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Sunil Chhetri on Why India Struggles to Win Medals in the Olympics?
Chhetri was asked about India’s lacking of medals at the Olympic Games, where the country has only two individual gold medalists besides the hockey team’s ‘golden’ run between 1928 and 1980, during an appearance on a podcast appeared last month with raj shamani before the Paris Olympics began.
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Chhetri stated that a country of 1.5 billion people is not winning enough medals due to an inability to identify and develop talent.”We don’t win medals (at the Olympics) despite having a population of 1.5 billion” is incorrect because we are unable to identify and nurture the talent of 1.5 billion people. China, the United States, Germany, Japan, Australia, and Canada — the countries that perform well in the Olympics — are far superior to us,” Chhetri remarked on the podcast, and the video clip went viral on social media.
India has so far earned two bronze medals at the Paris Games, both from the shooting contingent lead by Manu Bhaker, who won an individual bronze in the women’s 10m air pistol event and a team bronze in the mixed team air pistol event with Sarabjot Singh.
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He also mentioned that people say “talent ki kami nahi hai hamari country mei’ (There is no limitation of talent in our country), it’s 100 percent right. After he mentioned about a boy of Andaman and stated ” A five-year-old kid in Andaman, who was good in football or javelin throw or cricket, he didn’t even know. Threw it once or twice and then disappeared, working in a call centre”
“In identifying the talent and nurturing the talent at the right time and with the right procedure, we are way behind. And I don’t care if people want to kill me for this; this is the reality.”
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