Goughy
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TBH, never heard of him but even if I had I dont get the idea of national pride being drawn from individual successI mean, Abhinav Bindra - you remember how much attention he got, right? Even on this site....
TBH, never heard of him but even if I had I dont get the idea of national pride being drawn from individual successI mean, Abhinav Bindra - you remember how much attention he got, right? Even on this site....
Ah himYou commented on it when he won the 10m air rifle in 2008 olympics - India's only (and first for a long time) individual gold. .
Can't vouch for either, but for the players at least I doubt it'd rank alongside a world cup win or winning a test series in Australia.We're not talking about if it will get funding from the Indian government - that's highly doubtful. Cricket already has the interest and participation. We're talking about how much the players and the public would rank it compared to other achievements in cricket.
Equal to the Ashes? pfft.
The Olympics isnt that big a deal for sports that have an external structure eg football, tennis etc.
But the Ashes is only competitive when it's in England () and it Ashes only involves England and Australia.Disagree. It's the pinnacle for some, no doubt (athletics and swimming, certainly), but for football, for instance, it hardly registers.
Do you really want me to post my pinions of the cricket World Cup compared to Test cricket?But the Ashes is only competitive when it's in England () and it Ashes only involves England and Australia.
The Olympics would involve all of the cricketing countries, which means there is more at stake and weather the English or Aussie supporters like it or not, the players are gonna have to care as much as they do for the Ashes if they stand a chance at winning, much like the World Cup.
I'll maintain that this would be true only for a few countries. Not that I'd personally give a rats ass about any competition not involving Test matches...It would be a celebration of the sport though rather than a serious comp.
Like shooting?The inclusion of cricket would be a disgrace to the Olympics imo. It is supposed to be an event where the finest athletes from across the world compete for supremacy with all its history and all. The guys who took part in the inaugural edition in Athens will puke in their graves if they see Ramesh Powar, Dwayne Leverock() or Kallis or any other fat guy running around in a joke jersey. Olympics should just stick to athletic events.
I don't think that harking back to the early days of the modern Olympics really proves much. Cricket was in fact played in the second Olympics in 1900, as were golf and croquet. Powerboat racing featured in 1908.The inclusion of cricket would be a disgrace to the Olympics imo. It is supposed to be an event where the finest athletes from across the world compete for supremacy with all its history and all. The guys who took part in the inaugural edition in Athens will puke in their graves if they see Ramesh Powar, Dwayne Leverock() or Kallis or any other fat guy running around in a joke jersey. Olympics should just stick to athletic events.
Yea, exactly. I think people from UK, Aus, and others don't quite realize how big a deal every little medal is to both the athelete and the public.I can bet on all of Pakistan going as nuts as they were when we won the T20 WC if we were to win an Olympic gold medal. The amount of attention Naseem Hameed is getting for acquiring a gold in the SAARC games is proof IMO.
And archery.Like shooting?
I understand it, I just dont have a lot of time for it and I certainly do not understand it. I guess it depends to what people aspire to want. Using college as an example, I love the fact that at Stanford your dorm mate could be a World champion at something but noone makes a fuss if in fact they even knew about it. Other colleges are of course more celebrity focus and less used to exellence. A note on Stanford, it it was a country it would have been in the top 10 on the 2008 Olympics medals table (25 medals, 8 gold). It isnt that I dont realize what it would be like for a nation to win gold, its just that I dont like the mentality of national celebration.Yea, exactly. I think people from UK, Aus, and others don't quite realize how big a deal every little medal is to both the athelete and the public.
Having a population of 1 billion and barely winning 1 gold per Olympics - if lucky - is something people are completely desperate to change.