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XIX Commonwealth Games, Delhi, 3-14 October


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First time ever, an Indian woman wins a commonwealth medal in the atheletics :woot: Bronze for Kavita in the 10000m !!
great .. who said it .. awesome to see us winning at least a few silvers and bronze in athletics and gymnastics which were nearly impossible sports for us a few years ago.. it seems the sports culture is growing day after day and our athletes are improving for sure Results of TT comes .. we lost to Singapore 0-3 in finals.. so only a silver in TT Badminton still a hope if Saina does well
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great .. who said it
Saw it live on TV
Results of TT comes .. we lost to Singapore 0-3 in finals.. so only a silver in TT
Too bad :((
Badminton still a hope if Saina does well
The Malaysian men's doubles pair is also ranked number 1 :fear:
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Saina now playing a Malaysian in badminton .. we are already down 0-2 against Malaysia and it is a must win match which hopefully Saina should pull off as her opponent is a lot weaker than her.. but then it will be only 1-2 and chances of our winning the gold there too is quite less .. looks like another silver in badminton too for us

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Saw it live on TV Too bad :(( The Malaysian men's doubles pair is also ranked number 1 :fear:
Waise Saina goes to Malaysia for the badminton competitions right? Like many of Saina's match telecast earlier were in Malaysia. So, there must be badminton culture there as the top competitions in badminton are held there I suppose
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TT silver award presentation completed.. the commentators in DD are really pathetic.. the guy who interviewed Polomi and the TT could not even speak proper English.. yaar Hindi me baat kar agar English nahin aata par English ki maa behen mat kar .. really DD commentators spoiling the fun .. they should have got better and professional commentators instead

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Waise Saina goes to Malaysia for the badminton competitions right? Like many of Saina's match telecast earlier were in Malaysia. So' date=' there must be badminton culture there as the top competitions in badminton are held there I suppose[/quote'] Badminton has always been huge in Malaysia , a lot like how bangla has been in cricket ..but they have found some top notch players lately
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We lose to Badminton in finals to Malaysia .. only Saina won out of them all.. so we only get silver in TT and Badminton One very worrying aspect now is that England is extremely close behind us in the medal tally and can overtake any moment now unless we raise the standards. We needed these two golds to keep us in significant lead. The medal tally as of now are: AUS 47 24 27 98 IND 20 15 12 47 ENG 18 35 17 70 CAN 14 5 20 39 I think India's silvers in TT and Badminton might not have been added there. But still our overall medal is already very short of England and now the gold tally difference is also decreasing. We might lose our 2nd position if we do not raise our standards now. The last few days have too many events in Aquatics, Athletics and Gymnastics and England are good in those.. really worrying situation now and we need to increase our standard significantly tomorrow and bring loads of gold medals. On a side note, the medal tally means that England has taken a lot more golds than us today although we scored one of the best gold hauls today. That is also very worrying.

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India's medal winners today are: Gold (6) Gagan Narang and Imran Hassan Khan (Men's 50 metre rifle 3) Omkar Singh (10m air pistol shooting) Vijay Kumar (Singles 25m rapid fire pistol men) Anita (67kg freestyle wrestling) Alka Tomar (59kg freestyle wrestling) Dola Banerjee, Bombayla Devi, Deepika Kumari (Women Recurve team, Archery) Silver (5) Mansher Singh, Manavjeet Singh Sandhu (Men's double trap shooting) Babita Kumari (51kg freestyle wrestling) Ashish Kumar (Men's vault, Gymnastic) Women's Table Tennis team Badminton Team Bronze (3) Gurpreet Singh (Singles 25m rapid fire pistol men) Rahul Banerjee, Jayanta Talukdar, Tarundeep Rai (Men Recurve team, Archery) Kavita Raut (Women's 10,000m race) Well played guys and please raise your bar tomorrow and leap ahead of England. Convert the silvers and bronze into gold from tomorrow. We need more and more golds urgently. The nation salutes you all. :isalute:

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Though I somewhat hate corrupt Indian govt. and the highly corrupt govt. related functionaries/companies but I noticed one thing today. Most of the athletes were either from army, air force, railways, govt. companies etc. Many also said how govt. companies had sponsored for their training and kits etc. This has really impressed me as these sportsmen need to be encouraged and supported for making us all proud. Barring Sahara, all the top corporate brands only supports cricketers whereas they are already well to do and more than enough encouraged. The less popular sports which gives these big brands like Ambanis etc. lesser publicity are nearly neglected. To be frank, this trend of Indian corporates barring Sahara is also worrying. They are turning into selfish organizations only interested in making more money but they are forgetting their responsibility towards the nation. It is not necessary legally for huge corporates to pay back to the nation but it is their moral responsibility which they seem to have forget. Hope that the Indian corporates also realize their responsibilities soon. Kudos to the companies who have supported these athletes and hope that the big private companies also come forward to help other sports except cricket.

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