Goodbye London…!

Now it’s time to pack-up from the London and start preparation for welcoming Brazil (Rio de Janeiro) in the year 2016. The Indian Olympic 2012 story concluded on Sunday with shortage of gold medal while USA has reclaimed its first position from China after winning truckloads of gold.

In the event that continued for the 17 days, some of the countries celebrated, some disappointed while some became angry. Most of the gold were sucked up by USA (46 Gold) and China (38). There were 26 sports activities and 960 medals in which our country participated in 13 games with 81 participants and won 6 medals including 2 silver and 4 bronze. Indian celebration started with the bronze of Gagan Narang in 10 m rifle and concluded with silver of Sushil Kumar. Meanwhile, Vijay Kumar (pistol), Saina Nehwal (Badminton), MC Mary Com (boxing) and Yogeshwar Dutt (wrestling) have also won the bronze and silver. I also heard about the dehydration problem of Sushil Kumar but I don’t know how far it is true. And whatever he was suffering from but the games are all about the final performance. Overall, our country finished the game on 55^th rank.

Happiest moment of Olympic 2012

Even after 80 percent blindness, South Korean archer Im Dong-hyun set a world record in the 72 arrow event. And Oscar Pistorius reached to the final round of men’s 400 meters and 4X400 relay with his anchor legs. For India, Sushil Kumar won silver two times continuously.

Saddest moment of the event

I’m little bit upset with our hockey team that could not win a single match this time. Their Olympic experience will be remembered always. There were few badminton players from South Korea, China and Indonesia who were indulged in match fixing, made the moment shameful.

Event toppers...

Michael Phelps (USA) won 4 gold and 3 bronze from 7 events of swimming. Athletics Usain Bolt (Jamaica) won 3 gold in all the 3 events and set a world record in 4X100m relay. Mo Farah of Great Britain won 2 gold from 2 events.

India after 1896…

Since 1896, India has 9 gold, 4 silver and 11 bronze over 30 Olympics. Anyway, in comparison to the last Olympic (2008) this year our participants have performed better and left hope for the best game in 2016.

Other countries...

Spain have continued a poor game as Rafael Nadal was unable to suck the gold. Canada has won only one gold, Australia have reduced their medals and Germany became shameful because of its own athletes. And of course USA and China presented a cut throat competition and sucked all the gold.