Hopeless coverage by DD SPorts

Hi friends, good afternoon to all of you. I love sports very much and when ever I get the time, I would sit before TV to view the Beijing Olympics which is covered by DD sports. But the coverage of Olympic Games was hopeless and the commentary team and anchors were also hopeless.

The funny part of the commentary team was given by one of the DD sports commentator who is blindly commenting. I was watching the Kayak event and the time was around 2.00 pm. The Portugal team was leading in the race but from the starting of the race commentator continuously saying that Hungary team was leading in the race and will win the Gold medal. I thought the commentator will correct his mistake because there was no hungry team in that race. But Mr. Avatar Singh (he was some sardar, I did not exactly remember the name) continuously saying that Hungry was leading and he was shouting like a radio commentator. I thought he might not have lunch and feeling hungry that is why he is shouting Hungry was leading. This is the standard of commentators of the DD sports very funny.

What I did not like with DD sports is the way the games and events were shown on channel. I was watching the water pole game interestingly between Australia vs Hungry and sudden the stupid and irritating anchors appeared and started telling the Olympic updates without the time sense. The Olympic update was like reading some news and no highlights were shown. After the update the anchors suddenly taken into a wrestling match and never showed the Water pole game which was interrupted. From the first day of Olympics this is happening with DD sports. They have no proper sense, when to telecast, it is like a lottery and what ever the commentator likes he is shifting to that game which he likes and have some knowledge.

I am happy that India is bringing home atleast 3 medals (1Gold and 1Bronze already won; in boxing another medal is sure). I am impressed with the way the Chinese continent dominating the Olympics in their home. USSR was split into many small countries that is why Russia not able to regain the top spot or rank in the Olympics. USA was disappointing in the athletics but in swimming they were outstanding and credit goes to Michael Phelps (for winning 8 gold medals). Jamaica dominated the race tracks in athletics. Australia was disappointing in swimming and China’s domination continued in Badminton and Table tennis. In boxing Cuba’s main boxer shifted to heavy weight and new players were not able to dominate the boxing event. India had fielded 3 boxers and Vijender Kumar is the only one who is able to clear the quarterfinal and reached the semis.

India missed narrowly to move further into semi finals in Archery. The reason is making mistakes at the wrong time and Indian players lost the matches in Archery very narrowly. The most disappointing performance came from Anju Bobby George in Long Jump. She had jumped by over stepping and all her jumps were fouls and such hopeless performance came at a big event like Olympics. I hope government instead of giving such hefty prize money to the winning medalist, concentrate on the development of the sports facilities in India and develop the standard of games in India.

Finally, China is the highlight of the Beijing Olympics and they won more than 46 Gold medals and no other country is near them to overtake them. China will finish the games in the high note in my opinion…. That’s all for now

With lot of love,

Madhu Vamsi.

Spain are the champions of Euro championship

Hello friends, good evening the finals between Germany and Spain of Euro 2008 were not as trilling as expected by me. The reason for that was the performance of Germany team, which was never allowed by Spain to settle down.

Spain mid-fielders and defenders were outstanding. Fernando Torres's the forward of Spain was well feedback by the mid-fielders and in the 33 minute of the first half a superb pass was given by Xavi and it was through-ball which was covered by German defender but Torres quickly took the ball from the defender and scored the only goal of the match in style. After this goal German not able to equalize the goal because of some missed chances by German forwards. Spain defenders never allowed the German forwards to settle down in the whole match. David Villa the top scorer for Spain was not playing the final because of thigh injury but Torres played exceptionally well and continues troubled the German goal keeper.

German’s created some chances in the early minutes of the game and Captain Michael Ballack and Miroslav Klose combined beautifully but missed the chances near the goal post. Ballack was badly injured in the match but still played the full quota of the match.

Spain won the Euro 2008 after 44 years a very long time. In 1964 Spain won this trophy for the first time and hats off to 69 years old coach Luis Aragones for training the strongest Spain squad. Spain won all the matches in this tournament before the finals. Iker Casillas, lifted the huge UEFA EURO 2008 trophy and whole team behind him gave a big roar. I personally feel that Spain played flawless game from the first game to the last game and truly deserved to win the trophy. That’s all for now and more soon….

By Madhu Vamsi...