So India finally has three medals at the end of the Olympics rush that has been on since quite a few weeks. The three champs Abhinav bindra won gold in shooting (10m), Sushil kumar got a bronze for his performance in wrestling (66kg) and again Vijender won bronze too in boxing. Nice isn’t it? Well should India be proud? That is the question which I am gonna chase today to find the answer.
Now as soon as the news of India winning medal at Olympics reached the Indian soil the political parties and the cola companies started to hustle bustle to rake these guys for their party and product. These business people started seeing these mavericks as their source to rake in more votes and moolah. It is hard to survive in India if you are in the spotlight because people like these try to distract you from your actual stuff. Abhinav bindra is known to be as valuable as Mahendra singh dhoni in the race of ads. These business people have got used to riding on the success of someone else’s back. Everyone tries to get tied with you as soon as you have done something that got you famous. I ask before the Olympics or even after being their how many people knew these names? Did they care?
Winning Olympics will now prove to be a bane for them because these business people will steal them of their sleep and their actual interests. I ask what role did the government or these business sharks play in the success of these champs? It is after they won these medals is that these business people are offering them discounts and cash. India lacks in sports infrastructure, except cricket, which is the main concern. These business people instead of awarding these champs with lakhs and crores of Indian dollar should have invested in creating infrastructure for sports. I mean take for example abhinav, does he really need 4 crore (minus the endorsement deals which is yet to come) which he collected from these business people? His dad is already gifting him a Rs.400cr hotel and he already has his silver spoon. So why doesn’t these business people invest that money in infrastructure? Sania was yet another victim of this branding business to which she surrendered herself and that being the main reason for her taking an early exit in this Olympics. Now I don’t blame these champs on accepting these offers because if they don’t them they will be tagged with having ‘attitude problems’ and ‘hungry for more money’. And yes they have done it so they deserve that kind of attention and money. Everyone will now try to sell their product in the names of these champs now. I believe India can take on the world in sports because we do have enthusiastic and energetic people but we waste our talent concentrating more on a game a like cricket. Parents too are to be blamed for India winning just 3 medals because it’s also them who don’t let their wards make sports as their career option. They are more happy seeing their son/ daughter become a doctor, engg or w-e rather than a sportsman/woman. Another question which pops up is why doesn’t India outsource sports people from outside just like US? US with 39 of it’s 600 sportsmen/women foreign born is on the 2nd spot in the race of medals in this olympics. And the funny part is the whole of its women’s table tennis team is Chinese. The US team also has an Indian Raj bhavsar, gymnast and Rajive kumar rai(shuttler) representing US. Why can’t India atleast do that?
Well all in all I hope that India wakes up to sports atleast now and these business people play their role in encouraging them and now corrupting them by throwing money at them.
I totally give credits to these champs alone because wherever they are they made it on their own despite living in a country like India.
P.S- The SAMSUNG guys helped me prove my point already by signing in ABHINAV BINDRA as their brand ambassador and also the I have seen the other two guys posing semi nude for some mag. CHEERS
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