India is nation of 1.3 billion individuals yet we are aching for gold medals. Though little nations like France, Japan and Germany have more gold medals than our complete awards till now. What could be the explanation ? Do our people need potential or difficult work ? No, we have potential however we don’t utilize it.
Since our youth we are advised to do well in examinations, we scarcely have any games period in our school. Numerous nations have sports like gymnastic, volleyball and swimming in their school however we don’t have any. A few guardians don’t permit their children to play any games since they imagine that it could influence their scholarly.
In our nation sports like cricket are given more significance. Cricketers are viewed as God though scarcely anybody knows the names of our Hockey players which is our national sport. Cricket isn’t directed in Olympics. Simply 10 to 12 nations play cricket and we feel extraordinary in the wake of winning a World cup directed between those 12 nations. Cricket is a game which brought by Britishers while games like Kabaddi and wrestling are from India.
Our Government additionally spend extremely less cash on sports. A portion of the players don’t have appropriate equipment. They additionally need to battle a great deal since some of them come from small towns. They need to confront analysis which the players of different nations don’t confront.
After this load of issues we anticipate that our country should win medals and assuming we don’t, we censure our players. We have been playing Olympics from 100 years while China from 69 years then additionally they have all out 250 gold medals though our all out awards are scarcely 40. Our players are not lacking anyplace they simply need our help and legitimate offices. Assuming we need our nation to more win medals in next Olympics then we should chip away at these issues.
4th August2021 – Neeraj Chopra and Shivpal Singh (Javelin Throw), Lovlina Borgohain (Boxing), Aditi Ashok and Diksha Dagar (Golf), Indian hockey Hockey Team (Women), RahiKumar Dahiya and Anshu Malik ( Wrestling).
5th August 2021: Havildar Irfan Kolothum Thodi, Sandeep Kumar, Rahul Rohilla ( Men’s 20km walk ), Aditi Ashok and Diksha Dagar (Golf), Indian Men’s Hockey Team, Ravi Kumar(Finals), Deepak Punia(Bronze match), Vinesh Phogat and Anshu Malik(Wrestling).
6th August 2021: Aditi Ashok and Diksha Dagar (Golf), Gurpreet Singh(50km walk), Bhawna Jat and Priyanka Goswami (Women’s 20km Walk Finals), Anas, A. Jacob, N.N. Tom, N. Pandi ( Men’s 4x400m relay ), indian women’s hockey team, Bajrang Punia and Seema Bisla (Wrestling)
7th August 2021: Neeraj Chopra(Javelin Throw FINAL), Aditi Ashok and Diksha Dagar (Golf FINALS), Bajrang Punia (Wrestling Bronze Match)
,
Athletics
Men’s javelin throw
Neeraj Chopra bagged First position by throwing at a distance of 86.65m in Qualifications of Group A.
The first javelin thrower to enter an Olympic final and also the first to finish on top of the qualification round.
Shivpal Singh secured 12th in the Group B Qualifications. But, only Top 8 qualify for the seccon round.
Neeraja Chopra to compete in The finals on 7th August at 4:30pm.
Subedar (Indian Army Rank) Neeraj Chopra created history by winning Gold Medal in Athletics.
Men’s 20km walk
Sandeep Kumar came 23rd in the 20km finals on 5th August. Massimo Stano from Italy bagged 1st position.
Men’s 50km Walk
Gurpreet Singh failed to complete 50km walk. He tagged out after 35km by putting up a good fight.
Women‘s 20km walk finals
Bhawna Jat and Priyanka Goswami will be competing on 6th August in the finals of 20km Walk. Priyanka complete the competition and ranked 17th.
Men’s 4x400m relay
A. Rajiv, M. Anas, A. Jacob, N.N. Tom, N. Pandi will be competing on 6th august at 5pm. India fought till the end and missed the 3rd pace by mere mere seconds failing to qualify for finals.
Boxing
Women’s welterweight
Busenaz Surmeneli gave Lovlina Borgohain a tough fight in the Semi-Finals. B. Surmeneli won by the scores as 5-0.
Lovlina Borgohain fought for the Bronze Medal and won it.
