Where's the road to glory?

Nikil K.R.P- Grade 10A

Author details: A student of grade 10A, I'm fond of playing the guitar and solving quizzes, primarily science and history. When it comes to reading, nothing’s more appealing to me than a Sherlock Holmes episode. Autobiographies are another genre of books I enjoy reading.

India wasn’t always (or ever) the best in a lot of things, notably sports. But now after they have demonstrated their capabilities at the world’s largest and celebrated sports event, most Indian fans aren’t very provoked about looking up to their team at the Rio olympics this year. ‘What exactly is the

problem?’- this is one of the most asked questions about the games; but the members of the contingent aren’t ready just yet to answer despondent admirers. While trying to answer such questions, a lot other questions arise (such as ‘have they practiced well?’, ‘have they been encouraged appropriately?’ and so on); which is why we preferably let the athletes give us the answers themselves.

  While assessing the sports individually, even the people who aren’t very bothered about sports turn proud of their nation, chiefly due to the number of athletes from India-124; as well as the number of events they are taking part in. Considering the facts that major Indian

sports teams such as the men’s hockey team, the women’s hockey team, the badminton and the tennis teams have been trying hard to make their nation soar high, and have already exhibited this by winning various other world class events every recently, everyone had expected India to leave a mark at the prestigious games-especially in shooting. Unfortunately, the closest India got to a medal was 4th place, which was achieved by the Indian world shooting champion Abhinav Bindra and a rising star Dipa Karmaker for the gymnastics events.   

  And so go our hopes of a model in shooting. Yet, the Indian contingent does not seem to have lost it yet, for the reigning champions are still due to show off their dexterity, from wrestling to tennis. The Olympic aficionados aren’t quite disappointed with India yet, as they know it’s not an easy task finding the road to glory.