The study probably reveals as much as what everybody knows. It is not comprehendible what really is the purpose in using macro-economic variables. Come up with a hilarious result and then cover the arguments with saying that focus on sports in India is skewed. Better would be a study on probable number of doping scandals with the same variables and yes with the inclusion of a dummy variable called 'foreign hand'.
I really wonder by seeing this message on the screen. Hatsoff to the author of this article. Keeping confidence and optimism is a very good thing but one can not expect that two chicks may come out of one egg...... As an Indian, I do have the strong feeling that India should win considerable number of medals......
Cricket is the biggest and the worst enemy of Indian sports and it has already received encouragement and support enough for the next thousand years all at the cost of Indian sports. The second and third biggest enemies of Indian sports are the bureucrats and politicians in and outside the sports ministry who had swindled/squandered 80-90% of the funds allocated for sports by way of non deserving salaries, frauds, scandals, monumental mismanagement and institutionalised corruption.
since when did an established house such as Pricewaterhouse Coopers begin to put their brains into a pointless exercise such as this? 10 medals indeed... although as an Indian, i want our country to put up its best possible show at the olympics, one cannot take away the statistics as they stand. for all the analyses conducted in all these years, India had only achieved to do one thing time and time again: flatter to decieve. I for one am a realist and no analyst is going to change my mind about it. i'm sure that many indians will echo my sentiments as well. Please stop wasting time posting such articles and pray that India puts up a good show and if nothing, comes back with their heads held high.
I am happy to know that at Athens India may get 10 Medals. Mera Bharat Mahan. May the Almight God bless our every athelit and may they bring India glory.May God bless them all. With love and Blessings, Fr.Titus DeCosta
I must say if PwC correct, then I would be amongst the celebrating sports fans. But realistically speaking do we have 10 sports-persons who are in the top 3 or 4 of the world to earn medals?
Lets be optimists and pray that PwC under estimated our capabilities and hope for the best.
If the factors like population and average income levels were the benchmarks of performance ,India would have been the second most developed nation!!! Isn't it quixotic to waste time in such asinine and spurious analysis which serve no meaning or purpose ? It seems to be a whim rather than a perspicacious analysis that India can win 10 medals at Athens . May be its yet another fake analysis lobbyed by Suresh Kalmdi and company to save themselves from mud splashing on thier face after the incipient Athens disaster. These type of the so called Macroeconomic analysis are nothing more the creating self fullfilling prophecies. Only the hard work put by the atheletes and coaches is going to yeild results. -Bhaskar Tripathi New Delhi
