National Sports Day: Why isn't India a Sporting Nation Yet? | Vantage with Palki Sharma

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Is India a sporting nation? Leave a comment and let us know your thoughts

[@Spaceshps]

Prettu suck coming from a nation of 1.5 billion excel only in cricket. Hockey has been dominated in 20-60's in olympic, won 1 out of 15 world cup tournament, since then India pride and prowess sliding down and replaced by European. India women roles has been discouage and discrminate in every phase by Indian men, this example can be emplified by double winner jwala Gutta in badminton and Sanir in tennis for lack of support and reward after winning the Gold medal and championship. ASk yourself a question Pulki Shame, would father, son brother, uncle allows their daughter, auntie, niece and wifes to pursue Tennis, hockey as a career. You hardly seen India women play sports or social outing at the park in western countries either!

[@kugelkopf2987]

I am convinced that India will celebrate significantly more success in the next 20 years. You just have to offer sports as fun for the kids. Americans live by a motto. It was a blessing and a curse at the same time. "The land of unlimited possibilities". If you put this trust in your future as a child, then you can become anything! Sometimes an idiot too...like Trump!^^sry

[@kugelkopf2987]

By offering a wide variety of sports, they will find out over the years what suits their children and they encourage this further in clubs. The Olympic Committee should also recognize cricket as an Olympic discipline. Is hockey also played in India? I see a great future for India in this sport!

[@sunilmakheja7527]

Palkiji🌹, India 🇮🇳 is known as a "One Sport Country.". All of Us spent Our time playing Cricket only 🏏. Although Badminton 🏸 was also My Favourite sport... Cricket, Specially IPL has overshadowed all remaining Sports.. Yet, All is not lost. Badminton 🏸, Athletics, Wrestling 💪, Archery 🏹, Hockey 🏑, Table Tennis 🏓, Lawn Tennis 🎾 etc. are gaining importance again. Still lot to do, To attain a respectable place in the Olympics.

[@DipaTarigan]

No

[@kedar7935]

this is so wonderful. Loved this talk about sports. Yes. All of us should encourge the next generation in Sports!

[@theawesomeman9821]

I'm all for encouraging kids to get into sports but kids shouldn't be pressured for the sake of earning medals for their country. Kids should do it for reasons that benefit them personally.

[@phillipchan6919]

What happened to this generation in sports? Why do you want to push it to the next generation?

[@bunkelgarments8267]

She discusses the right topics with facts and figures which are of importance.

[@wionporky9937]

If boasting is a sport. India will be World's Champion 👏👏👏👏👏

[@jameswatson5807]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@pruthvimeka3259]

only when that boasting is backed by facts.

[@myselfandpesit]

We are the most populous nation in the world. Isn't that an achievement ? It's taken us soo long to get to the top. I'm really proud

[@Canuchewdeeznuts]

​@@myselfandpesitnot really, that just shows people propagating like rabbits especially when like 90% of that population is not being mobilized for productivity

[@tanbirnr2389]

the sports culture is everything..! everyone should encourage and appreciate who likes to play sports and do well,the way they do for Education. Sports should be integral part of School education. i think NE has the sports culture but doesn't have the infrastructure & opportunity.

[@TheMaverick_SR]

Lack of incentives is the main problem. There are many medal winners who are now working for daily wages. Obviously people will choose the sport where money is at. That is cricket

[@vlexical]

Boxing also has money but we love sassy sports which pretty much not inflicts harm

[@anantbhushangaur1972]

Slowly but steadily India will change 🔥

[@vicciiemeltor2711]

Not at present rate

[@anantbhushangaur1972]

@@vicciiemeltor2711 after 2014 , things have changed at unprecedented rate.

[@avingabani4037]

​@@anantbhushangaur1972after 2014 what we have won is only a single gold medal in olympics...can you imagine that a single Man can have more medals in olympics compared to the massive(1.4b) india,yes I'm talking about michael phelps India gold medals in olympics:10 While alone phelps:23 We are lagging behind alot

[@anantbhushangaur1972]

@@avingabani4037 as is before 2014 , we used to get hundreds of gold

[@ekiboy1515]

Ya it is changing in Tokyo it was 7 medals now it's only 3 medals that is bronze medals 😂 a laughing stock khelo india

[@nuttsy3662]

Every offshore facility I have worked in the world has both a gym and Indian workers. I have never once see an Indian working out in the gym! So no they shy away from sports in general.

