WIN! Stampboards's 2012 London Olympics competition

kbdessai · **Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2012 20:19:01 pm

CASACUDOR wrote:

kbdessai wrote:

India first participated at the Olympic Games in 1900, with a lone athlete (Norman Pritchard) winning two medals in athletics. India is scheduled to take part in the 2012 Summer Olympics to be held in London from 27 July to 12 August 2012. The Indian government plans to spend over Rs. 2500 million in preparing for the games, including around Rs. 200 million on foreign coaches for various events. Ajit Pal Singh has been named the chef de mission of the Indian contingent by the IOA.

Rs. 2500 million ~ 43.76 millions US$ ~ 43.54 million AU$
Rs. 200 million ~ 3.50 millions US$ ~ 3.48 million AU$
TODAY EXCHANGE RATES. Rs. means Indian Rupees ...
however, large amounts for a great country and people
certainly few of us didn't know how much money can buy with "Rs. 2500 million" !

Well, our Govt is spending a lot on Olympics..
it has a special programme for "Gold Quest" in Olympics.
Well, now I just hope we win at least 2 gold medals.

kbdessai · **Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2012 20:36:05 pm

Hi all!
Vijender Singh became the first boxer from India to win an Olympics medal when he won the bronze medal at Beijing Olympics in 2008. A top-ranked boxer in the middle-weight category, he also won a bronze at the World Amateur Boxing Championships the very next year.

From an unknown village boy, Vijender has now become one of the top sporting icons of the country. Despite having attracted huge media and public attention, Vijender’s focus has not really shifted. His on-court performance has increased over the years. His qualification for London Games proves that the boxer is in good shape and can win us an Olympics medal this time too.

He has recently said that he is happy with my preparations so far and that he is preparing really hard for the London Games. The seven member Indian boxing contingent is very good. We have many hopes from them. Shiva Thapa, who is just 18, is an excellent boxer. He can win a medal. Apart from him, we have Vikas Krishan and Sumit Sangwan, anybody can win medal for us this time.

kbdessai

drvvr · **Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2012 21:14:02 pm

India could have easily won a medal in Doubles Tennis event and also Mixed doubles. But due to the Ego clash Between Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes I now doubt if we could win a medal in Tennis.

Allanswood · **Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2012 21:51:17 pm

fromdownunder wrote:

Lakatoi 4 wrote:

A set of giant Olympic rings are set up at London's Heathrow Airport to welcome visitors and athletes as London 2012 approaches.

Talking giant Olympic rings. What will they think of next.

norm

Our last giant Olympic Rings (Sydney 2000) are sitting in the manufacturers yard in Goulburn rusting away. I can drive past and see them anytime.

I can't recall if these were the one on the bridge or the top of the AMP building.

There was talk of putting them up as some sort of sculpture (not in the classic olympic style) but apparently 'that's not on with those rings'.

And no one else wanted some premade dismountable rings. :roll:

KevinHedley · **Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2012 21:57:43 pm

Allanswood wrote:

fromdownunder wrote:

Lakatoi 4 wrote:

A set of giant Olympic rings are set up at London's Heathrow Airport to welcome visitors and athletes as London 2012 approaches.

Talking giant Olympic rings. What will they think of next.

norm

Our last giant Olympic Rings (Sydney 2000) are sitting in the manufacturers yard in Goulburn rusting away. I can drive past and see them anytime.

I can't recall if these were the one on the bridge or the top of the AMP building.

There was talk of putting them up as some sort of sculpture (not in the classic olympic style) but apparently 'that's not on with those rings'.

And no one else wanted some premade dismountable rings. :roll:

I have not checked but my memory says that they were on the Centrepoint Tower.

librarianc · **Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2012 22:42:32 pm

I could suggest that the rights to display those rings would still be held by IOC and that public display and/or alternate use may not be allowed after the games are finished??

John A

Allanswood · **Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2012 23:10:36 pm

Found them, they were the ones hanging on the Harbour Bridge.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/s ... 5925615971

When you see the picture and you know the size of the bridge, these rings are HUGE!

kbdessai · **Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2012 23:11:37 pm

drvvr wrote:

India could have easily won a medal in Doubles Tennis event and also Mixed doubles. But due to the Ego clash Between Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes I now doubt if we could win a medal in Tennis.

