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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Against the Odds: Vijender Kumar

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7482661.stm --- Although he is a boxing champion, Vijender Kumar is an oddity in India, a virtual one-sport country where cricket is religion. The son of a bus driver who worked overtime to pay for his coaching, Vijender is India's unsung champion boxer.  "My blood boils when everybody goes gaga over cricket," says the 22-year-old, one of five boxers in India's modest Olympics contingent to Beijing this summer.


Vijender with his father [Photo: Soutik Biswas]

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I appreciate all the games in India but I hate Cricket....I think cricket is not a game, it should be considered as an extra curricular activity which is done by people who can not play power sports. I think cricket is ruin of India.

Manoj Kaushik,
University of Essex(UK)

Anonymous said...

YES I am agrreed with your opinion.