India’s poor performance at the 35th Olympics games which concluded in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) last month — just two also-ran medals — despite the country sending its largest Olympics contingent ever (119 athletes) has again highlighted the dismal state of sports education and performance in the country — inadequate training facilities, stranglehold of politicians on sports associations and neglect of sports in the country’s 1.4 million schools, 37,000 colleges and 800 universities.
Despite its huge population pool (1.3 billion), India ranked #67 in the medals tally, way below not only the United States (121 medals, with 46 gold), Britain (67 with 27 gold) and China (70 with 26 gold) but below Jamaica (pop. 3 million, 11 medals and 6 gold), Kenya (pop. 44 million, 13 and 6) and Kazakhstan (pop. 17 million, 17 and 3).
Acknowledging India’s poor Rio performance in a nationwide broadcast on All India Radio on August 26, prime minister narendra Modi announced establishment of a “task force which will help to plan for the effective participation of Indian sportspersons in the next three Olympics, to be held in 2020, 2024 and 2028”.
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