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Bhai... ek correction hai... "The first thing that will come in people's minds when you mention Beijing 2008 will be... Michael Phelps.

I don't think I'll ever get to see a better Olympian than the legendary Phelps.

sandeepkadian05 said:
The first thing that will come in people's minds when you mention beijing 2008 will be Usain Bolt.
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Sandeep bhai, you are right about Carl Lewis and Mark Spitz. And that's exactly what Phelps meant when he famously said "I want to change swimming as a sport". He has changed. He really has:)!!

sandeepkadian05 said:
Bolt dint have any questionable gold medals mate.. No controversy, Plenty of showmanship and great attitude... Who is the more decorated and well known olympian- Carl Lewis or Mark Spitz, u got ur answer......
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Greatest News in the History of Indian Sports!

Ya bro! Sucha outstanding day for India and specially for our Jat commuity ... 2 medals in a day! wow, whatta Ecstatic Feeling!! :)

Vijender fought really well .... he is so very professional, kept kool head and played the mind game! His technique n reflexes are so very fast n sound! I'm sure this boxer will go high n high! Cheers!!

Hard Luck for Jitu ... but he gave quite a gud fight and lost with dignity!... I heard he had 12 stiches on his chin but still he fought... He is a really a fighter n hero ... doesnt matter much if he couldnt win a medal but he gave his best shot!

All in all, really outstanding performance by Indian Athletes that too in Individual stream! :rock


All the Best to Vijender for Finals! Godspeed!!


Rock on
Jit

sumitsehrawat said:
Source: http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/INF/BX/C73/BXM075304.shtml#BXM075304

Yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :rock:rock:rock:rock!!

JAI HIND:)!!
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Bro, Usain Bolt is lightning fast and is Thunder Bolt for sure! ;) He sprints like Cheetah .... he just outclassed every other sprinters! what a magic man! :cool:

He is sucha cool dude ... he cheer up with some groovy moves and at the time of Race he is so focused, kool n calm! what an athlete he is!

No where less than Phelps!

Cheers to Cheetah! ;)


Rock on
Jit

sumitsehrawat said:
Source: http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5g186TLoElTJKlOFxrfXnOnT7PY7A

Stunning Bolt sets 200m Olympic world record

Jamaica's Usain Bolt broke the 200-meter world record to complete the first Olympic golden sprint double in 24 years, surging ahead from the start to win Wednesday's final in 19.30 seconds.

Just four days after shattering his own world 100m record and on the eve of his 22nd birthday, Bolt pulled away around the curve and stretched his victory margin, with Churandy Martina of Dutch Antilles runner-up in 19.82. Bolt, who had not before been pressed to run to the finish line at these Games, raced past the former world record of 19.32 set by American legend Michael Johnson at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

Not since Carl Lewis in 1984 had any man claimed 100m and 200m gold in the same Olympics, but this lightning Bolt struck twice in the same place to the delight of 91,000 roaring fans at the Bird's Nest. As Bolt danced around the track on a victory lap, the stadium loudspeakers played "Happy Birthday" to the Jamaican some 90 minutes early.

Bolt became the ninth man to achieve the 100-200 Olympic double after winning the 100 final on Saturday in an astounding 9.69 seconds, breaking his former world mark of 9.72 from May in New York.

After crossing the finish line and raising his arms in celebration, Bolt grabbed a Jamaican flag and draped it around his neck. He took off his golden shoes and began an impromptu celebration dance.
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cooljat said:
Bro, Usain Bolt is lightning fast and is Thunder Bolt for sure! ;) He sprints like Cheetah .... he just outclassed every other sprinters! what a magic man! :cool:

He is sucha cool dude ... he cheer up with some groovy moves and at the time of Race he is so focused, kool n calm! what an athlete he is!

No where less than Phelps!

Cheers to Cheetah! ;)


Rock on
Jit
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This Guy has taken less than double of 100M(9.69x2=19.38) of his own time. He is a real Cheetah and I am sure that in next international event he will break his own 100M record again.
 
Johnson on Bolt...

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympics/athletics/7572854.stm

 Usain Bolt's 200m victory in a new world record time of 19.30 seconds was simply incredible. This guy is Superman II.

When I saw the start he made to the race, I just thought 'wow'. It was a much better start than the one he made in winning the 100m - in another new world record time - on Saturday. Guys at 6ft 5ins tall should not be able to start like that. Bolt had the slowest start in the field in the 100m but here it was better than anyone else's and there were some good starters out there. His drive phase, his transition, his bend, his home straight - it was all simply incredible.

