Paris Olympics 2024 (and Paralympics'24)

[srini]

^^ After returning empty from 2008 Beijing Paralympics, India has taken great leaps in each of the subsequent editions with 1,4,19 and 29 medals and currently in respectable medal standing of 18.
Kudos to the top-20 standing which is great improvement. Anyone in the know-how, can you please analyze how this progress was made possible and can the performance be emulated in Olympics too by taking cue from Para games?

[jayakris]

Can we rename this thread to include the Paralympics?

Sorry, forgot to do this earlier. Done. Mod, Jay

[jayakris]

^^ After returning empty from 2008 Beijing Paralympics, India has taken great leaps in each of the subsequent editions with 1,4,19 and 29 medals and currently in respectable medal standing of 18.
Kudos to the top-20 standing which is great improvement. Anyone in the know-how, can you please analyze how this progress was made possible and can the performance be emulated in Olympics too by taking cue from Para games?

I assume the Government taking it seriously, and so spending all the money helped? Not all countries are taking it seriously, so it is proving to be a bit easier for us to move into the top-20? I am just throwing it out there, without having studied it.

[PKBasu]

India finished 18th in the Paris Paralympics with 7 gold, 9 silver and 13 bronze medals (a total of 29 medals). Athletics (4 golds, 6 silver, 7 bronze) made the biggest contribution. Followed by badminton (1 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze), shooting (1 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze) and archery (1 gold, 1 bronze), and a bronze in judo.

That was a substantial improvement on the 19 medals (5 gold, 8 silver, 6 bronze) won by India to secure 24th place at Tokyo.

[Atithee]

This seems quite ominous:

Japanese auto giant Toyota is to end their top-tier Olympics sponsorship, its chairman has said, citing the sporting showpiece’s “increasingly political” influence that puts athletes on the back burner.
https://www.dawn.com/news/1861481