[@relaxedmind01]

Camp arijan

[@kshitizsinghsengar168]

This is the journalism which we all need

[@JayadevPanda-nh7me]

India have to become sporting powerhouse

[@arunbatsy2006]

Indian government and Indian billionaires should invest in sports rather than investing in Cricket.

[@manditbanthia7057]

Won't happen

[@user-gp9mk7wm1s]

Brazilians are great in football but this does not mean they can't be great in other sports. India is great in cricket because 99,999% of the world outside India are not interested in cricket

[@NormanIngrassia-mn7xd]

the funny thing is that they suck at cricket too, 2 world cups and Australia, 25 mln people and super competitive in every other sport, has 6 XD

[@rupsneel9524]

Thank you 🙏🏼 for bringing this up

[@iamphull]

Sports have always been related to financial security.. That's what every parents want for their kids...

[@roypraveen3593]

In india lack of sports infrastructure and government also not encouraging it

[@sumandutta4834]

Maybe sports will get the respect specially non-cricket ones when people see glamorous career in them with lot of earnings. Without that happening, IPL will attract more eyeballs than Olympics.

[@SahilDeep-gt9wr]

Most youth mentality is disturbed by family, relative surrounding and school that there is no career is such field . Hope so future generation will not suffer from these things.

[@niranjan07niran]

Palki Sharma Ma'am is one of the best Journalists that our country needs the most !

[@sayantanghatak24]

Palki madam, hope you are aware that most of the Indian parents prefer their children to be Doctors and Engineers and to settle abroad,rather than becoming sports man.We always blame the system that exists in this country but hardly make any attempt to reform it.Unless and until the educational system in our country either the government or private enterprises prioritise sports as an integral part of it we can't be a sporting superpower, if such policies are properly enforced, mark my words we shall dominate the Global sports in the next two decades.

[@jkc3738]

China won 15 gold medals in its first Olympic Games in 1984....you people have no shame 🤣

[@sayantanghatak24]

@@jkc3738 How many medals have you people won buddy probably big shit since 1992? Instead of drowning in debt , which your country is right now you better drown yourself in a pool of shame.

[@consciousbeing9654]

When someone says cricket is a reigion , i get annoyed asf. Does anyone feels the same?

[@wynetsang]

Exercise is an essential part of being peaceful human, Yoga. Sports, particularly athletics, are only good for predatorial human preparing for war.

[@vishnukumarsharma4358]

Sports bank on the syndrome of victory and defeat , are breeding aggressiveness in society. Yoga, gym, individual activities are better. Why do we need medals after all? Sports are commercial activities to earn a lot of money by some.

[@SahilDeep-gt9wr]

In our school there is no preference to sports only study😢Now i am happy that i am free from jail. I want to become cyclist but no academy in our area except cricket.

[@ChristianWolff-v6n]

Food is more important than sport and space.

[@andreakumar2984]

India is a cricket nation. That’s all.

[@tsamgurkhan]

Here she is wrong. When Major Dhyan Chand was playing, Cricket was not a religion for India.

[@Cali-p1k]

Any country that are still considered poor will not focus on sports! Focus on development first then nutrition, health, etc. It’s elementary.

[@Ricky-n4e]

We indian only love indian movie, serial drama,monkey love, alcohol and cricket. Thats enough for us😂

[@gigachad_6862]

No time to sports due to extra tuition classes. Even if we have time, there r no stadiums, play grounds, facilities. Neither our society is walkable. We don't have pedestrian lanes, cycle lanes, parks, trails in our residential areas like in Canada USA

[@republicofhandball8815]

Let's put it simple, because of religion, many Indians are vegans (or lacto-vegetarians), eating beef is a blasphemy for most of the Indians, which is a must for being a high performance powerful athlete. You can do sport anyway, no matter the type of the food, but it's hard (or even impossible) to be competitive in world competitions. In cricket, India is one of the best in the world, I don't know the diet of the best Indian cricketers, but it seems to me a sport where you don't need strength and stamina. Accuracy and timing are very important for cricket. Surely the diet is not the only reason why India is not performing in sports, other things matters too. But you see, Kenya and Ethiopia, at least are able to provide some 'out of the planet' runners. China, another overcrowded country with food shortages, is able to compete USA in Olympics medals table.

