Olympics
Sushil Kumar’s bronze medal is India’s second medal at the Beijing Olympics after Abhinav Bindra’s gold medal in the 10 m air rifle event. It is also India’s second medal in 66kg Freestyle Wrestling, the first being K D Jadhav’s bronze at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics.
Sushil Kumar had lost to Andriy Stadnik from Ukraine in the first round of the wrestling event. It is in the recharge round (a practice amongst ladder competitions that allows participants who failed to meet qualifying standards by a small margin to continue to the next round) that he beat American Doug Schwab and Belarusian Albert Batyrov. In the bronze medal match on 20 August, 2008 Sushil defeated Spiridonov 3:1.
We need many more such Olympic medals to keep us going. We have just opened the account and it is sure to grow with determination and dedication.
