No real interest in sports unless it is cricket. There are pockets where there is a significant secondary interest in soccer (WB, Kerala come to mind) and hockey but other than that it is cricket, cricket, cricket.
Where money is allocated to sports the bureaucrats insert themselves into the pipeline. There was a story[1] where an olympic bound athlete [flag bearer] wanted to pay for his physio guy to come along. Of the 142 member team there are 61 non athletes. You would hope that 50 or so of them would be for the needs of the athletes (like physio, etc). Somehow I doubt that...
So the article has the right tone... very little infrastructure and no strategic effort in improving it.
Where money is allocated to sports the bureaucrats insert themselves into the pipeline. There was a story[1] where an olympic bound athlete [flag bearer] wanted to pay for his physio guy to come along. Of the 142 member team there are 61 non athletes. You would hope that 50 or so of them would be for the needs of the athletes (like physio, etc). Somehow I doubt that...
So the article has the right tone... very little infrastructure and no strategic effort in improving it.
[1]http://dawn.com/2012/07/20/indias-top-wrestler-upset-over-la...