Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Gold hunt: Mission accomplished.

No piece of gold was awaited so eagerly by so many people in the history of mankind. I wanted to update my blog on a lot of different things, but somehow the news of a Olympic gold is simply unbelievable. Hence I am not waiting any longer.....

The statement 'beyond wildest expectation' is truly applicable to this. But looking back.... a faint ray of hope always existed... one of the nicer things to happen to India is the way we have been concentrating on the non-favorite events (events where US, Russia and China are not very very focussed): Games like shooting, Archery, Wresting, Boxing, etc..

People have been consistently winning medals in world championships, Commonwealth and Asian Games- consistency always bears fruits. Sooner or later. A silver in last games was always a pre cursor to greater things to come..

India is on the path which China followed.... it was only in late 80's that China started winning medals consistently. The focus again was on non note worthy events... probably we will get there too.

Whatever happens, we will always remember Bhindra.... the first piece of gold won by an individual in a 1 billion plus populace.

Ciao till next time...Harsha

1 comment:

Prem's Blog said...

Yeah..mission accomplished...great to see Bindra win Gold...Hope this is the start of better things for Indian sports in the future