India and Olympics

India’s Olympic medal tally is such a shame.

We came as 4th spot in medal tally in Asian games but we are not even in top 10 in Olympics in Asia. Why no player shows determination to win gold medal. Maybe reason is the mentality of players that if they win any medal they will get crores of rupees, promotions, cars, govt jobs and what not. Look at the players of other countries they do not get anything still they won gold medals. Does this show weak mentality of our players except for some. Should govt not provide these much compensation to them or what's the reason?

Congratulations 🎉

😭😭😭😭😭

I have seen almost every event this olympics live or through highlights. Heck I saw even the qualifiers for all our athletes. What happened truly bums me out. The several 4th place finishes. What happened with Vinesh Phogat. And then Neeraj being unable to win gold (we should not expect a gold from someone twice, he is already a legend). But the heart wants more (yeh dil maange more). A) I don't want to say it's our athletes. Suddenly everyone is spreading that narrative, that they don't have a winning mentality. Look. One athlete may not have it. But several? This is their fucking lives. If you were in their position, would you not try your hardest? So aren't they trying their hardest? B) I don't nearly know enough to blame it on our government or our facilities. Sure, they would suck. But it hurts to see Pakistan and North Korea above us. So I won't take the resources argument. C) The truth is. In a nation of 1.4 billion, we produced 0 golds. China in a similar economic condition (1990s) used to get 20-30 medals easy. It's us. All of us. Let's focus on sports. We have got to do better. I am not a parent today, I will be tomorrow. I promise to: - Encourage my kids to take up sports, and support them fully through it if they want to - Not be that society uncle who keeps the football when it goes near them We can only do our part. Cheers.

Definitely the worst Olympics campaign by far

This is post Independence

1. Shooting 🎯 - Bronze: Swapnil Kusale in men's 50m rifle three positions final - Anjum Moudgil and Sift Kaur Samra eliminated in women's 50m rifle three positions qualification 2. Badminton 🏸 - Men's Singles: Lakshya Sen advances to quarterfinals, defeating HS Prannoy 21-12, 21-6 - Women's Singles: PV Sindhu knocked out in round of 16, losing 19-21, 14-21 to China's He Bing Jiao - Men's Doubles: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty eliminated in round of 16, losing 21-13, 14-21, 16-21 to Malaysia's Aaron Chia/Soh Wooi Yik 3. Athletics 🏃‍♂️ - Men's 20km Race Walk: Vikash finishes 30th, Paramjeet 37th, Akshdeep DNF - Women's 20km Race Walk: Priyanka Goswami finishes 41st with a time of 1:39.55s 4. Archery 🏹 - Men's Individual: Pravin Jadhav knocked out in round of 32, losing 0-6 to China's Wenchao Kao 5. Boxing 🥊 - Women's 50kg: Nikhat Zareen eliminated in round of 16, losing to China's Wu Yu 6. Hockey 🏑 - Men's Team: India loses 1-2 to Belgium in Pool B match 7. Sailing ⛵ - Men's Dinghy: Vishnu Saravanan ranked 25th after first two races - Women's Dinghy: Nethra Kumanan ranked 6th after first race 🔔 Upcoming Highlights - Badminton: Lakshya Sen in men's singles quarterfinals - Sailing: Continuation of men's and women's dinghy events - Other ongoing events in shooting, archery, and hockey Schedule for 2nd Aug i.e., Day 7 below ⬇️ (All timings in IST) 1. Mixed Team Archery medal on stake 2. Crucial Shooting, Badminton, Archery & Hockey matches 3. Field athletics events will start today

Many in India feel that govt is doing a lot for athletes and sports. But that is a wrong notion. Making stunning stadiums, sending air conditioners, etc is not the real deal. In fact it is done with tax payers money to fill the pockets of their corrupt nexus of shell companies who earn a lot in the name of making stadiums, sending ACs etc. Govt. has failed to create an ecosystem of any single sports like it has failed to create ecosystem for scientific research, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, electronics etc. Whatever achievement we see in sports...comes out of wrestling ecosystem in haryana, chess ecosystem in Tamil Nadu, badminton academies of gopichand & Padukone, jsw sponsored sports academies for hockey, abhinav bindra self financed his gold, etc. Govt has not built even a single sports training infra...even if it has, it has failed and not heard of. All it does is short term investments which will make to the news. Indian govt has 0 long term investment in any field. Excellence in IT field is due to private players leveraging cheap labour and not because of IITs. India is the only large country which still shamefully buys defence equipments from other countries and cannot make its own. We as a society are too ethically and culturally inferior to other big nations and don't stand anywhere close to them. But our pride and ego is more than them.

- India concluded the Paris Paralympics 2024 with a record 29 medals, including seven golds, nine silvers, and 13 bronze. - Pooja Ojha was the final athlete in action but failed to qualify for the women's kayak 200m final. - India finished 18th in the points table, while Pakistan ended joint-bottom at 79th with just one bronze. - Navdeep Singh clinched the final gold in men's javelin throw F41 classification after Iran's Sadegh Beit Sayah was disqualified. - Simran, guided by Abhay Singh, secured a bronze in the women's 200m (T12) event, adding to India's impressive tally. Source: [NDTV Sports](https://sports.ndtv.com/olympics-2024/india-concludes-paris-paralympics-with-highest-ever-29-medals-pakistan-only-got-6517452)