http://desicritics.org/ Superior South Asian bloggers on Culture, Media, Politics, Sport, Business, and Technology. en Copyright 2006 by the authors Sun, 24 Aug 2008 02:05:35 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss BC custom software http://desicritics.org/2008/08/12/010554.php#comment-340105 Indians pride themselves as a peace-loving country, but the only olympic medals India has won are for shooting and fighting and punching. If there was any medal for ak-47 shooting or bomb blasting, India would have won them too. If our Naxals, maoists and jehadis can't do even that much for world's attention, what good are they? I think it is all fault of Olympic format which has decked so many sports that are not really sports - consider that USA has won over 25% of its total medal in swimming alone. I think India should create similar advantage and should press for inclusion of cricket in different formats, say - 10 over cricket, 20 over cricket, 30 over cricket, 50 over cricket, cricket with red ball, cricket with white ball, cricket played with left arm, cricket played with right arm, cricket with 5 players team, cricket with 11 players team, cricket played like tag team/relay team, cricket played in Baseball format etc - that would improve India's odds of winning quite a few medals in some of those criket categories before other olympic nations can catch up with cricket as a sport. In mean time, India's best hope for more medal rests with AK-47 shooting and grenade throwing. Pakistan can offer us a cut throat competition, but we have battle-tested Kashmiris on our side. 340105@desicritics.org Sun, 24 Aug 2008 02:05:35 EDT http://desicritics.org/2008/08/12/010554.php#comment-340099 Interesting to see how you have not generated any outrage with this posting as compared to other posts on religion!! I guess we don't know anything about sports to be passionate enough about it!! Having been trained to some extent as a professional swimmer in India, I don't think it is just a case of strategy. I think we have enough of those. What we don't have are enough athletes who are passionate beyond reason about their sport and families that will support them beyond reason and sports officials who will do the same. It's tough. It requires a different mind set and parents would rather their child invest in "studies" than in sports. Mindset. It all starts there! 340099@desicritics.org Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:18:05 EDT http://desicritics.org/2008/08/12/010554.php#comment-339074 that was a professionally written article which i hope suresh kalmadi sees. but then he has seen this and more i guess. honi ko kaun taal sakthe hain? 339074@desicritics.org Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:09:33 EDT