ROLE OF INDIA IN OLYMPICS

By

DINESH VNS

•Olympics were first started in 1896 and India first participated in 1900 with a lone athlete Norman Pritchard winning two medals in athletics

•The nation first sent a team to the Summer Olympic Games in 1920

•The National Olympic Committee for India is the Indian Olympic Association, and was created in 1927

Fig:1 Norman Gilbert Pritchard

OLYMPICS VENUES FROM 1900-2012

• Indian athletes have won a total of 26(9G+6S+11B) medals till date, mostly in field hockey.

• Winning 11 medals in 12 Olympics between 1928-1980, including 6 successive gold medals from 1928–1956.

HOCKEY:

India’s Performance In Olympics:

Year No.Of Medals Rank Type Of Medal

1900 2 27 Silver

1928 1 23 Gold

1932 1 19 Gold

1936 1 20 Gold

1948 1 22 Gold

1952 1 26 Gold

1956 2 24 Gold, Bronze

1960 1 32 Silver

1964 1 24 Gold

1968 1 42 Bronze

1972 1 43 Bronze

1980 1 23 Gold

1996 1 71 Bronze

2000 1 71 Bronze

2004 1 65 Silver

2008 3 50 1Gold+2Bronze

2012 6 55 2Silver+4Bronze

Contd..

INDIAN OLYMPIC HEROS:

GDP V/S OLYMPICS:

CHINA’S ROLE IN OLYMPICS:

 • The People's Republic of China(PRC) first

competed at the Olympic Games in 1952, at the Summer Games in Helsinki, Finland.

• That year, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) allowed both the People’s Republic China(PRC) and the Republic of China(which recently relocated to Taiwan after the Chinese Civil War)

• The Republic of China's team withdrew from the Games on July 17 1952 in response to the International Olympic Committee’s decision to allow both People’s Republic of China(PRC) and Republic Of China(ROC)

• The issue was resolved in November 1979, and the

People's Republic of China first appearance at the

Olympic Games after 1952 was the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, United States.

Year Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank

1952 Helsinki 0 0 0 0 ----

1984 Los Angeles 15 8 9 32 4

1988 Seoul 5 11 12 28 11

1992 Barcelona 16 22 16 54 4

1996 Atlanta 16 22 12 50 4

2000 Sydney 28 16 14 58 3

2004 Athens 32 17 14 63 2

2008 Beijing (host) 51 21 28 100 1

2012 London 38 27 23 88 2

Total 201 144 128 473

COMPARING CHINA AND INDIA IN THE OLYMPICS GAMES

• China has become an Olympic powerhouse while India has underperformed.

• From 1952 to 2012, China won 201 gold medals, while India won only five.

• The Chinese economic development model has focused on investment in infrastructure; things like massive airports, high-speed rail, hundreds of dams, stadiums, world-class swimming pools, and high-tech athletic equipment.

The Effort That Goes In For An Olympic Medal In China Is Awesome…!

• 5-6 year old kids are made to stretch their legs, swinging on the beams, hanging from pairs of rings, bounding across floor mats during the physically strenuous training sessions.

• Most of the children are orphans i.e., they go in search of orphans and bring them to their training centres and fine tune them.

• The goal for each boy or girl is to out beat USA

and to see their country on top of the medals table.

• There are reports that suggest that the trainers have no mercy on kids, as they are made to train hard

• Thus we can say that in the coming years China can totally out beat USA.

• It looks gloom for the Indian’s as it has to think all over again and give a good amount of share in its GDP for the SPORTS.

CONCLUSION:

•The first and the foremost thing that India should do to improve in OLYMPICS is to develop its infrastructure and build as many stadia it can.

•For this to happen it should give a fat share of its GDP towards SPORTS.

•It should start right away so that 20-30years down the line we can see our country as one of the dominant performers in OLYMPICS.

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