Summer , Winter or a Paralympics Games :: Only " DETERMINATION " is the need of the hour !!.!!

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Summer , Winter or a Paralympics Games :: Only " DETERMINATION " is the need of the hour

Paralympics - :: A complete history and achievements of the Indian participation 

 A few  days ago, the Union Ministry of India, under the agesis of Mr Narendra Modi and his Government has declared that the PARALYMPIC GAMES AND SPORTS would be considered as equal to the games and the sports of Olympics in this country and that the two category of the sports would be given the same accordance ,  and treated as equal in status in the annals of the games and sports in India.

 This is quite a phenomenal status accorded to the Paralympic events of games and sports, and this will give more impetus to the Paralympic sports in India. Many are not coming forward in these kind of an event to participate but now that the equal status is accorded one hopes that the Paralympic events and trhe Sports will see a rise in the same.

This is another phenomenal achievement accorded  to the one’s who are the Paralympic Sportsman and this comes after the Confedration Of The Brazilian Football has come out with it’s theory of paying the Brazilian male and the female footballers representing Brazil in international football on equal footing with equal pay and salary to the respective category.

History of Paralympic Games and Sports that relates to India ::

I hereby present the entire history of the same and I also here pen down the names as well as the events in which at the various games that Indian had won the medal.

India made its Summer Paralympic début at the 1968 Games, competed again in 1972, and then was absent until the 1984 Games. The country has participated in every edition of the Summer Games since then. It has never participated in the Winter Paralympic Games.

India should start thinking of participating in the Winter Paralympic games and sports, be it the normal one that are held or be it the Paralympic one’s as the case maybe.

India’s “ FIRST ” Gold , water Sports makes the “ hay ” ::

In 1972 at the Heidelberg Games, Murlikant Petkar swam the 50 meter freestyle in a world record time of 37.331 seconds to give India her first ever Gold. India finished 24th out of the 42 participating nations.

 In 1984, Joginder Singh Bedi won silver at the Men's Shot Put and followed it up with a pair of bronze winning performances in the Discus and Javelin throws. Another Indian, Bhimrao Kesarkar, won the silver medal in the Javelin. India finished 37th out of the 54 participating nations.

After the success of the cooperative effort between the ICC and the IOC, which resulted in the 1988 Summer Paralympics in Seoul, the ICC determined the need to expand and include representatives from all nations that had disability sports programs.

The 1988 Summer Paralympics were the first Paralympics in 24 years that took place in the same city as the Olympic Games. This was the first time the term Paralympic Games came into official use.They also deemed it necessary to include athletes in the decisions of the Paralympic governing body. Consequently, this body was reorganized as the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) in 1989.The IPC is the global governing body of the Paralympic Movement. It comprises 165 National Paralympic Committees (NPC) and four disability-specific international sports federations.

 

2004 :: The Return Of The “ GOLDEN ” Touch Of These Games For India

India continued to participate in each Paralympic Games thereafter, but failed to make an impact till the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens when Devendra Jhajharia, Javelin thrower, won gold and Rajinder Singh won bronze for powerlifting in the 56-kg category. India finished 53rd out of the 136 nation field. H. N. Girisha, an Indian athlete born with a disability in the left leg, won the silver medal in the 2012 Paralympic games held in London in the men's high jump F-42 category.

IRONY......PITY........ HELLUVA........INTERNATIONAL JOKE-:

These games and this also has a piece of very useful and important history attached to the same.It would make an interesting reading . Some events are really very hard to forget and they serve as a lesson to bend us back to place ourself to the correct path and return to the normal routes and this has been a façade for the one’s who  go as officials with the contingent abroad.

During the 2012 Summer Paralympics it was reported that coaches and escorts of the Indian Team were denied accommodation in the Games Village because their permits were being used by officials of the Paralympic Committee of India.The Team's 10 athletes were to be assisted by six coaches and five escorts, but only two escorts were given passes; Paralympic Committee general Secretary Ratan Singh confirmed that he had brought his son, that the Committee president had brought his wife, and the treasurer had brought his wife and daughter. This s is something very intriguing and comical by nature and this  ought to be seen and rectified by the Indian Government in the future so that the participants are not put in jeopardy ??.

COMPARISM...... PARA ATHLETE ..... NORMALCY....... U S A

This paralympic has opened and it has raised a few eyebrows as well.

It was in 1932 FIRST when we saw the Indian Flag was raised and placed ahead of the U S A flag in the Olympics. That happened when India beat U S A by 24-1 in the Hockey and Japan by 11-1 in the hockey match.

At the time of the prize distribution the India flag was raised and placed at a higher level and height than the U S A flag however the anthem played was of British as India till then did not have any National Antem   and was a slave of the Britishers.

Thereafter there has been this occasion of the Paralympig Games when the Indian Tri-colour was placed above the U S Flag , ie the U S National Flag .

In between 1932 to 2016 ie, for 84 years, last, we have seen that there was NEVER any incident or anything as such where the Indian flag was placed above the U S Flag.

The PARALYMPIANS did it for us and that is NO MEAN an achievement .

U S A that way is AHEAD of India in any and every thing. We cannot in our wildest dream imagine to beat them in any Olympic events- be it anything

Milkha Singh did it at some races but not in the Olympics. On an individual ground and feet Vijay Amritraj did it on a number of occassion when he had scaled the height of Stan Smith, Tom Gorman, Jimmy Connors, Vitas Gerulaitis, Roscoe Tanner , Brian Gotterfried , Bill Scanlon ,  and many a stars of the U S A tennis  and it’s world, but never in the Olympics and any such moment where the flag would be hoisted for or after the sports events.

This  and these , achievement of the Paralympic also has made ONE to think that if these Para Athlete can beat the U S athlete, why can't the normal ones even do that- yes they can do it

The second placed athlete in the High jump in that Paralympics Game,  was an American athlete and he was beaten square and hollow by an Indian

Another intriguing fact is last time India had won a SILVER in the High Jump in the Paralympic through a Karnataks'a based athlete named Girisha. He jumped 1.86 to win a Silver

This time the Height ie the distance of  1.86  metres has been the Gold.

If our normal athlete become very strong MENTALLY- we can do better in the Olympics by defeating many of the world class champions. Be it the Summer, Winter or the Paralympic Olympic Games , 

 Only a determination is the need of the hour.

Thanks and Regards

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Shyamal Bhattacharjee 

Mr Shyamal Bhattacharjee, the author was born at West Chirimiri Colliery at District Surguja, Chattisgarh on July 6th 1959 He received his early education at Carmel Convent School Bishrampur and later at Christ Church Boys' Higher Secondary School at Jabalpur. He later joined Hislop College at Nagpur and completed his graduation in Science and he also added a degree in    B A thereafter. He joined the HITAVADA, a leading dailies of Central India at Nagpur as a      Sub-Editor ( Sports ) but gave up to complete his MBA in 1984 He thereafter added a Diploma In Export Management. He has authored THREE books namely Notable Quotes and Noble Thought published by Pustak Mahal in 2001 Indian Cricket : Faces That Changed It  published by Manas Publications in 2009 and Essential Of Office Management published by NBCA, Kolkatta  in 2012. He has a experience of about 35 years in Marketing 

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