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Are we Athletic?
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Despite being a nation of more than a hundred million people, an Olympic Gold Medal is really hard to come and the first one was one by Abhinav Bindra in shooting. We did win a silver medal way ago when the whole nation went into euphoria but sadly that too came in a non-athletic event.
No doubt we have the privilege of producing some great batting giants like Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, and Sunil Gavaskar etc. But where is the element of athletics in donning gloves as a batsman? We know many ‘Inzamams’ who are great batsman but are pedestrian athletes. The lack of genuine fast bowlers and agile fielders proves that we lack in athletics.
Now about other sports other than cricket. Coming to our football first, we see that this sport has never had even a semblance of international recognition. Hockey, our national game, has seen a sharp decline ever since some developed countries joined the fray. Barring some occasional outbursts of success, the overall scenario in this game does not augur well. And the crux of the matter is that our hockey is not as fast as that of the European nations. Why not say, we are not as athletic as the game today warrants us to?
Now let us look at one of our successful neighbours, China. We have to go down the memory lane- some 30-40 years back when China, unable to sustain international competition in many fields had inflicted on itself self-imposed isolation for a decade to save its athletes from the ignominy of defeats. They were not hibernating in fact. On the other hand they were seething with anger. And they bounced back with vengeance winning a plethora of gold medals at the Olympics. And from then on they have never looked back. Can we not with the same enthusiasm, give athletes the much needed resuscitation?
Sadly, sports and nationalism go directly proportional to each other. Think of an extra lease of reign for an otherwise unpopular regime in Argentina waiting for its demise, when its football team won the World Cup and in the ensuing nostalgia of success, was buried for years, a simmering political discontent and the unpopular dictatorial regime came to be painted ‘nationalist’.
So athletics is a national cause. It is a nation’s pride. Let it be a national phenomenon. It cannot be promoted piecemeal. We have to rise an athletic nation.
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