Golf
Women’s individual
Aditi Ashok had an excellent start as she finished Round 1 in second position and Diksha Secured 56th position.
Aditi Ashok fabulously played and came second in the round 2 on 5th August and Diksha secured 53rd position.
On 6th August she continued her lead and went into next round by securing 2nd position and Diksha Dagar secured 51th position.
Aditi Ashok and Diksha Dagar will be competing in finals on 7th August at 3am.
Aditi Ashok had a great lead throughout the Match. But, she slipped to 4th position at the eleventh hour. Yet, Aditi Ashok has paved a way for Indian Golfers by reaching finals and remaining in top5 through and through.
Hockey
Women’s tournament
A grueling match between Argentina and India at the Semi- Finals today. It ended with Argentina scoring 2-1 to enter the Finals.
On 6th August, India played against Great Britain for the Bronze medal match.. India put up a brave fight but went down to Britain by marginal scores of 4-3.
Men’s Tournament
Indian Men’s Tournament will be fighting for the Bronze Medal against Germany team on 5th August at am. India won Bronze Medal.
Wrestling
Men’s freestyle 57kg
Ravi Kumar Dahiya wrestled amazingly through 1/8th Finals, 1/4th Finals and Semi- Finals and entered finals at Multiple rounds today – 4th Aug.
Ravi Kumar vs Zaur Uguev will be putting on a wrestle for the Gold Medal on 5th August. It was nail-biting and split decision match. Zaur Uguev won Gold medal and Ravi Kumar won Silver Medal.
Men’s freestyle 86kg
Deepak Kumar lost to David Taylor Iii in semi-finals on 4th aug.
D. Kumar vs Myles Amine on 5th August will be wrestling for the Bronze Medal. The match was grueling from the start. By mere seconds, Myles won the Bronze Medal.
Women’s freestyle 53kg
Vinesh Phogat Vs Sofia Mattsson for 1/8th finals on 5th august. Vinesh Phogat won the 1/8th match and went for the 1/4th match. Wherein she wrestled against Vanesa Kaladzinskaya. Vanesa Won the 1/4th match by fall.
Women’s freestyle 57kg
Iryna Kurachkina from Belarus defeated Anshu Malik in 1/8th Finals with scores 8-2.
Anshu malik vs Koblova Valeria in Repechage round 2 on 5th August. Valeria won this round with scores 5-1.
Men’s freestyle 65kg
Bajrang Punia wrestled his through multiple matches against Iran and Kyrgyzstan to enter the semi-finals of multiple matches on 6th August.
He will be wrestling against Haji Aliyev from Azerbaijan in the semi-finals.He barely slipped through the crack and lost to his opponent.
Bajrang Punia won the bronze Medal in his match against Daulet Niyazbekov, Kazakhstan.
Women’s freestyle 50kg
Sarra Hamdi from Tunisia defeated Seema Bisla in the 1/8th finals.
Postponed by a year due to the pandemic, the Tokyo Olympics is now less than a month away. Last week, the Union Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju urged the people to extend their support to India’s Olympic-bound athletes, the same way they back India’s cricketers. However, India’s abysmal performances at the Olympics is in striking contrast to India’s immense success at cricket. The model of sports governance and financial irregularities are often blamed for the lack of competitive edge in sports other than cricket. So, the most obvious question that comes to our mind is, how much does India invest in the Olympics?
Money allocated for Sports
In the 2020-21 annual budget, the Government of India allocated Rs 2826.92 crore for sports, which meant an increase of mere ₹ 50 crore from the revised estimates of the financial year 2019-20. The Modi government’s flagship sports programme ‘Khelo India’ received a substantial hike of ₹ 312.42 crore and was allocated ₹ 890.42 crore compared to ₹578 crore in 2019-20. On the other hand, the National Sports Development Fund saw a reduction of ₹ 27.15 crore from ₹77.15 crore in 2019-20 to ₹ 50 crore in 2020-21. National Sports Federations saw the highest decrease after Finance Minister allocated ₹ 245 crore, ₹ 55 crore less than the previous financial year, according to The Wire. Even the budget for meritorious sportspersons saw a 40% reduction from the last financial year. It is important to note that the 2020-21 annual budget was presented in January 2020, when the government had no idea of the coming pandemic. It was also supposed to be the year of the Tokyo Olympics.
