We have recently witnessed the best ever performance in the Olympics by Indian athletes. The Indian hockey team won an Olympic medal after 40 long years. This should motivate many youngsters to choose a career in sports. The government should also continue offering encouragement to sports other than Cricket. Write a letter to the Editor of any major daily about the need to give adequate importance to games and sports, allocating funds, providing facilities for to encourage young sportspersons. Invent the necessary details
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Why India Struggles to Win Olympic Gold
The government has overhauled an athletic system that was once underfunded and corrupt, but the pressure to perform weighs on competitors.
TOKYO — On Wednesday, in a sumo wrestling hall where women are not normally allowed to enter the ring, Lovlina Borgohain punched for all the girls out there. She jabbed for her far-flung home state of Assam, known for its fine tea but also for an armed insurgency.
But above all, she fought in the Olympic women’s welterweight boxing semifinal for India, the world’s second most populous country, which, even by the most charitable of calculations, is wanting in the Olympics. Aside from a string of men’s hockey wins generations ago, India has won only one other gold in its Olympic history, in shooting in 2008.
“I was 100 percent sure that I would come home with the gold,” said Borgohain, who spent eight years away from home to train, her father once picking tea to make a living.
Her opponent in Tokyo, Busenaz Surmeneli of Turkey, may have been a head shorter, but her footwork was light and her hits potent. Borgohain was overwhelmed, her lanky frame absorbing blow after blow, her hopes of serving as a gold medal role model for millions of Indian girls dashed.