I have no doubt in my mind that Anju is going to win a medal this time.Although she fared poorly in the qualifiers,finals are a different game alltogether.The player who best holds his nerves will win and we all know that Anju never succumbs in pressure situations. The only thing is that she must BELIEVE she can win & if she does that, she WILL win. BEST OF LUCK , ANJU
let us be optimistic and wish anju all the best for a medal in the olympics. lets hope she is able to achieve the best jump of her career in the finals which could take her close to a medal.
I sincerely pray Almighty to assist Anju in fulfilling her's as well as millions of Indian hopes of acheiving a gold medal in the biggest sporting event of the world.
I will pray to god with holding my breaths. But Our Coach and the whole authoroty should think a while that why india be unable to achieve that wich can be said sure, where is the lack when there is a podium of world scenario.
I am not here to throw blank verses, when I know for sure that I can contribute very little to its process. But I would definitely add that, its not a time to think about moving attention from cricket to other sports et al. But its a time to embed the professional ethics in sports. Undoubtably, cricket, over the last 10 years has been able to penetrate into the mainstream life of people and spread its wings to all the corners of the country. When there is an abundance, the best is easily picked. It is time to take lesson from this sport and its flag bearers, and take forward other sports. Be it soccer, or track and field, or others, technicality, sports medicine, infrastructure development, and professionalism is needed. Every participant has to realize now about the importance of their personal achievements. They should aim higher. A job in a PSU, or bank, which comes through mere representation, is not enough in their career. If each one thinks so, the nation would only gain automatically. And its true, nurturing talents, motivation to do well, should be practised right from the primary school level. I believe, that the governing bodies would now turn their attention to the billions of voices and take this up from scratch. This time may be one or two, but we should not miss out the next olympics.
Dear friends we should be optimistic .Hope for a good news from Athens . Anju did a hard work win or defeat is a part of game. result hardly mattr for me
What happen to indian people, india breaking records to our population, but in Olympics ??? it's shame to our country, my message, sponsorers please encourage talented people and put india to second place in olympics like our population.
To all Indians to think..... Chinese could, japanese could, even small small countries could then why not Indians.... Till when we need to dream about it.... Its not shame but a serious falt. Remember 1/6th of world population is still not capable of getting an olympic gold.... Thanks to Rathode (Indians=1 silver) oh god!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RE:1/6th of the world population is waiting for a gold
by chandrashekhar on Aug 20, 2004 05:15 AM
Everyone talks about India's population and laments how we don't get medals commensurate with our numbers. Whoever told you that medals are given on the basis of population?
And please, don't make the mistake of considering Rathore's silver medal a medal for you and me and all the other worthless Indians. He has won it by himself, with his own hard work, with no help from any of us who are too busy all the time watching crappy movies or tearing our hair out at cricket matches. Forget giving monetary encouragement, we don't even turn up at our stadia to encourage our sportsmen with cheers. So it is his medal and his alone. If he says it's a medal for India, that's his greatness and patriotism, not our achievement.
