We have to accept others are much more professional in their whole set up. In any physical sport, we can never match them as their fitness & endurance are a class apart from us.
So a flash in the pan like Gopichand's victory has to remain with us till another visits us, years later.
Of course, our obsession with cricket makes other sports of little consequence. How much attention does Vishy Anand gets anyway? It has never produced a mass following to emulate him.
We just do not have it to do justice to our population strength. May be we can, if politics is made a sport.