[@sunilfauji]

Jai Hind

[@chillsyeah]

Sports at professional level is hard in India. It requires sacrifice and capital to train. Success at it is not confirmed. This puts the individual at a risk for their future growth. Other wealthier countries have unemployment support, But not in India. India does not have a large disposable revenue like other countries, there are other pressing issues. Sports is a luxury for many Indians. Due to large population the race for jobs is extremely high, hence education is a priority. Even after winning medals at olympics the future prospects for a sustained income for the individual is low. A risk of injury could be disastrous. To truly become sporting nation we must first address our basic issues such as education, health, JOBS and infrastructure. Only when Indians are comfortable with their basic needs, will there be large mobilization towards sports. Until then we will just have these one off successes. We have a long way to go! Good luck.

[@kalpanashinde2461]

It will be soon.

[@theawesomeman9821]

I just want to point out that India having 35 medals while not enough for Palki's liking, is still more than most of the world combine. It only seems unimpressive when someone like Palki has to compare India's medal count to other countries.

[@arunbatsy2006]

It's because India has 1.4 billion people and countries like Australia and UK winning more, because they encourage their young generations in sports and in every household of India people think sports as an enemy. And most of the Indians just obsessed with watching cricket and forget about other sports. Cricket's obsession should stop in India, 80% of the Indians only love and support cricket.

[@YT_C9]

That’s why you can’t win an argument with an ignorant. Even universities like Berkeley and Stanford gets more medals in one Olympics than what India got in all Olympics combined.

[@anshul6168]

@@YT_C9 Olympics is designed to give advantage to the developed world. Most of medals in these universities are in swimming. India doesn't have any infrastructure for swimming. since countries like US, australia are good at swimming, the number of medals in swimming is disproportionately higher. India is good at events like shooting, wrestling, badminton, all these disciplines have very few medals. Badminton has just 5 Gold Medals, Hockey has 2, wrestling around 10. Swimming has over 40. Then comes useless sports like cycling, rowing , diving, each with a lot of medals, these are sports in which only developed world takes part in. Now they are also promoting unsporty events like skateboarding, wall climbing, break dancing, which are anything but sports. And at last comes athletics in which all european countries use imported African Athletes with genetic advantage. India is growing slowly, and India will give tough competition in athletics to US and other countries, but they will just increase their swimming medals lol

[@theawesomeman9821]

@@anshul6168 India has the ability to create swimming pools and programs, its just hard to motivate Indians to swim. And plenty of developing countries get their fair share of medals, just look at China, Russia, Latin American nations, and South Africa.

[@anshul6168]

@@theawesomeman9821 You must be kidding, I never said India doesn't have capability to make swimming pools, it's about money. India doesn't have money to make public swimming pools. And there are only a few private swimming pools in a city because it's too costly to maintain a swimming pool. Most Indian cannot afford such luxury. So it's not about motivation to swim, it's about economics. You'll find many children in villages swimming in lakes and rivers, they don't lack motivation to swim but they lack means to get trained for professional level swimming compeitions. So the answer is pure economics. Playing Cricket, Wrestling, Hockey is much more affordable than swimming. Swimming requires much more infrastructure and money.

