When I was in my fourth grade at K.V. Bharatpur, I
still remember, we six close friends and five to six of our colony
senior guys (some of them are my friends elder brother's) of our
small Railway Colony had a daily schedule to run around ten to twelve
Kilometers on Bharatpur - Mathura expressway, our day starts at
around four O'clock in morning with this long morning race, the team
was handled and guided by two more senior person of that colony, who
was prepared for the several defense examinations, at that stage of
time normally the mind of people lived in small city, town, village
was crazy for this Job part assessment in defense, the youngster's
did anything to be admit in these services, might they find it easy
to get Jobs in defense for the low grade position, might be they find
hard to study and pass regular courses and saw them in a officer
class Job, or might be they taught by their family member's to do so,
that is some other affair of discussion and depends on mind thinking,
anyway I principally support the defense services with bottom heart,
besides I also eager to Join National Defense. anyway that morning
schedule was continue till we passed our twelfth examination and we
friends set-apart for further higher courses, at that stage of life,
I realize morning running/walking is best exercise for the health, it
keeps us fit, morning air help us to give a utter peace of mind,
running in the morning is the best way to avoid hot weather, heat
stroke, and stifling humidity, that exercise in a cool climate can
often run longer and go farther than those who work out in the heat.
But it is really a sad part, many of us at that
age was unaware about the first Indian athlete to reach Olympic
finals, held at Rome in 1960, he finished fourth in the finals and
clocked a timing of 45.6 seconds. he missed the bronze medal by just
a difference of 0.1 second, Born on 20th Nov. 1935, at Faisalabad
(Now in Pakistan), Known as Flying Sikh and Milky Singh, Athlete by
Occupation, conferred with Padma Shri Award, The Milkha Singh, father
of professional golfer Jeev Milkha Singh, is an Indian atheltee who
represents India in Summer Olympics held at Rome in 1960 and 1964 at
Tokyo, Milkha Singh represented India in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics
in the 200 and 400, where he was eliminated from the Olympics, the
elimination at Melbourne Olympics starved him to fight with more
courage and try harder to get it in again, Thereafter, he won gold
medals in both the 200m and 400m events at the 1958 Asian Games,
clocking 21.6 seconds and 47 seconds respectively. He progressed to
win a gold medal in the 400m competition at the 1958 Cardiff
Commonwealth Games, with a time of 46.16 seconds, and it is first
achievement made by any Indian in CW games.
For 1960 Rome Olympic, he finished at fourth stand
in 400m race, till the final he stood second for each race with a
continuous improvement in clocking, but he was unable to keep the
same rhythm in final and missed the race with fourth position, his
time was 45.6 seconds and his finishing position was not bettered by
an Indian track athlete, till 1984, when flying lady P.T. Usha missed
the 400m hurdles race by 1/100th second. Legendary athlete Milkha
Singh burst into tears after grappler Sushil Kumar won the silver
medal in 66kg freestyle wrestling competition at the London Olympic,
in his wordings "I could not control my emotions. My eyes were
moist and I burst into tears. I was really happy that this boy and
other athletes have made our nation proud."
Based on life of Athlete Milkha Singh, Rakesh Mehra,
produced and directed a movie name "Bhag Milkha Bhag"
starring Farhan Akhtar and Sonam Kapoor, Farhan deserves this role,
Milkha sold the copyright and story at just One Rupees, The
remuneration from movie will be used for the benefit of needy
athletes. The name of the movie comes from the last words spoken by
his father “Bhag Milkha Bhag", which was to save his life from
the riots, during partition of India. The film is slated to release
July 12, 2013. (Good Luck.
For last three Olympics, it is really a matter of
proud for Indian's, that now we're able to get a few medals on the
biggest stage of Athlete sports, but it is not so much great, that we
can be make it to much large, having population of more that 1.22
billions (ranking 2nd), we just finished the Olympics and CWG with a
few medals (and a mere single gold medal). no the medal ratio is not
according to population ratio, but it is also a sad element of our
country, being the biggest democratic country we're suffered by the
major disturbing issue of corruption in sports and a glamor of
Cricket, where every other sports in India suffered with a low class
and the player treated as no where, the most surprisingly, our
national sport “Hockey” is also suffering from same, and treated
as a shit game, where India snapped the history best Hockey Person,
Major Dhyan Chand. we and politicians need to understand the
importance of other games ant try to put an effort to make a rise and
give chance to all games at same level, there is a need to take step
by former sports person to come in front and make a voice for each
game as a “SPORT” and not as an individual games. we people also
have to leave the madness behind the Cricket and have to put effort
to uplift the other prestigious games, that makes us proud more in
near future at the more Prestigious Stages....!!
The Flying Sikh and The Flying lady really makes our
country proud.
Wish
You A Very Happy B'Day "The Flying Sikh", and a Good Luck for upcoming Movie.
Regards
Dhitendra
Keep
Smiling :-)
Nice post buddy..
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