Samsung India announces Rs 20 lakh for gold medal in Olympics
Electronics major Samsung India on Monday announced cash award of Rs 20 lakh to any of the country`s sportsperson winning a gold medal in the forthcoming Olympic Games to be held in London.
The company, which is the official sponsor of the Indian team, also said a silver medal winner would be given Rs 15 lakh, while Rs 10 lakh would be awarded to bronze medal winners.
"I hope this will provide motivation to Indian players to win more medals," Samsung South West Asia HQ President & CEO B D Park told reporters here.
The company, which has been providing scholarship to six high potential Indian sportspersons, added two more stars --Manavjit Singh Sandhu and MC Mary Kom -- to its `Samsung 2012 Olympic Ratna` programme.
The other sportspersons are Abhinav Bindra, Gagan Narang, Ronjan Sodhi, Laishram Devendro Singh, Vikash Krishan Yadav and Deepika Kumari.
Under the programme, the company will also foot bills for one of the family members of these players to travel for the London games which will be held from July 27 to August 12.
To rally support for the Indian Olympic team, the company also announced a marketing campaign. Under the campaign the company has set up a special page on Facebook to allow fans to send their best wishes to the Indian team members.
Samsung India announces Rs 20 lakh for gold medal in Olympics
the link below is the medal table of Beijing 2008 Olympics.
you can arranged it in descending order and then check it out if that is what you want!
2008 Summer Olympics medal table - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
look mate, India will not compete with any of the countries in Olympics, it will be competing with itself, i can bet on 7-8 medals with at least 2 golds, this will certainly be not upto the mark that of Chinese or other major sporting power, but will certainly be a boost for a nation where people know only one sport, if you see India's graph as a sporting nation it is constantly on rise starting Beijing 2008, which was India's best olympic ever, after that we had our best commonwealth games ever as well as the best ever Asiad, This is the first time in India that before Olympics media & people are talking about it & cheering for team India, a certain change has come to Olympic sport in India, this will be a beginning & you will see in 15-20 years time that India will come at least in top 5 ranking in Olympics.