Since 1900 Summer Olympic, India has been participating in Olympics. India participated in 25 Olympics till date and won only 29 medals till date including 9 Golds, 8 Silver and 12 Bronze. In Tokyo Olympic 2020, when Mirabai Chanu won the silver medal we thought that with this good kickstart we are going to win medals this time. But all went to vain, in most of the sports India is disqualified, which again brought the decade old question among the countrymen:

“Why India is lagging behind in Olympics” ?  There are numerous reasons why we always lacks behind in Olympics.

1 Lack of govt. support - There always has been lack of govt. support in sports in India except cricket most of the politicians even ministers invest huge money in game like cricket. Ministers and bureaucrats are so corrupt in India that whenever they get any sports relating committee , their first priority is to loot as much they can and provide all the facility to their loved ones and closed ones, and whatever is left , provide that much to the sportsperson. Most of time, the bureaucrats who runs the sports boards do not let talented people to go further. They asks for bribe, favor from female athletes. These two are the major reason behind India failing at Olympic. Remember the 2016 Olympic game in Rio where OP Jaisha , marathon runner who could have died due to the lack of water bottle that had to provided to marathon runners after every 2.5 km. 

2 Lack of sports infrastructure - Let us compare the sporting infrastructure of our nation with other top 10 nations of world, we lack far behind in sports infrastructure . According to Constitution of India , sports is subject matter of state. The state government is responsible for spending in sports infrastructure in their state and we all know how serious state govt. are. Most of the stadiums and training center in our country are of no use. No proper channel for commercializing the sports infrastructure. No proper channel for generating revenues and sponsoring of sports centers . School going children do not have proper facilities for playing sports in India.  

Apart from these reasons there are various other reasons too. We Indians while growing up play sports like cricket and various sports that are street sports basically Indian origins. Most of the Olympic games that we hear vanishes for 4 years before next Olympics. 

Our neighbor China success in Olympic is not hidden from us. The female participants of China have won more medals their male counterparts. India need to equally promote the girls to participate in sports.

Thus,  we can hope for better run at Olympics.

For time being let us support all the participants of our country who are participating in Tokyo Olympics.