Target Olympic Podium Scheme
While these are the broad schemes under which Indian sportspersons are funded, the Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) provides financial assistance to potential Olympic medal winners. Launched in 2014, TOPS is the flagship programme of the Sports Ministry of India. The top-up funding scheme considers the performance of Indian athletes in the past three years. They are provided with personal coaches and other staff fees, cost of travel during competitions, purchase of equipment, and pocket allowance.
Looking Back At The Last Olympics
In the 2016 Rio Olympic, India spent ₹ 36.85 crore under TOPS, as per Financial Express. Nearly half of that amount was spent on shooting, which was India’s most successful Olympic sport in the previous three games. Shooting is also very expensive, which requires importing equipment from other countries. But shooting failed to bring any medal. Athletics received the second-highest funding of ₹ 7.80 crore in 2016, but India failed to make a mark in the sport. Unfortunately, out of the ₹ 36.85 crore, ₹30.49 crore had gone to disciplines that fell short of goals. Only 1.66 per cent of the total TOPS fund went to the fields that brought India two medals – PV Sindhu in Badminton and Sakshi Malik in wrestling.
Comparison With Other Countries
The United Kingdom allocated close to Rs 9000 crore on sports infrastructure and training in the annual sports budget, whereas India spent only one-third of the UK, Rs 3,200 crore, on youth affairs and sports, before 2016. The UK won 67 medals against India’s two at the Rio Games 2016. Abhinav Bindra had also tweeted back in 2016 that a medal cost UK 5.5 million pounds, and that is the kind of investment India needs to make. Otherwise, we cannot expect much. In the USA, a large number of athletes are privately funded. Individual athletes had started their own funding portal for donations from the general public. Therefore, only 10% of the US Olympic Committee’s finance was spent on athletes in Rio 2016, and the USA finished first. China, on the other hand, is known for its aggressive state-sponsored promotion of sports.
Private Investment In India
Before the 2016 Olympics, Indian Olympic Association (IOA) received donations from Reliance Jio, Amul, Tata Salt, Edelweiss Financial Services, Herbalife, Li Ning, and SBJ. Sakshi Malik had also thanked JSW Sport, a foundation funded by the OP Jindal group, after becoming India’s first medal winner in Rio Games, as reported by Hindustan Times.
However, unlike NSDF, where the contributions and sponsorships are open and documented, private funding to individual athletes is not. And most recently, the JSW Group has come on board to be the official sponsor of Team India in the Tokyo Olympics and has agreed to pledge sponsorship support of ₹ 1 crore to IOA. In 2018, the Sports Ministry earmarked ₹ 100 crore for funding of the athletes for the preparation of Tokyo Olympics 2020, which will take place this year. While the number of medals won cannot be equated to the investments made, since medals are not the only measure of success, India nonetheless needs to invest more and put in a new model of sports governance in action. A
The Olympic flame was lit on 23 July’ 2021 in Tokyo, Japan and the competition for medals and glory is fierce and intense. Mirabai Chanu ended India’s 21-year wait for a weightlifting medal at the Olympics by clinching a silver medal in the 49kg category and opened the country’s account on Saturday. The 26-year-old lifted a total of 202kg (87kg+115kg) to better Karnam Malleswari’s bronze in the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Who is Mirabai Chanu?
Saikhom Mirabai Chanu was born on 8 August 1994 in Nongpok Kakching, Imphal, Manipur, to a Meitei family. Her family identified her strength from an early age when she was just 12. She could easily carry a huge bundle of firewood home when her elder brother found it hard to even pick it up.
Chanu’s first major breakthrough came at the Glasgow edition of the Commonwealth Games; she won the silver medal in the 48 kg weight category.
