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Wednesday 8 August 2012
Sunday 5 August 2012
Yellow Jersey to Yellow metal ! Bradley Wiggins wins Olympic Gold !
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| Bradley Wiggins wins Olympic Gold ! |
As if becoming the first Briton to win the Tour de France were not enough for one summer, Wiggins has made this an extraordinary year by any bike racer's standards. It’s been the best summer of Bradley Wiggins life and this is a guy who had won six world track championships and three gold medals. Within a 10-day span he became the first Brit to win the Tour de France then the first man to win Le Tour and the Olympic road time trial championship in the same year.
Importantly also for London, Wiggins' triumph provided a sporting counterpoint as memorable as Danny Boyle's opening ceremony
Bradley Wiggins has just become the most decorated British Olympian of all time. Bradley Wiggins – Tour de France and all-time top GB medal winner. We should enter him for Eurovision.
Before the Tour he achieved a run of
stage-race victories in Paris-Nice, the Tour de Romandie and the
Dauphiné, something no rider of any nationality had done before. In
earlier eras, before the cycle of success kicked into high gear, that
alone would have been enough to earn him a place in British cycling's Valhalla. Now, in the space of 10 days, he has won the yellow jersey, the most coveted prize in cycling, and an Olympic gold medal in the city where he grew up.
And the 32-year-old pointed to British armed forces fighting the Taliban in
the blood and dust of Afghanistan as real men and women of courage –
people who help him keep his feet on the ground after all the adulation
from ecstatic fans everywhere. Wiggins, who is surely on his way to a knighthood, has taken British
cycling to new heights and he predicts more glory for his fellow riders
in the Velodrome.
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Thursday 2 August 2012
Five Must Watch Sports Movies !
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| Ali |
A golf drama based on the true story of the 1913 US Open, where
20-year-old Francis Ouimet defeated his idol, 1900 US Open champion,
Englishman, Harry Vardon. The film is about Francis Ouimet, the first amateur to win a U.S. Open. Amateur Golf
in that era was then a sport only for the wealthy, and Francis came
from an immigrant family that was part of the working class.
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| The Longest Yard |
Perhaps Sandler's best movie, the Longest Yard is yet another movie that can generate more than a few different emotions. Adam Sandler plays the protagonist, Paul Crewe, a disgraced former professional football quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the NFL, who is forced to form a team from the prison inmates to play football against their guards. It marked as first movie for the great Khali from India.
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| Invictus |
One of the greatest sport/political movies of all time, and without a doubt the best, perhaps the only good, rugby movie of all time. Morgan Freeman was terrific as Nelson Mandela, the President who views rugby as a way of united the apartheid country in his first term as the South African President, initiates a unique venture to unite the apartheid-torn land: enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup.
The true-life story of a coach who tries to teach his players that
there's more to life than basketball is brought to the screen in this
sports drama. The definition of a movie where education prevails over athletics.
Towards the end of the season, he sees that
their grades, and most notably his star players', are faltering and that
they won't have a realistic chance at college. He locks up the
gym, forces them into the library and gets them to start working. A
large amount of the kids go to college, and Coach Carter's deed is done. A great, true story, one that will make you laugh and tear at the same time.
Monday 30 July 2012
Hockey Raises Hope After Good Fight Against NetherLands
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| Hockey Raises Hope After Good Fight Against NetherLands |
Back in the Olympics
after a hiatus of eight years, past masters of the game India produced a
valiant fightback in the second-half before losing 2-3 to world number
three The Netherlands in their opening Group B match of the men's hockey competition on Monday.
India, returning to the Olympics after a gap of eight years, started off
the match with a fast attack, but the Netherlands came close to scoring
on the counter before Birendra Lakra effected a fine clearance.
On Monday, eight time winners India gave tough fight to much higher
ranked Netherlands before going down 2-3 in their opening London Olympic
Games pool B men's hockey competition here. The Netherlands, the World No.3, opened up a 2-0 lead within the first
half hour mark, but the Indians rallied back remarkably during a
four-minute blitz after half time to draw parity at the riverbank arena.
However, the European powerhouse struck the winner from a penalty
corner midway into the second session to log full points.
Indians, ranked tenth in the world played well, particularly in the
midfield, but their forwards were often found lacking, as they made a
mess of a number of golden opportunities. But the defence looked solid,
with V Raghunath cutting out some beautiful Dutch moves. Indian skipper
Bharat Chettri also shone under the bar making some brilliant saves.
The Indian players' nerves were on display in their opening match,
where all but two of their players were making the maiden appearance in
Olympic Games. India's fightback began in
the 45th minute when Tushar Khandekar's cross from the left flank
struck the far post and rebounded into the circle. An opportunist Dharamvir Singh capitalised on the chance by beating goalkeeper Jaap Stockmann with a firm shot.
Three minutes later India were level at 2-2 when Gurwinder Chandi picked up a short pass from Gurbaz Singh inside the circle and dribbled past a defender before pushing the ball towards Shivendra Singh, who tapped in for India's second goal. Penalty corner specialist Mink van der Weerden reclaimed the lead for The Netherlands when he sent in a drag flick just under the cross-bar.
