The Olympics started off on a poor note for Zambia in Beijing with the elimination of the best medal prospect after Light-welterweight Hastings Bwalya lost 12-8 to Munkh-Erdene Uranchimeg on Mongolia.
Bwalya’s defeat was the second for Zambia in the boxing in China after welterweight Precious Makina lost 21-4 in his contest to Hanati Silamu of China.
Controversy marred Bwalya’s fight after scoring marginally in the middle two rounds he dominated of the four round bout at the Beijing Workers Gym.
Bwalya trailed 4-1 in the 1st round before recovering to draw 3-3 in the 2nd and scored a surprising 3-2 win in the 3rd -both rounds he clearly dominated and should have won by wider margins.
The 4th round however was given to the 26-year-old Mongolian who coasted to a 3-1 lead after some wild misses by Bwalya.
Zambia’s lone medal prospects in the boxing tournament now lie solely on the shoulders of Cassius Chiyanika.
The flyweight will face Vincenzo Picardi on Tuesday at 07:30 Zambian time in the two boxers opening preliminary round fight.
Meanwhile, Eli Mambwe in badminton also enters the fray on Tuesday when he takes to the court to face Erwin Kehlhoffner of France in a 2nd round match-up.
Mambwe was on bye from the 1st round while Kehlhoffner reached the 2nd round after beating Stuart Gomez of Australia in 3 sets to sail through to round 2 to win 19-21, 22-20, 21-15 on Saturday.
Well, too bad for Hastings Bwalya. But honestly speaking, I did not expect any members of our olympics contigent to get any medals.
There is serious competition over there and the best we can do as a nation for now is to just participate.
The Samuel Matete days of winning silver are gone.
Boxing @ the olympics is very technical unlike professional boxing which depends on strength more than skill. It is not how many punches you land but where and how you land them. A lot of investiment is needed in the training of computerised scoring. We haven’t invested enough in sport to achieve anything.
Loses are unavoidable, Olympic is about probability, the more delegates a country have the more chances of a winning a medal.
I hope he has some rub on to cool off those punches. Bwalya is a stupid *****. How can you lose like that, you have brought shame to zambia.
ba conman mulaponta….bwalya has tried he has won befor lets not dis him lik that he did his best its just that the ather guy was beter…. dont lose hope bwalya . thats the game u either win o lose. get up and train more……viva chi monko
Conman, all your bloggs are very personal and disrespectful. What are you so bitter about. Can’t you for once make a positive and analytical remark. C’mon now you can do better than that. Please stop trash talking evrything, you reduce the excitement and purpose of this forum. Be good ok and i love you. Your sister in the USA
I watched the game, I think Bwalya performed fairly better though he lost.
he never trained. He was trotting between Zambia and Tunisia
i agree #7 he did figth well but it looked like his not suited the olympics type of punch count with that type of technology which registeres a hit when u hit the face only rather than other parts so it wasnt his competition his better off in the professional world were he has won Gold medals before.Hastings represented zed proudly KEEP IT UP!!
My sistet at #6. Thanks for the advise. I will try to be a good guy.
I also watched the fight. It was very entertaining, I think Bwalya did well although he lost. Its true his style of fighting was not best suited for the Olympics. By watching some of the other Olympic boxers I noticed that they were very technical. Somehow their style was not as fluid as Bwalya. Our boxers should also be trained in these styles so that the next time around maybe we can win a medal or at least get through to the later bouts.
Just woke up, very bad show, how can u win regardless of preperations I am disappointed takwaba fye bane, I thought this guy was in Tunisia for training, he is crap and a a goat
I watched the fight and I was very disappointed.Bwalya used so much muscles rather than a fine balance of muscle and intelligence!Its not how many punches one throws.What matters is where the punches land! He threw a lot of powerful punches but they were not landing where it matters most:the face.
The judging of bouts at the Olympics leaves a lot to be desired.Mere touches with the glove are interpreted as points although no harm is done to the opponent.Hard luck Hastings, you did us proud brother,all the best for the future.I for one will follow your future progress with keen anticipation.
#06 Nabalengu shani mwaiche ala that is the way it is, I do not know when we shall learn to loseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee kwena ine nafi lwa bane mwe, it is like kili bonesha
Justice Kafusha, I have no idea who you are…bushe naunjishiba?
