Hey Friends,
Earlier this day I was going through an article, and I was very upset at the ending while reading it. It was an article about the India cricketers who just won the ICC Champions Trophy and have been awarded with 1 crore rupees each from the government of our nation . If it were any other sport the prize amount would have half of this. There's a reason why Indians do badly in sports that require high levels of physical fitness.For India, despite its vast population (1.22 billion at the last count) and genetic diversity, has had an astonishingly unimpressive record in international athletic achievement. India won only one medal each year at the Games in 1996 (bronze), 2000 (bronze) and 2004 (silver). In Beijing in 2008, the Indian team won three medals including a gold, but was ranked 50th among all the nations participating, behind tiny countries like Belgium, Finland and the Dominican Republic. It is a shame that our country which has one-sixth of the total world population has to try hard to get even a single bronze medal in the Olympics.
