Bangladesh's Olympic shame

[kobiraaz]

If you really have working brain you would get that we have never given any priority to this..
population is just an excuse..If population really matters then compare medal tally of both US & China..
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Tell this to the Idiot who opened the Thread

 

[arp2041]

It's literally SHAMEFUL....

BD is facing EMBARRASSMENT in every field............

Even if you talk about most popular sport of BD ie cricket.....only God knows why BD is a test team....

It's a Shame....

 

[Nilgiri]

Indian male are disgrace to the male human species.700 million of them, yet not a single medal from them in this olympic.Indian would have get their a*s handed if not that two woman who helped India to barely avoid the the term 'Second most populous country in the world without any Olympic medal.'

So how many have Bangladeshi males won....EVER?

A big fat 0. Truly subhuman performance.

So these disgraces you talk about are infinitely better than BD males no? Since even 1 is infinitely better than 0 (and India has 28 total medals at olympics won by both men and women).

If Bangladesh actually won at least 1 medal, we can actually quantify the ratio without having to use the word "infinite"

But instead Bangladesh is the largest population in THE WORLD to NEVER have won an olympic medal.

Bangladesh is ranked 8th in population in the world.

You have to go all the way down to rank 26 to find the next largest country with no olympic medal (Myanmar).

Bangladesh is therefore the world's worst case scenario of olympic sporting and disgrace....be it male or female.

Not even an LDC in sporting....but a primitive bunch. I mean one would think BD would have won at least one medal by now.

Those are scarf superpower cryptonite..
How many Bangladeshis won? LOL
By that logic your male athletes don't deserve to be called male??
If you really have working brain you would get that we have never given any priority to this..
population is just an excuse..If population really matters then compare medal tally of both US & China..
Factually Bangladeshi lungis are better suited to pull rickshaw & making masala songs while running mouth....

When you are a failure yourself like BD, one can only resort to notions of ummah and others success to feel better.

This is a very deep inferiority complex in BD. You can see it for yourself each time one of them claims to be Turkish, Central Asian or Genghis Khan lineage....and know that each day of the week they say is a Hindu god (Lets not even bring up their actual DNA markers and clear looks overall).

I think the whole article should have been posted to really get the gist of it including the highlighted parts

Why is the country failing so miserably at providing an environment conducive to producing world-class athletes, a Dhaka-based journalist asks.


The Bangladeshi contingent at the Rio Olympics. Credit: Reuters

Bangladesh, once again, returned empty-handed from the Olympics this year, retaining its title of the ‘most populous country to have never won an Olympic medal’. At the start of the Rio Olympics, Bangladesh was one of 75 countries with no Olympic medals. Fiji, another such country, squashed its record of Olympics duck when its rugby team won the gold and the country’s first ever medal at the Olympic Games in the inaugural men’s rugby sevens competition. Kosovo achieved a similar feat when double world champion Majlinda Kelmendi clinched the gold in the women’s jude 52 kg category, putting the recently-independent country on the medal table for the first time. But Bangladesh, along with the likes of war-ravaged Congo and Rwanda, failed to secure any medals at Rio, prompting very little curiosity or concern from Bangladeshis worldwide, who seem to only have high expectations when it comes to the national cricket team.


Margarita Mamun of Russia poses with her gold medal. Credit: Reuters

Oddly enough, Bangladesh’s poor performance at Rio or at the Olympics in general wasn’t a talking point until the Margarita Mamun saga came into focus. Mamun, born to a Bangladeshi father and a Russian mother and the gold medallist in the women’s individual all-around rhythmic gymnastics at Rio, called her win a “victory for two countries”. When the war of words played out on social media between those who took her statement at face value and those who asserted that Bangladesh had no role to play in her success it was clear that the majority, like myself, conceded that Mamun would have never had the opportunities to become the star gymnast she is today had she built a life in Bangladesh. There is no question that her dreams of being a world champion rhythmic gymnast wouldn’t have seen the light of day; from being ridiculed and shamed for wearing “tight and skimpy” clothes to never being afforded proper training or basic facilities to practice, Mamun would have never stood a chance in her paternal homeland. This tug-of-war between the two camps debating the contribution of Bangladesh, or a lack thereof, to her achievements nonetheless made one thing clear: Bangladesh is desperate to claim an Olympic victory. Perhaps we ought to ask ourselves: why are we failing so miserably at providing an environment conducive to producing world-class athletes able to excel in platforms like the Olympics? Our misplaced urge to jump on the glory bandwagon, as a lot of us did when Mamun won, upon a nationalistic whim and our subsequent refusal to acknowledge why we’re wrong in claiming something that is not rightfully ours, is strongly indicative of a lack of trust in our own athletes.

