Wednesday, October 20, 2010

The Big Lost Opportunity: - CWG-Delhi

We won big…..and we lost big…..that’s how one can explain the CWG –Delhi. Our sportsperson brought us pride and OC brought shame to India.
It’s honor for every country to host the international sporting event as it provides the world stage to showcase the capability of the country, management acumen and skills require to make these events successful which in turn helps the host country in building the positive perception across the world, attract more investment, attract more tourist, fuelled the export growth and many others potential benefits…………
Few examples:-
Sydney Olympic games: - Increase in the economic activities due to increase in tourism
FIFA world’s cup in South Africa: - Help to build South Africa as a brand and Increase in tourism
Beijing summer Olympics: - Increase in ranking in the nation brand index, Positive image across the world, huge investments in china
There is other side to it as well as it took many years for Athens and Montreal to paid up there bills after the Olympic events…………....


Now let’s discuss the positive outcome of CWG-Delhi:-
1. Medals and More Medals:-
First time ever India has won more than 100 medals in any international events which are quite moral boosting to athletes. This will certainly fuelled ambition of more and more athletes to win medals at bigger events than CWG.
2. Motivation: - We have seen that many athletes won the medals are from tier2 or tier 3 cities which is certainly a motivational to the youngsters from smaller cities and rural areas to consider sports as full time career and succeed.
3. Infrastructure:-Because of the games at Delhi and Pune in recent past….at least we have some international facilities now ready with us which were not the case few years back.
4. Positive Perception across the nation: - The success of the Indian athletes has helped in changing the negative perception the population across the nation.
5. Sponsorships: - we can be certain now that there will be more and more sponsorships to games other in cricket crazy nation.


Negative sides of CWG-Delhi:-
Corruption charges: - very unfortunate thing could happen to any country hosting the international sporting event, which could have been easily avoided with clean and rational people in organizing Committee.
Dent to the image of India on world stage due to poor and late completion of facilities:-it has raised the doubt across the world on India’s capability in building the infrastructure for the mega sporting events
Utilization of infrastructure:-Thousands of corers have been spent on building world-class infrastructure for the games but its has been observed in many countries that the infrastructures is not utilized properly after the games which should not happened in this case.
Rewards: - No clear system for rewarding the medal winning athletes in India
The Road to Olympics:-It seems quite difficult now for India to compete for hosting the Olympics in 2020, by virtue of negligence and poor show by our organizing committee. All the culprits should be punished and Indian government should replace them with the rational and qualified people.

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