QA：为什么印度不擅长体育?

Anonymous
I am sharing an incident which will clearly explain why India is poor in sports.
This happened when I was 15 years old. I was good in studies, and like most of the middle class Indian parents, my parents also had great expectations from me. Somehow, I didn’t perform well in one term, which led to the worst academic result of my whole school life. In that same term, I won 3 gold medals in my school sports championship and was awarded as the best sportsperson of the year. We were given the academic results and sports awards and certificates on the same day. I returned home and told her about both the sports and academic results. She went fuming on me and swung a stick lying beside her at me. It missed me but hit the sports certificate on my hand, which caused it to tear from the edge. Even today, when I see the certificate, I can clearly remember that incident. It has a great symbolic significance of what is wrong in this country.
I am anonymous because I don’t want people to judge my mother based on that incident. We come from a lower middle class in a small city called Nagpur. My parents, especially my mother worked very hard and made a lot of sacrifices to provide me quality education from one of the best schools in Nagpur. My mother now accepts that that was the worst thing she could have done to me. I have now found a different passion, and happy with it. I couldn’t have done better without my mother.
It is very easy to blame the government, system, sports officials, and my mother in this case without knowing the underlying cause of the problem. India is a developing country. We are rising high, and rising fast. Most of India’s youth are the first generation to receive a quality education. Our parents don’t want to face difficulties like them and think that education is the only way to better their children’s life. When more than half of the population is stuck in abject poverty, education will be given preference over sports. And seeing the condition of sports persons in the country (obviously keeping aside Cricket), why would any parent encourage their child to sports! The only people we can blame is us- the society which sees sports merely as a hobby, the individual who is so engrossed only in some sports like cricket and questions the condition of sports only once every four years, and the system where corruption, nepotism, and ignorance flourish. Unless our perception towards sports changes, no amount of funding and training can make a significant difference.

我分享一个事件将清楚地解释为什么印度在体育方面表现很差。
这件事发生在我15岁的时候。我学习很好，和大多数印度中产阶级父母一样，我的父母也对我寄予厚望。不知何故，我在一个学期中表现不好了，在这个学期中我考出了有史以来最差的成绩。而同时在这个学期中，我在学校的体育锦标赛中获得了3枚金牌，并被授予年度最佳运动员。当天，我们获得了学业成绩、体育奖项和证书。我回到家，告诉她运动和学习的成绩。她冲我发火，拿起身旁的一根棍子朝我挥去。没有击中我，但击中了我的手，导致棍子边缘都裂了开来。
直到今天，当我看到这张证书时，我还清楚地记得那件事。它象征着这个国家到底出了什么问题。
我是匿名回答这个问题的，因为我不想让人们因为这件事来评判我的母亲。我们来自一个叫那格浦尔的小城市的中下阶层。我的父母，尤其是我的母亲工作非常努力，做出了很多牺牲，让我在那格浦尔最好的学校之一接受高质量的教育。我母亲现在也承认了，那是她能对我做的最糟糕的事。现在我找到了一种不一样的激情，并为此感到高兴。没有我妈妈，我不可能做得更好。
在这种情况下，在不知道问题的根本原因的情况下，我们很容易指责政府、体制、体育官员和我的母亲。印度是一个发展中国家。我们正在上升，而且上升得很快。大多数印度青年是第一代接受高质量教育的人。我们的父母不想让我们面对像他们这样的困难，他们认为教育是改善孩子生活的唯一途径。当半数以上的人口处于赤贫状态时，教育将优先于体育。看看这个国家体育人士的状况(显然不包括板球)，凭什么父母应该鼓励他们的孩子从事体育运动呢？我们只能责怪我们自己——这是一个只把体育视为爱好的社会，只专注于某些体育项目(如板球)，每四年才对体育状况提出一次质疑，以及腐败、裙带关系和无知的盛行。除非我们对体育的看法改变，否则不会有什么好的改变。

Whitchurch Rajkumar
There is one sport that Indians can take up.
This sport does not require a ground to play in,
this sport results in high endurance and physical conditioning, muscle development.
This sport is best for a cramped country like India.
This sport makes men out of boys.
The sport has connections to ancient India.
The sport is called Muay Thai.

