This Olympics is unique in many ways, I don't know about the actual number of records that were broken during this sporting spree,I guess 49,but each day did involve breaking of a record. Be it day one ,the opening ceremony or any other day of sports events. Opening ceremony was viewed by 4 billion out of roughly 6 billion people around the globe,I was one of unlucky 'few' who missed the chance to witness the marvel. This itself is a record,the viewership and several audience around the globe seeing the telecast 'on demand' , downloading sports video from internet and each country has granted the right for the telacast of the event for the duration of 500 hours,if calculated this comes to about 21 days!!! Non stop viewing of sports mela .
Well that was about the ceremony,actual breaking of records came from the sports persons and I will start with India,3 medals in Olympics'08 . Congratulations India!! for the best ever performance in an Olympics. Many 'records' were broken.A GOLD by Mr. Abhinav Bindra was the first gold in the category of individual performance in Indian sports history. Boxing had never fetched a medal for us but this time it did,though hopes were really high for at least 2 more golds but we did not succeed . In wrestling too a medal was bagged by us. Chances are bright for future though.
Phelps with the phenomenal 8 Golds performance has left jaws-around-the-world dropped !!
Records broken to form new records,be it the medal count or timing.
Another show-stopper is Usain Bolt. Using the word 'bolt' with 'the Bolt' is like using dho diya with Dhoni ( I don't know what name they will come up with if I do something big,I guess it would be 'shake' but this is left for future to decide. At this moment my world is shaken). What a sprinter!!He has BOLTed 4 golds this Olympics breaking record of another legend Michael Johnson. Today's newspaper is full of articles of praise for Mr. Bolt .
God!! I could not see any of the events this Olympics barring one.
Last but not the least, record of number of Golds bagged by any country in an Olympics is broken. It is China and Chinese ruling the world. With 2 days to go it is sure that the count will hit a 50+ figure in Golds alone !!
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Note: This post was written much earlier than date of posting,China has secured 51 gold this Olympics.
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