Laishram
Sarita Devi is in news ….. not very happy though..
The woman boxer from Manipur fought in style - It
is not often that an entire stadium greets the winner with boos. Definitely not
when the winner is from the host country.
Firstpost reports that even the Koreans could not help but criticize
the "decision by unanimous choice" that ruled local hope Jina Park as
the winner in her Light Weight (57-60 kg) semifinal bout against India's L
Sarita Devi.
Even if you had no idea about the rules of boxing and how points
are scored, it wasn't difficult to understand that the Indian boxer was well
and truly hammering the daylights out of her Korean opponent. More of Incheon
in this post ..
The name Orkut Büyükkökten, a
Turkish software engineer would be one
of the names most googled today. Originally
from Konya, Turkey, Büyükkökten, he hit stardom after research at Stanford on Web search and efficient PDA usage. Sure you
know of the social networking site Orkut.
The service was designed to help users meet new and old friends and
maintain existing relationships. The website is named after its creator, Google
employee Orkut Büyükkökten. Today i.e., September 30, Google has choosen to bid adios to Orkut. To
many, Orkut was the first social networking site that got people across the
globe to actually engage on the Internet. With time, many have abandoned their
Orkut accounts in favour of Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest. Google has stopped creation of new accounts
since July 2014. Orkut was one of the
most visited websites in India and Brazil in 2008. In 2008 Google announced that Orkut would be
fully managed and operated in Brazil, by Google Brazil, in the city of Belo
Horizonte.
Back home, CLT20 Semi
line-up is drawn. The League’s clampdown on bowlers with suspect actions is
the first of its kind in six seasons of the tournament, with Kolkata Knight
Riders' Sunil Narine becoming the latest to be warned in this year's event.
While the officials have been given a free hand to report bowlers with suspect
action, it is not yet clear whether the participating teams had been briefed
specifically about the issue. Officials have reported four offspinners - Lahore
Lions' Adnan Rasool and Mohammad Hafeez, Dolphins' Prenelan Subrayen, and
Narine, the most successful bowler in the tournament's history.
Today, the 2nd
match at Bangalore between Barbados Tridents and Northern Knights had a late
start. Zimbabwe’s Elton Chigumbura is
playing for Tridents in a match of no interest as both the teams are out fo the
tournament.
On Oct 2nd
: KKR will play Hurricanes at Hyderabad
@ 4 pm local time while Kings XI Punjab will play Chennai Superkings at 8 pm ..
Lahore Lions which had
perforce to win by a huge margin made only 124/6 but almost defended it so
sell. Lahore Lions employed Test-match
fields from the first over, their spinners created panic in the Perth At one
point Scorchers were reduced to 64 for
7, until Brad Hogg came in – threw his arms at will hitting Adnan Rasool for 15
and along with Marsh too them to a win, which was also of academic interest only.
At Asiad in Korea, Ace
discus thrower Vikas Gowda was the country's top performer with a silver as
India added four medals to maintain their 10th position in the overall standings.
Veteran L Sarita Devi (60kg) and Pooja Rani (75kg) had to settle for bronze
medals after losing their semifinal bouts, while the duo of Varsha Gautam and
Aishwarya Nedunchezhiyan provided an unexpected bronze medal in sailing. Sarita
simply pummelled her rival with her flurry of quicksilver blows -- at times
raining four to her rival's one. Both
the boxers appeared to have got the
better of their South Korean opponents, the verdict of the judges against them
prompting the Indian contingent to lodge a protest at least for Sarita.
However, the appeal was rejected.
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar.
30th Sept. 2014.
