Beijing Olympics: Finally an Indian wins gold- But What Next????

Finally, our Rifle Shooter, Abhinav Bindra, won a gold medal for our country breaking the 108-year-old Gold medal drought. On August 11th, Abhinav Bindra held his nerve against his Finnish and Chinese opponents, Alin George Moldoveanu and Zhu Qinan, to win the gold. By winning the gold medal, he became the first Indian to win Gold in an individual event. He has indeed made us proud.

I have to say sorry to my readers for missing out Abhinav in my last post, which listed my guess for our medal hopes. It was purely due to lack of knowledge.

As for the Indian contingent, they still need to prove a point; after all, one gold medal is never going to be enough to prove our athletic prowess. Apart from Abhinav, I was sad for the other athletes such as Saina (Badminton), Samresh Jung(10m Rifle), Bajranglal Takhar (Rowing), and Anup Sridha(Badminton). I was very much disappointed when our ace shooter Rajvardhan Singh Rathore failed to qualify, I felt sad. Guess the pressure of a billion people is weighing down too heavily on our athletes.


Well, there is some hope left, Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi have advanced to the quarters, they have a tough task in hand, I am pinning some hopes on them because it may be their last Olympics and I am sure that they would want to end it with glory. I would just wish that they play for the gold and not for the bronze. I believe that they are still the best doubles players in the Mens circuit in Tennis. “Come on Guys, Gun for the Gold, Let our happiness increase manifold”.
Apart from tennis, our Indian Boxers, Jitender Singh, Vijender, and Dinesh Kumar are currently on a winning run.




Plus we still have the long jump, 200mtrs, 400mtrs, triple jump, and other athletic events. As of now, I am betting on Anju Bobby George for bringing as a medal, but I would be happy if somebody else pulls off one for us too.

I am personally disappointed to see that we are going overboard for just winning one gold medal. Yes! I am very happy for Abhinav Bindra. It’s true that he brought us glory, but with nearly 40 more days to go, India still needs a lot of medals to really hog the limelight.
We need to prove that we do have world-class athletes, for that to be done, we need more Gold, certainly more than 4. On the eve of our 61st Independence Day, I wish our athletes all the best and my message would be “Go for the Gold, winning is everything, give your 100% and leave the rest to the almighty, we will be with you! Bring us Glory, bring us GOLD”.



Jai Hind! Let the following days bring us even more glory!!!

Beijing Olmpics- Performance of Indian Olmpic Atheletes??????

"Faster, Higher, Stronger"- This is the Olympic motto. Our Indian Olympic federation just doesn't seem to be taking this into account, as they rarely keep producing worldclass athletes. Look at our olympic record, it's almost three decades since we won a gold medal. Even last olympics, we had to be content with just a SILVER obtained by our shooter Rajvardhan Singh Rathore. It is very highly disappointing that even with a population with over billion, we fail to produce even a dozen world class athletes.
I thought that atleast, in this olympics, the wretched run would end, but my dissappointment reached astronomical proportions when i heard that Manavjit Singh(Mens Trap Shooting event), Anjali Bhagwat(Women's 10M rifle event) and our Women's archery team had crashed out :-(. I had really high hopes on our Shooters and archers, especially Manavjit Singh and Anjali Bhagwat, but they proved me otherwise.
I just wish that our other Indian athletes will bring home Glory.

Today is the third day of the 2008 Olympics held in China, the only good news that i have heard is that Saina of India has qualified for the quarter finals in the Badminton event and that Vijender singh of India has also qualified for the quarter finals in Boxing. Well, the best surprise was that i heard that one of our Rowers!!!!!!!!! Bajrang Lal Takhar has qualified for the quarter finals in the Sculling category of the Rowing events.
As for now, let us all wish the remaining athletes all the best and pray that they come back with a bagfull of gold medals. I am sure that our BHARAT MATHA has atleast produced three or four people, who can strike gold.

I donno why? But i believe that this time, we will strike gold and we will strike it in a least expected event. Let's see.
Let me list out the atheletes, who,i think are our medal winning hopes:

1) Saina Nehwal(Badminton)



2) Leander Paes-Mahesh Bhupathi(Mens Doubles/Tennis)


3) Anju Bobby George (Long Jump)



4) Vijender Singh(Boxing)



5) Indian Rowers(Sculls/ Light Doublesculls/ Rowing)


Wishing all the Indian Athletes all the best.