Sport
Is India’s lack of Olympic gold ‘mystifying’ or are we thinking about global sporting success all wrong? – ABC News
Are Olympic medals the measurer of a country’s sporting prowess? Is a strong domestic competition like AFL just as good? Or is all this just a distraction from where our money should be spent?
Just what makes a country a global sporting success?
Is it Olympic medals? Winning the FIFA World Cup? Is the answer instead in a strong domestic competition even if it’s a sport virtually no-one else in the world plays?
Or is all this chasing glory distracting us from where our money should really be spent?
Let’s look at India.
It has a population of more than 1.3 billion, one of the fastest growing economies in the world, and more than 100 billionaires.
But at the last Summer Olympics it …
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