The Day1 of the Olympic was completely nostalgic for me. First it was a routine day for India. If you take average of India's performance of all the days of all the Olympics it would match with the overall results of the day1. It also appeared like a Monday for India, as some of the athletes looked to be suffering from the inertia or the hang over of the opening ceremony, while some were overwhelmed by the big stage.
I didn't bother watching India taking on Lanka again. Whats the point!!! we have been taking on Lanka since Ramayan days and now even our Hanuman (Dara singh) is gone. If we try to connect Ramayana to Olympics then I guess the long Jump (crossing the indian Ocean) and the Weight-lifting (sanjivani incident) world records are with Hanuman.
The Archery world-record would have been with Arjun. Incidentally a la-Arjun feat was done at the Lords Cricket ground by the Italian Archery team. Yes the archery events are organized at Lords cricket grounds beneath the grand stand. Every team has 3 players and every player hits 8 arrows. It was a gold-medal match, last arrow, the player had to hit the bulls-eye (X) to collect 10 points. The scene which is fabricated in all the sports theme hindi movies like Lagan or chak-de was happening in real life and that too in Olympics. These are the situations the athletes dream to be in for all 4 years. Here the archer rose to the occasion hit the bulls eye and collected the gold. India team was in similar situation where a 10 was required to win the first round against Japan our archer hit 9 for a tie. Which is not bad given the immense pressure he would have. Unfortunately we lost in the tie breaker.
One more reason I was feeling nostalgic and had a bit of de-ja-vu is the Door-Darshan's coverage of the games. It was classy like what used to be in the golden days of 80s and 90s. When events where Indians were in fray like Badminton mixed double (Jwala-Diju), Woman doubles (Jwala-Ashwini) and Tennis womens doubles (Sania-Rashmi) are going on, Door-darshan was showing the sports which are very very popular in inda like cycling, women football and beach volleyball. I sincerely feel that beach volleyball should be aired on M-TV or channel-V. India lost all these matches which weren't shown though. We have to give benefit of doubt assuming it was the first day and things would get settled down soon, however we also have to remember that there wont be many indians who would stay afloat in competition for many days. I know the matches are tele-casted on star-network as well but I don't expect them to cover from India only angle.
On India's performance, both badminton doubles entries Jwala-Diju and Jwala-Ashwini lost their first marches. They aren't out of competition as there is round robin format for these events. Sania-Rashmi also lost their knock-out match they are out of competition. P(arupalli) Kashyap played a "completely-in-command" game to overcome his Belgian Rival. The commentator on DoorDarshan during the entire match not even for once missed out "Parupalli" while mentioning Kashyap. "Aur ye parupalli kashyap net par aaye, aur ab parupalli Kashyap ne shandar smash maara". Thankfully inspite of being a sportsman from Hyderabad like Kashyap and Gopi, VVS Laxman doesn't play badminton. Else we would have had the pleasure of listening "Virarappu Venkat Sai Laxman ne ye shandar drop shot lagaya".
In Boxling the young Shiv Thapa (Bantom Weight)) fought well but lost. Vijender (middle weight) as expected moved ahead to pre-quarters.
Women's Weightlifting 48Kg which Indias S-Chanu was up against China-PRK,Japan dominance and couldn't finish in top-3.
In TT the Ankita Das lost in the first round however in a very commendable feat Soumyajeet Ghosh Stayed afloat for the next round.
The participation in shooting and Rowing remained just the participation.
Today Menu
Wishful Medal hope: Women's Archery team. Heena Sindhu (Shooting 10m air pistol)
Arjuns:
Badminton - Saina,
Abhimanyus
Tennis : Paese-Vishnu
SomDev
Bopannd-Mahesh
Badminton : Jwala-Diju
Boxing : Jai Bhagwan
TT : Soumyajit Ghosh
Formality : Rest.
I didn't bother watching India taking on Lanka again. Whats the point!!! we have been taking on Lanka since Ramayan days and now even our Hanuman (Dara singh) is gone. If we try to connect Ramayana to Olympics then I guess the long Jump (crossing the indian Ocean) and the Weight-lifting (sanjivani incident) world records are with Hanuman.
The Archery world-record would have been with Arjun. Incidentally a la-Arjun feat was done at the Lords Cricket ground by the Italian Archery team. Yes the archery events are organized at Lords cricket grounds beneath the grand stand. Every team has 3 players and every player hits 8 arrows. It was a gold-medal match, last arrow, the player had to hit the bulls-eye (X) to collect 10 points. The scene which is fabricated in all the sports theme hindi movies like Lagan or chak-de was happening in real life and that too in Olympics. These are the situations the athletes dream to be in for all 4 years. Here the archer rose to the occasion hit the bulls eye and collected the gold. India team was in similar situation where a 10 was required to win the first round against Japan our archer hit 9 for a tie. Which is not bad given the immense pressure he would have. Unfortunately we lost in the tie breaker.
One more reason I was feeling nostalgic and had a bit of de-ja-vu is the Door-Darshan's coverage of the games. It was classy like what used to be in the golden days of 80s and 90s. When events where Indians were in fray like Badminton mixed double (Jwala-Diju), Woman doubles (Jwala-Ashwini) and Tennis womens doubles (Sania-Rashmi) are going on, Door-darshan was showing the sports which are very very popular in inda like cycling, women football and beach volleyball. I sincerely feel that beach volleyball should be aired on M-TV or channel-V. India lost all these matches which weren't shown though. We have to give benefit of doubt assuming it was the first day and things would get settled down soon, however we also have to remember that there wont be many indians who would stay afloat in competition for many days. I know the matches are tele-casted on star-network as well but I don't expect them to cover from India only angle.
On India's performance, both badminton doubles entries Jwala-Diju and Jwala-Ashwini lost their first marches. They aren't out of competition as there is round robin format for these events. Sania-Rashmi also lost their knock-out match they are out of competition. P(arupalli) Kashyap played a "completely-in-command" game to overcome his Belgian Rival. The commentator on DoorDarshan during the entire match not even for once missed out "Parupalli" while mentioning Kashyap. "Aur ye parupalli kashyap net par aaye, aur ab parupalli Kashyap ne shandar smash maara". Thankfully inspite of being a sportsman from Hyderabad like Kashyap and Gopi, VVS Laxman doesn't play badminton. Else we would have had the pleasure of listening "Virarappu Venkat Sai Laxman ne ye shandar drop shot lagaya".
In Boxling the young Shiv Thapa (Bantom Weight)) fought well but lost. Vijender (middle weight) as expected moved ahead to pre-quarters.
Women's Weightlifting 48Kg which Indias S-Chanu was up against China-PRK,Japan dominance and couldn't finish in top-3.
In TT the Ankita Das lost in the first round however in a very commendable feat Soumyajeet Ghosh Stayed afloat for the next round.
The participation in shooting and Rowing remained just the participation.
Today Menu
Wishful Medal hope: Women's Archery team. Heena Sindhu (Shooting 10m air pistol)
Arjuns:
Badminton - Saina,
Abhimanyus
Tennis : Paese-Vishnu
SomDev
Bopannd-Mahesh
Badminton : Jwala-Diju
Boxing : Jai Bhagwan
TT : Soumyajit Ghosh
Formality : Rest.
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