FIFA World cup, Wimbledon and Life

I love sports for the way they gen­er­ate thrill and emo­tions in everyone’s life. And I have utmost respect and admi­ra­tion for play­ers who per­fect their games and I feel they are no less than the artists cre­at­ing a piece of art. Sport is such a uni­fy­ing medium (as is music and other forms of art but more reach­able to com­mon mob) and it was an exhil­a­rat­ing expe­ri­ence watch­ing Amer­i­cans going nuts over USA mak­ing it to sec­ond round in FIFA World Cup. I feel Amer­i­cans miss out on the thrill of sup­port­ing one’s nation in an inter­na­tional sport event. Most of Amer­i­can sport exper­tise is bound to these club and pre­mier league events. While USA does have a tremen­dous pres­ence in Olympic sports, I hope the soc­cer team and Lan­don Dono­van can ignite American’s inter­est in pop­u­lar inter­na­tional sports.

And this sum­mer is just a God­send to all sports fans like me. I can barely con­tain the high adren­a­line flow FIFA and Wim­ble­don are generating.

I am so sad­dened see­ing Andy Rod­dick and Jus­tine Henin crash out before the Quar­ters at Wim­ble­don. It does show the bar going so high in ATP and WTA. I love Roddick’s pres­ence in ten­nis and his sport­ing atti­tude. After his heart wrench­ing loss at last year’s Wim­ble­don finale, I was hop­ing to see him much fur­ther but the com­pe­ti­tion is indeed very high now. I would not have bet against Nadal in his form from French Open but he seems trou­bled with injury that might cre­ate chances for Fed­erer and guys behind him. I know there has been a lot of crit­i­cism for Fed­erer for one moun­tain that he has not been able to climb — Rafael Nadal. I am his loyal fan but I con­cede that Spaniard has got­ten bet­ter of him con­vinc­ingly. It does not make me any less of a fan though since I admire Fed­erer for more than his records, I adore his class, his ele­gance, his per­fec­tion, his con­sis­tency and his Godly pres­ence in the world of ten­nis. I can also under­stand his recent waver­ing hunger for titles, he has done more than any­body else and what­ever he keeps achiev­ing now is just an added bonus. I remem­ber being extremely heart bro­ken after his 2008 Wim­ble­don loss but these days I just enjoy his play and its peace­ful. He is just the best

But of course, Wim­ble­don hap­pens every year. Right now, I am truly enjoy­ing every moment of the Foot­ball World Cup 2010. It is such a rhyth­matic and chal­leng­ing game need­ing so much more coör­di­na­tion, team­work and energy. I can hardly wait for the Ger­many vs Argentina clash since these 2 teams seem to be play­ing with most effec­tive syn­chro­niza­tion and strat­egy. Also, I applaud their min­i­mal involve­ment in foul tac­tics. Finally, I love that World Cup is hap­pen­ing in Africa and I love vuvuze­las

And here are some nice tweets from World Cup–

1. @sardesairajdeep: appear­ing on page 3 for a foot­baller is often inversely pro­por­tion­ate to per­for­mance. con­trast ronaldo with villa.
2. @sardesairajdeep: world cup like world war 2. French sur­ren­dered early, Amer­i­cans arrived at last minute, British left to fight Germans.
3. @5tevenw: Mon: #ARG Argentina meet #BRA Brazil in Cape Town. Tue: #ESP Spain meet #ITA Italy in Johan­nes­burg & on Wed: #ENG Eng­land may meet #FRA France at the airport.

And offi­cially from twitter–

June 25: How­ever, we are call­ing the end of Japan’s 3–1 vic­tory over Den­mark a record that bests the end of the Los Ange­les Laker vic­tory over the Boston Celtics (3,085 TPS). When the ref­eree blew the final whis­tle, we saw 3,283 TPS.

June 18: The most tweeted goals of the past week…

1) Japan scores against Cameroon on June 14 in their 1–0 vic­tory (2,940 TPS)
2) Brazil scores their first goal against North Korea in their 2–1 June 14 vic­tory (2,928 TPS)
3) Mex­ico ties South Africa in their June 11 game (2,704 TPS)

Were these all-time Twit­ter records? Yes, but only until last night’s decid­ing game of the NBA Cham­pi­onship between the Los Ange­les Lak­ers and Boston Celtics. The Lak­ers’ vic­tory gen­er­ated a record 3,085 TPS as the game ended.

I really can­not imag­ine life with­out sports. Jab­u­lani.

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