The Indian Olympic team returned from Paris with six medals, including one silver and five bronze medals. India could not win any gold medals. Therefore, despite six medals, India remained at 71st place in the medal list. On the other hand, Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem won a gold medal in javelin throw, which is his only medal, which is why Pakistan is above India in the medal list. India had won one medal less than last time and Neeraj Chopra was the only player who won a medal for the second time. All the rest are new medalists.
However, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was giving a speech from the Red Fort on August 15, he had said that India will become the third largest economy. Currently, it is the fifth largest economy and some time ago it was at the seventh and before that at the 10th position. But why does India not get a place in the Olympic medal list in this ratio?
It should be noted that in the Paris Olympics, the world’s 6 top economies made it to the top 10 in the medal table. If America is the largest economy, then it is at number one in the medal table and if China is the second largest economy, then it is at number two. Similarly, Germany, Japan, Britain and France have also got a place in the top ten. On the other hand, India is the fifth largest economy and is at number 71 in the medal list. If gold medals are removed, then India is at number 37 in terms of total medals. This is also very bad in terms of the size of its economy but is somewhat better in terms of per capita income. Will there be any change in this after becoming the third largest economy?
There is a need to pay special attention to sports management and control the bureaucracy that makes biased recruitments and exploits players.
