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
ideato 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 Dempoand a few others from AN
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
runningthe 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
athletesscary.
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. Pp
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. Pp
extra. http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/
