Rio De
Jenario Olympics 2016 signed off announcing some of the countries champions and
hoping the rest to be the champions in next Olympics that is to be held in Tokyo in 2020. Well it
was a toughy combat for over 205 nations at Olympics where in the sportsman of
USA brought laurals to their country by conquering all the other nations in
Olympics and getting its name at the top of
the list followed by Britain and
China respectively.
If we
talk about Indian contingents who drew their souls out to prove their
excellence . Sadly out of 119 Indian sportsmen who qualified for #Rio2016, only
2 could win medals. The two of them are Sakshi Malik who won silver medal in freestyle
wrestling and the other one is P.V.Sindhu who won bronze medal in badminton.
Have’nt these ladies won medals, Indian public would have faced a great
disappointment . There were some other sportsmen , though who could not win
medals but got their names outshined and made their country proud by their
marvelous performances. Amongst those , one is Deepa Karmarkarand other is
Jeetu Roy. Wherein Deepa impressed
everyone by her final vault and stood fourth missing third position only by
0.15 points, Jeetu Roy also played his best and stood fourth . It won’t be
wrong to say that “girls ruled this time in Olympics” and that is the most
important part of all.
While
some of the, gave their best and were praised , there was one who was banned by
CAS for taking drugs and he was Narsingh Yadav who was recently quoted as
saying “I’ll fight to prove all
allegations against me wrong.
As it is
said a coin has two sides, so does this Olympics had. On one hand when India
was celebrating the win of 2 medals that were managed to bring home on the
other hand the celebration was mocked by
a journalist of Pakistan Omar.R. Qureshi. He was just not the one, a
similar tweet went live by U.K journalist Piers Morgan. Piers was found quoting
on twitter “country with 1.2 billion people wildly celebrates 2 losing medals.
How embarrassing is that?” The journalist got slammed by many Indians. Even
personalities like Suhel Seth and Chetan Bhagat responde to his tweet rather
condescending tweet.
Now this
thing leaves a big question mark on the performances of Indian candidates. Such
kind of global intersetwould never had rose if we performed a bit well in any
of the Olympics that ever happened. Its true that participation is more
important but participation for participation’s sake is not the motto, no doubt
we have brilliant atheletes who got their and their country’s name outshined
but they were just handful and we stood 67th at Rio. Handful is not
enough, to be a mediocre “always” is not enough. India since 1900 has only one
gold which was brought by Abhinav Bindra . Statistics says in every four year
Indian contingents go to Olympics just to erase what they gained in the
previous one.
We need
a lo more to shut the mouths of people like Qureshi and Morgan and that can
only happen if our atheletes try a bit more harder and also if our government
and the system supports them. One most important reason for our atheletes
lagged behind is our system and the government
who do not bother a lit and after Olympics turns all their attention to winners which
seems exaggeration. One of the Indian athelete named O.P.Jaisha fainted before
the finish line in a marathon race just
because there was no Indian canopywith volunteers like other nations which could provide her with wayer at each kilometer
whereas .
There
are number of things that needs to be changed if we actually want India’s name
to be outshined at Olympics globally. Well Rio Olympics ended with many highs
and lows, now let see what happens at Tokyo in 2020.
