In 1960s and 1970s Indians dominated in athletes and hockey. National hockey team consist and up to 9 Indian players out 11 players. In athletics, all events were from 100metres to Marathon run represented by Indians.
In school sport whether primary or secondary school, sports Indian students dominated.
Not to say the school cross country day.
Now the situation is different. Indians were hardly seen in any events. Hockey, Indians are almost out. In cross country here and there, one or two.
Where are the Indians? If you ask any Indian students for reason of non participation, the immediate answer is the “the Malay teachers are taking us in”. Is the answer acceptable?
So are in schools? If take in to accounts the Indian participation in the organized run like AM bank run, Adidas run the situation is the same. Only in the senior veteran we can see many Indians. Among younger group runners, we hardly see any Indians.
Why the young Indians are not interested in sports? The Chinese still dominating in all games that they dominated before like badminton basketball and swimming.
The Indian teens will watch EURO 2008, English premier league and many others but they only watch but do not want to play. No ambition to achieve any thing in sports.
Non participation in sports leads them to spend their time else where. Time spend else where may not be spend in the fruitful manner.
Sports build up discipline, perseverance and determination to achieve. Sports increases better physical health, fighting sprit and stamina.
I do not know why the present generation Indians are not interested in sports. I asked an Indian student on why he doesn’t play badminton. He said he could not afford to pay for the court. A teacher present with us supported him. I asked him back how can he afford to buy and maintain and hand phone. He remained silent.
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I do agree to a certain extend that attitude is the hindrance for the lack of participation in sports among students. I am state level football coach and was always questioned by people for the lack of indians in the team. My answer will be, we look for quality. Indian students of today have no quality and determination. We had tonnes of that. I used to jog myself in the evening everyday when i was 12 itself. Today they lack the stamina that was our asset when we were young. They are simply lazy and have no sense of what is going to happen. I'm sad for this young fools. Anyhow all this also crops because people don't give the opportunity to the deserving one in malaysia. Those days we don't seek for opportunity. We fight for it. Today's children don't have that fighting spirit, so we have to direct them.
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