有一项运动是印度人可以从事的。
这项运动不需要场地，
这项运动的结果是提高耐力和身体素质，增强肌肉。
这项运动最适合印度这样拥挤的国家。
这项运动使男孩子们成为男子汉。
这项运动与古印度有联系。
这项运动被称为泰拳。

Wieslaw Popielarski
I was wondering too about why India with so huge population isn’t good in sports but now I see the point. Because it says that you as the nation have scientific tradition. You devote yourself to be good engineers or scientists like Bose or Ramanujan because you can and because you have good enough teachers. For African countries sports seems to be almost the only chance to change a social status. Spending money on education is much more reasonable than on sports. As an engineer you earn reasonable money but as a sportsman only when you are outstanding I guess.

我也想知道为什么人口众多的印度不擅长体育，但现在我明白了。因为你们国家有科学传统。你们献身于成为优秀的工程师或科学家，就像Bose或Ramanujan那样，因为你们能做到，也因为你们有足够的好老师。对非洲国家来说，体育运动似乎是改变社会地位的唯一机会。在印度把钱花在教育上比花在体育上要合理得多。作为一名工程师，你挣的钱还算合理，但作为一名运动员，我想只有当你很出色的时候才能赚更多的钱。
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Daksh Babbar
I mostly agree, except for one point:
“When more than half of the population is stuck in abject poverty, education will be given preference over sports.”
China’s rate of poverty is currently 24% as compared to India’s 16%
As we all know, China outperforms us in sports literally everywhere. China won 46 medals as compared to India's 1 medal this Olympics.

我基本上同意，除了有一点: “当超过一半的人口处于赤贫状态时，教育将优先于体育。” 中国目前的贫困率为24%，而印度为16%。我们都知道，在体育方面中国几乎在任何项目上都比我们出色。中国获得了46枚奖牌，而印度只获得了1枚。

Siama Mactavish
i agree with you 90%. but the other 5% goes to our diet(as we all know most professional sports in other countries take lots of protien diet, i mean non-veg food), while we most indians take loks of carbohydrates and fats on our diet. the other 5% goes to our mentality, regional background and outlook

我同意你说的百分之九十。但是剩下的5%都花在我们的饮食上了(我们都知道，其他国家大多数职业运动都需要大量的蛋白质，我的意思是非素食食物)，而我们大多数印度人在饮食中摄入碳水化合物和脂肪。另外5%取决于我们的心态、地区背景和眼界

Enrique Ali
The culture in India historically has focused more on intellectual pursuits (mathematics), spirituality (Himduism, Buddhism) and mind-body connectedness (yoga, meditation), and less on athletic prowess and sporting events. The sports that it has traditionally excelled in (cricket, field hockey, badminton) all have their roots in the colonial era when they were imported by the British. It's a matter of priorities. Many just aren't that interested in a variety of sports

历史上，印度文化更多地关注对知识的追求(数学)、灵性(印度教、佛教)和身心联系(瑜伽、冥想)，而较少关注体育实力和体育赛事。印度传统上擅长的体育项目(板球、曲棍球、羽毛球)都可以追溯到殖民时期的，当时这些项目被英国人引进。这是优先权的问题。许多人只是对各种运动不那么感兴趣

Swastik Mahapatra
India can improve, unfortunately it's the Asian culture of emphesis of studies and especially STEM more than anything else ,which sabotages the result . I have seriously no idea why there is such a humungous rat race regarding academics ,as if thats the ultimatum of life.

印度是可以提高体育的，不幸的是，亚洲文化强调学习，尤其是STEM，这破坏了体育的发展。我真的不明白为什么人们在学习上存在着如此巨大的激烈竞争，好像这是人生的最后通牒似的。

Ashutosh Rock
The ultimate goal of indians is not education or sports, just to get cushy comfortable job.Most of the grounds are enroached by builders and property mafia,how can you expecr the child to play sports.

