India win Bronze in wrestling!

Some unexpected News!!!



In 66kg wrestling, Indian wrestler, Sushil Kumar has won bronze



http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/EN...html#WRM266252

Indian wrestler won 3-1 on points.

Awesome effort. For a wrestler
This is now the best showing by India in a long time in an olympic Two individual medals in an Olympic. I am sure the jinx has been broken now and a lot of good things are to be expected now

never india had won two medals together in an Olympics.

so this definitely breaks jinx.

The situation in Wrestling in like following:

If you lose in 1/2 round agains eventual finalist then you are considered brave worthy loser and you get to play a repechage round of 2 bouts.

If you win in those rounds then you get to play bronze medal match in addition to the losing semifinalists.

Thats what sushil Kumar went through. In morning he lost the first round ukrainian and then entered the repechage round.

he won his both rounds in repechage and then won the bronze medal match.

4 matches in a single day is definitely a herculean task.

^^ Oh wow... thats some wrestling

Doc, you can't believe what this medal will do. haryana and Punjab are famous for wrestling Akhara's and this medal will give a fillip to all those existing youngsters who will now try to better Sushil's record.

Awesome effort

Its been certainly a morale booster, there is another indian in fray tomorrow(not sure about his name, now have some hopes from him. Hoping for another medal

Yep Tomar is starting tomorrow and has a good chance too. Infact if i go by the words of the wrestling federation they thought he was the medal prospect

eggactly.

you stole my words

as the money and accolades are being showered on Sushil Kumar he is really worthy of the all these things compared to Abhinav Bindra who hails from billionair family.

this will definitely give boost to sports in rural india specially where they are strong in traditional sports.

Time for some music

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to this champion ... dey r real hero .. rose from obscurity to find a place in the history of Indian sport when he won a bronze medal .....

Congratulations to him, I hope his example is one that goes out to all of India, where you're from, your family background doesn't count for everything, natural talent will always come to the fore.... The rest, just helps to nurture that talent....

Hats off!! Great to hear india winning 2 medals!!