Chanu was felicitated by the Chief Minister of Manipur, N. Biren Singh, who presented her with a cash prize of ₹2 million. She received India’s highest civilian sports honour Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna for 2018. In 2018, Chanu was awarded with the Padma Shri by the Government of India. In 2019, she won Gold at Qatar International Cup, after lifting 194kg
Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka on Friday lit the Olympic cauldron to mark the formal start of Tokyo 2020, in an opening celebrated as a moment of global hope. Organisers also paid tribute to medical workers as athletes from across the world paraded into an almost empty stadium. Normally a star-studded display teeming with celebrities is now a low-key celebration, with fewer than 1,000 people in attendance.
The Japanese Emperor Naruhito, French President Emmanuel Macron and Switzerland President Guy Parmelin were among the many world leaders and dignitaries to attend the breath-taking opening ceremony on Friday.
Six-time world champion Mary Kom and men’s hockey captain Manpreet Singh led the way as India made its way at the Parade of Nations during the Opening Ceremony of Tokyo Olympics on Friday at the Japan National Stadium. India’s Olympic contingent for Tokyo includes 127 participants from 18 sports.
We have many athletes from india who will be participating in the sports which lacked Indian representation for years, like Fouaad Mirza who is the first Indian equestrian to qualify the game in 20 years, Bhavani Devi became the first Indian fencer to qualify, Pranati Nayak is only the second Indian woman gymnast to qualify for the Olympics, Sushila Devi Likmabam will be India’s only participant in Judo and Mirabai Chanu will be India’s only representative in weightlifting
So let’s keep our spirits high and support our pride “Team India” to win medals and ever-lasting glory for the nation.
As we all know Tokyo Olympics are scheduled from start from 23rd July to 8th of August.and we all have very high hope and expectations from our players.
Olympic is an international multi-sport event that is organised after every 4 years. The first Olympic was held in 1896 in Athens.it is also considered as festival of sports Each year it is organised in different country. India has so far won just 28 medals since 1900.let us look at the past when journey for Olympics was started for India.
india’s journey to olympics
India sent its first athlete (Norman pritchard) in 1900 to the Olympics . and it took 20 years to send India’s first contingent in 1920 which consists of 5 members( 3 athletes and 2 wrestler). the quantity of players since 1920 only increased. since then India has won 28 medals which includes 9 gold ,7 silver and 12 bronze medals.
The major contribution was made from Hockey. From 1932 to 1980 India won 8 gold medals in hockey that was the golden period of Indian hockey team but after that the quality of hockey in our country decreased. in 2000, karnam Malleswari won a bronze medal and became first Indian woman to win a medal in Olympics. after that last gold medal in 1980, the next gold medal came in 2008 Beijing Olympics when Abhinav Bindra won gold medal in men’s 10-M air rifle event who became first Indian indivisual to win a gold medal in Olympics. in same Olympics VijenderSsingh also won bronze medal and became first Indian boxer to do so.
2012 london olympics was very good for india where 83 members contingent participated in olympics. and india won 6 medals.wrestler Sushil kumar became first indian wrestler to win silver medal in olympics.saina nehwal won bronze medal and became first indian woman to do so.Mary kom won bronze medal in boxing.
after this wonderful performance in 2012 Olympics, expectations were very high in 2016 Rio Olympics but it did not went very well for India .because India sent a records 117 members but we were only able to win 2 medal which included a bronze medal from Sakshi Malik in wrestling and silver medal from PV Sindhu in badminton.it was a very disappointing year for India .But the question arises why India is not able to perform well in Olympics?
if we look at any other country like USA, they won 121 ,medals in Rio Olympics. ,which is 3-4 times what India has managed so far from 1900, despite having a population of 1.3 billion. I do not think population should be considered in this matter. there are many other factors which are responsible for India’s struggle in Olympics.
reasons of India’s struggle in Olympics
Infrastructure of our country
2.proper funding of players
3. lack of awareness and sports should be given more attention and priority.
4.poor rehab facilities and inexperienced coaches.
5. player are cared and given facilities when Olympics approaches but they should get it throughout their preparation to Olympics.
6.cricket is also one of the reasons. India is a cricket loving nation where every 2nd child wants to be a cricketer. i m also a cricket lover, but we should also concentrated and take interest in other sports also. Like Australia and England, they are very good cricketing nation but they are also good in other sports.
Eduindex News 
You must be logged in to post a comment.