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I am not sure of the decade thing. We could very well treble our tally at Rio provided we focus on our strengths. Archery, shooting, badminton, wrestling, boxing, badminton must be some of our focus areas for the coming Olympics. In the meantime, we should move to new avenues that includes athletics, swimming, weightlifting to name a few. Enabling our sport-persons compete at international meets regularly and whet the appetite for medals is the key here.India will take another decade to increase the tally of medals at Olympics. Our generation had to struggle a lot with studies and it is still there because of stiff competition. Sports does not guarantee a successful career but education does (in India).
China USA UK govt spend considerable amount of money on rigorous training, while Indian govt cannot afford to do same or does not believe that priority right now is to spend on sports.
I do not see it as shame personally considering that Olympics have very recently picked up in our nation (last 2 Olympics). People have not shown interest in the past decades hence motivation from the nation as a whole was lacking.
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