Hey All....In this forum we are cursing politicians, systems, bureaucrats, BCCI, cricket.....for India's performance at Olympics. Why cant we as individuals come out with a fund and announce prize money right away for 2012 Indian Olympic Gold Winner.....Just imagine around 100 million Indian contributing Rs 10 for this fund. This makes it 100 crore....
This is an Article which came in Guardian Newspaper from UK. See how this dirty Americans cant stand defeat and do all cheap tricks to denounce others and talks about being transparent.
Olympics: America turns the tables According to the US media, gold medals don't count for as much as they used to. Wonder why that might be? August 14, 2008 3:30 PM It's an odd thing: when the US media report on the Beijing Olympics medal tallies, they show tables with nations ranked by "total medals" won - rather than by gold medals won, which is the more usual way of doing things (since otherwise a bronze counts the same as a gold, which is hardly the case).
And yet - it wasn't always that way in America's media. Compare these two medal tables from USA Today. The first is from the 2004 Athens Olympics. The USA is number one in both golds and total medals - but notice that China beats Russia into second place, despite Russia having many more medals in total than China.
Now fast forward four years and let's look at USA Today's online medal tally from Beijing - and notice that Russia is ranked ahead of Italy despite having won fewer gold medals. Hmm.
What's the reason for this? Anything to do with the likelihood that China is going to spank America's butt in terms of golds won - but that the USA has a chance to top the overall tally? Maybe ... anyway, the way China is going it may even win the overall tally as well, making America a loser however you count it.
RE:Double Standard of Americans
by abc xyz on Aug 18, 2008 05:26 PM
they should allow Rajnikant in Olympics, then see, he'll break world records in multiple events...
RE:Phelps planning London 2012
by Summit Khanna on Aug 18, 2008 05:27 PM
our country does not look good enough to even host the olympics in 1000 years. foreget 2112.
People keep aswking why a country with 1 billion cant produce a phelps. Because we got nuts as sports ministers. We dont have optimum usage of fund. How many of us have an access to swimming pool? Shooting demands lot of money. Abhinavs gold medal all credit goes to him and his father. He have a computerized shooting rage at his home because his father could afford it and his company hi-tech food have a 300 cr turnover annually.
RE:Everything need money
by Indian Sadhu on Aug 18, 2008 07:23 PM
You're wrong - we have optimum usage of funds - it goes into the pockets of the Politicians and parties concerned
