Reached home yesterday and put the TV on. Switched to NDTV and saw that Bolt had won the 200 meters dash in the Olympics with a WR. Since NDTV was not showing footage then, I switched to UTV news.
A sikh gentleman was sitting and talking about Bolt and I quote -
"Awesome performance from Bolt - he has won 2 Golds for Jamaica and most probably will win the 3rd when he runs with the 4x100 meter relay with the Jamaica team. In the next Olympics in 2012, Bolt should try for 5 Golds"
That was a Kodak Moment No. 1. We can sit and advice a winner of 2 Gold medals how to go about his job but cannot improve our own atheletes ??
I switched to Star News and the anchor was going on and on - "Bolt ne jeeta gold" Suddenly I heard a voice from the clippings talking about dis-qualifying an American runner for crossing the track and the anchor thought he had heard a scoop and he started going ballistic -
"Yahan disqualify karne ke baat ho rahi hai - kya Bolt ne galti ki aur unhe disqualify kar diya jayega ? Bolt ho sakte hain disqualify" And he went on with the same line for the next 5 minutes. I changed the channel to DD Sports to check what actually happened and came to know that another runner was disqualified. Switched back to Star News and the anchor was going -
"Bolt ne baazi maari "
Kodak Moment No. 2
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Hats off to the Indian Media yet again. They seem to be getting better and better.
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