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Sigh! What a Shame
by elangbam singh on Aug 11, 2008 07:50 AM
The sorry episode in which a woman athlete from Manipur, weightlifter Laishram
Monika Devi ended up victimised by petty and seemingly entrenched politics in the
top governing bodies of sports in India, in particular the Sports Authority of
India, SAI (sigh!), and the Indian Olympics Association, IOA, is a loud testimony
why a nation of over a billion has been unable to win even a single individual
Olympics gold in the entire history of the Olympics. This, almost total lack of
Olympics achievement becomes painfully stark when considered against the fact that a
country like Surinam, which is merely a tiny spec in the middle of the ocean, and
probably a majority of the world population would be unable to detect without
assistance even on a wall size map, have achieved the feat. Impoverished countries
like Ethiopia and Jamaica have been doing very much the same, and consistently too.
Yet few or nobody in India seems bothered enough. The country remains content that
it plays cricket well, a game played by a motley dozen countries, we suppose
somewhat like Malaysia boasting it can play sepak takraw better than any other
country. We hope we are wrong, but it is quite probable that India will return empty
handed yet again from Beijing. Another thing is equally predictable. Even in the
event of another disastrous performance, no institutional heads of the sporting
establishment would roll, and like modern feudal lords
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