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| Friday, March 24, 2006 |
| Common wealth - India |
Unlike my past, i have been closely following the commonwealth games. Courtesy DDSports.It is showering gold as far as shooting is concerned. ppl who caught my attention were rathore, samaresh, anjali bhagawath(she lost). this samaresh guy has won six gold already (if i remember correctly) and still in the hunt for more. and there is another lady who won the gold and confess that her husband is burning with ego he being a major and both r from army. Pugilists are also doing good too. whos that guy who won gold in asian games last time? media coverage was too much on him & then suddently he disappears. no he was not booked for rocky 6. instead there was a case against him and the rest happened as usual. now there are 3 guys bantam weight, then medium, then 91kg. all into semis. best of luck for them.
Hockey news -> news reader read: Defending champions are in final. earlier in the day india defeated nz to book a place in the final. i started clapping, feeling happy for india who despite being an underdog went in the final.
now... wait a minute news reader continuing: defending champions india prevailed in what was supposed to be a repeat of last year's semis. shit with my ignorance. what a gross underestimation when it comes to women sport. Truth is actually otherwise. Always indian eves have been doing well than adams. I have to mention about an interview of the ex-captain who lead the side to the victory last time. She was not articulate in her speech. not that i am an expert in hindi. but still i cud make out that she is not comfortable facing the camera. Hapiness was overflowing from her face. Message was clear - though i am not playing i am very very
happy for them. rare species indeed.
One thing i really got angry was our failure in basket ball. We lost even to SA who lost all other matches. Imagine a Southafrican blogging: we managed to beat only India and only with a small margin, In international level even in volleyball, we are doing good. we are like saudi arabia in football. occasionally getting an upset win. why not in basket ball. now, somebody like pradeep wud start we r weak by gene and so let us concentrate in long distance running. Born in a state which had won national championships for most no. of times, i wud say no. i have seen marc robinson play. I don't know if he is in the team or he has retired. he is very good. v definetly have the talent. i don't know what is missing.
More on this link...http://specials.rediff.com/sports/2006/mar/23sld1.htm
I guess v r safe in third place might even catchup england. :) |
posted by Ramkumar @ 12:26 AM   |
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yeah - he is from chennai...
Samaresh won 5 golds in the end and not 6 as ram has said. had he won the 6th one - he wud have made a new commonwealth games record. A gymnast made the record in the end (sexy name hers - alexandro something).
India ended the game at 4th. Of the 20 odd golds india had got - 16 were from the shooters. that shows what we are!!!
Pradeep - where is the strength!?!? which one shud i focus on now?!? Apart from shooting and a bit of boxing - nothing else seems worthy enuf for us to even participate. With the olympics body in india full of all kind of scandals - the game will go no where!!! Period...
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Gagan Narang, who won 4 golds @ Melobourne CWG, won the gold medal in the ISSF World cup, being held at Gauangzhou - China.
In the process, he also got himself selected for the 2008 Beiging Olympics...
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we have enuf talent in every thing. only infrastructure and coaching is the minus. if shooting is getting us gold, it doesn't mean we shud not encourage or believe we can get a gold in 100m. (i know the probability is very low).
sharath guy is from chn & he has a brother it seems & he already is making waves in local TT community with his skills. lots of good days ahead.
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yeah - he is from chennai...
Samaresh won 5 golds in the end and not 6 as ram has said. had he won the 6th one - he wud have made a new commonwealth games record. A gymnast made the record in the end (sexy name hers - alexandro something).
India ended the game at 4th. Of the 20 odd golds india had got - 16 were from the shooters. that shows what we are!!!
Pradeep - where is the strength!?!? which one shud i focus on now?!? Apart from shooting and a bit of boxing - nothing else seems worthy enuf for us to even participate. With the olympics body in india full of all kind of scandals - the game will go no where!!! Period...