India in Beijing Olympic 2008

Olympic 2008 starts on August 8 in Beijing (China), opening ceremony began at 8:00 p. m. This is a great experience for India, where India won 3 medals first time in olympic. Befor Beijing, India Competed in almost every Olympic games since 1900 but got only 17 medals. Abhinav Bindra makes a history and won first individual Gold Medal for India. On August 20, Indian wrestler Sushil Kumar and an boxer Vijender Kumar won bronze medal for India. It's a time to be pride for an Indian.

Here is a list of India’s medals:
2008 - gold – shooting
2008 – bronze -Wrestling
2008 – bronze – Boxing
2004 - silver - shooting, men’s double trap
2000 - bronze - weightlifting
1996 - bronze - men’s singles tennis
1992 - no medals
1988 - no medals
1984 - no medals
1980 - gold - men’s hockey
1976 - no medals
1972 - bronze - men’s hockey
1968 - bronze
1964 - gold - men’s hockey
1960 - silver
1956 - gold - men’s hockey
1952 - gold - men’s hockey, bronze - wrestling
1948 - gold - men’s hockey
1936 - gold - men’s hockey
1932 - gold
1928 - gold - men’s hockey
1924 - no medals
1920 - no medals
1900 - two silver medals, men’s 200m and men’s 200m hurdles

News from French Open Tennis

Rafael Nadal beat the Roger Federer & won the male French Open Grand Slam 2008. It’s his fourth continue victory of French Open Grand Slam, he won this tournament in 3 times before in 2005, 2006 & 2007. Nadal beats to no. 1 player, Switzerland’s Roger Federer in continue sets 6-1, 6-3, 6-0. It was a one sided game & Federer won only 4 games. When Federer chip and charge off a return, Nadal passed him with a backand.

On the other hand Serbia’s Ana Ivanovic won the French Open Girl’s Grand Slam on saturday 7th June. It’s her first Grand Slam title. She played as a champion & beats Russian’s Dinara Safina in continue 6-4, 6-3 sets. Ivanovic won it’s first Grand Slam & get no. 1 position.

EURO Cup 2008

In my previous post, I wrote about IPL fever. Now IPL fever ends & starting football fever from today 07^th June 2008 onwards & this tournament will be finished on 29^th June 2008. Everyone football fan is waiting for this battle. Euro Cup 2008 will be start from the first kick in Basel with the home team Switzerland playing the Czech Republic and Portugal taking on Turkey in Geneva.

It’s a European Championship that features are world champion Italy, finalist France, and semifinalists Portugal and Germany, along with the Spain, Holland, Croatia, and Euro title-holders Greece. Let’s see who will be the Euro champion on 29^th June. But I can say certainly that next 23 days will be full of entertainment for football fans.

IPL's final won by Rajasthan Royals

Indian Premier League, it was a big tournament in India Cricket history. Rajasthan Royal won the final match, which was against the Chennai Super Kings & made first champion of Indian Premier League. With this final match the first chapter end of India Premier League. It was a big & successful tournament, which run 45 days. During these 45 days everybody enjoy full entertainment. It becomes popular not only in Inida, but also all over the world. Everyone wants to see the battle between MacGreth & Sachin Tendulkar. Everyone enjoy the long hit sixes of Jayasuriya. Sohail Tanvir impressed everyone by his bowling, while Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, & Suresh Raina, impressed by their batting. Shane Watson & Yusuf Pathan impressed everyone by their all rounder performance.

In this first IPL some big player were flops, while some new player prove himself by their performance. This is prize of good performance that Yusuf Pathan comes in Indian One Day team.

In the short way, we can say IPL prove itself successful. Now the demand is raising it should be held two times in a year, but I think it’s very difficult & it will be not beneficial for cricket.