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Alot of the time kids secretly play sports to avoid criticisms from parents. Not saying the people there are athletic but culturally and systemically they have alot of issues and barriers which are non existent in others.
- Major corruption in the country that prevents the best athletes from actually completing
- Shit training facilities because minimal money is given by government to support athetletcs
- Poor people and people over lower caste systems will get overlooked for people coming from "better backgrounds". This even takes place as low as the high school level. Imagine a highschool basketball team full of chubby average size rich kids.
- Culturally, nobody wants there kids in sports because it's viewed as a dead en, so full focus is put on academics
So what.
Blimey, imagine having the nerve to make such list. You think other countries don’t face the same obstacles? You think other countries don’t actually have it worse?
There’s plenty of African, Central Asian and even Eastern European countries who have won multiple gold medals despite having it worse than India in the areas you’ve mentioned.
They’ve had to overcome government corruption, poor training facilities, poverty, civil war, political instability, cultural stigma, international sanctions and systematic inequality at a larger scale than India ever did, and yet they’ve still managed to win medals at all levels across many sports. 1.3+ Billion can’t produce one decent runner or swimmer but someone starving and living in hardships in the 3rd world can?
Football as well is a working class sport. Most players come from poor backgrounds playing in the streets to get some recognition from the lowest levels, yet 1.3+ billion can’t produce a decent footballer.
If there was an Olympic event or sport for excuse makers India would finally win something.