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We saw Bolt giving it every single ounce of energy, even a lean at the tape

Bolt was immediately up on Zimbabwe's Brian Dzingai, who is a very good 200m runner, and he started absolutely burning up the turn. You've got to get out and run that in 10.01secs or so and I can imagine he ran about 10.00 around the curb, which is amazing. After making up the stagger on all of the people outside him, Usain then opened a five to six metre gap on them. The long stride means he ate up so much more track than everybody else did with each step and, for once, he ran through the finish line.

 This is Bolt's favourite event and he wanted that record; he went for it, he came here focused on it. He knew that most likely he'd win gold but gave it every single thing he had. My concern, and the reason I thought he might not get the world record here, was that he wouldn't have been working on his speed endurance, the ability to hold that speed for the entire race.

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But he showed that he actually has been working on that and was able to bring it home in 19.30secs; an incredible time, an incredible performance.
This performance was much better than the 100m because we saw Bolt giving it every single ounce of energy, even a lean at the tape.And that lean was not based on trying to beat anyone else because the other guys weren't anywhere close to him.He was just trying to hold that speed for as long as he could and grab that record, which he's done.It's about the accomplishment, that's what he's going to take from this. He worked so hard to break that world record.I don't see any reason why he couldn't now move up to the 400m but I'm not sure if he'll be able to break the world record in that. In my opinion he'll now switch his focus back to the 100m, knowing there's a little more he can take off the 9.69sec. He can start better and go down into the low 9.60s.

But for now all I can say is congratulations, Usain Bolt.
Michael Johnson was talking on BBC Television
 
man this guy can run, really amazing. i was watching a documentary about Zamaican sprinters. how they grow up in a very poor community. the only way they can run away from this poverty is by sprinting......
 
sumitsehrawat said:
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympics/athletics/7572854.stm

Usain Bolt's 200m victory in a new world record time of 19.30 seconds was simply incredible. This guy is Superman II.

When I saw the start he made to the race, I just thought 'wow'. It was a much better start than the one he made in winning the 100m - in another new world record time - on Saturday. Guys at 6ft 5ins tall should not be able to start like that. Bolt had the slowest start in the field in the 100m but here it was better than anyone else's and there were some good starters out there. His drive phase, his transition, his bend, his home straight - it was all simply incredible.

o.gif
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We saw Bolt giving it every single ounce of energy, even a lean at the tape

Bolt was immediately up on Zimbabwe's Brian Dzingai, who is a very good 200m runner, and he started absolutely burning up the turn. You've got to get out and run that in 10.01secs or so and I can imagine he ran about 10.00 around the curb, which is amazing. After making up the stagger on all of the people outside him, Usain then opened a five to six metre gap on them. The long stride means he ate up so much more track than everybody else did with each step and, for once, he ran through the finish line.

This is Bolt's favourite event and he wanted that record; he went for it, he came here focused on it. He knew that most likely he'd win gold but gave it every single thing he had. My concern, and the reason I thought he might not get the world record here, was that he wouldn't have been working on his speed endurance, the ability to hold that speed for the entire race.

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But he showed that he actually has been working on that and was able to bring it home in 19.30secs; an incredible time, an incredible performance.
This performance was much better than the 100m because we saw Bolt giving it every single ounce of energy, even a lean at the tape.And that lean was not based on trying to beat anyone else because the other guys weren't anywhere close to him.He was just trying to hold that speed for as long as he could and grab that record, which he's done.It's about the accomplishment, that's what he's going to take from this. He worked so hard to break that world record.I don't see any reason why he couldn't now move up to the 400m but I'm not sure if he'll be able to break the world record in that. In my opinion he'll now switch his focus back to the 100m, knowing there's a little more he can take off the 9.69sec. He can start better and go down into the low 9.60s.

But for now all I can say is congratulations, Usain Bolt.
Michael Johnson was talking on BBC Television
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Even in his 100 meter race just before finish line he was just start celebrating his victory otherwise he will be achiving it bit faster.
 
हिंदुस्तान जवान हो गया ....

हिंदुस्तान जवान हो गया है ....ये यंग इंडिया है ....ये वो भारत है जहां गांव से, छोटे शहरों से अपने बूते ,झंडे गाड़े जा रहे हैं । चाहे वो आज के हिंदुस्तान का अर्जुन ,निशानेबाजी में गोल्ड मेडल जीतने वाला अभिनव बिंद्रा हो।

कुश्ती में कांस्य जीते वाले सुशील कुमार हो या फिर मुक्केबाजी में स्वर्ण पदक की उम्मीदे जगाने वाले विजेंद्र कुमार। सबने अपने दम पर जीत हासिल की है। कामयाबी के आसमान पर चमकने वाले ये वो सितारे हैं जो खुद तो कुछ नहीं बोलते लेकिन उनकी सफलता ताल ठोंककर कहती है- हां ,हममें है दम।

