What Did they Win? Well a Bronze and a Doubles Gold!

I have been following the Beijing Olympics as much as I can. At the start of the games, I was reading this blog post by Matt Slater on Tennis in Olympics at the BBC. Andy Murray had lost in his first round match at Beijing and Slater argued that Olympics is not an important tournament, particularly when the US open is round the corner. This is what he wrote about Murray's match-

Sadly, it seemed to dawn on the (by now) Scot he was miserably out of sorts and probably wasting his time against a mediocre but far more up-for-it opponent, in an event he shouldn't be playing in anyway when the US Open is only a fortnight away.
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If winning an Olympic gold medal is not the highest accolade in your sport, you're playing a non-Olympic sport. Tennis fails this test by some margin - are the Games even the fifth biggest event on the sport's schedule?

And to me also it looked like he had a point, the past singles winner in the men's section, again to quote Slater's post are "... Nicolas Massu, in case you'd forgotten: before him the winners include Marc Rosset and Miloslav Mecir." Well not anymore, the winner at Beijing is Rafael Nadal!

But then what surprised me even more was the reaction of Roger Federer, after winning at Beijing. I mean he screamed as if he he had won the Wimbledon rather than men's doubles gold medal. I wish I could paste his screaming picture here, better still, if I had watched the match live and clicked a picture myself. But this is what I will do, instead. Click the following link and see the screaming Roger Federer here if you have not seen it live. I mean, I can understand Wawrinka's reaction but Federer's Wimbledon like scream was such a pleasant surprise, particularly when he lost in the quarter finals in the singles' event.

Then there was this gentleman, Novak Djokovic. I mean I had seen him win the Australian Open this year, his first Grand Slam ever. And then he won a Olympic Bronze medal at the Beijing! And he tore his shirt (link to photo from Djokovic's official site, I am referring to the third photo in the second row) and threw two of his rackets in the stand along with that shirt.

And I thought these two images say much more than all my words put together about how Tennis fared at the Beijing Olympics!

PS. All those Bhiwani Dudes are doing us proud in boxing, I never imagined I could watch boxing with this amount of interest!