Well its only a week before the The Sports extravaganza of Asia "The 15th Asian Games, 2006 at Doha, Qatar" begin.
So it becomes the right time to kick off the discussion regarding Indian presence, performance, perspective at the Games.
The Asian Games when started were dominated by India, but as Japan, Korea and later China grew stronger Indian laggend behind.
Now a days India Struggles to keep its place in top 10 while it used to be in top 3 earlier.
But this year the story may be different as the inclusion of sports like Chess, Cue Sports, Strong team in Shooting and a good buch of other players India is expected to play a good strong show in Doha.
Had it not beeen doping fiasco by Weighlifters it could have been much better story.
The past Performances by India
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Year Pos. Country G S B Total
1951 2 India 15 18 19 51
1954 5 India 4 4 5 14
1958 6 India 5 3 3 11
1962 2 India 10 13 10 33
1966 5 India 7 4 11 22
1970 5 India 6 9 10 25
1974 7 India 4 12 12 28
1978 6 India 11 11 6 28
1982 5 India 13 19 25 57
1986 5 India 5 9 23 37
1990 11 India 1 8 14 23
1994 8 India 4 3 15 22
1998 9 India 7 11 17 35
2002 8 India 10 12 13 35
2006 ? India ? ? ? ??
I am starting this thread to kick start the discussion, participate and express your views.