Paris Olympics 2024 (and Paralympics'24)

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Re: Paris Olympics 2024

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^^ 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?
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ssp wrote: Mon Sep 02, 2024 9:23 pm Can we rename this thread to include the Paralympics?
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srini wrote: Wed Sep 11, 2024 8:04 am ^^ 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.
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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.
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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
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These companies figured out they did not have the money, the auto market is iffy and having a radical change from combustion engines to electric, etc. Japan's economy is also not in great shapes. So, they withdrew. There will be others who will want the publicity and step in. The Olympics Committee makes a lot of money - may be it will make a tad less. Hardly any of the money goes to the athletes, I think. Or very little. So, the impact will not be that great. Sponsors come and go for various reasons when their contracts are up. They will get people to sponsor the next versions.
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srini wrote: Wed Sep 11, 2024 8:04 am ^^ 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?
Not a chance in general. The population to draw from in the Paralympics Games is much smaller than the whole public - by definition. When this population is small, then it is easier to invest and develop a winner if you have a large country population as we do. The money invested by the government certainly helped and the focus on this. The only cue we can take perhaps is to identify sports that are not popular. That is, few people play it. Then, we can use our population to find "freaks" in this sport and invest money to develop them. That would be much easier than to break through in say 100m sprint, which is popular all over the world, etc.

Which sport has the fewest people playing that sport in the world but is and will be an Olympic medal bearing sport in 10 years? Then, we can check if it requires or gives advantage to people with certain types of genes and if our population has that gene if known. Invest in such sports if it is feasible to popularize it among grassroots for 10 years. That is the best we can do to emulate.
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