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Gopichand, Jitender impress, rest flounder
Shuttler Pullela Gopichand and middleweight boxer Jitender Kumar provided the high points on an otherwise dismal day for India at the Olympic Games in Sydney on Monday.
Shuttler Pullela Gopichand and middleweight boxer Jitender Kumar provided the high points on an otherwise dismal day for India at the Olympic Games in Sydney on Monday.
Gopichand does well
In the morning, national champ Gopichand stormed into the men's singles third round after getting a first round bye by fighting his way to a hard-earned 15-3 10-15 15-7 win over Ukraine's Vladislav Druzchenko in under an hour.
Gopi, ranked tenth in the world, will meet second-seeded Hendrawan of Indonesia in the third round. Jitender is a hit!
In the evening when the Indian spirits were down Jitender Kumar, the pulverized Donald Grant Orr of Canada into submission and forced the referee to stop the unequal contest in the third round when he was 9-3 up.
Unleashing a flurry of punches, Jitender Kumar sent Orr Donald Grant of Canada crashing in just three rounds and finished the fight with a blow to his rival's head to move into the second round of 75-kg class. It’s the same story elsewhere
But the other Indians continued to put up a pathetic show proving to be unequal to match the best at this level of competition as India faced reverses in the shooting range, swimming pool, weightlifting arena and the ping pong game. Bindra performs under par Teenager Abhinav Bindra, at 17, the youngest shooter at the Olympics, failed to qualify for the 10 metre men's air rifle final by one point and finished joint 11th with two others after tallying 590 out of bypp points.
The Delhi youngster performed much below his potential (596, a world junior record made at the Munich World Cup earlier this year) and could not cause any ripples on his Olympic debut.
In the morning, national champ Gopichand stormed into the men's singles third round after getting a first round bye by fighting his way to a hard-earned 15-3 10-15 15-7 win over Ukraine's Vladislav Druzchenko in under an hour.
Gopi, ranked tenth in the world, will meet second-seeded Hendrawan of Indonesia in the third round. Jitender is a hit!
In the evening when the Indian spirits were down Jitender Kumar, the pulverized Donald Grant Orr of Canada into submission and forced the referee to stop the unequal contest in the third round when he was 9-3 up.
Unleashing a flurry of punches, Jitender Kumar sent Orr Donald Grant of Canada crashing in just three rounds and finished the fight with a blow to his rival's head to move into the second round of 75-kg class. It’s the same story elsewhere
But the other Indians continued to put up a pathetic show proving to be unequal to match the best at this level of competition as India faced reverses in the shooting range, swimming pool, weightlifting arena and the ping pong game. Bindra performs under par Teenager Abhinav Bindra, at 17, the youngest shooter at the Olympics, failed to qualify for the 10 metre men's air rifle final by one point and finished joint 11th with two others after tallying 590 out of bypp points.
The Delhi youngster performed much below his potential (596, a world junior record made at the Munich World Cup earlier this year) and could not cause any ripples on his Olympic debut.