[@subrilkumarjena9388]

Love you ❤❤

[@kugelkopf2987]

3:07 ... I think that makes the difference between them and China! India has understood that sport is a fundamental activity that develops talents and interests. China breeds athletes, not because of the background to promote the sport, team spirit, character, leadership strength, because of the people, but to create fame and recognition and perhaps also legitimacy for possible claims (border dispute). India is slow to progress in sport, but that doesn't belittle their culture! ... Germany hasn't won any medals for a long time. That's sport. Perhaps our zenith has come and it is time for a new great nation, ...India!? ;-) Encourage sports more and your children will go and find their way in various sports. I trust your country to become a sporting nation. In Germany we see sport as a compulsory lesson at school and as fun and a hobby in our free time. It also relieves stress from people's minds. Children want to play football, basketball, table tennis. These are the standard sports. More variety brings more momentum and creativity into the minds of young people. Good day. :)

[@phillipchan6919]

A lot of bullshits to link Chinese athletics to border disputes. 😄😄😄

[@livingcosmos_3]

Providing athletes important government posts that actually require great merit, education, knowledge & very high score in competitive exams to get into just because someone can jump high or lift weight or run fast is just stupid and makes mockery out of those government departments. They should have separate sports enumerations, not hold important govt positions that govern the country.

[@PSA17]

Its shame with the world highest population only few sports medalists/champions due to political dramas n decisions

[@talentexposed4755]

I have never heard of an Indiam football team

[@AshishRajput-fh4bh]

Bcci won't let that happen. Don't you remember the recent incident of the football men team not being in the plan to be sent for the Asia cup. Dirty politics mam.

[@prethvishkashyap7965]

99 percent of Indians doesn't even heard of any other sport other than cricket. How can you expect such a nation to become a sporting nation ? India was a failed sports nation, and still a failed sports nation. Just being better than Pakistan can't be called a sporting nation. Compare with USA, China, Australia, Russia, Japan, etc. to know where we actually stand.

[@AJ-nd4nk]

You forgot Britain. Pound for pound, they're probably the best when it comes to having champions in multiple sports.

[@AneeshMishra-pc4vp]

They robbed us of atleast 45 trillion dollars,,,they will definitely be a sporting nation​@@AJ-nd4nk

[@manditbanthia7057]

That is I think the sole reason why india fail in sports becuase there is encourment and funding but the youth itself want to become cricketers

[@MountH212]

90 goals in 90 minutes 😅😅😅

[@littlemasterr03]

Jai hind🇮🇳

[@bernardwong-ml6rb]

How many gold medal for India.

[@jan_darysh]

Balancing agriculture and sports...I see.

[@yess10]

Olympic sports is not popular in India.

[@malcomcachie1616]

India with so many people is not good at sports, Jamaica with less people is better than them.

[@sanjaysanj6688]

Useless Question , we r almost there ! 🙄😏

[@shuvbhowmickbestin]

You all watch 10 franchises who're not even legit clubs playing gilli danda for 3 months and lose your shit over it and then complain why India ain't a sports country yet?

[@silentwatcher1455]

People in India should worry first about where they will get their next meal and where to get money to pay the expenses. So why bother about sports when your stomach is crying of hunger. Modi did nothing.

[@mkhembrom13]

Indian have enough amount of food to supply to the world.. don't you know that.

[@sanatanotaku8194]

KZbin algorithm here here here here

[@sarguruchelliah3554]

Palki why are u never talk about sexual harassment happening for athletes. That's y parents are scared to send their child to enter sports.

[@sahejtkd7303]

