wat is the reason why india is behind in olympic and not at first?
356126
its bcoz of lack of infrastructure and funds available for its development.The indian goverment should encourage olympic sports as they do in cricket
1008930
INDIA is generally NOT INTERESTED in football as much as cricket, hockey... bit like the Americans who loves their brand of football, baseball, basketball.\n\nFurthermore INDIAN youths prefer to concentrate on their education to increase their job prospect and improve their lives. Sports don't pay well unless you're some kind of superstar sports person.\n\nThe very poor or not educated will have little access to playing sports which is a luxury they cannot afford. Also INDIAN government / state authorities do very little to promote football. India seldom participate even in ASIAN football tournaments. So India football standard is very low. You may have the talents but you must also provide opportunities and expert training to develop the potential talents. Unless INDIA begin to do this India will never ever be good enough for the World Cup.
721646
Same reason why we have the olympics to re-unify the world and create a link between different countries. It's also just competitive nature and countries wanting to be better than the others, patriotism and supporting your country, take your pick
460464
ahem YES....and to the person who feels India does not win each and every match, that's impossible for any team. Besides the only matches which India have lost in recent past have been ones which they lost because of experimenting with players. the matches they lost to England, srilanka and Pakistan were all experiments. heck i don't even know why were they trying to experiment with the first match in Dubai. their form can be reflected that they were pretty even with south Africa and broke their streak at a time when they were experimenting with a bunch of youngsters and saurav ganguli was creating a lot of rift from outside.
459644
There are various factors which makes a team no.1 in world. It also takes a lot of hard work, determination and guts to be called no.1 and that's why aussies are there. At the moment india are on the right track. The team has developed a winning habit which is very important. Further players like yuvraj and dhoni are understanding there roles and giving great returns.The team is under the wall so not to worry. i think we'll be ther very shortly.
667884
The rest of the world caught up. Now Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, England, Malaysia, Canada, Holland, China even are playing very good field hockey. India should allow more Europeans to play in their leagues. I know they wear the goofy helmets and visors and all that, but you can see the difference in the game. The speed and flow of their games, the passing is so clean. You have to stay with the times, or get left behind.
680199
Let me put it this way \nIt is efforts which matters not success or failure.\nThe BHAGAWAT GITA , the HINDU PRACTICAL GUIDE TO LIFE, says\nKARMANYEVA ADHIKARASTHU MAA PALESHU KATHACHANA (SANSKRIT)\nDO THY DUTY FRUIT IS NOT YOUR CONCERN\nYes Undeterred by success or failure we have to go on performing our duty , strive for the best always and we may attain success at times and failure sometimes but failure only means we should try again with more vigour and correcting the mistakes if any in earlier attempt.\nIn olympics games it is a great honour to participate even \nParticipation itself more inportant than winning or coming first.\nLife is full of challenges. We learn by our mistakes\nWe become more polished and shining by our experience.
429094
Imdia is weak in Football. For enterence in FIFA World Cup, qualifier rounds are there. If a country passes these qualifiers, they are qualified for World Cup. As a matter of fact, India was selected for FIFA World Cup in 1950. India ,then, was so poor that the players played without wearing Shoes.So, they were not allowed to play!!!
933908
Because the other team scores more runs than India.
717325
I think it was \nTHEIR INABILITY TO ADJUST AND ADAPT TO THE FOREIGN CONDITIONS...\n\nCoz i dont think this team is Over Confident...\n\nMaybe a little complacent during the first two matches...\n\nAnd also i feel that Indian Team looses hope very easily...when the lost the 2nd and the 3rd match...\n\nThey were not able to pull themselves up, as i guess their morale and self confidence plunges after they loose....
293858
India has the potential to win it.What worries me is that they also had their opportunities in 1996 & 2003 & negative frame of mind cost them.On both occassions they won the toss & opted to field simply because they thought the opposition were better chasers.The more relevant factors were ignored.They will need to knock the Australians & the South Africans over(something they are capable of) rather than hope for a slip-up.
1125180
India has a lot to do before it becomes the best, but we are not far behind either.\nUS is surely at the top.We are almost at par when it comes to Remote sensing stellites. Even the Communication satellites are quite good. We are behind in the areas of deep space exploration and launch vehicles, but considering the amount of budget spent we are pretty well off... I think we are just behind the japanese and chinese...
185678
Because the Commonwealth Games are a much smaller event than the Olympics. it would be impossible to organize the Olympics and the Paralympics at the same time in the same place. And even if it could be done, the Paralympics would probably loose the (small) media attention they have.
609021
India is a big country with diversity around every corner.  Difference in culture, ideologies, languages, everything...  Still it is one of the developing nations in this world.  \n\nGive India some time.  It will eventually become one of the greatest countries in this world.  \n\nThe driving force behind every nation is its people.  Let us all forget about what everyone else should do to develop our nation and concentrate on our skills and abilities, especially those that will help our country develop.
115753
I think that by the time the second olympics was added in 1924, most of the world was still under European colonialism and thus the focus was on the northern hemisphere and the tradition as just stuck.\nIn the first Olympic games, only one country was from under the equator---Australia.
218850
When leander paes won the bronze for india ! sadly, it was the only medal we won.
695778
the Olympics WAS a competition for AMATEURS ; Many countries support and train their athletes  some starting as children sent to boarding schools(training camps).\nEconomically there is no gain as to how many medals a country wins...the ONLY economic gain is the profits gained when a country is selected as the host.