You are right!
They should have thought about the nation!
But they have that ego problem as most of us Indians know!

kbdessai · **Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2012 23:17:25 pm

INDIA HOPES FOR AN OLYMPIC MEDAL FROM ARCHER DEEPIKA KUMARI!
Deepika Kumari is the best Indian archer at present for India. She is one of the brightest hopes for an Olympic medal. After a good outing during the World Cup and the Commonwealth Games, Indians would like to see a repeat performance. Sadly, her success is not being documented in the mainstream media as she deserves all the plaudits.

kbdessai · **Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2012 23:53:59 pm

India also hopes a medal from M. C. Mary Kom.
Mother-of-two Mary Kom, otherwise known here as 'Magnificent Mary,' is under all kinds of pressure while aiming, as she is, at winning one of the first Olympic medals ever awarded in women's boxing.
The 29-year-old Mary Kom is praised on TV documentaries, on local news media and internet blogs for encapsulating the essence of women from her region.

A gentle, motherly figure out of the ring, with a lavish ponytail and a penchant for colourful fabrics, she's tenacious once she puts on the gloves. Mary Kom won four of her world titles in the 46-kilogram category and one at 48 kilograms. But she will have to contend with the top names in the 51-kilogram category in London, including two-time world champion Cancan Ren of China and Nicola Adams of Britain.

kbdessai · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2012 02:48:17 am

Whoever sees Sushil Kumar these days has only one request â get a gold medal at the London Olympics. Sushil (66kg) qualified for the London Olympics at his third attempt, giving his camp some nervous moments. But they always believed in him. Last year Sushil was not at his best at the World Championships, also a qualifying event. He had a month-long training stint at Colorado Springs in the US in January and even won gold at the Dave Schultz Memorial International Wrestling Tournament, but failed to qualify at the Asian qualification meet in Astana in February. He was pegged back by a shoulder niggle.

But he practised with purpose and finally made it through at the Olympic qualifying tournament in Taiyuan, China, in April. In the final, he defeated Georgian Otar Tushishvilli, also a Beijing Olympics bronze medallist, to win the gold.

aethelwulf · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2012 03:04:25 am

kbdessai wrote:

women's boxing

A woman who boxes...second-most intimidating type of girlfriend, first of course being female Olympic weightlifter. :mrgreen:

Although, you wouldn't have to worry about being mugged walking home at night down a dark street. :idea:

aethelwulf · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2012 03:09:39 am

librarianc wrote:

I could suggest that the rights to display those rings would still be held by IOC and that public display and/or alternate use may not be allowed after the games are finished??

The IOC is famous for how tenaciously they guard the Rings and related Olympic trademarked symbols. There was the brou-ha-ha a couple Games ago, where they demanded the right to grant approval to all countries' designs for stamps which were going to have the rings emblem. So some countries just issued stamps with sports themes, but no rings or direction mention of the Olympics.

I think Allanswood summed it up

Allanswood wrote:

There was talk of putting them up as some sort of sculpture (not in the classic olympic style) but apparently 'that's not on with those rings'.

So keeping the rings as-is was nyet, but so to about doing anything else with them. So they age not-so-gracefully in a scrapyard.

No wonder its so expensive to host the Games, when there's silly money-pits like that. :roll:

GlenStephens · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2012 03:29:31 am

aethelwulf wrote:

kbdessai wrote:

women's boxing

A woman who boxes...second-most intimidating type of girlfriend, first of course being female Olympic weightlifter. :mrgreen:

I hear the Olympic boxing tickets are sold out already ................. ?

kbdessai · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2012 03:32:01 am

aethelwulf wrote:

kbdessai wrote:

women's boxing

A woman who boxes...second-most intimidating type of girlfriend, first of course being female Olympic weightlifter. :mrgreen:

Although, you wouldn't have to worry about being mugged walking home at night down a dark street. :idea:

Well, we have many hopes from her!

