I know am a bit early to make this post since its nearly a 17 days from now on when the year 2008 starts but well, the only thing i’d be waiting in the 2008 is no not the elections but the Beijing Olympics 2008.
Ok we’ve had bad bad Olympics that past 12 years cos last time i hears someone say our country ever won a medal was back in the Atlanta Olympics in the 90’s. After that its like a big lock on the players of our country, no doubt we don’t have the best of the equipment and the best of what it takes to develop the best players for Olympics caliber of games but our Hockey team was known for the speed of Hassan Sardar, and the Flying Horse Shehnaz Sheikh, after legendary players like them who helped Pakistan win the major events, and not to forget the team of Goal Keeper Manzoor and Shahbaz Sr whose tiring efforts helped us win the World cup 1994 Hockey from the Netherlands, and than since that major victory, the only thing i remember about Pakistan’s achievement in Hockey is either a victory over India or the Azlan Shah Hockey Cup.Why is there a complete full stop now?

Hockey has been the only sport that represents our country as a tough competitor in Olympics and we’ve lost the glory and charm in that very sport, the government should give the most importance to the Pakistan Hockey cos it is the only thing which represents us in Olympics as a team that could go on and even win the gold medal, thank god there’s no cricket in Olympics cos Pakistan is no more the 1992 World Cup Team. Today, while i was sitting biting my nails when suddenly i remembered a year calendar that my father brought years back, it was 1995 i guess, at that time Pakistan was the Winning champion of 4 major sports of the world being Squash, Cricket, Hockey and Snooker, and that calendar highlighted pictures of the captains holding those trophies and cute smiles and i was like wow, what a moment that was. What do we have left? Can we even expect a Medal?