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Leaguing towards Sporting Nation

Vikas Gowda,Ravi Kumar,Mary Kom,Rakesh Kumar,Seema Punia,Yogeshwar Dutt,Abhinav Bindra,Sushil Kumar,Babita Kumari ,Sania Mirza,Saina Nehawal etc etc.There is more to this list.India once criticized to be non sporting nation or so to say cricketing nation.Nation was obsessed with cricket where sports was synomous to cricket.But this cliché has completely changed.What Best statistics has proved it Be it Glassgow Common Wealth Games or Recent Asian Games held at Incheon .India has scored high in these games.India was ranked 8 th and  5 th in Common Wealth Games  and Asian Games respectively.So what we have done differently that we have scored and progressing towards sport superpower.Previously  we were almost begging for getting a medal.It was clear shame that nation of great population could not produce great sports persons. But during course of time this has changed.After the success of IPL,Winning of Cricket world cup and unexpected Gold by Abhinav Bindra in 2008 were some t