While last year witnessed so many incursions into the Indian territory by our petite yellow skinned neighbors... Am I being racist?? Okk then I'll call them Chinkeez... what?? Pankaj Singhania is feeling offended!!! (sorry bhai I didn't mean that) Then 'chinese' will do the part... So while chinese incursions were the hot curry of every table of discussion, people focussed on comparing the two nations on different aspects. Not surprisingly though, which should have been exactly an year before when India finished 50th with 3 medals in the medal tally of Beijing Olympics, 49 places behind China and 97 medals less. However We Indians are famous for our ability to gulp our foibles... well...not getting medals is too trivial for us to ponder on... So We celebrated the success of Abhinav Bindra all the way till We realised that he has been publicised enough and We can't take it anymore. Bindra broke the 84 year long goldless tradition of India in the Olympics for any individual event. I don't find a justification in celebrating his victory on a scale that it was done, for he had highlighted 84 years of our ineptitude as a Nation. Along with his gold came series of credit seeking claims by state govts, Archery federation and other 'God-knows-what-they-are-for' institutions. Sadly though, We all came to know the real story behind his success. To Justify our inability to climb the medal tally We have our own justifications. However the excuses that We give are no better than Dog-ate-my-homework, rather Dog-eats-my-homework will be a perfect fit. We argue that Africans have got a perfectly moulded body with fathom-long legs that perfectly compliment in sports which involve longer strides, while Chinese are petite and supple prototypes of human beings that are unbeatable in Gymnastics. Don't We sound a bit racial in this? Gymnastics is just one single chapter of the Chinese epic of Olympic medals. To contrast this point someone might present the fact of authoritarian government of China as a premise, where children are into state backed training schools and so that they always finish in the upper portion of medal count. This won't shadow our pathetic attitude towards Indian sports. We, as citizens, are not solely responsible for this apathy(you can take a sigh of relief). We share the blame with our fellow elite countrymen. Hardly any Sport body is being runned without a political interference. How can a parliamentarian know what are the requirements of a struggling sports-person? How can a politician know how to harvest raw talents?
How can a Retd. police officer know the agony of Hockey players who is far better acquainted to the pleasures of pinching a woman's bottom? Hockey Players are not millitants, so it'd be better if 'We' stop treating them like one and understand the situation.And talking of Cricket for that matter!!! stop criticising the game for it's popularity. No doubt it's a gift from the colonial times, perhaps that's why We should maintain it. As far as blaming the game for subsiding other sports is concerned, even US and almost entire Europe have got baseball and soccer where the money spent on these games is much bigger than We do so on Cricket, yet they prove their mettle in other sports... Wait!!!! Are we back on blaming education system??? LOLZZZZ !! Now this is one horrible vicious spiral. Everything zeros down to one culprit. Or is it really the culprit??
Actually there is no such thing as a vicious spiral. There are only cycles. You always have someone else to blame for your mistakes.