GUTTERS · **Posted:** Wed Jun 27, 2012 00:45:51 am

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kbdessai · **Posted:** Wed Jun 27, 2012 01:00:42 am

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kbdessai · **Posted:** Wed Jun 27, 2012 02:52:55 am

THE INDIAN PEOPLE ALSO HAVE MANY HOPES FROM P.T. USHA, NICKNAMED "PAYYOLI EXPRESS"!
The sprinting queen Usha hailed ace shuttler Saina Nehwal for her recent victories in the Thailand and Indonesia open. Ahead of the 2012 London Olympics, India is riding high on the success of ace tennis duo Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi who clinched the mixed doubles title at the French Open recently, followed by champion shuttler Saina Nehwal's twin victory at the Thailand and Malaysian Open few days back. Also, the country's is desperately seeking a gold in boxing from five-time world champion Mary Kom who is already being seen as India's best-shot Olympics.

aethelwulf · **Posted:** Wed Jun 27, 2012 03:03:23 am

And of course to take a jab at the English weather -- isn't it ironic London is hosting the Summer Olympics, when their reputation for summer is... :roll:

kbdessai · **Posted:** Wed Jun 27, 2012 05:09:08 am

Sania Mirza, India's tennis star was awarded a wild card entry into thewomen's doubles event of the London 2012 Olympics. It has finally ended the suspense over her participation in the event and also made her eligible to compete in the mixed doubles competition in which our India is hopeful of winning a medal.
It may be recalled that mixed doubles is included in the Olympics for the first time since 1924.

kbdessai · **Posted:** Wed Jun 27, 2012 05:15:00 am

Since India Post has unfortunately not yet come out with any stamps on 2012 Olympics, I'll post the ones issued by North Korea. I came across those yesterday evening.

kbdessai · **Posted:** Wed Jun 27, 2012 06:21:43 am

Whenever the Olympic are held, I do always remember the late Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav! He was widely known as "Pocket Dynamo" and he was independent India's FIRST individual Olympic medalist. Late Jadhav won the freestyle wrestling bronze medal at the 1952 Helsinki Games.

He suffered a lot of financial problem to go to Helsinki but he somehow managed. When he returned with the medal to his homeland, he did not get much publicity (as medalists and even participants today do).

There were no televisions at that time in India. There small felicitation for him at Mumbai's Shivaji Mandir auditorium in Dadar. Interestingly there was also a cavalcade of 101 bullock carts from Karad to his village.

For nearly half a century, his would remain the only individual medal for India at the Olympics until Leander Paes won a bronze in 1996. Jadhav passed away on August 14, 1984.

Ultimately, India as a nation realized her forgotten hero and made a remarkable stadium in Delhi for wrestling and honored it by naming it as K D Jadhav stadium. This stadium is at par with the best in the world

kbdessai · **Posted:** Wed Jun 27, 2012 22:47:47 pm

30 DAYS, 08 HOURS, 13 MINUTES REMAINING!!

kbdessai · **Posted:** Wed Jun 27, 2012 22:57:16 pm

These are the beautiful South Korean stamps on London 2012!

I wonder when our India Post's Philatelic officials will awaken from their deep slumber and raise a stamp on London 2012!!

kbdessai · **Posted:** Wed Jun 27, 2012 23:06:08 pm

Cyprus Post issued a set of four stamps on 21 March 2012 to commemorate the London 2012 games.

kbdessai · **Posted:** Wed Jun 27, 2012 23:35:27 pm

Stamps on London 2012 by Slovenia Post.

GUTTERS · **Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2012 01:07:08 am

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kbdessai · **Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2012 04:54:30 am

Estonia's stamp on London 2012 Olympics.

kbdessai · **Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2012 05:01:51 am

With just a month left for the London Games, Olympic-bound Indian paddlers Soumyajit Ghosh and Ankita Das will leave for Zhengding, China on Sunday for a 16-day long training camp.

The two paddlers will be joined by Anthony Amalraj and Kumaresan Shamini as sparring partners along with Polish coach Leszek Kucharski. They have been practicing hard at the SAI centre Patiala, but Zhengding is one of the world`s best training centres. A training stint there ahead of the Olympics will definitely help the performance of the players in London

kbdessai · **Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2012 05:06:39 am

India's billiards champion, Mr. Geet Sethi has said that India will win 06 medals. The billiards champion said that India would draw heavily from shooting and boxing.

GlenStephens · **Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2012 05:11:51 am

kbdessai wrote:

For nearly half a century, his would remain the only individual medal for India at the Olympics until Leander Paes won a bronze in 1996.

