Rio Olympics 2016 over. One silver, one bronze. PV Sindhu you dropped gold. No excuses. Badminton is not a sports, not a popular sports in Spain. Carolina Marin and coach Fernando Rivas nab an Olympic Gold in Rio. Carolina Marin is world, Olympics and All-England champ. Cant beat it, can you Sindhu and Gopi. Throwing away a one set lead against Carolina Marin is not what champions do. There was pressure on Sindhu. It holds for Marin. For 60 years, this useless fellow has read and re-read India losing, fighting hard. Indian sports has no guts, gumption, gift. The sub in Nav Bharat Times put it best: Sona gaya, phir bhi 'chandi'. Rama terms it 'alpa santoshi', to be a little happy not a beaming, whistling, gold happiness. Marin winningly screams; Sindhu loosingly screams. Apparently, one day Gopi got the coaches around and asked Sindu to howl; she couldnt; Gopi said: You will not go till you shout.' The incident comes from a TV chat. MM Somaya, the Olympian hockey players, writes of India doing well in field hockey. India beat Irenland, lost to Germany, Holland and Belgium, drew with Canada; lost out, no medal. Yet Somaya argues we have the core of a champion team. Somaya, sorry. This team can only lose, never win; if you are giving up in the last five minutes, it shows 11 players have no guts to gut it out. They are not mentally strong. They have to be win-mad. Gopi Chand needs to take on some top sports psychologists; maybe, Gopi needs fresh minds at his Academy; and Indian badminton needs a flow of young shuttlers ... one after the other, one replacing the other ....today we just have three, Nehwal, Sindhu, Kidambi ... bronze, silver, none. India should ban this game of 'loosing games, fighting courageously' as our sports correspondents, including Shivani Naik, have for ages written. Bloody the opponent, grab gold. Loosing is a no show. Sorry, very sorry, but cricket is the lone reference point for any writes on Indian sports. Sourav Ganguly, turned a Steve Waugh and his mighty Australians to a mope; 'India is the last frontier,' admitted Steve. We need that Sourav punk. When will that happen. Not 'Sona gaya, phir bhi chandi.'
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