Commonwealth Games 2014

How many people know that Commonwealth Games – Glasgow 2014 has already started and that only DD News and 10 Sports are doing Direct Telecast of the event ? Yesterday we as a family watched the games on DD and 10 sports. Initially children were little disappointed that ‘Chotta Bheem’ was not to be seen (Anil blocked that channel) but soon they got hooked to the sports. They watched Triathlon, Gymnastics – 1 Indian participant was there, Hockey Women’s Canda Vs India , India leading 2-1, Cycling – Jamaica Vs India &  Weightlifting – Women’s. It was weightlifting which caught our attention .

We started following the weight lifting event, Esther got to understand the basic rules , and then she started seeing lifters from different countries, she started asking BNG stands for? And then she started identifying different countries, and then cam India’s flag , ‘ Mummy India!’ I said cheer for India Esther . There was this small build lady from North East India trying to Lift 72Kgs, I was not sure if she would be able to lift – feeling nervous I said ‘Yes, buck up , buck up you can lift it ‘ Esther also started screaming ‘Come on Come on’ and the lady lifted ! ‘Yea yea, she did it’ now even Ezekiel started screaming with us. The next lifter was also from India again from North East and she also lifted 72 Kgs without much strain. Next round it was 75Kgs, the first Indian contestant failed in her first attempt , but the second one lifted , and she went on to lift 77 Kgs in her next round winning Gold and the other Indian winning Silver  Sanjitha and Mira Chanu from Manipur made India and us proud and Esther was thrilled to follow commonwealth games then on.

Hope after books, we as parents would be able to get our children’s interest in sports …