So far the story of Indian performance at the Doha Asian Games is purly a campaign gone blank.

Table Tennins:
Indian women TableTennis team won one match agains Uzbekistan and then lost to China. They managed to reach quarterfinals but lost out to South Korea tamely. Which was expected considering the world beating status of China and Korea.

Indian mens TableTennis team went even bad, did not register a single win and went out in first round it self.

Badminton :
As i had mentioned earlier in a thread we were paired with China and Indonesia in the group stage and were mauled with identical 5-0 routs in both matches.

Football :
We drew the first match with Hong Kong-China, with score line reading 1-1.

Now, the question is why do we send bloodless athletes and mindless officials to these sports events. I mean its okay to send individual athletes who have fared well in International Areana to events like these, but for the sake of participation we must not participate.

In my opinion, we wasted the resources by sending team entries in TableTennis, Badminton and Football and many other sports. In stead those money should be spent those deserving , promising athletes who have done well in recent past and encourage them to bring more laurels to the country.

In fact i totally agree with Indian Government Decision to disallow the teams from eight disclipines. It should have been intimated very much earlier to the IOA and respective Federations.

Now lets see what brews for the rest of the Indian Athletes there in Doha.


Opening Ceremony today at 9.30 IST to be telecast live on DD NATIONAL.