Monday, March 29, 2010

Winter Olympics: Opportunities for India

Winter Olympics at Vancouver, Canada is just over. Lots of participants participated the biggest winter sports event all around the countries. I could not find any single athlete from India. Are there no athletes to compete at international stage or there is no infrastructure to develop such sportsmen?

I was just going through some possibilities of acquiring skills for winter sports, but hardly found that there is only a ski-ring available in Manali, Himachalpradesh and couple of ski-treks in himalayas. I have observed developed country citizens spend much time and energy on their child's future. When the children are very young their parents regularly take deep interest in shaping their possible careers.

In India, winter sports related facilities are not available, but however many parents must have aspired that their child be sports-persons for such sports, but due to lack of such services they can not realize their goals. Ski-treks can not be created as they are natural gift to the nations in northern hemisphere, but however in-house winter sports complexes can be created. In India the temperature largely varies from 0'C to 40'C in northern part and 5'C to 45'C in southern India. Can't there be any technology to develop ski-rings in such areas and maintained within required temperature range? An example, In mumbai, India's largest city and financial capital, the temperature remain in mid 20s all round the year, while temperature in Northern India and New Delhi, India's capital, remains 0-15'C in winter months, that is almost same as some cities in US, and if such innovative technology helps it helps so many citizens to realize their child's dreams and one more nation to compete on international winter events.