Question

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.[12M]

One more Olympics has gone by. A total of 974 medals were won by 87 countries;

54 countries won at least one Gold. The U.S. flew home with the best medal tally of all

times for that country with 21 medals. Notwithstanding the invidual brilliance and the

face- saving medals of P.V. Sindhu and Sakshi Malik, India's performance is the poorest

among all the big countries.

The discourse on this is an unhappy one. There has been a lot of handwringing,

blame on the Sport Ministry and Sports administrators complaint about lack of facilities

grumbles about corruption being the villain, and so on India says the same things once in

four years during and after every Olympic. It should instead look for simple lessons

develop a strategy to win medals and execute it diligently. No, I don’t believe that India

should be planning for the Olympics scheduled eight or twelve year from now. While

long-term thinking is good, any leader will tell you that it is too slow. We should aim to

win a lot more medals and Tokyo in 2020. But how?

The final medals tally by country tells all sorts of stories. The top 22 countries -

those with a double digit medals tally with a minimum of three gold medals took home a

total of 702 medals or 72% of all medals. The top ten suggests that only the established

west (the U.S Great Britain, Germany, France Italy and Australia) along with Russia,

Japan and South Korea will continue to dominate. The emergence of China is explained as

“You know the Chinese can dictate anything, so, they are not comparable”. It is often

implied that wealth and size are the reasons of the success of these countries.

They have the facilities and programmes in place. They are bound to win. So goes the

argument and acceptance.

This logic should be probed further. Olympics medals are won by people between

the age of 15 to 29, with a few exceptions on either side of this age band, I looked at

number of medals wins in relation to the population in the age group 15 to 29 in each

country, for which data is available. This was juxtaposed with medals won, to calculate

the numbers of medals won per lakh of population in this age group. The story change

dramatically.

a) What was the result of Olympics?

b) How can India stand at a strong position in Olympics?

c) How do the other countries dominate in Olympics?

d) What are the short comings for the poor position in Olympics?​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. the result of Olympics is the 974 medals won by 87 countries
2. India can stand on the strong position in Olympics by winning the medals and winning the matches very much then India can be strong in the Olympics