There were medals of NO colour for near 50 years?

Hard to believe for a country so populous?

It is not about money all the time - look at distance runners from Kenya and Ethiopia for instance - they seemingly always medal!

kbdessai · **Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2012 05:17:58 am

GlenStephens wrote:

kbdessai wrote:

For nearly half a century, his would remain the only individual medal for India at the Olympics until Leander Paes won a bronze in 1996.

There were medals of NO colour for near 50 years?

Hard to believe for a country so populous?

It is not about money all the time - look at distance runners from Kenya and Ethiopia for instance - they seemingly always medal!

Well, to be frank; I think the government never did focus totally on earning Olympic medals.
But in recent years, we are seeing some hope.
The "Gold Quest" programme by Ministry of Sports & Youth Affairs, Govt. of India has gained some seriousness.
And now, people are also damn serious about such things.
And I agree, we need determination (which Indian sportspersons certainly have!) and support as well!

kbdessai · **Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2012 05:51:57 am

Stamps on London 2012 issued by San Marino.

kbdessai · **Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2012 06:06:10 am

India's first issue of Olympic stamps was to commemorate the 1968 Olympics which were held in Mexico city (Mexico).
Two stamps were released.
The one below is of Twenty Paise (100 Paise makes One Indian Rupee) denomination.

While the one below is of Rupee One denomination.

kbdessai · **Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2012 06:14:24 am

Aruba Post has also released stamps on London 2012 Olympics.
Have a look!!

tacomabob · **Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2012 08:55:07 am

The Olympic gymnastic trials for the US will be taking place this
week-end in San Jose, California. My nephew will be one of the
judges. The US should have a strong team this year.

GUTTERS · **Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2012 17:34:44 pm

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kbdessai · **Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2012 20:00:38 pm

29 days 11 hours
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wjamesd · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 02:30:49 am

I don't think that South Africa has a set of London 2012 Olympic stamps??
I will check it out.
Nevertheless, I will look at some TV coverage from the comfort of a southern hemisphere winter. :lol:

Does anyone kow where I can access a comprehensive list of Great Britain postal watermarks? :?:

mozzerb · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 02:58:01 am

wjamesd wrote:

Does anyone kow where I can access a comprehensive list of Great Britain postal watermarks? :?:

The Gibbons catalogue should have them all.

kbdessai · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 04:36:11 am

Although most of you'll must have seen this famous stamp, I'll post it as it's my favourite.
I appreciate the way it's designed, using landmarks and identities of the London city!

How I wish I could get one of these!!

AMark · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 06:12:02 am

The Olympic price tag.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-18585209

kbdessai · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 06:17:45 am

Good way to raise money!
"...London 2012 organisers are selling torches which have been used in the relay on an auction website...", reports the BBC.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18523773

KevinHedley · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 08:30:07 am

kbdessai wrote:

Although most of you'll must have seen this famous stamp, I'll post it as it's my favourite.
I appreciate the way it's designed, using landmarks and identities of the London city!

How I wish I could get one of these!!

I don't know about famous. Anyway, I live in Australia and I have not seen one :!:

MargoZ · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 08:49:31 am

Don't flay yourself, Kevin, it only came out a couple of weeks ago and has been somewhat overshadowed by the stamps of that equine sporting icon :lol:

MargoZ · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 08:50:50 am

And good on Kaushik for ferreting out images all of these new Olympic issues!

kbdessai · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 18:21:19 pm

MargoZ wrote:

And good on Kaushik for ferreting out images all of these new Olympic issues!

My pleasure, I enjoy doing it!

kbdessai · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 23:10:13 pm

28 days 07 hours 50 minutes
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GUTTERS · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 23:34:35 pm

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kbdessai · **Posted:** Sat Jun 30, 2012 05:09:20 am

KevinHedley wrote:

kbdessai wrote:

Although most of you'll must have seen this famous stamp, I'll post it as it's my favourite.
I appreciate the way it's designed, using landmarks and identities of the London city!

How I wish I could get one of these!!

I don't know about famous. Anyway, I live in Australia and I have not seen one :!:

Dear Kevin!
I called it famous as many philatelic sites, blogs, sites have exhibited this stamp at their prime space.
Also, I love the way it's designed!


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