Quote: (04-08-2013 06:51 PM)LibertarianBootyHunter Wrote:
It always boggled my mind how a country of over a billion people produces no athletes whatsoever ( Cricket is not a sport ).
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It can't be genetics only ... there has to be something in the culture that discourages sports and physical activity.
Bit difficult to boil it down to genetics, when the country is a melting pot of over 2000 different ethnic groups and numerous languages. India was never ever one country until the British unified it as so.
Quote: (04-08-2013 07:06 PM)nek Wrote:
I think a big part of it is the diet. Very few people over there eat beef, and a significant portion don't eat any meat at all. It's a very carb heavy diet (and sugary chai tea doesn't help either). This produces the soft bodies and physical lethargy that you see all too often over there. Not to mention the culture itself is more education and spirituality oriented vice physicality oriented.
A side point about cricket. Alot of south asians don't like the new Twenty20 format, whereas it's more populart amongst the anglo teams and the west indian team. The twenty20 format just happens to be a more athletic form of the game.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty20
First part of your post is partially correct concerning diet, however when it comes to sport India has a long history of contact sports such as wrestling. Where do you think the Hindu Squats and Hindu Pushups come from? Not sure if it still is but the Hindu squat was a punishment in schools where pupils would have to hold their ears whilst performing the squat up to a 100 times.
The second part is totally incorrect. Twenty20 is the most popular form of cricket in South Asia, their Indian Premier League brand is worth around $5 Billion. The average attendance for the 80 odd games is only second to the NFL worldwide. Seems popular to me.
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