印度人的最终目标不是教育或体育，他们只是想得到一份轻松舒适的工作。大多数场地都被建筑商和地产黑手党侵占了，你怎么能指望孩子们参加体育运动呢。

Swastik Mahapatra
True but we need to agree that both education and sports have been demolished to core.

没错，但我们必须承认，教育和体育都被彻底摧毁了。

Siddhi Sharma
India can improve , unfortunately it's the Asian culture of emphasis on studies and especially curriculum activities more than anything else. If we will focus equally on sports then India can definetly do something mesmerizing in sports

印度可以改善体育，不幸的是，亚洲文化更强调学习，尤其是课程活动。如果我们同样关注体育，那么印度肯定能在体育方面做出一些令人出色的事情

Nilesh Kanawade
It's not like India is bad at all sports. (P.S. Cricket).
Yes, on average considering sports played in Olympics, India is below average considering its population.
Below are some of the reasons IMHO:
1. Lack of Infrastructure. For playing games at professional level requires good Infrastructure as well as good coach to guide. As of now, this is either very difficult to get or is very expensive. Large chunk cannot afford it.
2. Family pressure. In general, environment in India is such that parents pressurizes there kids to do well in studies rest all is neglected.
3. Lack of Appreciation. Only few sports are well received(popular) in India while rest gets unnoticed. So media doesn't cover much. Hence, players achievements is not enough to earn their livelihood. I must say they are rather forced to earn for living rather than focussing on their game.
4. Lack of promotion: At school level, we just heard or read about specific sports(say fencing) and that's it. So most people doesn't understand the game and hence. Sports is a thing which should promoted from school itself.

并不是说印度在所有体育项目上都不擅长。(板球)。
是的，就奥运会的体育项目，考虑到人口众多，印度体育水平确实低于平均水平。
以下是一些原因：
1.缺乏基础设施。打专业水平的比赛需要良好的基础设施和好的教练指导。就目前而言，这些要么很难得到，要么非常昂贵。大部分人都负担不起。
2.家庭的压力。总的来说，印度的环境是这样的，父母给孩子施加压力，让他们在学习上取得好成绩，而其他的都被忽视了。
3.缺乏理解。在印度，只有少数运动受到欢迎，而其他运动则不被注意。所以媒体并没有覆盖太多的体育内容。因此，运动员的成就不足以维持生计。我必须说，他们是被迫挣钱养家，而不是专注于比赛。
4. 缺乏推广。在学校，我们只是听说或了解到一些运动项目(比如击剑)，仅此而已。所以大多数人不理解这项体育比赛。体育是一件应该从学校本身推广的事情。
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Vivek Sekhar
In India sportsperson other than cricketers don't have the liberty to take a particular sport as his only profession. They need to work for their livelihood and can only devote the remaining time on sports.

在印度，除了板球运动员之外，运动员没有把某项运动作为唯一职业的自由。他们需要为生计而工作，只能把剩下的时间花在体育上。

Het Patel
Lack of appreciation for other sports . Cricket is appreciated by all of us but no one is caring about those strugglers who are football, shooting, archery, rugby , gymnastics and so many other . Even most Indian don't know what other sports are . Huge population which can't produce athletes is shameful. Our international player are struggling .

对其他运动缺乏欣赏。板球是我们所有人都欣赏的，但没有人关心那些在足球、射击、射箭、橄榄球、体操和其他许多领域苦苦挣扎的人。甚至大多数印度人都不知道其他运动是什么。庞大的人口不能培养出运动员，这是可耻的。我们的运动员正在挣扎。

Shiv Kumar
, former Associate Research Analyst at Vaco Binary Semantics LLP (2016-2017)
Answered February 15
India is bad at sports because the sportspersons does not get the appropriate environment. People who do regular jobs are seen as accomplished whereas sports is not seen as a complete profession .This leads to a players incomplete growth and preparation . Moving on , for playing sports , certain things are necessary which are food and environmental factors.Contrary to the point that our food is not superior , I believe it is our environment which is not keeping our players happy . Happy players play better .
There are lots of factors which are hindering countries sports growth .The first and foremost is the pollution which badly affects a players stamina. Second is the sports ministry is a lazy ministry which does not get due attention due to which the outreach of sports is lesser .Most importantly , a sportsperson has to feel independently which I don't think our sportspersons are able to.

