Augusto, you have fielded very topical points.
&, while they are at it, they should canvas the lofty Loretta's opinion why
Indian hockey stands so eclipsed today as to not evenmerit qualifyiing for the
Beijing olympics after eighty years of quite superb honours, right from
inception
of hokey as a olympic discipline.
I would also like if someone knowledgeable would kindly advise me how toobtain
through the right-to-information facility the list of the entire Indian Olympic
squad
im Beijing & how many of them are participants, necessary officials and hangers
on
that have no relevance for the participation.
How have the tatter been sponsored/financed for travel accomodation.
These are highly relevant issues that merit priority attention.
Alfred de Tavares,
Stockholm, 2008-08-12
Tel: 0046 70 295 4091 > Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:57:01 +0530> From: [EMAIL
PROTECTED]> To: goanet@lists.goanet.org> Subject: [Goanet] 28 Years After: An
Olympic Gold - the Moira Connection> > Dears> > Abhinav Bindra has won a gold
medal at the Olympics. This is the> first medal that India has got after 28
years.> > That means the last Gold medal India won was in the 1980 Moscow>
Olympics where we won a Gold in the women's hockey competition. In> that team
there was the goalkeeper Loretta D'Sousa from Moira, now> Loretta Sreedharan,
Customs officer from Vasco.> > Don't you think it would be a nice idea to give
her some attention at> this moment? If some journos were smart, they would have
interviewed> her and asked her - what she felt when she won that Gold 28 years
ago.> > They could have asked her how and why she was able to get that Gold>
and not other Goans.> And why it took 28 years for another Gold to appear, and
that too in> an esoteric event like shooting.> > And they could have questioned
her as to why a sport like hockey,in> which Goans [although many of these Goans
achieved what they did in> Bombay or East Africa or elsewhere] have had an
aptitude to, has> never really flourished in Goa.> > In doing so, they could
perhaps also focus on the way the Vaglos and> the Dourados have screwed Goa's
women and men's hockey respectively.> > When doing this interview, our intrepid
journos must remember the scam> that works like this: sports officials do not
ever want to give up the> reins of power in the Assn.'s which they control
because they control> a vote in the National federations. This means that every
now and> then, they will be given a free holiday abroad as Manager or some
such> official. And at times if some funds come from Sports Authority of> India
or S.A.Goa, then they are ever ready to misappropriate it.> > They must also
try to fathom a question which I cannot understand:> most of the sports
officials who scam Goan sports come from so-called> 'respectable' Goan
families. I do not understand how they are prepared> to disgrace their families
for what, if you think in the long run,> amounts to BHINKTAM.> > I wonder
whether our journos have the balls to ask such questions. I> remember asking a
Goan editor why he did not ask an industrialist some> tough questions. I thank
him for giving me a frank answer: Goa is too> small a place for such things.> >
> Cheers> Augusto> > > -- > Augusto Pinto> 40, Novo Portugal,> Moira, Bardez,>
Goa, India> E [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]> P 0832-2470336> M
9881126350
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