INDIA @ OLYMPICS

India won its first medal at the beijing olympics 2008 today in the men's 10 m air rifle event . the indian representative was abhinav bindra who scored 700.5 winning the event ahead of the chinese and the finnish who finished 2nd and 3rd respectively. It was a proud moment for all the indians as this was india's 1st gold medal in the olympics after 1980!!!!!
The Indians will bask in the glory of this gold medal and maybe one or two more medals which india might win at this olympics but no one really tries to improve the situation of sports in india .... why does a country havin such a huge population and such immense talent win only one or two medals at every olympics! even the islanders Newzealand manages to win more medals than us ....
The problem mainly lies in the people who head the socities ... there is corruption everywher and people try to make the maximum amount of money that they can... so half of the money provided for the development of teh sports ends up in some1's pocket.... India which was the hockey champion and won eight gold medals at the olympics failed to even qualify this time ... such is the situation of indian hockey which is also our national sport ... the IHF head gill has led the hockey from a position as high as mount everest to a low like marina trench...
another problem in india is the popularity of cricket! ... any cricketer becomes a hero by takin a single wicket or even by scoring a half century .. whereas other sportsmen slog it out all their lives and are still unknown in the country...
the highest ranked tennis player in the men's section is ranked at 200 odd .... certainly there is enough talent in india tat we should have atleast 2-3 players in teh top 100!
indian football team is ranked 165 in the world!
the olympic medal winner rathore has to fund himself to go out of country for any tourney!

actually we can go on about all sports except cricket and we will see the sorry state they are in right now...

we should all try to promote sports in one way or the other... one of teh most effective way maybe by choosing correct leaders who are not corrupt and work towards the improvement of the country!
hopefully one day we'll be leading the medal's tally at olympics and tat will be teh day tat every indian will be proud of their land and mother nation :)
JAI HIND!!!