Indians want aths medals

[Sharmer]

@ntr

I remember when reading about Bruce Lee that he incorporated some of his material from the works of the Indian wrestler Gama who was supposed to be a very great wrestler during his time. I was also able to find through Wikipedia that Sushil Kumar, an Indian, won a bronze medal in Beijing in Olympic Freestyle Wrestling.

I’ve been to India before and I think the main problem is that most of the population care very little about athletics and their lifestyles reflect that. I couldn’t find a single track while I was in Hyderabad city, but there were numerous walking parks. Their idea of fitness is to walk around for half an hour because you need to have a certain daily amount of exercise. I spent my time there running around an artificial lake trying not to hit people that were power walking.

I often wondered why Indian students academically excel, especially in the field of physics. You will find that cultural factors are predominating. For example the demographic that I live in is multi-cultural however a visit to the local library shows predominately Chinese and Indian parents with their kids reading books. I believe this cultural focus on academics prepares Indians for high academic achievement. Now I rarely find Melanesian and Polynesian kids in the library and you will find that these groups do not score as high in The University Admission Index (UAI) but I don’t think the answer is that their less intelligent, simply there is less focus on academics.

In terms of sport the average Indian does not have a cultural focus sports in general. If we look at eye hand co-ordination sports, Indians are gifted in these sports eg cricket & golf, they excel in power sports Olympic lifting.