As of today the medal tally in Olympics is 61 for China and 3 for india . Ordinarily not glued to the sports channel as i prefer playing to watching games Olympics is an exception . For it is where the ultimate perfomances are measured . I am happy for india that it has at least garnered 3 medals thanks to our talented stars who have worked hard like Saina Nehwal . But considering that for so many things india is considered the glowing star next to china in sports it is nowhere near China .
The reasons are many but at least i could find a few small snippets during my china visit . I visited shanghai a few months back and though i didnt meet any "snake dumpling " during my foodie adventures i noted a few things regarding their sports focus . In the evening when i took a stroll most of the people were out not sitting lazily or even walking like me . Maybe the realisation that sitting or even walking is not an olympic sport the general public were playing badminton and similar sports in the numerous private and public playgrounds . It was as if i was visiting an olympic village but this was just the public in shanghai . The take home message for me was the importance the people of china had given for sports in their lives .
On the last day as well as the first day i too visited the nearby attraction " a department store " . It was huge and was walking distance from my hotel . Only difference was this huge department store was filled with every conceivable sports equipment ..be it trekking , archery or table tennis equipment ... it was there . And the people who came to buy it were not Boris Becker or Saina Nehwal type sportstars but ordinary public in large numbers . I was amused at the way they were filling their shopping carts not only with sports shoes (that we also do ) but with table tennis bats etc .
And one last thought ---if we spend as much time in any sport instead of watching the longest game "cricket " on tv will our medal count increase ? I think yes ...
The reasons are many but at least i could find a few small snippets during my china visit . I visited shanghai a few months back and though i didnt meet any "snake dumpling " during my foodie adventures i noted a few things regarding their sports focus . In the evening when i took a stroll most of the people were out not sitting lazily or even walking like me . Maybe the realisation that sitting or even walking is not an olympic sport the general public were playing badminton and similar sports in the numerous private and public playgrounds . It was as if i was visiting an olympic village but this was just the public in shanghai . The take home message for me was the importance the people of china had given for sports in their lives .
On the last day as well as the first day i too visited the nearby attraction " a department store " . It was huge and was walking distance from my hotel . Only difference was this huge department store was filled with every conceivable sports equipment ..be it trekking , archery or table tennis equipment ... it was there . And the people who came to buy it were not Boris Becker or Saina Nehwal type sportstars but ordinary public in large numbers . I was amused at the way they were filling their shopping carts not only with sports shoes (that we also do ) but with table tennis bats etc .
And one last thought ---if we spend as much time in any sport instead of watching the longest game "cricket " on tv will our medal count increase ? I think yes ...
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