First and foremost, the east german, slovenian and other government may not have great quality of life.. but they had basic patronage in terms of food, health and other things for everyone. No one went to sleep without food. The countries had smaller population for identifying and nurturing talent pools. Here in our country, someone has to pay to enter a swimming pool. Archery or football kits, who is giving it away.. Its important to cultivate a culture of decent basic amenities of life, before one can actually dream of medals at olympics and so on. All one can say is, talent needs nurturing. But, for nurturing, u need eyes that can spot talent. Do we have them? We have politicians holding post in every sports association. How long has suresh kalmadi been president of IOC or sivanthi adityan for Volleyball federation. Looks like rotary membership for these guys. No responsibility, accountability or any other ability. Except bureacracy. Anyway, your article will be forgotten.. my comments would be forgotten. We both will be doing something else by end of day today. Lets pray that we get some good olympians years from now atleast
