Indian Wrestling Thread ...

[ssp]

Brilliant news. Well done Sushil.

[Saniapower]

Well done Sushil. Excellent stuff.

[jaydeep]

Remarkable performance by Sushil Kumar showing his Beijing Olympics bronze wasn't fluke ...

[arjun2761]

Congrats to Sushil on another milestone achievement! He is now among the best in the world and seems to be getting better. Hopefully, he can do well in CWG and AG and then keep going till the 2012 Olympics.

[mugu]

Tremendous achievement by Sushil Kumar. He now has an Olympic medal and the World title. He rates this one high, though. He should win the CWG and then perhaps the Asian Games also. Wish him luck. He is a true champion, so down to earth.

[jayakris]

Congrats, Sushil. You have made us proud again. It is also nice to see that our Olympians do not just disappear after one medal or a career-best at Olympics, thinking they have already reached all they could have in their career.

Jay

[akmohanty]

a very touching article about winning the world championship in his own words plus a rather stupid, arrogant behavior by our ministers. there are videos in youtube of MS Gill pushing back sushil's mentor satpal.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life ... 579560.cms

[arjun2761]

Sushil's gold winning effort video is linked on this page:

http://chowk.com/ilogs/80575/43474

[Ankit Desai]

US tour will help us for the Olympic qualifiers

The federation will select two wrestlers from each weight category for training in the United States in January. The selection trials for women will be conducted in Patiala on Saturday.

In US, we will do high-altitude training and our focus will be on endurance work. We will get to train with American and Cuban wrestlers there which will help us improve our technique ahead of the qualifying meets,

-Ankit

[Runcie]

This blog gives you a very good picture about Indian wrestling, especially mud-wrestling or pehlwani wrestling:
kushtiwrestling.blogspot.com

This his Youtube channel which has good collection videos of our upcoming wrestlers:
http://www.youtube.com/user/kushtiwrestling

[jaydeep]

India's Amit Kumar and Sushil Kumar won a gold medal each in the Dave Schultz Memorial International Wrestling Tournament in the United States ... They were there for taking training with USA wrestlers in combined training programme at Olympic Training Centre, Colorado Springs.

Two gold medals for India in Wrestling in USA

[jayakris]

Thanks Jaydeep. It's good to see Sushil Kumar quietly staying in form. I have hopes on a medal in Olympics from him. Jay

[arjun2761]

Hopefully, Sushil Kumar will be in contention for an Olympic medal. In addition to the 2 Kumar golds in the freestyle, another Kumar won a gold in the greco-roman style in the same tournament as well. I don't think this was a super tough field as many of the winners are sprinkled in the top-10 US wrestling lists for their respective weight classes.

[sameerph]

A bit worrying article about Sushil Kumar & his preparation for Olympics -

Not quite Sushil of old

[sameerph]

This is the review of India's chances at the Asian Olympic qualifying event at Astana, Kazakhstan from March 30 to April 1-

Indian grapplers keen to book Olympic berths