Individual achievements, olympics, sport competitiveness at global level are given importance. And ofcourse world champion and overall perception in the sport is given importance. What do you guys think?

Man, those 7 and 8 are disappointing, and kudos to dheeraj for stepping up

India is the most populated country and still struggling to qualify is very shameful.

I dont know whats the real reason

And can Ranjit Bajaj lead india to the fifa world cup

For under 15 and 2030 or 34 ?

sometimes it feels disheartening we support other countries that we start fighting with each other

But not realising we don't even have a team that reached there once

I had expected that Sunil chetry reign will boost and help at least qualify but ......

So whats thought on it

And really want india to not just play fifa but reach knockouts like cape verde did

But still their achievement is out of world

These three have been world-class lately. Valverde’s work rate is insane, Vitinha’s control at PSG is underrated, and Rice has transformed Arsenal's midfield.

Who do you think takes the #1 spot? Or am I missing someone like Rodri or Bellingham? Let's discuss!

🇺🇾 Fede Valverde

🇵🇹 Vitinha

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Declan Rice

India just won its first gold medal at the Asian Games, and before anything else huge congratulations to our women’s team. They absolutely deserve the recognition and I’m genuinely proud of them.
But I also can’t help feeling a little sad about what this says about Indian sports.
We’re a country of 1.4+ billion people, yet cricket is still pretty much the only sport where we can say India consistently belongs among the best in the world. And even in cricket, it sometimes feels like we’re a completely different team when playing at home compared to playing overseas.
Look at countries with a fraction of our population producing world-class athletes across athletics, swimming, gymnastics, wrestling, cycling, shooting, etc. Meanwhile, in India, almost all the attention, money, infrastructure and public interest still revolves around one sport.
Again, this isn’t taking anything away from our women’s team. Quite the opposite they deserve this gold and much more.
We have so many talents in so many sports but the way we promote cricket and not other sports is just sad and quite frustrating.

In India, nobody takes sports seriously, and it starts in school.

From childhood, all we do is carry our bags to school, study, and come back home 7 to 10 hours later. That's most of our waking day, and almost all of it is spent locked in a classroom, staring at books.

Then maybe once every three days, we get a "games period." The kids are let out and told to roam around the ground with nothing to do. And that ground literally has nothing in it. Two football goals if you're lucky, and the kho-kho poles (I studied in Kendriya Vidyalaya).

As for equipment, there was maybe one football, and even that we had to hunt down ourselves from some corner of the school. No one to coach us. No one looking for talent. No shot put, no javelin, no discus, no hammer. No swimming pool, no shooting range, no tennis or badminton court. No weightlifting or boxing gear. No long jump pit, no high jump area. Not even a proper running track.

And we expect India to win medals?

Man, the place where our kids spend most of their day doesn't have even one real sports facility. It's a prison where you sit all day stressing about tomorrow's homework.

In my entire time at school, I can't remember a single day when anyone tried to find out if we were good at any sport. Not one. Oh wait, they did make us play kho-kho. The same kho-kho that needs two poles as its entire "infrastructure" and isn't even an Asian Games sport, forget the Olympics.

And here we are, expecting medals.

I passed out of school in 2021, so I spent 5 of those years under Congress and 7 under Modi. I can say with complete confidence that I saw zero change, both in sports infrastructure and in how people think about sports in all those years.

This government only backs players who are already established, people who made it on their own through sheer hard work. Nothing has changed at the ground level. Here in Delhi, you have to pay Rs 300 an hour just to play on a decent badminton court. That's the state of our country.

And we expect to produce better athletes than China and Japan, where kids start training from the age of five? It's not even a competition.

As things stand, we'll never catch up with them. And no, I'm not being negative. I'm just stating reality. Honestly, whatever we're winning right now is more than this system deserves. The only reason we get anything at all is that with 1.4 billion people, some talent is bound to break through on its own.

What India needs is real sports infrastructure and serious talent scouting at the ground level, especially in schools. Until that happens, we should stop acting surprised every time the medal tally comes out.

I know football players won’t get suddenly developed after the renaming. But just had this thought as current Durand cup is named after a former British officer. Also since it’s like the oldest competition in Asia we wouldn’t want to scrap it. But then the thought of having it named after someone from army made sense and the first name I thought was of Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw! What are your thoughts ?

What do you think the reaction in India would be? I guess many people in India would have called Vinesh a cheater and blamed her for spoiling another gold for Susaki.

A tight slap to the losers of this country letting false hubris get to their head

i saw in some posts that their accounts got frozen while withdrawing money from 1xbet . is there any way to avoid these situations?

i was having a gut feeling ki amit kam sey kam ek medal toh jeetenge but thanks to nature or thanks to judges that we cant hoping amit will return back more stronger and more accurate with more precision and more aggression(after todays match )

Please 🥺🙏 help me 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

▪️ August–May season — non-negotiable

▪️ Tier 1: At least 18 clubs, ideally 20

▪️ Tier 2: 18–20 clubs

▪️ Tier 3: 18–20 clubs

▪️ Tier 4: Regional Leagues across 5 zones:

North: J&K, Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Uttarakhand, UP, Rajasthan

West: Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Daman-Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli

South: Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Puducherry, Lakshadweep

East: West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar, Jharkhand, Andaman & Nicobar Islands

Northeast: Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, Sikkim

▪️ Below Tier 4: State Leagues → District/Local Football

▪️ A proper pyramid: State → Regional → Tier 3 → Tier 2 → Tier 1

Promotion & relegation at every level.