印度不擅长体育是因为运动员没有得到适当的环境。从事正规工作的人被认为是有成就的，而体育运动不被认为是一个完整的职业。这导致球员没有完全的成长。对于运动来说，食物和环境因素是必要的。与我们的食物不够好的观点相反，我认为是我们的环境让我们的球员不开心。快乐的运动员会表现得更好。阻碍国家体育发展的因素有很多。首先最重要的是污染，它严重影响了运动员的耐力。第二，体育部是一个懒惰的部门，没有得到应有的重视，因此体育的外联程度较低。最重要的是，运动员必须有自立的感觉，这是我们运动员做不到的。

Rahul Rajendran
If the following were not the "sports" that you are mentioning , I admit India is bad @ sports!!!
1)Cricket
(3 times worldcup champions including one t20 championship, currently 2nd in odi and t20 rankings and moreover Indian cricket has produced some great legends that the world had ever seen )
2)Kabaddi
(India won 6 worldcups in addition to 7 Asian games championship title)
3)Badminton
(Recently Indian shuttlers emerges to world class and offer great threat to the monopoly of Chinese in the sport . Currently Saina Nehwal ranks 2nd)
4)Hockey
(In 1928, the team won its first Olympic gold medal and until 1956, the Indian men's team remained unbeaten in the Olympics, winning six gold medals in a row. India also won the 1975 World Cup. Having won eight Olympics gold medals till date, India is the most successful team ever in Olympics.Dhyan Chand who was the part for 3 Olympic Champios was considerd as the greatest player of all time)
5)Tennis
(Leander Paes -total of 16 grand slam titles who was also the world no:1 doubles player.
Sania Mirza-total of 3 grand slam titles and currently ranks 5 in doubles.)
6)Chess
(Viswanathan Anand -won Chess Championship 5 times & was the World Champion from 2007 to 2013.)
Apart from these games we had world class athelets like Milkha Singh , P T Usha , wrestlers like Sushil Kumar , Shooters like Abhinav Bindra,Vijay Kumar ,Gagan Narang .

如果以下不是你提到的“体育”，我承认印度的体育很糟糕！
1)板球运动
(3次世界杯冠军，包括一次t20锦标赛，目前在t20排名第二，而且印度板球产生了一些世界上从未见过的伟大传奇)
2)摔跤
(印度赢得了6次世界杯和7次亚运会冠军)
3)羽毛球
(最近，印度羽毛球运动员成为世界级的，对中国人在这项运动中的垄断地位构成了巨大威胁。目前塞娜·内瓦尔排名第二)
4)曲棍球
(1928年，印度男队赢得了第一枚奥运会金牌。直到1956年，印度男队在奥运会上一直保持不败，连续获得六枚金牌。印度还赢得了1975年的世界杯。迄今为止，印度赢得了八枚奥运金牌，是奥运会上最成功的队伍。Dhyan Chand是3个奥运冠军的角色，被认为是有史以来最伟大的球员)
5) 网球
(利安德·佩斯，共获得16个大满贯头衔，同时也是世界排名第一的双打选手。萨尼亚-米尔扎——共获得3个大满贯冠军，目前在双打中排名第5。)
6) 国际象棋
(维斯瓦纳坦·阿南德，曾5次赢得国际象棋锦标赛，并于2007年至2013年获得世界冠军。)
除了这些比赛，我们还有世界级的运动员，如米尔哈·辛格，P·T·乌沙，像苏希尔·库马尔，像阿比纳夫·宾德拉，维杰·库马尔，加甘·纳朗。

