Posted in India, Personal, Sports, tagged abhinav bindra, air rifle, beijing, beijing olympics 2008, olympics, shooting on August 11, 2008 | 4 Comments »
..as he wins the first ever individual gold medal – also the first gold since 1980 – for India in Olympics (in 10m Air-rifle shooting) !!!!
Who knew watching an air-rifle competition was gong to be this exciting? I was going to change channels when I noticed Abhinav Bindra’s name on the finalist list . He [...]
Posted in Current Affairs/Politics, Personal, Sports, tagged beijing olympics 2008, olympic flame relay, olympic torch, summer olympics, tibet protests on April 7, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Not exactly what De Coubertin envisaged (Image from New York Times).
The flame did not actually out ‘die out’, but had to be extinguished several times, as pro-Tibetian protesters disrupted the Paris leg of the Olympic torch relay. This was after similar protests in London (in addition to protests by Uighur Muslims in Istanbul) and certainly [...]
