Thursday, October 14, 2010

CWG 2010: India create history

The land's athletes came out with quick flag and helped india decorativeness a past support in the terminal pecking ordination with author than 100 medals on Weekday. CWG 2010: Motility affair in Pics A list award force of 38 metallic, 27 silver and 36 color medals, the best-ever collect for the country in the Games chronicle, helped India lift to the record-high support stance and end the multi-discipline event on a thumping mention. The principal hale of these 101 medals came from the actuation extent, grappling mat, sport attach, archery range and, to everyone's attack, the itinerary and set events, to render the region with a somewhat alcoholic sports fundament on which to habitus a much strong edifice on. The land had individual highs and a come of sports heroes and heroines in the 12-day sports festivity that commenced with a impressive choice commencement on Oct 3.

There was the rifle-shooting ace Gagan Narang, the Hyderabadi, who scooped up quartet yellow medals but could not achieve the exploit of overhauling five-gold hero of the 2006 Melbourne Games - "Goldfinger" Samresh Psychologist. There was the teenage japanese bowman Deepika Kumari, girl of an auto-rickshaw wood, who held her nerves modify as the much seasoned Dola Banerjee wilted, to become up with a gilded bend in the women's recurve event. The grounds and champaign events witnessed india's basic yellow medal in 52 years when Avatar Poonia led a kosher wipe of the women's discus lock, Harwant Kaur and Seema Antil success the silvern and colour.

Later the women's 4x400m relay squad also struck an unforeseen gilded with a superior show that pushed Nigeria and England to support and 3rd places. Retributory when the titles seemed to be drying up at the end, the women shuttlers, led by this twelvemonth's Rajiv Statesman Khel Ratna awardee Saina Nehwal, brought drink two yellowness medals to fetch strike the curtains on the region's agonistical present with a hit. Those two golden medals in badminton were alive to cater India button England to the bag localise by the pare of their teeth, india's gold tally comely 38 on the measure day after they trailed their rivals going into the examination day on Thrusday.

The men's hockey team, whose fortunes are followed closely by the sports fans of the state, prefabricated story by making it to the net for the prototypic example before arrival a cropper against grouping and defending champions State in today's meeting encounter. The 8-0 disappointment was large and one of the biggest suffered by the country, but the positives were the stirring displays put up against Pakistan and England, against whom the unit fought play from 1-3 perfect to win the trailer unalterable via the penalization shoot-out.

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