India Thread

[Sanz]

Which Kumar did you watch ? There are two of them Akhil and Jitender.

 

[Goughy]

Which Kumar did you watch ? There are two of them Akhil and Jitender.

Hmm, dont know. He destroyed a guy from Turkey today.

 

[Anil]

congrats to bhindra!!!

 

[duffer]

Akhil Kumar producing a stunning comeback to eliminate the reigning world champion Sergei Vodopyanov and reach the quarters! Go son go, let's get ourselves another gold.

 

[Pratters]

Jitendar and Vijender Kumar have also qualified for the quarters. I did see the Vijender Kumar bout in which he completely outclassed his opponent. The key was that he didn't let his opponent score more than 3-4 points.

 

[Raghav]

Indian boxers are good and we can expect atleast a bronze medal if they could win the next match.... Akhil Kumar can do it IMO....

 

[anoop4real]

Indian boxers are good and we can expect atleast a bronze medal if they could win the next match.... Akhil Kumar can do it IMO....

Now that Akhil is gone .....we are left with two more boxers let's pray for them........

 

[Pratters]

Jitender just lost his bout. The Russian boxer got the better of him. Good news from wrestling though - bronze for Sushil Kumar. Mixed results then and we are 2 now on the medal count. Well done to Sushil Kumar.

 

[Pratters]

Vijender's bout about to start now.

 

[Pratters]

Vijender wins entering the semis assuring himself a bronze! Indian tally of medals goes to 3 making it the highest ever bettering the two medals (In 1900 and 1952).

Awesome stuff!

 

[alternative]

Stoked with Sushil Kumar's efforts, well done imo.

 

[anoop4real]

Stoked with Sushil Kumar's efforts, well done imo.

His medal came out of nowhere nobody expected this......wow this is cool.....

 

[biased indian]

hmmm 3 medals in one games any way never thought we will get 3 was thinking that would get one at max

 

[Raghav]

hmmm 3 medals in one games any way never thought we will get 3 was thinking that would get one at max

 

[duffer]

Do we have any other genuine hopes for a medal? I guess three exceeds all expectations so not too unhappy about it.

 

[Sanz]

Do we have any other genuine hopes for a medal? I guess three exceeds all expectations so not too unhappy about it.

No. That's about it.

 

[Pratters]

Vijender Kumar's semi final bout starts at 1.15 PM IST as far as I am aware.

 

[Pratters]

Vijender lost his bout and has to settle for bronze. That's it India wise in this Olympic then. Not a bad effort at all when one considers the history. The shooting team disappointed overall though as I expected more medals from them.

 

[pup11]

Seriously this Olympic games should wake-up sports administrators across India and government should also encourage other talented athletes and their sports, great we won 3 medals and every Indian is happy, but those 3 medals came because of the hard-work and somewhere down the line due to the luck of these 3 athletes, the government has hardly supported them, when the games arrive every Indian expects a medal , and if someone wins a medal we treat him/her like a hero, and the money starts to pour in for that athlete, but its rather important that these very athletes are financially backed at the grass-root levels so they get the required infrastructure to sharpen their skills, so that when they participate at the games they are able to come up with their best, and if other sports are encouraged, more and more young kids would also take those sports as a profession.