Today - India At Olympics 2012

[Number]

its 10:18 local time.

[Roshanrocks]

sushil needs to win one match out of the next 2 ( i think) to get us a medal

[indiefan]

he next match shud be .... within half an hour...anyone check schedule?

10:18 am local time. Another half an hour.

[Roshanrocks]

cool... I opened a seperate thread to cheer Sushilll... pls come there... :)

[Stuge]

Sushil kumar in final... medal confirmed

[indiefan]

A gold will take India to 40th position.

[indiefan]

Our athlete Rana Basant Bahadur finished 36th out of 64 participants in the 50 KM walk. He also set a new national record in the process. Although 36th sounds bad' date=' setting a new NR is a wonderful achievement. I didn't even know we had athletes competing in these long distance events![/quote'] I had missed this one. Good achievement by Rana Bahadur :two_thumbs_up:

[indiefan]

Men's marathon ongoing. Ram Singh Yadav participating who is currently in 32nd position. http://www.london2012.com/athletics/event/men-marathon/phase=atm099100/index.html

[Roshanrocks]

any long distance race... and an african from kenya, ehiopia etc is almost guaranteed to win, amazing long distance runners.... :nice:

[Desi Cartman]

50 kms :nervous:

[India-KXIP fan]

Next Olympics India should aim for 5 golds total coming from Shooting, Boxing and Wrestling and slowly expand in other events as well. Also T20 cricket should be introduced in 2020 Olympics. I don't think India will become good in Hockey again due to heavy lack of interest (no one plays).

[Precambrian]

Next Olympics India should aim for 5 golds total coming from Shooting' date=' Boxing and Wrestling and slowly expand in other events as well. Also T20 cricket should be introduced in 2020 Olympics. I don't think India will become good in Hockey again due to heavy lack of interest (no one plays).[/quote'] as if boxing, wrestling & shooting are

[India-KXIP fan]

as if boxing' date=' wrestling & shooting are[/quote'] Don't know, Indians have good genetics for Hockey. 20 years later it's the same people but losing all the time. Gotta be lack of interest. Or game becoming more faster and requiring more fitness cause of Astroturf. But then India has won once on Astoturf as well. Boxing, wrestling etc are not major sports in any country so not as many people have to play. The system, salary was probably similar 20 years ago.

[India-KXIP fan]

Overall it was dissapointing India finished behind their Beijing but the good thing was they picked more medals. Still dissapointing how so many couldn't go all the way. Next time 3-5 golds should be aim. Gold today was really needed to finish in top 40 now we are 55th

[coffee_rules]

Overall it was dissapointing India finished behind their Beijing but the good thing was they picked more medals. Still dissapointing how so many couldn't go all the way. Next time 3-5 golds should be aim. Gold today was really needed to finish in top 40 now we are 55th

Oh, Sad Sack! Don't be so sad. We have doubled medal count from '08..Won 6 medals - we won in one event..which is what we won from 1996 - 2008 in 4 events. This is a giant step for India. Country placements is also done in total medal count these days , not by gold. Look at Yahoo main page., So, India is placed under 40 ..still..

[GautiMaan]

^ Yes from now on we can only improve

[jind]

Great to see that India doubled their medal count from the last time.. Bruaaah :yay:

[nikred]

India, best amongst the non-gold winners. :isalute:

[adi B]

overall a good performance,but hopefully next time we win more medals and mostly golds.. boxing,archery,shooting hopefully produces more medals in rio,even a hope that we will win atleast a medal in athletics.... india must now try to winmore and more medals in asian games and finish in top 5

[zakk]

Congratulations Sushil Kumar :isalute: