GAME OF MEDAL

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 67^th 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.