As we all know, India and Olympic medals are not often used in the same sentence. If we forget about the glorious past of field hockey, the country of one billion people has managed to win exactly four individual medals in sixty years. So when an Indian team is seeded second out of 150 teams in an Olympic event not named Kabbadi, it calls for a celebration.
Dipanjan Chattopadhyay highlights and analyzes India’s chances at the Chess Olympiad. [Hat tip: BongoPondit]
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BongoP'o'ndit
May 31st, 2006 at 1:59 pm | #
Missing link ?!
dazedandconfused
May 31st, 2006 at 2:37 pm | #
yeah where’s the link. I didn’t think anybody blogs about chess except me…
Patrix
May 31st, 2006 at 3:27 pm | #
Dang! Fixed.