The sports mega mega event is nearing it’s end. Those used to drawing room debates over a cup of coffee (or glass after glass of liquor) are busy twisting their tongues in criticism of our sportspersons for not being able to manage medals. MEDALS! For whom? Does a nation wherein it’s people have not learnt to love and respect it’s sportspersons for their shear untiring efforts and the spirit of participa? People who will clap only for winners OR for those corrupt politicians who ensure the nation’s lose? Nation wherein each and every person want one child to become an Engineer or a Doctor or a badaa babu (IAS), but NOT, oh NOT a SPORTSPERSON!
Don’t blame athletes. Look at the kind of treatment and facilities they actually get!
The bloody suckers who accompany our sportsperson in the name of taking care of participants but gobble up most of the funds leaving sportspersons at the mercy of Almighty are the real culprits.
Same story back home.
What fraction of funds ment for sportspersons actually reach them? What is our infrastructure??
Take the example of aquatic sports! Why even the national capital has ONLY ONE all weather swimming pool of international ?stand?ards? ?
Poor sportspersons have to come to practice traveling long distances, often a hundred kilometer or so spending money from own pockets, WHY? Will anyone explain why nearly all the swimming pools (many with muddy waters) remain closed for 6 months in a year for winter – What a criminal waste of taxpayers’ money? We make them practice in village ponds and want them to win medals in Olympics, what a shame on us!
What our nation is doing for them? And then expectations are there to match performance with USA and China? Isn’t it utterly SHAMEFUL on part of our Go, Our Politicians, Our Bureaucrats?
Dipa getting fourth position with these rotten facilities, under the stinking stinging babudom and corruption king politicians is indeed a miracle equivalent to a Fifty Gold medals by a nation like USA. SALUTE to our SPORTSPERSONS.