Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Sushil Kumar Repechage

Sushil Kumar managed to give India the second Medal in this Olympics - Thanks to Repechage.
Repechage is a French word meaning to rescue or to save. Check out this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repechage
Thanks to it Sushil Kumar stayed alive in the games - inspite of loosing to Ukranian - Stadnik in the first round - a far superior opponent.
He later went on to defeat the American - Doug Schwab and clinched the Bronze.

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