Bronze Grappler Sushil Kumar became the second Indian to win a medal in wrestling after Kashabha Jadhav who had won bronze medal in 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games. It is after 56 years that India has won a medal in Wrestling. India had a very few hopes of winning another medal in the Beijing Olympics as almost all of the Indian players, except boxers, could not reach even the quarterfinal rounds of their respected games. No one had expected that Sushil Kumar will win a medal in wrestling after his first round loss to Andriy Stadnik of Ukraine. He could not give a tough challenge to the Ukrainian and was easily defeated by a big margin. Stadnik dominated during all of the rounds and Sushil proved out be a mismatch to his challenge. The final score was 8-1. Repechage But in repechage he defeated three grapplers on the trot and thus converted a little hope of winning a medal into reality. He defeated Doug Schwab (USA), Albert Batyrov (Belarus) and finally Leonid Spiridonov (Kazakhstan) on the trot and thus won the bronze medal. He defeated world number 13 Doug Schwab (USA) by the margin of 3-1. In the first round he grabbed 4 points while Schwab could get only 1. But Schwab won the second round by 2-0. In the third round Sushil won 3 technical points as compared to Schwab’s 2 points. And thus He one the first bout. Second Round In the second repechage round he fought against Albert Batyrov of Belarus. He won the first round by 1-0. But second round was won by Batyrov by 4-0. But in the third and decisive round Sushil bounced back and grabbed 7 points while Batyrov could not score any. Thus Sushil won the match by a huge margin of points. Third Round But the third and the final repechage round was fought very closely as it is evident from the difference between the points gained by both of the grapplers. Sushil defeated Leonid Spiridonov of Kazakhstan in the third round. Sushil had grabbed to technical points in the first round as compared to Leonid’s one point.. In the second round none of them could gain a point. But Sushil won the third and decisive round by one point and while Leonid could not score any point. It is the second time that Sushil has [...]
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Rains Playing Havoc In India
August 20th, 2008 
krishna Rains In most of the states of India rainy season increases woes of most of the population. There are only a few state which have tamed the rivers that used to bring havoc in the past. When it is the rainy season hundreds of people die because of the reasons that are related to incessant rains. One of the major reason is floods. We have seen that during the first week of July when rainy season was in its initial stages, more than hundred people had died in some some north-eastern states that included West Bengal and millions were displaced or marooned because of floods especially in Brahmaputra river. Building Collapse Last years many people had died in Mumbai because of incessant rains that had caused floods. This year it has happened but administration had done a lot of work in advance to prevent such kind catastrophe from happening. But 20 person have died and many got injured when a four-storey building collapsed on Wednesday in south Mumbai. Administration had already declared it a dangerous building and had asked the tenants to evict it. This kind of incidents happen every year in India when old buildings collapse during the rainy season. Rising Waters More than 65 persons have been killed in Andhra Pradesh because of floods in rivers and water bodies of 15 districts of the state . Because of rising water in the Kolleru lake thousands of people were affected and lakhs of hectares crop has been damaged because of floods. 175 relief camps had been opened for the flood affected people. On August 10 a lorry carrying 30 persons had washed away in a seasonal river water in which only 11 persons had swam to safety and seven had died . Fate of remaining 12 persons was unknown. Floods Because of incessant rains in Orissa and West Bengal three people had died and many were missing . Situation had become acute as most of the seasonal and small rivers were also rising. It happens every year and hundreds of people die because of floods. Except some of the northers state, all of the remaining states face similar situation every year in which hundreds of people die and property worth billions of rupees get damaged. Though government lefts no stone unturned to help the affected people but a lot should be done to counter the situation. [...]
