Abhishek Gupta

[Gautam @indiantweetrian]

Dal chawal vs protein diet

[Abhishek Gupta @abhi1052001]

@therhinosarmy Actually, that's pretty fair, matches must be played to decide the winner and teams like Nepal must have a fair chance to compete but sadly there's in nothing they could do when a match is abandoned so they decide the winner by the higher seed it isn't only exclusive to cricket

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

Forget the 12th place for a second. Look at 20 silvers next to 4 golds.

At Hangzhou in 2023, India won 28 golds and 38 silvers. Roughly one silver for every gold.

Right now it's five silvers for every gold.

Yes, India reached twenty finals and lost twenty finals.

Clearly, this is not a talent problem.

You don't reach a continental final by accident. Those athletes beat everyone else in Asia except one person, on the day it counted most.

So, the pipeline is working. The last step isn't.

Now some context before anyone panics, because there's a week left.

The Games run until 4 October. Today is day 11 of 16. At Hangzhou, India had 10 golds by day 7 and finished with 28.

More than half of India's golds came in the back stretch, largely because athletics and the team events happen late.

So this number will move. A lot.

Yes, at a roughly similar stage in Hangzhou, India had around 18 golds. Right now it's 4.

Even allowing for the late surge, that's a big gap, not just bad timing.

So why.

The first reason is structural.

There are 469 events across 43 sports at these Games. India entered 36 sports. Which means before a single starting gun went off, India had already skipped seven sports entirely.

And the medals aren't spread evenly. Swimming alone carries dozens of golds. Diving, gymnastics, artistic swimming, rowing, cycling, all of them are gold mines.

India has historically won close to nothing in the pool.

China is on 131 golds. That's not because every Chinese athlete is better than every Indian athlete. It's because China turns up seriously in every single sport, including the ones where 40 medals sit in one sport.

You can't win a medal table by being excellent in eight sports. The table is decided by how many sports you're actually contesting.

The second reason is the host effect.

Japan is on 41 golds. Home Games do this. Familiar pools, familiar tracks, no long-haul travel, home crowds, and a national programme that's been building toward this date for years.

China won over 200 golds when they hosted in 2023. They're on 131 now.

The third reason is the finals problem, which is the one I actually find most interesting.

Getting to a final and winning a final are two different sports.

Getting there is about volume and access. Enough kids playing, enough coaches, enough tournaments, enough funding. India has genuinely fixed a lot of that over the last decade, and 45 medals with a week to go is proof.

Winning the final is about the last two percent.

Sports science, recovery, mental conditioning, and most of all competing at that level often enough that a final stops feeling like a special occasion.

That last part is the killer. If an athlete's only big final all year is at the Asian Games, the pressure is enormous.

If they've been in twelve finals against the same opponents, it's just another Tuesday.

Having said that, 45 medals means India is now consistently in the conversation across a wide spread of sports.

Twenty years ago India would finish with twenty-odd medals total. The base has genuinely widened. The women's cricket team won the first gold of this edition by beating Sri Lanka in the final and retaining the title.

The kabaddi teams added more golds.

So the diagnosis isn't "India is bad at sport."

It's much more specific. India has built a system that produces finalists and hasn't yet built the one that produces champions.

Those need different investments. One is grassroots and money. The other is elite coaching, competition calendars and psychology, and it is a lot easier to fix than the first one.

Let's check back on 4 October.

This number will look very different. But the silver-to-gold ratio is worth watching even then, because that's the one that tells us what to fix next.

[The Khel India @TheKhelIndia]

NEERU WINS THE GOLD MEDAL IN WOMEN’S TRAP AT ASIAN GAMES 2026! 🥇

[ICC @ICC]

𝟭𝟱,𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 👏

Virat Kohli becomes just the second batter to reach the landmark in ODI cricket 👑

Follow the match ➡️ https://t.co/h38gxQF3rE

[Mufaddal Vohra @mufaddal_vohra]

86TH INTERNATIONAL HUNDRED BY VIRAT KOHLI. 🔥

[Abhishek Gupta @abhi1052001]

@TheKhelIndia Today was the worst day mannnnnn 😭😭😭😭😭

[The Khel India @TheKhelIndia]

INDIAN MEN’S KABADDI TEAM WINS THE GOLD MEDAL AT ASIAN GAMES! 🥇

- Beats Iran 40-34 in the Finals! 🔥🔥🔥

[The Khel India @TheKhelIndia]

WATCH THE GOLD WINNING MOMENT! 🇮🇳

- Indian Women’s Kabaddi Team win Gold 🥇

[The Khel India @TheKhelIndia]

INDIAN WOMEN’S KABADDI TEAM WINS THE GOLD MEDAL AT ASIAN GAMES! 🥇

- Beats Iran 37-34 in the Finals! 🔥🔥🔥

[Abhishek Gupta @abhi1052001]

@SmartGamerRaj1 Dalle woh ek gold🥇 bhi cricket me hi aaya hai

[Abhishek Gupta @abhi1052001]

@eternalyjw Are you actually dumb or are you playing dumb please clear it, I can't fathom this level of ideocracy without proper explanation

[Abhishek Gupta @abhi1052001]

@ChiffonSaree @DarpanAurDwar @miragechazer101 That is okay I never said if your arguments were invalid just pointed out that the word you used was pretty much always used by racists against us so coming from someone of our own just normalise it more, I appreciate for vowing to not use it further but why so defensive using 🤡

[Abhishek Gupta @abhi1052001]

@ChiffonSaree @DarpanAurDwar @miragechazer101 Still you used it but didn't correct it, it could be edited but you still not editing it, you are just being blackpilled at this point, your criticisms maybe be valid but when you yourself are useful racist slurs that wouldn't make your argument valid

[Abhishek Gupta @abhi1052001]

@BehindStriker @im_x_sagar MC Stan 🫪

[Ghar Ke Kalesh @gharkekalesh]

Bittu Tabahi reached International 💀🙌

[The Khel India @TheKhelIndia]

OHHH MY GOOOOODDD!!!!! 🤩🤯

AYUSH SHETTY UPSETS WORLD NO.1 & DEFENDING CHAMPION SHI YUQI

- Defeated him 21-14, 13-21, 21-19 in the opening round of BWF World C’ship 2026

THIS IS PRETTY HUGE FOLKS! 🔥🔥🔥

[Abhishek Gupta @abhi1052001]

@ivan9187 @LearningHubX WTF bro, why go that deap