As the bouts of Abhinav Bindra, Vijender Kumar and Sushil Kumar are creating waves around the country, many people have started comparing (as usual) India's achievements with that of China. How come India be at 50th position while China has won more than 50 golds? The problem with us Indians is that we don't attempt a deeper analysis and are often end up satisfied with claims and demands which hold no merit.
China's performance in Beijing Olympics is no magic performance. They have been preparing for it for over two decades now. In Athens 2004 they were are second position with 32 golds and in Sydney 2000 at third position with 28 golds. So if anybody who thinks that any country can replicate China's performance within time for next Olympics is daydreaming. Maybe countries like America and Australia who have strong sporting tradition can do it, but India obviously CANNOT. Just thinking of achieving what other countries have achieved after struggling for two-three decades is insane.
Dreaming of achieving such glory yourself is good, but dreaming in void is never going to help. And its ridiculous to even dream so when we don't have any sporting tradition (except cricket). The medals won by our sportsmen is not because of such dreams but because of aspirations and passions of handful of people.
Daydreaming is not going to take us anywhere. And if we we want to achieve better results in future we needs to plan and work hard to achieve set targets while encouraging our youngsters to take on the field (not just cricket) aspiring to be the best.
We don't loose in Olympics because we lack quality players. We loose because we as a country have no interest in Olympics and Olympic medals. That is the problem which needs be addressed urgently, otherwise the euphoria generated by the achievements of our Olympians will get drowned in the frenzy of Champions Trophy.
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