Pranav
India is not bad at sports. India is neither Good nor Bad overall at Sports. Even I don't consider China Good at sports overall, they are not good in any team sport like cricket, football, hockey, basketball etc. Unfortunately Indian fans just watch few major sporting events.
India ranks in Top 50 at Olympics in medal tally.
India ranks 4th in Commonwealth Games.
India ranks 5th in Asian Games.
If you go through the list India is good at most followed sports throughout the world. Here are 10 sports where India can be considered Good.
Cricket
Most popular sport in India and something which India is very good at. India has won 6 major cricket tournaments 2 WC, 2 CT, 1 WCC, 1 T20 W.C. IPL is most watched cricket league
Field Hockey
8 Gold medals, 1 World cup. India is considered a powerful team in Hockey. Indian Hockey league is also one of the most watched hockey league.

印度在体育方面并不差。总的来说，印度在体育方面既不好也不差。我不认为中国整体上擅长体育，他们也不擅长任何团队运动，比如板球、足球、曲棍球、篮球等。不幸的是，印度球迷只能观看少数重大体育赛事。
印度在奥运会奖牌榜上排名前50。
印度在英联邦运动会中排名第四。
印度在亚运会上排名第五。
如果你看一下这个名单，印度擅长世界上最受欢迎的运动。以下是可以被认为印度最优秀的10项运动。
板球运动
这是印度最受欢迎的运动，也是印度非常擅长的运动。印度赢得了6次板球锦标赛冠军，2次WC，2次CT，1次WCC，1次T20 WC。印度板球超级联赛是最受关注的板球联赛。
曲棍球
8枚金牌，1届世界杯冠军。印度被认为是曲棍球强国。印度曲棍球联盟也是最受关注的曲棍球联盟之一。

Kabaddi.
India dominates Kabaddi, it's emerging as a popular sport.
Tennis
Leander Paes, Mahesh Bhupathi, Sania Mirza are considered some of the best Mixed and Doubles pair in Tennis. They have won numerous Grand slams. India is also the only Asian team to qualify for Davis cup final 3 times. India ranks in Top 10 for Davis cup.
Badminton
Prakash Padukone and PV sindhu have won world titles. India ranks in Top 10 countries for Badminton and one of the fews to have won World championship titles. Saina Nehwal was another great Badminton player.
Chess
Indian origin sport. Vishwanath Anand was former Grandmaster and has won multiple world championships. Chess is also the most popular Boardgame in the world. Indian Chess players are easily one of the best in this sport.
Billards and Snooker
Pankaj Advani is the most successful player in this sport. Most famous cue sport in the world. India is considered the best in this sport. India has won most titles for both billards and snookers.

卡巴迪
印度统治卡巴迪，它正成为一项流行的运动。
网球运动
利安德·佩斯，马赫什·布帕蒂，萨尼娅·米尔扎被认为是网球中最好的混合和双打组合。他们赢得了无数个大满贯。印度也是唯一一支3次晋级戴维斯杯决赛的亚洲球队。印度在戴维斯杯排名前十。
羽毛球
普拉卡什·帕度柯尼和辛杜赢得了世界冠军。印度在羽毛球领域排名前十，是少数几个赢得世界冠军头衔的国家之一。塞娜·内瓦尔是另一位伟大的羽毛球运动员。
国际象棋
印度裔的运动员阿南德是前特级大师，曾多次赢得世界冠军。国际象棋也是世界上最受欢迎的桌面游戏。印度棋手无疑是这项运动中最优秀的选手之一。
台球和斯诺克
潘卡吉·阿德瓦尼是这项运动中最成功的球员。世界上最著名的球杆运动。在这项运动中，印度被认为是最好的。印度赢得了大部分台球和斯诺克的冠军。