India can never be a sporting nation ! As recognition is given to few sports only , it's really hard to get any incentive , there is lot of politics everyone wants to do buissness. Doing buissness is not wrong but it is sometimes on the cost of quality of building a good sporting career for players. Only few schools promote sports , most schools don't even care what a sports teacher is teaching. Academies are getting costly , coaches get no incentive from Federations. We can no longer play sports in public or residential parks of Delhi , parks are only for show off or walking . ALL coaches don't have access to stadiums or lavish indoor academies , lack of parks to practice sports , lack of space plays a huge role in degrade of sports If you have a big pocket or someone to look after you then definitely u can go on top otherwise it is very difficult and seems delusional to many this why they quit. Moreover getting success in sports and able to earn well takes time , even when you are a coach one has to constantly keep developing skill . Many parents think that student can learn sport in 4 months they don't see that they need patience and it takes years of hardwork lot of setback to get somewhere and get close to perfection. Thus many people switch multiple sports and then leave once they get to higher grade of studies. Those who still practice are called delusional. Not every person can handle such a pressure Not to mention the increase in trend of tuition classes , because of academic pressure even after attending 8 hours of school a child of 3rd or 4th class is made to study tuition in evening, self studying, creativity has ended , when will such a child find time to do serious sports. Parents pay a huge roll here they are willing to pay high tuition fee and 2 hrs of tuition even after 8 hours of school but no one is ready to pay even 1500 rs for monthly training of sports or give min 1 hour properly everyday . Sports is merely considered entertainment not necessity ! I also see parents bieng overprotective little pain or strain in muscle or injury they ask child to quit to save thier lyf they don't encourage them to recover ,find the cause of injury, work on it and continue playing. They will just merely say quit ! , or this is not for u mentality. Doing sports seriously these days is a lot of sacrifice , not everyone have the balls the do it. Getting a proper secure career is difficult and unclear. Most sportsperson turn into coach , in a way where they have no job security. There is so much lack of knowledge how to get proper job based on sport or how to get sponsorship. Another point people just want to make thier children participate in competitions so they can get admission in college or sports qouta , sports shall be done for the passion of sports not for any qouta , all this is for people who have given years of hardwork. Even if govt gives incentives to schools and federations due to greedy people it's never used at right places that is the player Sorry to say but we will never get there !

[@chillsyeah]

I agree!

[@nigelliam153]

India started at the top - Cricket So what's the point of going backwards.

[@janharkey5705]

You have a three tiered class structure with most in lower 2classes not making enough $ to go to entertainment things.

[@coyotesweg3129]

I m in cohabitation with an Indian due to work , and was wondering why he is not doing anything , and just stay home watching Bollywood movie at every occasion, now I understand. I will not generalise but out of the 10 Indians on my project 1 hit the gym the others stay home watching movie or politics or excel tutorials on KZbin 😅.

[@Enoughsenoughnomas]

The USA wins gold medals because they freed the slaves, but we ask ourselves why we struggle to dominate soccer. The answer is american gridiron football and basketball. Me thinks the caste system may have something to do with your struggles, and cricket is obviously another reason.

[@manilalgohil]

Not At All - Kenya 🇰🇪 has-been on sports for donkey's years - in top 10 - 15. Unless you eat beef 🥩 you can't be in sports - check all the diets of Olympic players or any other sports body!

[@gauravk6114]

You eat beef but still cannot reach the moon😂

[@kunalnagarkoti4409]

​To reach on space you need brilliant mind, you don't need strength and stamina to reach on space, but in sports you need to eat healthy sea foods and also beef 🍖 thats how you can have strength stamina and power in sports to win medals on Olympic games​@@gauravk6114

[@timothylee2772]

Look at the bright side. India is top-tier nation when it comes to playing chess.

[@SG003]

We're poor

[@abhishekchoudhary1393]

Worst adminstration in reason otherwise India is true sports country

[@JohnSmith-tl8pq]

Chess is not sport.

[@layshah5767]

Said nothing new😂

[@vselva6221]

Hy

[@abhinay4200]

No

[@Moabi4]

How many medals does China have vs India? Why didn't she bring up the Chinese number?

[@Moabi4]

@@mudshovel290 Because she mention China amongst the countries which have the most medals. She said the Russia and US number of medals but didn't mention China's number. Obviously she avoided it because she is always talking bad of China. She doesn't want her ignorant viewers to realize just how much China is ahead of India. That is what propagandists do. They omit relevant information because it doesn't suite their narrative.

[@Moabi4]

@@mudshovel290 there is need to say it since she is the one who brought it up. Why is she omitting relevant information?

[@Moabi4]

@@mudshovel290 Obviously China is number 2 so she should have mentioned China. Did you even watch the last olympics, China was number 2.

[@ronakkothari6437]

Currently, we dont have the infrastructure. We are sports nation for sure.

[@Moabi4]

no you are not.

[@ronakkothari6437]

@@Moabi4 how can you say that?

[@Moabi4]

@@ronakkothari6437 how many medals have you won? Obviously you are not a sports country.

[@Versesofsex-ly9rc]

And instead of focusing on infrastructure they are focusing more on organising Olympics. Obviously leaders will not feel shame after seeing less medals but I hope people of this feel.

[@Mvivija]

Eat beef