Olympics Paris 2024

Interesting developments from the Paris Olympics.

Manu Bhaker has secured 2 Bronze Medals and could possibly win her 3rd as well. She is just 22. The govt has spent more than 2 Crore only/- on her training by now. Her coach Samaresh Jung's house is being demolished in a day.

1. Manu Bhaker Aims To Create History & Become 1st Indian To…

https://www.news18.com/olympics/manu-bhaker-aims-to-create-history-become-1st-indian-to-8988498.html

2. Manu Bhaker's coach Samaresh Jung gets 'house demolition' notice after returning from Paris Olympics

https://www.businesstoday.in/india/...turning-from-paris-olympics-439957-2024-08-02

3. Govt spent Rs 2 crore on Manu Bhaker's training: Sports Minister Mandaviya

https://www.business-standard.com/s...sports-minister-mandaviya-124072900729_1.html

4. Manu Bhaker: Chased by 40 brands for endorsements, fee swells from Rs 20 lakh to crores after Olympic med

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...pic-medals-in-paris/articleshow/112212236.cms

Sindhu lost, shame. India's performance at the Olympics is as per the usual anyway.

Just saying. This new thread has been created from a 4 months old thread I had created aiming to avoid having multiple sports related threads scattered around the forum. I thought that sort of organization is necessary here since this is not a forum dedicated to sports. We definitely can't have new threads for every event because 1) This forum is not for sports, 2) All new threads will be orphaned with 3-4 replies max.

I am confused why this was done, not that I have any right to seek any explanation from the mods.

sauravghosh said:

India's performance at the Olympics is as per the usual anyway.

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We need to produce and send more athletes first.

rootyme said:

We definitely can't have new threads for every event because 1) This forum is not for sports,

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There's no such rule for the general section, we've had separate threads for different tournaments and events in the past.
It's fine since the Olympics comes once in 4 years (2 years this time around) and warrants its own thread.

P.S. I hope Lakshya Sen wins gold.

To be honest, this thread doesn't serve much purpose if it is to just regurgitate the results.

I could just say, that was a great hockey win against GB with 10-men or too bad Lakshya Sen choked in the first game or else the outcome may have been different against Axelsen.

What I do hate is how little support sportpeople receive in India outside of Cricket and for Jio to hype up overall disappointing performances every day to display more ads or for Ambani to use it to yet again to whitewash their image, without actually making a difference at grassroots.

t3chg33k said:

To be honest, this thread doesn't serve much purpose if it is to just regurgitate the results.

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Let's make it interesting then. Lot of controversy over one Algerian boxer. All started when two matches back an Italian complained she'd never been hit so hard before. She just quit the bout and conceded right there

Former champ doesn't have a problem.


.. because she beat this Algerian two years ago

Watch the match and its clear why she won by the end of the first round.