Once Boxer Knew that the out come of the bout has not gone in her favour, then the best course to register her strong protest would have been not to take the Podium. Buy due to lack of timely guidance from the Indian Officials presnt she by mistake took the Podium. Once you take the podium it tatamounts to your acceptance of the verdict and then not accepting the medal amounts to defiance which led her to pay a fine of $400 and liable to face other punitive steps from international boxing association.
Re: Lack of Guidance
by Vissapragada Prabhakar on Oct 02, 2014 11:14 AM
Lack of guidance cant be an excuse. Any one who faces a problem or finds something wrong happened, better to first understand the guidelines prescribed and then react. Any thing thought by Sarita may be wrong or correct but she cant be the sole decision maker. She should have lodged a complaint and allow the team to probe the issue. Her reaction on the podium (both crying like a kid and refusing the medal after standing on the podium) is not in line with sportive spirit. We all love to see Indian athletes winning more and more medals but we should also accept the legal practices followed. We should not follow like the accident maker on the road is beaten by the victim and the passers-by. After all mistakes do happen but we have to correct them, penalise them...
Shame on the officials....MODIJI, please look into this matter......INDIANS PLEASE COME TOGETHER LET'S MAKE A FUND AND GIVE TO SARITA DEVI....WHAT SAY???
We must do our own immediate investigation and if we feel it is cheating we must return all medals and team must return home. Such cheatings are just unacceptable and we must teach lesson to AIBA & OCA, no need to bag before anybody.
Why the judge is not punished for his wrong doing? The fight could have been reassesed in the light of video footage.Is the verdict of a tainted judge is final?People should have the courage to say a spade a spade.
All our sportspersons need education on values. Values of prper conduct be it in national or international events. Sarita has brought disgrace to the nation by her conduct. She must be given exemplary punishment reserved for big criminals. She would not have resorted to this absolutely unacceptable behaviour on her own. Her coach, trainer, manager or whichever officials instigated or advised her to behave so must be banned from all forms of competitive sports and only such responses will send a strong signal that sportsperson have to accept the verdict of judges and referees and can only lodge official protests as per prescribed procedure.
Sarita will do well to work as an attendent for Dhoni on and off the field and learn to take umpiring errors sportingly. Or she can go to Tendulkar & learn how to handle harsh umpiring decisions
Re: What a shame
by Natarajan P on Oct 02, 2014 06:18 AM
I could not understand how education control emotions.... Only experience & success will give that stand..
On initial stage, the same stand was made by those Sachin & Dhoni...
Money, Success & experience only now making them in different way.
Poor Indians, we are not supporting or at least are not asking to review the judgement..
We are challenging all court judgement in India... What a joke..?
Re: What a shame
by aman on Oct 02, 2014 07:32 AM
She has done right by protesting what she considers as wrong. Its not cricket where an umpire can miss the action for a second? Sack those judges as they are responsible for all this and then take disciplinary action against the sportsperson. If not It will bring wrong impression to the sport itself like corruption has stepped into it.
Re: What a shame
by ajay singla on Oct 02, 2014 07:38 AM
Hi
I did not able to understand your thoughts, if we should accept the wrong doings and give respect to people who knowingly did wrong. We should give away thoughts of Gandhi ji. We should be Bhagat Singh. We should fight for justice and show the world that we also have self respect.
Re: What a shame
by AKSHAY JAIN on Oct 02, 2014 10:06 AM
Such things must be protested more strongly. What she she done is right & light protest, returning medal against cheating is her right.
Re: What a shame
by Hardeep Gill on Oct 02, 2014 10:45 AM
If not this action then what commit suicide in dark corner.Guilty must be punished. Do not cow down to partial acts it helps this type of people to grow in numbers-Bravo Sarita1.
Re: Unbecoming
by Niharendu Mukhopadhyay on Oct 02, 2014 11:29 AM
It is over simplification. Level of "unfair" must be first analyzed. As reported in a section of a leading paper in India, the 'gravity of fault' of judgement is very serious - it is like that of "Dhritarastra in Mahabharata". One thing is clear : Delivery of "Justice" in fast moving sports/games is heavily man dependent and likely to be biased if technology is not used properly .....
Yesterday, I felt angry and sad for her, but today, she lost my sympathy. What she did is crude to put it mildly. There was no need for her humiliate the silver medal winner in this way. Her fight should have been against the sports body, referee and judges, but her disrespect to a fellow-sportsperson is unfair. She should have registered her protest by not attending the medal ceremony. But putting her medal around the neck of a sportsperson that is greeting her is mean. She has lost her moral high ground after this incident.
Re: Not correct
by Sunil Bhandari on Oct 02, 2014 07:33 AM
Oh yeah ! and did the silver medalist who was declared winner showed any sportsmanship . Did she come up and say that Sarita was the true winner and not she- This KorChor silver medalist was part & parcel of the entire semi final farce. Why you expect all the "right" moves from an aggrieved whereas the real Koreanthugs and their peempjudges can go scot free. Koreans are infamous worldwide for their unethical behaviour. Be it trade or business, you cannot trust them at all. Now this has come to sports. Further,there cannot be any protest/appeal against judge's decision- which means that they can bought over freely and no one can raise a voice- what kind of justice system is this
