Strike while the iron's hot !

Abhinav sparked it and Vijender wrapped it. The end of the most successful Olympics campaign in the Indian history. Let's keep the stats apart here for a while.

Abhinav Bindra went on record after his gold medal winning performance saying that he had a feeling of emptiness after climbing the peak of sporting glory. Well none of us would know about that, as he is the only one, legible to comment on that. But the feeling of void is completely his personal, as the rest of India is filled with emotions ranging from national pride to vindication. His performance may even have broken the barrier that most Indian athletes face when they perform at the biggest stage of them all, and may have even helped Sushil Kumar and Vijender in their individual events.

But let us hark on the past a little. Say a Malleshwari and a Rathore , also did spark that National pride, although eventually it was more of a spark than a fire. What we lack or what we have needs to be analyzed for sure to perform better at London 2012, but more efforts should be put on what we need to do. And when I say we, I mean we the people. Today entrepreneurs - most of them budding graduates, are willing to create multi million dollar start ups, and they have the right financial and strategic atmosphere to do so. Although I do not blame them for going into lucrative ventures, mostly in IT/ITES sectors but this time around why can't we tap the sports sector. We have the right atmosphere and people would be more than willing to lend a helping hand.

A business model that provides budding athletes the right training facilities and a long term income opportunity, will be a shot in the arm. Strike while the iron's hot !