Olympics comes after every 4 years, and we, Indians wake up after every 4 years. We expect to win few medals in every Olympics, but end up with a single medal, probably by chance rather than design. As 2008 Olympics is coming to an end, we again probably end up with a single medal by Abhinav Bindra. Even though Abhinav saved our skin with exemplary display to win the gold medal, our expectations relies only on our lady luck rather than well focused approach to win the medal.

On last Sunday, I read an article on ” What we need to do if we want to win medals in Olympics”. The article talks about two models which we can adopt. One is a Chinese model, where we have to concentrate on low profile,medal rich games like weightlifting,shooting,rowing etc and give rigorous training to the aspirants.It is said that Chinese rigorously train children right from the age of 4-5 years only on the sole intention of winning a Olympic Medal. Second model is an American model, where we need to go for funding of sports at base level and then encourage people to take up sports.The article was well written. Probably India has to use mixture of both these models to win medals.The article allows me to think on what is necessary for Indian sports.