With the better part of our focus and investment expended on cricket – a colonial legacy and a powerful expression of cultural nationalism for not only Bangladesh but also for South Asia as a whole – it is little wonder that other types of sports are widely neglected. The lack of sports infrastructure, facilities, opportunities and incentives available to youngsters to professionally take up a career in sports (other than cricket) is a major obstacle to our ability to venture past the likes of cricket and football. With the exception of trailblazers like mountaineer-activist Wasfia Nazreen, young men and women hardly have a non-cricket role model to look up to. Even a rudimentary Google search will show you the glaring paucity of Bangladeshi athletes competing at the international level in various sports. A general societal attitude that discourages youngsters from pursuing their passion (including aspirations of becoming an athlete) and pushes them to pick the “safer” career path, such as engineering, medicine and law, is killing the hopes of all those who dare to dream. Thankfully, we have a number of non-cricket sporting achievements, albeit rare, to show for, thanks to athletes such as Abdullah Baki (silver medallist in shooting at the 2014 Commonwealth Games) and Asif Hossain Khan (gold medallist in shooting at the 2002 Commonwealth Games). But it is still a far cry from tasting a victory at the Olympics.


Bangaldesh has a few non-cricket sporting achievements, including shooter Asif Hossain Khan’s gold medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

The gravity of our underperformance at the Olympics is underpinned by the population factor. Besides being the eighth most populous country in the world, Bangladesh is undergoing a demographic transition thanks to its increasing growth rate in the working age population in the last decade. An overwhelming portion of the present population is below 25 years of age. It is, therefore, an embarrassment of sorts for Bangladesh to be grouped together in the ‘zero Olympic medals’ category with countries with a minute fraction of our population; for instance, Lesotho’s population is 2 million, while that of Swaziland is 1.25 million. The population profile of the other countries in this category in its entirety makes our incompetence incomprehensible. How have we not been able to harness our youth potential and produce a single viable contender good enough to make it to the finals in a single sport at the Olympics since our first appearance in 1984?

Reportedly, the Bangladeshi athletes’ contingent arrived in Rio without their original coaches. Instead, officials accompanied the athletes, in effect replacing their coaches. Bangladesh Swimming Federation general secretary Rafizuddin Rafiz served as the coach in Rio to swimmers Mahfizur Rahman Sagor and Sonia Akter Tumpa. Rafiz has no coaching background. Moreover, Bangladesh Athletics Federation’s senior vice-president Shah Alam was nominated to be the coach for sprinters Mezbahuddin Ahmed and Shirin Akter despite the fact that Alam left his coaching career more than a decade ago. Although athletes have repeatedly voiced their opinions on the integral role that a coach plays during big competitive events, bureaucracy and nepotism often trump the demands and needs of athletes. These malpractices are a manifestation of a broader culture of nonchalance and institutional corruption, and a complete disregard for any sport that is not cricket.

Recently, British journalist Piers Morgan came under heavy fire on social media for tweeting this about India, “1,200,000,000 people and not a single Gold medal at the Olympics? Come on India, this is shameful. Put the bunting away & get training.” India won two medals at Rio, none of which were gold, and Morgan simply didn’t understand the cause for so much celebration. Many Indians didn’t take his words lightly and reacted with some fiery comebacks. It now makes me wonder, if Morgan had hurled criticism at Bangladesh for being the most populous country with an Olympic duck, what would the ‘hyper nationalist’ in us, unable to flaunt the cricket card, have to say then?

