Beijing Olympics

Now, the fever of Beijing olympics is getting over but leaving a lot of questions and retrospection for India.
India won a gold in shooting and 2 bronze in wrestling and boxing each. It gives us immense pride. In future, we may won more medals but these will always be important because these medals were won on their own efforts. Now Indian govt. and media are giving lot of emphasis on supporting sports activities because of these medals and pride. More Abhinav Bindra's will be created but all credit will go to these pioneers who have done it without any support.

Sushil Kumar and Vijender Kumar are from middle class families but they had a dream to chase. They did it without any support from authorities. I was amazed to know that Table tennis was played in the olympics by two indians without any coach. No support because budget did not allow them to take a coach to Beijing.

Sushil Kumar and team was given few mattresses and a room to practice and that's all. It is really shameful to see the kind of support Indians are getting to prepare for a worldclass performance. Where can this be raised and how. Can we Indian think about it.