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