Nahela Nowshin is a freelance writer based in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

I don't think any other country in South Asia has beaten up a gold medallist (mentioned in this article), or any medallist or athlete to an inch of his life like Bangladesh has.

They are on a whole different level to rest of South Asia when it comes to sports and treatment of people who succeed at it.

 

[Brickwall]

Stop throwing mud at each other, Entire South east Asia is bad at Olympics, if One-fourth of humanity can only manage meager 2 medals, it makes us wonder, if we will ever able to achieve significant position.

For those who starts crying about lack of resources, Instead of syncing efforts within our countries facilities and training , we are busy degrading our selves.

 

[Loafer]

Even Americans train their Olympians in Bangladesh.

Michael phelps won medals because he practices swimming catching Hilsa in Bangladesh.

Usain bolt won the medal because he observes at what speed illegal Bangaldeshis jump with the pole vault everyday.

God bless the largest nation never to have won a single Olympic medal in existence.

 

[salarsikander]

Did Pakistan win any medal ?

 

[kobiraaz]

Even Americans train their Olympians in Bangladesh.

Michael phelps won medals because he practices swimming catching Hilsa in Bangladesh.

Usain bolt won the medal because he observes at what speed illegal Bangaldeshis jump with the pole vault everyday.

God bless the largest nation never to have won a single Olympic medal in existence.

I thought Eating Beef daily helped Usain bolt

 

[Nilgiri]

Did Pakistan win any medal ?

Rhetorical question?

No it didnt.

Though Pakistan has won medals before 1992 olympics. A long drought you have to break.

I thought Eating Beef daily helped Usain bolt

So why isn't helping BDeshis at all? The base DNA is just too weak?

 

[Loafer]

I thought Eating Beef daily helped Usain bolt

Muslims in Subcontinet shouldn't dream of an African body.

Down to earth.

 

[livingdead]

how many bangladeshis qualified for this olympics?

 

[kobiraaz]

Rhetorical question?

No it didnt.

Though Pakistan has won medals before 1992 olympics. A long drought you have to break.



So why isn't helping BDeshis at all? The base DNA is just too weak?

No. Olympic is a traditional battleground for ambitious countries. Those who want to be recognized as super power have chosen this tournament to prove their national capabilities. From Hitler to Modern China, USA to Russia all showed their worth. Only one soon to be suppa powa cant win anything. Its funny.

Bangladesh doesn't have such ambition, isn't askin for a seat in SC. At present Olympic is a tour for Govt. Officials Nothing else. They can't go alone so they take 5-6 people from army or police as players.

Muslims in Subcontinet shouldn't dream of an African body.

Down to earth.

I concur. We play with pen and paper. We play with literature. But what the so called martial part of the subcontinent achieve?

 

[Nilgiri]

No. Olympic is a traditional battleground for ambitious countries. Those who want to be recognized as super power have chosen this tournament to prove their national capabilities. From Hitler to Modern China, USA to Russia all showed their worth. Only one soon to be suppa powa cant win anything. Its funny.

Bangladesh doesn't have such ambition, doesn't asking for a seat in SC. At present Olympic is a tour for Govt. Officials Nothing else. They can't go alone so they take 5-6 people from army or police as players.

Well then Bangladeshis shouldn't be calling others a disgrace etc.

If you personally feel no shame, you can counter it that way instead of getting into this IND vs BD crap flinging again.

Doyalbaba especially seems to have a really deep rooted inferiority complex for some reason.

But what the so called martial part of the subcontinent achieve?

Your liberation?

 

[kobiraaz]

Your liberation?

Something they themselves can't achieve.

Rajendra Chola defeated the King of Vangaldesa. Now you see Kerry visits Bangladesh and doesn't even know about chola

 

[salarsikander]

Rhetorical question?

No it didnt.

Though Pakistan has won medals before 1992 olympics. A long drought you have to break.

Yeah what do you expect when an official olympics contingent is bigger than the athletes themselves.

FKING corrupt people !

 

[Nilgiri]

how many bangladeshis qualified for this olympics?

Zero. Same for Pakistan.