Sunday, August 12, 2012

Olympic 2012 and India

Monday 13th August just after finishing a spectacular Olympic display by London, 2 days before the 65th India independents day, sitting on the London overground train passing through the Stratford Olympic park, my thoughts started reflecting on the Indian performance in this Olympic. I started thinking as a true Indian as what is going to happen to all these participants? What is going on in the minds of these people who played in the Olympics? All these days the compete each other played for the nation played for the pride then played for the medal. Today all disbursed in their own directions. Some with joy, some with disappointments, some hurt, some sober, everything has to end!
India a country with 1.2 billion population, emerging economy failure in Olympic! Countries with less population with a smallest state of India pproduced more gold medals than India, countries with out any economy could produce more gold medals why?
I think if India serious about learn from the past and want a good future, they need to draw a map from the memory and draw another blueprint for the future. Learn from the countries like Briton, a country with less than one fifth of our population can produce some many medals, can compete with mighty Americans , Chinese and Russians what are we doing. Britons success is not a overnight miracle. Sixteen years earlier briton had one gold medal in Olympic. They decided their destiny and decided that will be golden one. India need a golden dreamer. Each one of Indian need to dream the success of Briton, each parent tell this success stories to their kids and stop portraying British as villains and crux. If see present India we are defeated by outsiders we always defeated by our own people. Our own people ganged up each other and let outsiders to take advantage, so stop crying British spoiled India. Since British left howmuch development did we do in our country? What kind of sensible development did we do? Other than our own people looting the country in broad day light. What else is our achievement in past sixty plus years?
We need to restructure our sporting system. We don't need politicians managing our sports. We need some serious wellwisher of sport to run the sport system. Need transparency in sport management. Need to build the trust in business and charities to invest in the sports. We need a proper scientific training and research and development system. And we need to have a system which support and run the system in longnrun  need to be placed. Presently I can assure any Indian soul these things we vantage archive by yourself for now. We need some western help because our people have zero experience in all the above! We need some good standard non partial well managed sporting events to boost all the above activities.
So if our people serious about what do we do?

We need a blue print of plan which sports areas we want to tap first and what we want to archive in those areas with time scale. Then the government need to find money to invest in those areas. I said investment because initially government had to invest because it is easy to get sponsor for cricket but not for any other sports because nothing else is popular. Making something popular is the job of government. Parallel to the task government need to spend dome money on research and development under which we need a sport medicine, equipment development and scientific analysis for all sports. We also need to develop some world class sporting events where sportsmen and women's from all over the world can come and compete. We need make our national championship s more accessible to the real talents. We might need to try to acquire the existing ones like world championship and regional championship like Asian championship. We need a more transparency in each stage of these processes like selection of sportsmen and women, selection of administrative staff, fund allocation and spending. ...................

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