India first appeared in Olympics in the year of 1900, winning two medals with the alone athelete. After that India again appeared in the year of 1920, then in every summer Olympic and in winter Olympic since 1964. India won 20 medals altogether. India have very good record in the hockey, winning eight gold medals out of nine, out of eight India won six in a row.
India is remarkable among nations for having won very few Olympic medals despite a population exceeding a billion, around half of them under the age of 25. Numerous explanations have been offered for the dearth, including poverty, malnutrition, neglected infrastructure, the lack of sponsorship, the theft of money and equipment, political corruption, institutional disorganization, social immobility, the predominance of cricket and other cultural factors.
According to several informal statistics, India is the country in the world with the lowest number of total Olympic medals per capita (of those countries that have actually won at least one medal). According to another calculation, however, India ranks last but one, above Vietnam, in this statistic.
According to several informal statistics, India is the country in the world with the lowest number of total Olympic medals per capita (of those countries that have actually won at least one medal). According to another calculation, however, India ranks last but one, above Vietnam, in this statistic.
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