India's wins second medal at the Olympics : Wrestler Sushil Kumar does India proud

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Beijing, Aug 20 (PTI) Grappler Sushil Kumar provided an unexpected boost to India's Olympic campaign by clinching bronze medal after beating Kazakhstan's Leonid Spiridonov in the repechage match of the men's freestyle wrestling 66kg class here today.
Sushil also thwarted the challenge from American Doug Schwab and Belarrussian Albert Batyrov in the first two repechage rounds after losing his opening round bout earlier in the day.

Sushil is only the second Indian wrestler to win the wrestling bronze after Kashabha Jadhav had returned with the medal in 1952 Helsinki Games.

This will be after 56 years that an Indian contingent will return with more than one Olympic medal as shooter Abhinav Bindra has won first-ever Games gold medal for the country earlier at the Beijing Games.

Sushil had lost to far superior Ukrainian Andriy Stadnik in his first round bout. PTI

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much improved games it is turning out to be for India

now we shall see every politician worth his/her clambering for a photo op with that guy

[axxo]

Excellent...

[ico]

Lesser the hype, better the result....

More the hype, worser the result....

[The Conqueror]

This is really Great News.

Originally Posted by gagandeep

Lesser the hype, better the result....

More the hype, worser the result....

Well Said!

[iinfi]

bingooooooo.....

[dreamcatcher]

Great going by Sushil.Sad that the boxers lost tho.We could esily have had 3 more medals.

[Sumeet_naik]

Great news...

[Garbage]

Congo..

Feeling sad about Boxer... We had a live commentry session for him on IRC..

[ThinkFree]

Great. I think it's the first time India has one two medals in Olympics.

[hellknight]

2nd time.. earlier India won gold in Hockey and Bronze in wrestling (KD Jadhav) in 1952 Helsinki Olympics

[Sumeet_naik]

Great news...

[narangz]

That's great. Now we have atleast two medals.

Congratulations to Sushil Kumar.

[sachin_kothari]

And we will have another one this olympics.
Vijender Kumar has already entered Semifinal in Boxing.
So atleast a bronze is confirmed.

[ico]

@Narangz

Naah, now we'll have three...

Vijender entered the Semi Finals of 75kg Boxing.....We're now atleast assured of a Bronze.....

[ThinkFree]

^^Hope Vijender Kumar provide us the third as well.

[iinfi]

!!!another medal assured as in boxing the two losing semi-finalists get a bronze!!!


GO INDIA GO .....

[amrawtanshx]

Better show this year ...

[dreamcatcher]

Yep.3 medals now.

Some people here are confused.

So let me make it clear.
Boxing being a contact sport, both the losers of the semis are assured of a bronze.They dont need to fight it out for a bronze again.

[narangz]

Originally Posted by gagandeep

@Narangz

Naah, now we'll have three...

Vijender entered the Semi Finals of 75kg Boxing.....We're now atleast assured of a Bronze.....

Sahi hai chorre. Haryanvi chayye huye hain

[BBThumbHealer]

Well Done !

[hellknight]

now don't start this state crap here.. please

[ravi_9793]

Great !!!!

[ico]

Originally Posted by narangz

Sahi hai chorre. Haryanvi chayye huye hain

Nice to see these boxers from Bhiwani fairing out good....

But we still can't say that Indians chhaye huye hain.... I would love to see when a person from other country says, "Indians are ruling........." That will make each & every citizen of our country proud.

We still need to work very very hard....Smaller countries with less human & capital resources are even better than us. Our government still needs to do a lot......

Originally Posted by hellknight

now don't start this state crap here.. please

Well, how was that crap? I couldn't get you....He wasn't posting that message in any wrong spirit/meaning.

[narangz]

Originally Posted by hellknight

now don't start this state crap here.. please

Why not? I am not a Haryanvi but the credit goes to Bhalwans of Haryana. Good going. Seems like Punjabi Bhalwans have disappeared into thin air.

[narangz]

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[abhi_10_20]

thu atleast dont mess up this thread... ban the user

[kumarmohit]

Superb news, so we come back with three medals for a change. Good, very encouraging for our players in the Commonwealth 2010 coz that is where Indians have to work wonders.

[chesss]

Vijender entered the Semi Finals of 75kg Boxing.....We're now atleast assured of a Bronze.....
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how?
Couldn't he lose in semi-finals and the bronze match????

[dreamcatcher]

Originally Posted by dreamcatcher

So let me make it clear.
Boxing being a contact sport, both the losers of the semis are assured of a bronze.They dont need to fight it out for a bronze again.

here.

[thewisecrab]

Awesome news
Best of luck to Vijender Kumar And Congo to Sushil Kumar

On a sarcastic note:
I'm really happy that we FINALLY a gold and for the first time in over 50 years 2 medals at the Olympics.
But, its really sad that a country with over a billion people (most of whom are talented), a country with a booming economy (leave out the inflation n stuff out for now) and a prospective super power could muster up just two medals in the Olympics

Why cant we expect more? Unless we expect things to happen we cant work towards achieving it. eg. Cricket is a religion in India only because of the peoples expectations on those 11 players. They EXPECT them to perform and the players do comply "most" of the time. So arent our athletes able enough to win so that we can expect anything from them? Please remember, expectations more often than not gather valuable support.

So again, hearty congrats to the winners but I hope this does bring about a change in the attitude of other sports in India