This article (and so many articles about Indian performance in Olympics) is clearly off-track. It is all a RACE thing...The Indian race is not good at speed (that rules out running events), have very poor stamina (that rules out events where you have to be constantly on the run for more than an hour), lack power muscles (that rules out almost all other events). We are good at events that involve lots of tactics and not much running -like chess, golf, cricket, shooting. The reason we are not world-champs in the above mentioned events (except chess) are we lack killer-instinct. The article is right about lack of killer-instinct, but nothing else. To further my arguement, none of our neibhours of our same race have performed any better than us. Also the millions of Indians settled abroad (equivalent to population of Australia) haven't excelled in Olympics. Being in the US for a lot of years, I can say off-hand that an Indian 4th place finish is clelebrated a thousand times more in India than a gold in the US. If an athlete wins a gold medal for example in shooting in the US it will be mentioned in th 12th page of New York times as ..."also winning gold medal today was Mr.XXX." That is it. The athlete will be completely forgotten. No 1 crore land. No Khel Ratna. No ads. No nothings. The only exceptions where athletes make lot of money in the US are if they have multiple medals, or they have a really compelling story (like survining cancer) or if they post nude for Play-Boy.
RE:It is the RACE....stupid!!
by Mihir Samel on Aug 05, 2008 05:17 AM Permalink
We in India have so many martial races viz. Sikhs, Gurkhas , marathas , etc from all regions of the country . They all their glorious history of fighting & winning pitched battles against the most formidable enemies . Now you want us to believe that a RACE that is strong enough to fight & win gruesome battles does not have the fitness to compete in athletic events???? common!!!! gimme a break .Thats a defeatist mentality at its best
RE:It is the RACE....stupid!!
by san man on Aug 05, 2008 05:26 AM Permalink
those sikhs and marathas got their a--s--s ra--ped by every passing invader
RE:It is the RACE....stupid!!
by rama manorama on Aug 04, 2008 09:31 PM Permalink
I dont think its tha race... it is what we eat and drink. Start eating meat other nutritiuos food and see how it will make a difference.
RE:It is the RACE....stupid!!
by Calspadeaspade on Aug 04, 2008 09:42 PM Permalink
60% of Indians eat meat. Punjabis and Sardars are strong. Still nothing from them too.It is just a secretive succcessful steroid program. I hate to say this but it is true.