हम आज के हिंदुस्तानी हैं। हम किसी से नहीं डरते। हम हारने से बचने के लिए नहीं खेलते । हम जीतने के लिए खेलते हैं। हमें हार से डर नहीं, लेकिन हमें जीत से मोहब्बत है।
बात चाहे क्रिकेट की हो या निशानेबाजी की या फिर मुक्केबाजी की । इस यंग इंडिया ने दुनिया को दिखा दिया है - हम मैदान में आ गये हैं। याद रखिए अभी तो सिर्फ शुरुआत है। हर चार साल बाद ओलपिंक आता है और सवा सौ करोड़ का हिंदुस्तान एक अदद मेडल के लिए तरसता रहता था ...लेकिन अब ऐसा नहीं होगा।

अब कमान यंगिस्तान के हाथ में है। अब जब हिंदुस्तान की सवा सौ करोड़ जनता उनसे मेडल की उम्मीद करती है तो जवाब भी वैसा ही आता है - हां, हमसे उम्मीदें करो। हम आपको जीतकर दिखाएंगे। हम आपका सिर गर्व से उंचा करेंगे।

हो सकता है मेरी इन बातों के जवाब में कुछ लोग ये कहें कि इतनी तारीफ अभी ठीक नहीं लेकिन याद रखिए। इन युवाओं ने सोचा तो इन्हें मंजिल मिली। कामयाबी की पहली सीढ़ी है -सोच। उसके बाद आती है मेहनत और फिर होते हैं संसाधन। इस ओलंपिक में मेडल जीतने वाले तीनों युवाओं में ,अगर संसाधन की बात छोड़ दी जाए तो बाकी दोनों बातें एक समान हैं। तीनों की सोच और मेहनत में कोई कमी नहीं।

यहां मैं आपको एक और बात बताना चाहूंगा , भले ही अखिल कुमार क्वॉर्टर फाइनल में जीत नहीं सके लेकिन जिस किसी ने भी वो मैच देखा वो उनके आत्मविश्वास का कायल हुए बगैर नहीं रहा होगा और आप ही बताएं अखिल कुमार के इस बयान को कि \'मेडल तो सिर्फ गोल्ड ही होता है\' क्या कहेंगे आप। दरअसल उनकी इस बात में आज का हिंदुस्तान झलकता है।

बात बहुत पुरानी नहीं जब भारतीय खिलाड़ियों की नाकामी के बारे में कहा जाता था -\'अरे ये इसलिए पदक नहीं जीत पाते क्योंकि हमारा खानपान दूसरे देशों जैसा नहीं है , शाहकारी भोजन खाकर हम क्या खाक जीतेगें \' इतना ही नहीं ,हिंदुस्तानी खिलाड़ियों के डील डौल के बारे में भी खूब टीका टिप्पणी की जाती थी। लेकिन अब इन सारी चर्चाओं को मुंहतोड़ जवाब दिया गया है।

पदक जीतने से चूके जीतेंद्र कुमार के सामने कोई और नहीं तीन बार का यूरोपीय चैंपियन था। पूरे चार राउंड तक मुकाबला चला। हालांकि जीतेंद्र मुकाबला नहीं जीत सके लेकिन स्कोर था -15-11...यूरोपीय चैंपियन के सामने ये स्कोर किसी भी मायने में कम नहीं था। जो भी बॉक्सिंग के बारे में थोड़ा बहुत जानते हैं वो आसानी से बता सकते हैं पूरे मैच के दौरान अगर कोई चीज अखर रही थी तो वो थी तकनीक। लेकिन इसके बारे में क्या कहा जाए -ये वो सरकारी जंग है जो शायद ही कभी हिंदुस्तान की चारदीवारी का दामन छोड़े। खैर,इसके बारे में तो बात करनी ही बेमानी है लेकिन इन तमाम मुश्किलों के बावजूद कभी ऐसा नहीं लगा कि कभी भी किसी यंग इंडियन का हौसला कमजोर पड़ा हो।

खैर, यहां पदक जीतना या न जीतना अहम नहीं है। अहम है यंग इंडिया का आत्मविश्वास। अहम है वो जज्बा जो किसी भी खिलाड़ी में वो जोश भरता है - वो आत्मविश्वास पैदा करता है कि वो दुनिया में किसी से कम नहीं। खेलों के महाकुंभ में आने वाले खिलाड़ियों में वो सबको हराकर मेडल पर कब्जा जमा सकता है। इस बार ऐसा हुआ भी है - सीना चौड़ा कर न सिर्फ हमने मेडल जीते हैं बल्कि पूरी दुनिया में हुंकार भी गूंजा दी है - हिंदुस्तान जवान हो गया है।

चलते-चलते एक बात और। 20 अगस्त एक और चीज के लिए याद रखा जाएगा। हिंदुस्तान के खेल इतिहास में ऐसा पहली बार हुआ कि एक ही दिन हमने दो -दो ओलंपिक पदक जीते और इससे भी बढकर , इन ओलंपिक मेडल्स का स्वाद कुछ ऐसा कि लोग क्रिकेट के बारे में भूल गए। शाबास यंग इंडिया।
 
IOC blasts Usain Bolt's look-at-me Flaunting...