Hockey, in which India has an impressive record with eight Olympic gold
medals, is officially the national sport. The Golden Era of hockey in
India was the period from 1928 - 1956 when India won 6 consecutive gold
medals in the Olympics. During the Golden Era, India played 24 Olympic
matches, won all 24, scored 178 goals (at an average of 7.43 goals per
match) and conceded only 7 goals. The two other gold medals for India
came in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
Hockey alone has provided 11 metals (8 gold, 1 silver and two bronze
medals). Apart from the three in shooting, the Indians have got two each
in athletics and wrestling and one apiece from weightlifting, tennis
and boxing.
We all know what happened in Chile in 2008. India was playing the
qualifiers and was unable to qualify for the Beijing Olympics. It was
the first time since 1928 that Indian men were not representing our
National Game at the mega event. Since then there have been a lot of
changes that have happened in Indian hockey.
Four years later India has got the chance to undo what happened to them in Chile. In the last three decades, Indian hockey has lost the connection that it once had and people now have more reasons to criticize the most loved game than to like it and without fail they are doing it.
Four years later India has got the chance to undo what happened to them in Chile. In the last three decades, Indian hockey has lost the connection that it once had and people now have more reasons to criticize the most loved game than to like it and without fail they are doing it.
London Olympics provides good opportunity to regain the fans back the national pride - Hockey ! With good fight in first match against Netherlands, we can expect better show in coming matches !
Saturday 28 July 2012
Michelle Frangilli does a 10 to win gold !
Lord's witnessed a fantastic game of archery on Saturday, the wind swirling round the historic Lord's stadium and 4,000 fans holding their breath, the Italian rock took the pressure on his broad shoulders, let the seconds tick down, when Michele Frangilli released the last arrow left his bow there was a hush, a whirr, a thud, a roar in spectators. The arrow went 70 metres down to hit the edge 10 point circle. The moment was stuck at Lord’s with gold win celebration. This golden shot gave Italy gold medal in archer.
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| Michelle Frangilli does a 10 to win gold ! |
Nerves are an unwelcome companion in any sport but, in archery, where a steady hand is so paramount, they are especially deadly. But Michelle Frangilli won over his nerves made most commendable thing to make a 10 when pressure so high and stakes were so high.
A dream came true, hearts were broken, a dynasty crumbled - all on the fickle flights of arrows on Saturday. Michele Frangilli's final shot earned Italy the Olympic archery team gold medal at Lord's Cricket Ground, denying the United States in the cruellest of fashions at the climax of a pulsating men's final. The Americans, led by world number one Brady Ellison, had the gold within their grasp as Frangilli stepped to the line needing a perfect 10 to win.
Thursday 26 July 2012
London Olympics Few Hour Away - Clocks Ticking Faster !
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| London Olympics Few Hour Away - Clocks Ticking Faster ! |
Have
you ever wondered how the Olympics started? In Olympia, Greece the
Olympic Games were held every four years. First Olympic game was
recorded in 776 BC; that was about 3,000 years ago. At that time this
great festival took place to honor the Greek gods. Olympics were held
during the great festival. The Olympics were called Olympiad in Greece.
London is all set to dazzle the world with a grand opening ceremony to
launch the greatest show on earth featuring over 10,000 athletes over
the next fortnight, a spectacle that has seen the cost escalating to
£9.3 billion ($14.5 billion).
Eighty-one athletes in London will form the largest Indian contingent ever to march at the Olympic Games. But if numbers could turn into
Olympic success, a country of 1.2 billion should have grabbed at least
1000 qualifications and maybe 100 medals. If not that, then what’s the
reason for India hoping to come home with a medals kitty heavier than
ever before?
Sixteen years ago in Atlanta, which was 16 years after India’s
last Olympic medal and 44 years after the last individual medal, Leander Paes changed India’s ‘participation-matters’ outlook. An athlete has to
soak in the pride, the honour to represent the country before he could
mount the podium with the five rings and the national anthem sends a
tear rolling down the cheek. That’s how Leander won that bronze and made
every Indian believe: “It’s not beyond us.”
Armed with a new-found self-belief, India's top athletes will seek to
script a fresh chapter in the country's Olympic history as they go into
the 30th edition of the sporting extravaganza from tomorrow with a
realistic chance of winning medals.
Never before has an Indian contingent raised so much expectations and
London could just be the launching pad for a new sporting era.
Five moments that will make Olympic history at the London Games:-
USAIN BOLT - If Bolt can overcome in-form fellow
Jamaican Yohan Blake, he will become the first man to achieve the 100m
and 200m Olympic sprint double twice.
MICHAEL PHELPS - Needing only two medals to equal the record of 18 held by Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina, Phelps will have plenty of chances.
BRAZIL FOOTBALL TEAM - Despite being the most successful team in World Cup history with five titles, Brazil have never won Olympic gold.
OSCAR PISTORIUS - South Africa's "blade runner" is set
to be the first double amputee athlete to compete at the Olympics after
being selected for the 4x400m relay.
SAUDI WOMEN - For the first time in Olympic history,
every country represented at the Games will include female athletes
after Saudi Arabia agreed to send two women to compete.
One of the most telling images in the
past 30 years of sports television was the moment at the Opening
Ceremony of the 1996 Olympic Games when Muhammad Ali, shaking from the
growing effects of Parkinson’s disease, courageously lifted the torch
and sent a flame up to the Olympic cauldron.
Viewers from world wide are awaiting the most comprehensive coverage of an Olympic Games ever. Settle back and enjoy it !
Wednesday 25 July 2012
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