CWG 2010, India's Shooting tally

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CWG 2010, India's Shooting tally

Post by fantumfan2003 » Thu Oct 14, 2010 4:55 pm

14 gold, 11 silver and 5 bronze medals

This is better than what we did earlier in Melbourne (27 medals).

So here is the agenda cut out for each and everyone of us.

- Promote our sport whenever and wherever possible.
- Get youngsters and others to join air rifle and airpistol shooting.
- Do not discuss other sports with equal zeal in public and with friends (especially CRICKET).
- India is the second country after Germany to take interest in shooting sports so lets see how we can better or equal that.

Let make our sport popular.

Now is the right time to do it.

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Re: CWG 2010, India's Shooting tally

Post by shooter » Thu Oct 14, 2010 5:36 pm

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Post by Katana » Thu Oct 14, 2010 5:59 pm

If our people can achieve all this desipite polictics, no ranges, import restrictions, non availability of ammo and what not.........imagine what we could do if the scenario was more open? The world could be ours!
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Re: CWG 2010, India's Shooting tally

Post by prashantsingh » Thu Oct 14, 2010 6:10 pm

That's 36% of All Gold Medals won by India in the Games.
A major chunk .
Looks like Shooting is indeed the main sports.
Could replace Hockey (National Sport) for sure were India was thrashed 8-0 by the Kangaroos.

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Re: CWG 2010, India's Shooting tally

Post by m24 » Thu Oct 14, 2010 6:31 pm

Agree and done. :)

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Re: CWG 2010, India's Shooting tally

Post by fantumfan2003 » Thu Oct 14, 2010 6:46 pm

Third tenet of agenda violated ;-)

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prashantsingh wrote:Could replace Hockey (National Sport) for sure were India was thrashed 8-0 by the Kangaroos.
As an example of overcoming adversity, Karoly Takacs has few peers. He was part of Hungary’s world champion pistol-shooting team in 1938, when an army grenade exploded, crippling his right hand. Ten years later, having taught himself to shoot with his left, he won two gold medals in the rapid-fire class.

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Re: CWG 2010, India's Shooting tally

Post by prashantsingh » Thu Oct 14, 2010 10:31 pm

and if you add the 3 Golds in Archery then it works out to almost half the Gold Medals (45%).

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Re: CWG 2010, India's Shooting tally

Post by nash » Fri Oct 15, 2010 2:01 am

I hope our Government wakes up to the reality atleast now!!
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Re: CWG 2010, India's Shooting tally

Post by Baljit » Fri Oct 15, 2010 4:32 am

fantumfan2003 wrote:14 gold, 11 silver and 5 bronze medals

This is better than what we did earlier in Melbourne (27 medals).

So here is the agenda cut out for each and everyone of us.

- Promote our sport whenever and wherever possible.
- Get youngsters and others to join air rifle and airpistol shooting.
- Do not discuss other sports with equal zeal in public and with friends (especially CRICKET).
- India is the second country after Germany to take interest in shooting sports so lets see how we can better or equal that.

Let make our sport popular.

Now is the right time to do it.

M.
:agree: :cheers:

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Re: CWG 2010, India's Shooting tally

Post by cottage cheese » Fri Oct 15, 2010 7:09 am

nash wrote:I hope our Government wakes up to the reality atleast now!!
...that's asking too much from the damn babus.
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Re: CWG 2010, India's Shooting tally

Post by fantumfan2003 » Fri Oct 15, 2010 12:07 pm

Friends,

One thing that is a no no is to expect the government to help us out everywhere.
I think it has done a lot for us. Getting imported competition grade airguns is easy.
Local makes like IHP are also worth a look.
So lets start helping each other and ourselves.
hvj1 has done a splendid job of sharing essential info on air pistol shooting. Perhaps someone can help us out with 10mtr air rifle shooting tips on similar lines.
Armed with this info we can set about voluntarily teaching the basics at our local ranges.
In any case the agenda needs to be expanded into a credible training programme.
So please chip in as to how to take this forward.
I believe if we have critical mass at the community/town/city level, its only logical that it will expand upwards to the district/state and national levels.

So what say ?

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As an example of overcoming adversity, Karoly Takacs has few peers. He was part of Hungary’s world champion pistol-shooting team in 1938, when an army grenade exploded, crippling his right hand. Ten years later, having taught himself to shoot with his left, he won two gold medals in the rapid-fire class.

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