international, a nationwide survey on the problems, which have deep infiltrated India’s sports body, is the first step to improve as a sporting nation. Olympic level athletes cannot be produced overnights. It’s a years-long process that requires money, time and efforts.
Athletes in India are overwhelmed by lack of finance and shortfall of sports facilities. From identifying the right talent to encouraging them to grow as topnotch athletes, India’s sports well-wishers have many responsibilities on their shoulders to produce eminent future Olympians and to enter the new world of hopes and possibilities.
Interference of non-sportsmen, politicians and bureaucrats in sports is one of the many reasons why Indian athletes fail to prove worthy of the expectations reposed in them. So, the sports bodies in India should be handed over to sportsmen, who possess adequate sports understanding. Moreover, athletes should be inducted based on their skills, and not their financial status. Also, there should be an impartial and transparent selection policy. Those who have talent but lack finance should be given possible financial help. These could possibly the best remedial steps to dream of a better tomorrow.
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