Friday, August 15, 2008

Against the odds: Indian Boxers: Akhil, Vijender and Jitender: Bhiwani Boxing Club


Jai Hind: Happy Independence Day


I read this Amazing article about Vijender Kumar (Arjun Award winner).( Bhiwani Boxing Club)



Vijender Kumar, (born October 29, 1985) is an amateur boxer from India who has repeatedly medaled in international amateur tourtnaments and qualified for the 2008 Olympics.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7482661.stm

Tomorrow is his second Match at Beijing that will take him to the quarter finals:


Sat Aug 16 21:45 Men's Middle (75kg) Round of 16
ThailandCHOMPHUPHUANG Angkhan vs
IndiaKUMAR Vijender


We also have to watch out for another Match tomorrow: Jitender Kumar won the last match against MEMIS Furkan Ulas from Turkey.



http://olympics.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Jitender_Kumar_enters_pre-quarters/articleshow/3355559.cms


Sat Aug 16 14:15 Men's Fly (51kg) Round of 16
UzbekistanDONIYOROV Tulashboy vs
IndiaKUMAR Jitender



Talking about Boxing Akhil Kumar won Men's Bantam (54kg) Round of 16 and now he is in quarterfinals. This is indeed a big achievement.


http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hFCOQ9yj28XWMBcPZ2hsK0431IFQ

"BEIJING (Reuters) - Surprise package Akhil Kumar celebrated India's Independence Day by moving a win away from giving his country its first Olympic boxing medal on Friday.

After outboxing 2005 world silver medallist Ali Hallab of France in the first round, Kumar sent home Russia's world champion Sergey Vodopyanov, who was the favourite in the bantamweight class."

http://in.reuters.com/article/topNews/idINIndia-35023020080815


"I don't want silver or bronze," he warned. "Gold is my only target."

Bravo Akhil......I don't care about a medal....actually (honestly) I do..... but really that statement..... you are a winner dude....yeeeeeahhhhh

Please check out this news clip....it's amazing.....if you can check out the match...it's even more amazing.....cut throat ....

http://broadband.indiatimes.com/videoshow/3368888.cms


awesome ...awesome...awesome....




Please read this article of Bhiwani Boxing Club:


http://www.hindustantimes.in/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=1b17daaa-63a4-46cc-b815-dc4cd5502ca4


And of course Bindra!!!! I don't really need to write anything for him....






15 comments:

Express said...

Hey, yea, Olympics it is!

and akhil ka match vz that world champion fellow, omg omg! I got a call when the 2nd round ws on, and then jab tak match khatam hua, I had my nail marks all over my face! whhaddaaa match!!!!

and bindra got a gold!! I still can't believe!! :-P

Cheers!
to the Indian contingent!
Jai hind!

Cinderella said...

India Shining !!!!

I am all smiles here !

Heart'n'Soul said...

lookin fwd to all the matches though just hrd tht Akhil lost

But m all praise for each one of em for standing thr own n doin us proud without much support from the govt

way to go!!!

Anonymous said...

olympics.. wooh.. in my blog too... and akhil gone.. now the rest two..

Keshi said...

Well done India!

Keshi.

crasiezt said...

We're improving for sure:-)

Thana Lekshmi said...

You have been tagged buddy.. :D

Akshay said...

Express : Jai Hind indeed...

Akshay said...

Cinderella. ...yup...

Akshay said...

Divkiran : sure thing!! we can do so much better....

Akshay said...

Chriz : yeah man.... India's best performance ever....lol

Akshay said...

Keshi : You are always beautiful....

Akshay said...

crasiezt : hell of an improvement.... India's best performance ever at Olympics..

Akshay said...

ThanaMoi : Hey... I have been kindda in hiding..... will get to the tag soon.... thanks for the tag!!

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