Olympic Shame

Antara wrote this to me in a mail
"sanamacha chanu has tested positive along with pratima kumari.since chanu finished fourth she would have been automatically tested.
now that paes-bhupathi lost easily....and with this latest scandal, ithink we've utterly disgraced ourselves. At the end of the day we send a tiny contingent to the games, by most standards and of that 2 get caught in a dope test"


Saranya

"I completely agree!! Although please don't blame only the stupidcontestants, but what about the IOC???You cant say its shameful and blame the sportsperson, if the people in charge of selecting our representatives cant be vigilant and forceful enough to undertake testing and ban such people before they set out. I am not as angry with the players as with our officials. Please note our lovely weightlifting coach, who washed his hands off the affair by blaming the foreign coach. If you doubt the legitimacy of a coach and players, then for God's sake bring it to the notice of officials and don't take such people to the games. Every weightlifter, I am sure takes drugs, but they aren't allowed by their country to participate. Please note the nationalities of the five weightlifters who were disqualified, i can bet that none of these countries have stringent drug testing measures in place. Morocco,Turkey, Moldavia.

Worse Shame than this lady, is the INDIAN HOCKEY TEAM!!! With 30 sec to go, you gift a goal.. these boys must truly be shamed in public. They are not even in for a chance of a bronze anymore. They dont deserve a medal. I cant say anything else. You fight back to reach 3 all and then give it away with 30 sec... 30 sec, I mean it isn't basketball with a 24 sec shotclock..Its a field large enough for you to waste 30 SEC. Sorry, I am so mad with them, its unbelievable. I mean seriously, we aren't that bad a team.
Why do we fail everytime? Why doesn't Dhanraj Pillay shut up and stop giving interviews during a tournament? Why doesn't our coach ever make the right decisions?? Why does KPS Gill get re-elected every year despite the fact that he retracts his statements every three days?? Its a shamble and this stupid,ever-hopeful, patriotic audience pay the price. I am not saying that the players don't feel bad, but I almost sense that they have got used to it by now. Its mentally ingrained that an Asian Games medal is glory enough.

Countries have manipulated the rules, changed the surface to astro, abolished the off-side, introduced the drag-flick,and clean stoppage of ball at penalty corners, in a clever attempt toneutralise the sensational ball-handling skills in our gifted andtalented sub-continental players.Wonder how suddenly S.Korea, Japan, China, Netherlands whose teams may showcase a single supremely talented player consistently thrash and beat India and often Pakistan in the dying moments of the game.Indians never learn long passes, its a European concept. The ability to produce turnovers, and move from one end to the other with a singlepass, seems to confound the basic inherent notions with which our players grow up. You will find when you watch domestic hockey, thatlike football the defenders move up in attack, and because opponents in domestic competition never move quickly upfield, defenders never have to face counter-attacks.Suddenly they move into international competition and every goalscored against India, comes in two ways, penalty corners given away bydefenders, or of the counterattack.Ok,enough of a rant.

I am appalled by the atrocious sporting conduct by our national "heroes". Paes and Bhupathi.. its the semi-finals for Gods sake. 6-3,6-2!!!"