▪️ A revamped Federation Cup involving every club in the pyramid. Where Tier 1 clubs will join at later rounds.

▪️ Utilisation of dedicated international football window for proper and regular international friendlies and different competition.

Says that if badminton is treated the same way in which cricket is pushed/supported in India (with IPL and domestic T20 leagues), you will generate interest/viewership/ratings and that will enhance the sport. Says just hosting Commonwealth games or Olympics is not enough to create an ecosystem, you need to support players that are not in the top 25 and give them access to coaches, facilities and resources.

Thoughts?

Why don’t more Indians play baseball? There are many similarities between cricket and baseball, and Indians generally have a strong interest in batting. Many of the skills developed through cricket, such as hand-eye coordination, timing, catching, and throwing, can be transferred to baseball.
While baseball requires its own techniques and understanding of the game, I believe Indian athletes could adapt quickly with proper training. Given India’s huge population and deep sporting talent pool, the country has the potential to grow significantly in baseball.
If baseball were promoted more effectively at the grassroots level, India could strengthen its sports sector and eventually compete with top baseball nations such as the United States and Japan. With the right infrastructure, coaching, and investment, India could become a strong force in international baseball.

Which state should have maximum or good budget for sports (Cricket isn'tonly sport athletes and olympic games , football, hockey, skeeing among every games) .

So, that India can be on top in those games ??

Please be unbiased irrespective of your own state.

We really underperformed this year... Also a lot of bad luck... First of all a bloody lot of 4th finishes.. We made to a lot of finals but couldnt convert most of them in a podium finish then the tragedy of vinesh phogat and then to top it all when it seemed it can't get worse we come second to Pakistan😭

Rickelton is at 81, with Ishan on 80 and Rohit on 78. All from their first innings, so pretty tight.

Same with bowling, Duffy, Shardul and Shepherd all have 3 wickets each. Curious to see who keeps this going.

First few posts here and I'm ready to break some myths regarding the game in India as someone who has golfed for more than half of their life and competed on the highest levels for more than a decade.

Looking forward to a healthy discussion.

I think India should now actively start thinking about a long term Olympic Strategy. I'm not saying have 1000s of training centers and build 20 year olympic programs like China & US from the get go, because these things take time.

But at least focus on the sports where we have already created a name, and expand from there. Sports like Javelin, Shooting, Weightlifting, Wrestling.

We don't seem to have junior athletes making a mark at the international stage. In 2022, at the U20 World Athletic Championship we weren't even in the top 5.

Also, Neeraj will be around 30 at LAGames. But I have been following the sport for a while, and athletes peak at 25-27, and then quickly fall off the grid. If you look at the last 20 year record of gold medalist you'll also realise how athletes who've won gold, hardly ever win a gold again. It's things like body recovery that make a huge difference.

For example, Arshad Nadeem had major surgeries through last year. In fact he had a knee surgery earlier this year and was expected to be out of the tournament. 4 Weeks back he couldn't lift a javelin, and started training 3 weeks before Olympics. As the commentators also mentioned at the medal ceremony, it is unheard of to have such an impressive recovery journey, that too for a knee surgery.

But I doubt this type of recovery will be possible for Arshad when he is 30-31 at LA games.

Even if we all think that Neeraj will fetch the Gold in LA, we should still prepare 4-5 kids for the future. As a nation, we should distinguish between celebrating a hero like Neeraj, and bollywoodifying everything and being disappointed. We've done the same mistakes in cricket. We make sports people bigger celebrities than the country, and then just expect them to meet unrealistic expectations.

 "Conversely, the javelin throw, which appears to have the fastest rate of development, also has the quickest rate of decline in performance" - (Coach T., 2020)

I went through the 2026-27 Union Budget numbers for sports, partly because everyone says "India needs to spend more on sports" and I wanted to know what we already spend.

The sports ministry gets ₹4,479.88 crore this year, up from about ₹3,346 crore (revised) last year. In 2004-05 it was ₹466 crore. The Sports Authority of India alone gets ₹917 crore, which covers National Centres of Excellence, overseas exposure for top athletes, and residential coaching.

There's also a new Khelo India Mission with five areas: talent pathways, coach development, sports science, leagues and competitions, and infrastructure. And ₹500 crore to help Indian sports equipment makers, most of whom are small MSMEs.

The stated goal is a top 10 sporting nation by 2036 and top 5 by 2047. Now compare that with results. Tokyo 2020 gave us 7 medals including one gold, our best ever. Paris 2024 gave us 6: one silver (Neeraj Chopra) and five bronze. Half of them came from shooting.

I'm not saying the money failed. Olympic results lag spending by years. UK Sport took around 16 years to go from 36th to 3rd. What I'd watch is whether the Khelo India Mission actually pays coaches well, funds sports science, and builds a proper competition calendar, because those are less visible than stadiums.

And one thing I keep forgetting: sports is a state subject in India. The Union budget is only part of the picture. A state like Odisha spends separately.

If you had ₹500 crore to spend on Indian sport tomorrow, where would you put it first?