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August 12th, 2008 — India, Shooting
Come on, Abhinav, go ahead and bite that Olympic gold medal to test if it is real. Abhinav, who won the gold for the men’s 10 meters air rifle, earns the distinction as the first individual gold medalist for India. He’s a smart cookie too; he’s got an MBA and is the CEO of Abhinav Futuristics.
India related Olympic stories:
Round II: The Paes-Bhupathi “Will We Play Doubles Together?” Saga
Olympians to Watch: Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes
May 23rd, 2008 — India, Tennis
In the first round we had Mahesh Bhupathi proclaiming that he doesn’t want to play doubles with Leander Paes in the upcoming Beijing Olympic Games.
Not surprisingly, Leander Paes — a bronze medalist during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics — poured his heart out “saying that he was hurt” by Bhupathi’s conduct.
May 22nd, 2008 — India, Tennis
India’s best Olympic medal hope, the tennis doubles team of Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes are not exactly best buds right now — Mahesh says he doesn’t want to pair with Leander because Leander is off doing other things instead of going to tune-up tournaments with him — but Leander believes that they can bring home a gold medal for the second most populous country in the world. [Ooops, sorry for the very long sentence.]
Will these two settle their differences in time to go for the gold? Let’s wait for the next chapter.
May 2nd, 2008 — India
Here’s something we should all support: yoga in the Olympics. Yes, there’s a group in India which is starting a campaign to have yoga admitted as an Olympic sport. We here at The Olympian Blog doesn’t see any reason why it should not be admitted. Seriously.
After all, isn’t the criteria for the inclusion of an Olympic sport only goes like this:
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May 1st, 2008 — India, Scandals and Controversies
What is it with sports officials that they seem to have a propensity to snub their former sports stars. First we have former Olympians from Malaysia complaining about being snubbed during the Olympic torch relay in Kuala Lumpur.
Now we have, Indian Olympians also feeling slighted. From Sportstar:
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April 29th, 2008 — Field Hockey, India
From the Daily News: Tarlochan Bawa a hockey Olympian has passed away at his daughter’s residence at Ambala in Haryana on Thursday [24 April]. He was 85 years old.
Bawa, who was a member of the team under Balbir Singh which went on to win the gold medal in the Olympics, held at London in 1948, had gone to Ambala to visit his daughter where he breathed his last.
April 17th, 2008 — India
The torch makes its round in New Delhi.
Not unexpectedly, Tibetan exiles were there to protest. Not unexpectedly, they were arrested by police authorities.
