Comments on: Bring home some medals folks..!! http://mushtang.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/bring-home-some-medals-folks/ A Thread of Thoughts... Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:09:08 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: nikhil http://mushtang.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/bring-home-some-medals-folks/#comment-9 nikhil Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:00:39 +0000 http://mushtang.wordpress.com/?p=20#comment-9 Congratulations ! that your reply finally got printed. BTW, you did not mention that this post is pertaining to Nepal.. :) Congratulations ! that your reply finally got printed.
BTW, you did not mention that this post is pertaining to Nepal.. :)

]]> By: Abhishek Gurung http://mushtang.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/bring-home-some-medals-folks/#comment-8 Abhishek Gurung Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:52:19 +0000 http://mushtang.wordpress.com/?p=20#comment-8 The fact is we need to WIN whether it's in sports(Olympics), business or any other field rather then complain, if we need ourselves to be heard irrespective of whether we are correct in our thinking/ideologies or not.I agree that the 'spirit of participation' was the motto of the olympics but today other issues have taken priority & hogged the limelight. The olympics of '84 & '88 during the height of cold-war was one such example, to the extend that China was ready to get the games to Beijing at ANY cost to projhect its soft-power status to the world & to throw the I-Have-Arrived tag around as part of their superpower ambitions. The world is programmed to listen to the powerful & the dominant entity! I understand that overall development of a society needs sports as part of the everyday lifestyle but then again we should not expect too much from the govt. of a LDC to promote sports, of all the things, even though they have done liitle for the nation as a whole but still, it may be too much too ask. A bright shinning beacon of hope could be the Serbian/Russian tennis stars, who were born in very humble circumstances but they had the will to be the best so everyone of them including Sharapova, Ivanovic, Jankovic et al, migrated to US & western europe to avail the encouragingly sporting atmosphere & today they are not only winners of grand slams but as I would call them, they are CHAMPIONS truely & deservingly. They have defied all odds & shown that irrespective of their country's so-called domination vendetta at the games, individually they have truely proved the human spirit to excel, prevails against all odds. Godspeed to all the participants. The fact is we need to WIN whether it’s in sports(Olympics), business or any other field rather then complain, if we need ourselves to be heard irrespective of whether we are correct in our thinking/ideologies or not.I agree that the ’spirit of participation’ was the motto of the olympics but today other issues have taken priority & hogged the limelight. The olympics of ‘84 & ‘88 during the height of cold-war was one such example, to the extend that China was ready to get the games to Beijing at ANY cost to projhect its soft-power status to the world & to throw the I-Have-Arrived tag around as part of their superpower ambitions. The world is programmed to listen to the powerful & the dominant entity! I understand that overall development of a society needs sports as part of the everyday lifestyle but then again we should not expect too much from the govt. of a LDC to promote sports, of all the things, even though they have done liitle for the nation as a whole but still, it may be too much too ask. A bright shinning beacon of hope could be the Serbian/Russian tennis stars, who were born in very humble circumstances but they had the will to be the best so everyone of them including Sharapova, Ivanovic, Jankovic et al, migrated to US & western europe to avail the encouragingly sporting atmosphere & today they are not only winners of grand slams but as I would call them, they are CHAMPIONS truely & deservingly. They have defied all odds & shown that irrespective of their country’s so-called domination vendetta at the games, individually they have truely proved the human spirit to excel, prevails against all odds. Godspeed to all the participants.

]]> By: Rukum http://mushtang.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/bring-home-some-medals-folks/#comment-7 Rukum Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:26:54 +0000 http://mushtang.wordpress.com/?p=20#comment-7 my reply finally got printed. :) here's the link... <a href="http://epaper.thehimalayantimes.com/Default.aspx?selpg=301&selDt=08/10/2008&BMode=100" rel="nofollow">http://epaper.thehimalayantimes.com/Default.aspx?selpg=301&selDt=08/10/2008&BMode=100</a> my reply finally got printed. :)

here’s the link…

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]]> By: dikchya http://mushtang.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/bring-home-some-medals-folks/#comment-6 dikchya Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:21:34 +0000 http://mushtang.wordpress.com/?p=20#comment-6 "As a matter of fact, performance now-a-days is more dependent on technological intervention and scientific training than on individual endurance." Very true!!! This line hits the nail right on the head! :) Such events no longer celebrate their true mottos. Its all about who wins how many gold, how grand the inaugral ceremony was....etc.,etc. And behind it all, there are those strong nations backing up their players while country like ours are there, just participating and happy that they got to visit a foreign land!!! “As a matter of fact, performance now-a-days is more dependent on technological intervention and scientific training than on individual endurance.”
Very true!!! This line hits the nail right on the head! :)

Such events no longer celebrate their true mottos. Its all about who wins how many gold, how grand the inaugral ceremony was….etc.,etc. And behind it all, there are those strong nations backing up their players while country like ours are there, just participating and happy that they got to visit a foreign land!!!

]]> By: bipul http://mushtang.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/bring-home-some-medals-folks/#comment-4 bipul Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:07:18 +0000 http://mushtang.wordpress.com/?p=20#comment-4 The winners are always in minority, and the majority of non-winners (not losers) is driven by their natural tendency to complain, which in not necessarily an opposition to the system of winning or against the nations that do, but a motivation in a way. For a country like ours where 8 participants are accopanied by 28 delegates, its a shame to even complain (http://www.mysansar.com/?p=2969). Perhaps its more important to revise oneself and be better competent than to think of competitions as a way to show off a nation's supermacy. The winners are always in minority, and the majority of non-winners (not losers) is driven by their natural tendency to complain, which in not necessarily an opposition to the system of winning or against the nations that do, but a motivation in a way.
For a country like ours where 8 participants are accopanied by 28 delegates, its a shame to even complain (http://www.mysansar.com/?p=2969). Perhaps its more important to revise oneself and be better competent than to think of competitions as a way to show off a nation’s supermacy.

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