India is about to complete its most successfull olympics ever, with 3 medals. Thats quite an acheivement considering our poor run for years at this stage.
But I dont understand why cricket is blamed for our failure at the other games ( significant like syncronised diving and syncronised swimming, how many people consider it a sport? ). The reason I think that cricket is so popular in our country is that we can fairly compete at international level in this games & the no. of world class players we have produced. As far as other sports are considered, think wisely and without biaseness, can we compete with that pride as we can in cricket? I am not talking about winning, I am talking about simply competing. Now dont start argueing about how our govt. is ignorant and all that, its plain truth that people only talk about the winner & for instance the one who bowed out with a fair competition. Indians are far away from that tag except for cricket. And when I talk about giving a competition consider this fact for example, the Fastest woman in world completes her 100 m run in somewhat 10 & a half sec, the record for same in India for the same distance for men is 10 & half sec exactly.
I love my country and I am proud to be an Indian. I am also confident that some day this will change and we will also compete & win at international level, but till then accept the fact and stop blaming cricket for the miserable state of other sports in country.
And oh yes enjoy the euphoria and some illusion that we r the world champs that media has created. Congrats Abhinav Sushil & Vijender, you all made us proud.
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