Boxing
India ranks in Top 10 for medals won at World boxing championship for Amateur boxing. Out of 10 Gold won 6 have been won by M.C Kom. Sadly people don't appreciate it enough. Indian amateur boxers have also won Olympic medals.
Wrestling
One of the most ancient sports. Wrestling has given India medals in 4 Olympics. One of the most popular sports in Haryana. India is emerging as one the powerhouses in this sport.
Archery
India and South Korea have dominated this sport in last 3 decades. Unfortunately India has not won any medal in Olympics. But if we maintain those performances, we will achieve them. India in ranked 7th overall in medals won in Archery in the World.
Unfortunately we just see Olympics and judge our athletes. I am all in for constructive criticism and do think Indian sports structure should change and start Breeding talents from young age. But respect where it's due.
Indian Atheletes get paid and sponsored on par with most other emerging countries and far better than other South Asian countries. They also are getting attention from Media and get T.V ads. If you win people will automatically start following you.

拳击
在世界业余拳击锦标赛上，印度获得的奖牌排名前十。10枚金牌中有6枚是由M.C Kom获得的。可悲的是，人们对它的欣赏不够。印度业余拳击手也赢得过奥运会奖牌。
摔跤
最古老的运动之一。摔跤已经为印度赢得了4届奥运会的奖牌。是哈里亚纳邦最受欢迎的运动之一。印度正在成为这项运动的强国之一。
射箭
在过去的30年里，印度和韩国一直统治着这项运动。不幸的是，印度在奥运会上没有赢得任何奖牌。但如果我们保持这些表现，我们就会实现它们。印度射箭总奖牌榜排名世界第七。
不幸的是，我们只看奥运会，评判我们的运动员。我完全赞成建设性的批评，我认为印度的体育结构应该改变，从年轻的时候开始培养人才。但要尊重该尊重的人。
有人说运动员赢得金牌后卖蔬菜，印度运动员的收入和赞助与大多数其他新兴国家相当，远高于其他南亚国家。他们也得到媒体和电视广告的关注。如果你赢了，人们会自动开始关注你。
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Rohit Kumar Khanna
There is a lack of sporting culture in India. It’s not a problem with Tokyo, per se. It’s a problem with our mentality. We want our children to ace the JEE and become a computer scientist. We send them to places like Kota, and make them do tuitions to get ahead. We just want them to become doctors or lawyers or engineers, to get good salaries.
Of course, there is nothing wrong with this mentality - in many ways, it is paying off. The CEOs of Microsoft, Google, all the great companies are Indians, born and bred. Medicine and law and engineering in New York and London and all the great cities of the world are fields dominated by Indians.
But, of course, this mindset has its pitfalls. Among them, one of the glaring ones is that we will not let our child become an athlete, lest he fail and be stuck in a bad-paying profession. That cannot and will not happen to our children. Better he become a lawyer, a doctor, and end up in a safe career path.
So our kids don’t become athletes. And even if they do, they won’t have resources, or coaching, because we don’t care about funding public resources for athletes; we care about funding public resources for doctors like AIIMS.
This is the Indian trap - and unless a mindset change comes around, it will continue.

印度缺乏体育文化。从本质上说，这不是东京的问题。这是我们心态的问题。我们希望我们的孩子在JEE考试中取得好成绩，成为一名计算机科学家。我们把他们送到像Kota这样的地方，让他们交学费，让他们取得成功。我们只是想让他们成为医生、律师或工程师，获得高薪。
当然，这种心态并没有错——在很多方面，它是有回报的。微软的首席执行官，谷歌，所有伟大的公司都是印度人，土生土长的印度人。纽约、伦敦和世界上所有大城市的医学、法律和工程领域都是印度人主导的。
当然，这种心态也有其缺陷。其中，最重要的是，我们不会让我们的孩子成为一名运动员，以免他失败，被困在一个薪水很低的职业。这不可能也不会发生在我们的孩子身上。他最好成为一名律师，一名医生，最终走上一条安全的职业道路。
这样我们的孩子就不会成为运动员。即使他们成为运动员了，他们也没有资源或指导，因为我们不关心为运动员提供好的公共资源；我们关心的是为像全印度医学研究院这样的医生提供公共资源。
这是印度陷阱——除非心态发生改变，否则这种情况还会继续。