Not really in my view. There are many an athletes who are vegetarian and winners.
The winning Kenyans may not have been vegetarian but were winners likely on limited food and came from improvised backgrounds (Kipchoge 'Kip' Keino). Brazilian footballers don't exactly come from homes with three meals a day (Emerson I think was selling watermelons on the Rio beach two years before he was in the Selection). I feel the Indians have other talents and not in physical sports. A few years ago, the Sports Authority came up with a brilliant idea....to adopt certain ethnic types. Example, children from the many African settlers on the West coast of India were trained as athletes, children from Andaman and Nicobar were adopted for football training. Remember William who played for Dempo....and a few others from A&N followed him to Dempo. Not sure where the program is (someone may have messed it up as usual, but was an brilliant idea). Sport has hereditary influence in some ways and as Goans, our origins are likely mixed North East African.....why? Because the only Indians who made it in top athletics were Goans in middle distance running....the medal winners who represented Kenya or Tanzania and Eddy Sequera who missed the bronze in 68 or 72! There are beans and pulses that give us the same nutrients. I would be curious how the wrestlers of Sattara in Maharashtra gain body weight being vegetarian. On a side note, look at what happened to all the well-fed meaty sports people from Eastern Europe.....in the book MacMafia, there is a quick picture of a meeting at a sea side resort in Bulgaria of the former athletes....scary. http://www.flickr.com/photos/limbic/3640051655/ <---you wouldn't want to hug one of them guys would you? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbc25wU3-fU Some of these guys are in Goa and so is Mr. Glenny's investigative reporting. omnic Fernandes <domval...@hotmail.com> wrote: > No beef on menu during Commonwealth Games: Kalmadi > > Why are we jumping to religious and political reasons? > > It is a known fact that we, Indians, have been a failure at the Olympics > (and other major sporting events) as far as medals concerned. People have > always criticized us for failing to win medals at the Olympics because our > athletes train for fewer than three months before attending the event. > Moreover, the general contention is that we try to win medals by eating dal > (lentils) with chapattis. Whereas, it is believed the Westerners derive > their strength from beef steak and other beef products, which contain more > proteins than dal and chapati. > > Maybe the Indian organizers think that depriving the Westerners of beef > might weaken them and give us a chance to win more medals. So, let us wait > and watch! > > Moi-mogan, > > Domnic Fernandes > Anjuna, Goa > Mob: 9420979201 > * * * > > IS YOURS one of the stories of Goans on board the S.S. > Dwarka, or at the Strait of Hormuz, Basra or Bahrain, Dubai, > Swindon, Mombasa, Poona or Rangoon? Selma Carvalho's new book > *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* docks at many other ports. Get > your copy from Broadways, Panjim [9822488564] Rs 295. P&p > extra. http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ > * * * IS YOURS one of the stories of Goans on board the S.S. Dwarka, or at the Strait of Hormuz, Basra or Bahrain, Dubai, Swindon, Mombasa, Poona or Rangoon? Selma Carvalho's new book *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* docks at many other ports. Get your copy from Broadways, Panjim [9822488564] Rs 295. P&p extra. http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/