A Chance For The Coverup!

India’s eternal wait for an individual gold medal in Olympics is finally over. Abinav’s cool and precision shooting in finals has clinched us the most awaited and elusive gold. We don’t to face the embarrassing question, “Why can’t India produce a gold medal winning sports person with a billion people as resource” any more. Every single Indian is proud of this feet, however entire sports fraternity should not be using this opportunity to cover up there inability to produce world class athlete’s with a resource pool of billions. In fact Abinav’s success is independent of our sporting system proves this point. Even the smallest and poorest nations are able to produce world class athletes year after year, event after event, were as we drop our head’s in shame and anguish every time we compete just for the mere formality.

Our sporting system needs a complete overhaul and almost all the games needs to be re laid completely at the grass root level. Is there a remedy to change this failure of sorts in a instance? Not really, the only way we can achieve success consistently is by investing resources to identify them young, put them through a structured and professional program for better grooming. It is very vital to expose such groomed athletes to international competition frequently to ensure that they do not choke under pressure or good competition. We need to make sports a very integral part of our value system, so that sports and such activities command the respect they deserve.

Is there any other benefit apart from international glory in developing a sporting system? Yes, with a nation of billion people, with a majority of them still young, we need to ensure the system provides every one a passage and path for a healthy living and the only way this can be achieved by en graining sports, as an integral part of value system. It’s not without a reason, that “All work and no play, makes Jack a dull boy”. Hope this gold medal creates a window of opportunity for every deserving sport’s person to attain his goal by creating a better infrastructure.