Although Indians lost lot of finals in CWG, I feel India’s overall performance is satisfactory. If we consider total number of medals, and not only the golds, India is 1st in Weightlifting, Wrestling and Shooting, 2nd in Badminton and joint 3rd in Boxing. However, as a country with more than one sixth of world’s population, I think, we need to give emphasis on other sports as well. Specially Athletics, Swimming, Cycling and Gymnastics have lot of events. Australia won 57 medals in Swimming, 24 in Cycling, and England won 28 in Swimming, 19 in Gymanstics. We have a common belief that Indians are not physically built for Athletics, Swimming, Cycling and Gymnastics. A few of the players proved it wrong, India won 12 medals in Athletics in CWG 2010. I agree CWG is not easy for Athletes and Swimmers, worlds best running nations like Jamaica, Kenya and best Swimming nations Australia, Great Britain participate in CWG. Still, I believe we can pick a dozen of PT Ushas and a dozen of Milkha Singhs from 1.2 billion Indians and feed them, train them and make them win those lost medals.
Posted on: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 19:06:04 +0000
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