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India Thread

duffer

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
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

Cricket, Lovely Cricket
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.
 
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Raghav

International Vice-Captain
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....
 

Pratters

Cricket, Lovely Cricket
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

Cricket, Lovely Cricket
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!
 
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duffer

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Do we have any other genuine hopes for a medal? I guess three exceeds all expectations so not too unhappy about it.
 

Pratters

Cricket, Lovely Cricket
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

International Coach
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.
 

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