Asian Games 2018

Mrunal Shingre
Sep 2, 2018 · 2 min read

It’s the second last day of the 18th Asian Games. Till now India has won 65 medals (13Gold 23silver 29Bronze). After many years India is been able to put up such a decent performance. As there were many records created- first time gold medals in javelin throw and heptathlon. And some things that have been experienced after decades — like the 800m gold after 32 years, the 1500m gold the first medal in the discipline after 20 years, the triple jump gold after 48 years. Neeraj Chopra’s 88.06m en route to gold was one of the best. However, when this record was created on the other hand for the first India was not able to get Gold in Kabaddi. Kabaddi was included in Asian games in 1990 from the India never lost. Iran this year was capable to that and Indian Men Kabaddi team were satisfied in Bronze and Indian Women team were satisfied in silver.

Asian games were first conducted in the year 1951 in New Delhi. They are held after every four years and this year it is the 18th Asian games. At the 1st Asian games 11 nations participated which included 6 sports. India won 51 medals (15Gold 16silver 20Bronze) and was able to take the second place in the medal table.

This year the Asian games are conducted in Indonesia where 45 nations are participating. As compared to the other Asian games this year the popularity of the Asian games is very less. Very few people areaware the 18th Asian games.On the other side there is also India vs England test series. People are well concerned about how India is representing itself in that game as first the performance of India was very weak in the first two test match. However, the 3rdtest match was won by India and India got itself back in the game.

Over all this year’s India can make a major come back in the Asian Games. The best performance of India was in the 1951. And after the rise of China and Korea India slowly but surely lost its position as one of the major sporting nations of Asia. India now has made it possible to keep itself in the top 10 and may be till tomorrow it can also be in the top 5 in the Medals Tally. But if people are not aware about this it won’t be a good apperception to our Athletes who are representing India on such a large platform.