Chennai Marathon - Student dies

Ironic that an Anna Univ student died finishing the Marathon.You could blame it on the organizers, the student the weather. Apparently this guy - Santosh Kumar was one of the first to finish. Pushed himself too hard. Since he was close to the finishing line he must have not paid heed to chest pain and continued to run. Sad , an athletic fellow having such an excellent constitution, studying in a great University - had to loose his life.

Frontpage-The Hindu

The Hindu seems to have lost it . Today the frontpage photograph was that of a customer who bought the Apple 3G phone in India. A space that is taken up by Olympic Gold medallists / Premiers of Countries and Chiefs of Organisations is shared by a customer whose only achievement seems to have been the ability to wait till 12 midnight to buy a 31K phone. Some Achievement!! Kudos to The Hindu - for being at the Fore front of redifining Newspaper content.

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.