IOC blasts Bolt: 'Not the way we perceive being a champion'

BEIJING (AP) - IOC president Jacques Rogge criticized Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt on Thursday for showing a lack of respect to other competitors after his record-breaking gold medal performances in the 100 and 200 meters.

"That's not the way we perceive being a champion," Rogge said, "I think he should show more respect for his competitors and shake hands, give a tap on the shoulder to the other ones immediately after the finish and not make gestures like the one he made in the 100 meters." ...

The International Olympic Committee chief hailed Bolt's stunning achievements in the two sprints, comparing him to American great Jesse Owens, but said Bolt should have cut out the look-at-me flaunting and acknowledged the other athletes....................
 
The following statement from Shawn Crawford. A fellow sprinter Bolt supposedly disrespected.

"I love watching him when he does his thing.
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"When he was introduced, he was dancing, and the crowd loves it. It adds a bit of sparkle and cheer."

Remember Michael Schumacher punching the air before he used to cross the finish line, Valentino Rossi raising his front tyre when he was so dominant in Moto GP, No one ever said they were disrespecting their opponents. Whats all the fuss about Bolt. Maybe everyone is still shocked by what they have seen... And if the crowds like what he is doing, his opponents like what he is doing then whats Mr. Rogge's problem????
 
Well, this is very sad...:(!!

It seems some kind of ritual that these high-profile sports presidents have to perform every now and then. IOC ex-president Mr. Samaranch used to do it, FIFA president Mr. Blatter does it often and now once again Mr. Rogge has given his uninvited n very stupid remarks. What's his business here? Fellow competitors have been speaking nice about (Thunder)BOLT and crowd has loved him too. As a spectator I did not find any misconduct in Bolt's pre or post victory celebrations. His performance -- magnificent.

If Mr. Rogge cannot appreciate then he should keep quiet. Maybe he can talk about Marion Jones. That time he wasn't as much vocal as he's now. I won't be surprised if tomorrow Mr. Rogge speaks ill about Chinese athletes as well. China has been the best performer in this edition of Olympics and 'they' just can't take it.

Very sad:mad:!!

shailendra said:
IOC president Jacques Rogge criticized Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt on Thursday for showing a lack of respect to other competitors
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shailendra said:
IOC blasts Bolt: 'Not the way we perceive being a champion'

BEIJING (AP) - IOC president Jacques Rogge criticized Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt on Thursday for showing a lack of respect to other competitors after his record-breaking gold medal performances in the 100 and 200 meters.

"That's not the way we perceive being a champion," Rogge said, "I think he should show more respect for his competitors and shake hands, give a tap on the shoulder to the other ones immediately after the finish and not make gestures like the one he made in the 100 meters." ...

The International Olympic Committee chief hailed Bolt's stunning achievements in the two sprints, comparing him to American great Jesse Owens, but said Bolt should have cut out the look-at-me flaunting and acknowledged the other athletes....................
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Random old white dude getting pissed. What's new. He should have done that only if the other players complained. I think Usain is quite friendly with his competitors.
 
Thanks Mate...but I am in Sweden these days. Here the national TV shows the games that Sweden or Denmark is competing in.

sidchhikara said:
I think Vijender's match will be on CNBC tonite around 2:00 AM Central time.

If its not on CNBC, it will definitely be on one of these from the NBC family:
NBC, MSNBC, USA, Oxygen
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Go Oz...

On 38 total n still rocking..more to come :)
Pommies on 40
not far enuf



well done India...but as dicscussed,,passion l;acks
n resources too
 
vijender takes on Cuban

A vital match today when Vijender takes on the Cuban. We could see India climbing up on the medal tally if he beats the crap out of the Cuban. Go INDIA GO....GO VIJENDER. you can do it........:rock
 
Indeed ... he can do it! If he plays his natural game ... if Akhil can beat world's no - 1, he can beat the crap outta Cuban for sure and he has advantage as he's high on confidence n less pressure since he already has secured BRONZE!

I know u'll do it ... our Best Wishes are with the Champ! Go Vijju Go! :)

Less then 1 hour to go ... am pretty excited for the match!...

3 Cheers to him, Vijju prove it .... give ur best punch!

Rock on
Jit

vivekpannu said:
A vital match today when Vijender takes on the Cuban. We could see India climbing up on the medal tally if he beats the crap out of the Cuban. Go INDIA GO....GO VIJENDER. you can do it........:rock
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