Incheon: Bolstered by a better-than-expected performance in the Commonwealth Games, Indian athletes would now look to assert themselves against the sporting might of continental powerhouses such as China and Japan in the 17th Asian Games commencing here tomorrow.
A total haul of 64 medals in the CWG held in July-August, which included 15 of the golden hue, should act as the ideal springboard for the Indian contingent to better the medal tally claimed at Guangzhou, China, four years ago.
However, the reality is that Asian Games is far tougher to excel in than CWG, barring a few disciplines, especially with the Chinese juggernaut set to roll once again followed by the might of South Korea, Japan and a few other countries, including the ones belonging to to the erstwhile Soviet Bloc.
In 2010, the total medals scooped by the Indian contingent at the Asiad was 65 — comprising 14 gold, 17 silver and 34 bronze — a month after a record haul of 101, including 38 gold, in the CWG held in New Delhi.
The sizeable heist in Guangzhou piloted the country to a highly creditable sixth spot on the table which was topped by hosts China with a staggering haul of 199 gold medals.
The sixth place finish in Guangzhou was India’s best in Asian Games history after the fifth spot it grabbed when hosting the pan-Asian sports spectacle in 1982 at New Delhi.
India ended up eighth in 2002 when South Korea previously hosted the Games and retained it four years later in Doha, Qatar, before improving it by two rungs in Guangzhou, leading to the current optimism that the country has the capability to finish even in the top five.
This time the government, on September 9, pruned down the size of the contingent, from what was sent to it by the Indian Olympic Association. The contingent is now 679-strong -– including 516 athletes — from the initial 942 comprising 662 athletes and the rest officials.
The size of the contingent is still quite big and would be seen in action in aquatics, archery, athletics, badminton, basketball, boxing, canoeing and kayaking, cycling, equestrian, football, golf, gymnastics, handball, hockey, judo, kabaddi, rowing, sepaktakraw, shooting, squash, taekwondo, table tennis, tennis, volleyball, wrestling, wushu, weightlifting, and yachting.
Twenty six-year-old Mahitha Mohan has been on the international circuit for over six years and it is obvious that the women’s track cycling squad follows its ‘didi’ around the Indira Gandhi hostel and complex.
But once the group reaches the Velodrome and puts on their racing gear, 19-year-old Deborah, participating only in her third major senior international event takes charge as the de-facto leader.
After all, it is the prowess of this 19-year-old from the Car Nicobar that has given the contingent an outside hope of at least challenging for a bronze medal at the Asian Games in Incheon.
The last time an Indian stood on the podium in a cycling event at the Asian Games was way back in 1951. It was the first edition of the Games where only four nations participated in the cycling event and India managed to win a silver and two bronze medals.
Since then, Indians, it seems, have pedalled at Asiads only to make up the numbers. Even today, despite having improved considerably, they refuse to set the bar higher. A top-6 finish is the team’s target in South Korea.
“Finishing in the top-6 will be a great achievement for us given the fact that we started working on the lines of major international teams for just a year now and have been holding year-long camps. The only hope for a medal can be from Deborah,” says chief coach Rajendra Kumar Sharma, who quit the Air Force last year to complete a UCI diploma and join the national squad.
With her pet 500m sprint event, in which she broke the national mark at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, not part of the Asian Games roaster, Deborah is targeting the keirin, a form of motor-paced cycling event for a medal. “I think I can win a medal in keirin,” says the girl, who a decade ago spent few nights on a tree to survive the tsunami.
In keirin, the cyclist follow a motorcycle pilot till the speed of the group reaches 45 kms/hour and then dash to the finish line after the bike leaves the track 600/700 meters from the finish on the instruction of the judge.
The glitter in Deborah’s eyes as her coach explains the event shows how much the youngster cherishes the thrill of speeding down to the end. It was precisely this obsession with speed that first got her hooked to athletics and then to cycling.
“I used to participate in running and long jump in Nicobar and won every local event. But I soon got bored and decided to travel to Andaman with other cyclists to participate in a competition with a regular cycle because the team was a participant short. I won that event and was selected for further training in the SAI centre, in Andaman,” she says reminiscing of a journey that took almost 24 hours by ship.
“I removed the mud-guard of my cycle and raced,” says a smiling Deborah, who is the only player from Andaman and Nicobar to be picked for the Asian Games. “There were 12 girls who joined the academy with me. But all of them got married and left cycling.”
A medal in the Asian Games will definitely change the way people in Andaman and Nicobar and the rest of India perceive cycling as a sport.
Guwahati, Sep 12 (PTI) Indian Super League franchise NorthEast United FC have brought on board another international player, signing English striker James Keene, a product of the Portsmouth FC youth scheme in England.
The 28-year-old striker debuted in the 2005 English Premier League under Harry Redknapp, who is one of the senior most managers in English professional football.
Rohan Bopanna is open to playing with Paes at Rio
Bangalore, Sep 12 (PTI) India’s doubles star Rohan Bopanna says the bitterness that had developed between him and Leander Paes in the build-up to the 2012 London Games is “lon g gone and over” and he was not averse to the idea of pairing with his senior compatriot for the Rio Olympics if there are no fitness issues.
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