India ended with 64 medals in the just concluded Commonwealth Games. This medal count was much lesser than the 101 we got in the Delhi games. The major difference between the two games was Archery, Synchronized Swimming, Greco Roman Wrestling and Shooting Pairs were removed in this edition of the games. In it's place we had Judo, Powerlifting and Triathlon.
We knew for a fact that with Archery, Greco Roman Wrestling and Shooting pairs not being part of this edition of the games we will not match 2010 games in terms of the medal count but it is good to see a higher % of athletes winning medals.
Some key highlights from this edition of the games
We knew for a fact that with Archery, Greco Roman Wrestling and Shooting pairs not being part of this edition of the games we will not match 2010 games in terms of the medal count but it is good to see a higher % of athletes winning medals.
As usual Weightlifting, Wrestling and Shooting are giving a good haul of medals. Boxing was a bit of a let down this time with not much medals coming there.
As usual we lost to the Aussies in the finals of Hockey. The scoreline was a bit better than last time we only let 4 goals compared to 8 last time.
It is also good to see us getting close to winning medals in events like Lawn Bowls we lost in the bronze medal match for Men's fours event.
Some key highlights from this edition of the games
- Dipa Karmakar was the first female athlete to win a medal in Gymnastics and second Indian after Ashwin Kumar to win a medal in Gymnastics. Ashwin won 2 medals in the last games
- Vikas Gowda won the second individual Athletics gold after Milkha Singh
- Wrestling except 1 individual all Indian Participants won a medal
- Percentage of athletes winning medal has gone up from 22% to 29%
- We won medals in the new events added in this edition - Judo & Power Lifting
Some people were cribbing about the coverage (or the lack of it) for the games. I felt the coverage on the news sites and also in papers were good. One let down for me is that it was telecast on Ten Sports and DD also didn't show anything.
Overall a very good performance by our athletes. Hope we continue to do this well in the Asian Games coming up in September.
In all this one latest embarrassment as usual has been our officials. Two of them arrested :(
In all this one latest embarrassment as usual has been our officials. Two of them arrested :(
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