Commonwealth is not Olympiad

India, the second nation to cross 1 billion mark in population. Powered by vast human resources and Clustered with vivid cultures. Skills in every aspect are being appreciated around the world. Stop! Don’t go flown on skies and pat your backs, we are still backward in sports. We were the Lions in Olympics when hockey drew the nation wild with the winning spree of 7 Gold medals and other Gold medal after a gap of 16 years. During the course of time hockey has diminished a lot in public. Its not the game hockey in the focus here, all other sports are being ignored except cricket and Sania in Tennis. Cricket crazy India bowled to watch at work, hits the traffic, drinks coke, and wakes everyone with crackers,, cricket goes on. Our Media portrays headlines like – Sachin has lost concentration, Should Ganguly be sacked !

Criticizing Media is easy, when we go deep down and think how many of us do watch commonwealth or Asiad, When it is going live on National Telly whilst India is doing good? We are the culprits, who claim to love the country for its ongoing success. Importance and promotion of every game is hard hitting point, which needs greater attention rather than blaming the participants in Indian counterpart. Another big issue is - How well is the government providing infrastructure to support other games. To give you an example – City like Bangalore, which is prospering well in IT and BPO sector does consists of hell lot of Cricket clubs and grand stadium for Cricket but when we wander to look for other games, you can realistically count the clubs and venues and thanks for the last national games which provided a good venue like Kanteerava Stadium for many categories of sports. Does just a single stadium is enough for other sports to flourish. I really don’t blame the contestants from India who do put their best in Olympics performing outsite the country, in spite of poor facilities and training. Its pity that after not attaining a single gold from ages in Olympics, we are not gaining the throttle from this age-old coma. To give a count on gold medals that India has secured till now…, Its heart threatening count, we are less than 10, we are not in double figures.

If we take ratio of Winning medals in Commonwealth/Asiad with Olympics, it’s around 70:2. Propagation of Winning scale in Commonwealth/Asiad in Olympics is need of the hour. Winning in Commonwealth/Asia is not the end of story, Competition lies where others are getting superior.
Brand India as Global sports stamp is very close; it needs our strength, infrastructure and importance.