Ankit_sharma03 Posted June 18, 2021 Posted June 18, 2021 (edited) RIP Legend Edited June 18, 2021 by Ankit_sharma03 Jimmy Cliff, zen, Norman and 5 others 8
Gollum Posted June 18, 2021 Posted June 18, 2021 Om Shanti, legend. Was 91, his wife passed away last week. Life well led, now time to rest. Best possible tribute will be India winning an athletics medal in Tokyo, was his lifelong dream.
Gollum Posted June 18, 2021 Posted June 18, 2021 Looked so sharp and fit at the age of 90 Life of suffering, not many ATG athletes can achieve half of what he did if put in a similar situation. Lost his parents, brothers, sisters in partition violence in West Pakistan...tragically he was witness to those gruesome killings by frenzied mobs. Came to India with nothing, just over a decade later 0.1 sec from winning the bronze in Rome Olympics (despite our pathetic sports infra/support), a historic race where the top 4 including Milkha smashed the Olympics record. Adopted a Kargil martyr's orphan child, saw his son achieve great feats in golf. Great man, fascinating life!!!!!! India is poorer with the loss of yet another legend. Jimmy Cliff, Norman, coffee_rules and 6 others 9
kepler37b Posted June 19, 2021 Posted June 19, 2021 (edited) Om shanti. He had gone through a LOT. One of our greatest sportsmen. Edited June 19, 2021 by kepler37b
Lord Posted June 19, 2021 Posted June 19, 2021 18 hours ago, Gollum said: Looked so sharp and fit at the age of 90 Life of suffering, not many ATG athletes can achieve half of what he did if put in a similar situation. Lost his parents, brothers, sisters in partition violence in West Pakistan...tragically he was witness to those gruesome killings by frenzied mobs. Came to India with nothing, just over a decade later 0.1 sec from winning the bronze in Rome Olympics (despite our pathetic sports infra/support), a historic race where the top 4 including Milkha smashed the Olympics record. Adopted a Kargil martyr's orphan child, saw his son achieve great feats in golf. Great man, fascinating life!!!!!! India is poorer with the loss of yet another legend. Did he look back or is that a myth?
Moochad Posted June 19, 2021 Posted June 19, 2021 Om shanti. Shame that many of us only learned of him thanks to the bollywood film
Gollum Posted June 19, 2021 Posted June 19, 2021 25 minutes ago, Lord said: Did he look back or is that a myth? In his own words, he looked back and more than once in that race. Anyway it isn't as uncommon as you'd think, even Jesse Owens lost a race because of that, Bolt too has done it a couple of times but still good enough to win. Lord 1
Khota Posted June 19, 2021 Posted June 19, 2021 4th finish by an Indian in 400m in olympics is the best any Indian has in track. Almost impossible for any Indian to beat that. Truly an Indian legend.
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