Monday, July 14, 2008

Olympians-Explained in Indian Hockey context

What's the difference between
Aslam Sher Khan and Ric Charlesworth?
Sandeep Singh and Taeke TAEKEMA?
Pargat Singh and Bevan George?
They all are "Olympians" but the only difference is one has not won an Olympic medal whereas other one has.
Whereas I have full respect for all players who represented the country at any point of time, I feel the nomenclature should be appropraite and what one really deserves.
I thought of something like:
Players' name (n O)
where
n: is the number of Gold medals won in Olympics
So, how about:
Olympian Aslam Sher Khan (0 O)
Olympian Dhanraj Pillay (o O)
Olympian V Bhaskaran (1 O)
Olympian Pargat Singh (0 O)
Olympian Balbir Singh(3 O)
Olympian Ashish Ballal (0 O)
Olympian A B Subbaiah (o O)
Olympian Zafar Iqbal (1 O)
Olympian Ajit Pal Singh (0 O)
...........................................the list can go on.
If you don't agree, you can suggest one to me..!
Today's generations' memory is only till the time they saw something in front of them or LIVE on TV. So, the above terminology is open to further proposed update....

1 comment:

Unknown said...

I can actually tell you the exact Difference
its just simple that
we master hockey when we play on bare ground
and they master it when they play on the astro turf!!!!!!!!
is'nt that simple?????
Y compare?