One down. He’s going shopping as he waits for his friends to ufck up as well.
Ba LT, why censorship of my comment? I merely wanted to say he’s now going shopping while he waits for his friends to pack up as well.
Sunday morning quaterbacks, hold your fire! Congrats to Bwalya for all the effort. He did Zambia proud just by being in Beijing, medals thats a topic for another day. Go Zambia!!!
Hastings was told by the coach against going to Tunisia for training, he trained hard when he got there instead of training smart, simple theory this is not naked knuckle boxing, the winner is the one who fights smart not fighting hard, this was just tactical superiority, the man kanded a few good jabs on his body yet he was all over the Mongolian, and imagine Mongolia yaba twasebana
It wasn’t a shameful loss bane…
As much as every Zambian would love to see our country represented bravely at the Olympics, we also need to understand that our country needs to do much in terms of selection of these sports men and women. Does anyone know why Ester is not representing Zambia in China?. I think there is some kind of bias selection and this is why we end up getting eliminated each and every time. Lets encourage Bwalya and other guys who are trying their best to do us proud. Am happy with Bwalya’s efforts in the game and lets not discourage him.
uyu wine Bwalya, te mwaiche wakwa the late Felix Bwalya, God rest his soul
Professional Boxers are not eligible to participate at the olympics, Esther is a Professional Boxer, Similarly Mike Tyson, Bruno, could not represent their respective nations because their were profession boxers.
#24 It only looks like zambia is following the rules by sending non proz,just look at the US “olympic” basketball team – its almost all pro NBA players — also china’s basketball team has yao ming who plays bball professionally as well…. so why not esther then?
# 25. It is now clear to many that the amateurism rules had become outdated, not least because the self-financed amateurs of Western countries often were no match for the state-sponsored “full-time amateurs” of Eastern bloc countries. In the 1970s, after Brundage, the former IOC president left, amateurism requirements were dropped from the Olympic Charter, leaving decisions on professional participation to the international federation for each sport. This switch was perhaps best exemplified by the American Dream Team, composed of well-paid NBA stars, which won the Olympic gold medal in basketball in 1992.
cont’d…As of 2004, the only sport in which no professionals compete is boxing (though even this requires a definition of amateurism based on fight rules rather than on payment, as some boxers receive cash prizes from their National Olympic Committees); in men’s football (soccer), the number of players over 23 years of age is limited to three per team.
OKAY, FELLOW BLOGGERS, THIS IS OFF THE TOPIC AT HAND BUT MY QUESTION IS; IS TRACHEOTOMY A REVERSIBLE OPERATION OR NOT? COZ I HEAR THEY PUT A SMALL TUBE ON THE MKOLOMINO OF LPM TO AID HIM BREATHE. NOMBA CAN THIS THING BE REMOVED WITHOUT CAUSING LOSS OF THE VOICE? NGA FWENIKO BA SHING’ANGA BA BANTU.
You don’t have to be a spectator for you to know that in any sport there is either winning or losing. Remember every competitor is trained to win and the question is who wins? Ofcourse the best wins and the one who so happens to lose should not be discouraged. Lets not just like someone because he has emerged victorious.So young man Bwalya, keep it up! It’s not the end of the world.Please ride on and fight on coz the sky may not be the limit!
Mongolia sure?
What about mongolia you bastards. Do you know that actually mongolia are the world champs in scrabble. As for you what sport do you excel in. Beer drinking i guess hahahah. Shame on you. Leave mongolia and shangombo alone
Anyway let us not pretend like we expected a gold medal. Inkonya shali shupa after Lottie Mwale we have a long wait. truth be told!!
I watched the fight and Bwalya was too raw. I don’t think he deserved to win. We as a country must put our money where our mouth is and put up proper infustructure for sports and as well as come up with a workable sports development programme. As a nation even in sports we dominated we are now a laughing stock.
It is up to the government to encourage the coporate world to invest in sport by giving them proper incentives. At the rate we are going things wont change.
hard luck,he can do better next time.does anyone know how many zambians are still in chase of the gold?
i watched the fight and our boy lacked technique he was going for strenght rather than points
Boxing ya ku ma olympics niya worse che.
Tracheostomy is reversible.
#31 “What about mongolia you bastards”. but guys you have language!
At least we have started reaping what we are good at sowing.
Zambia is cursed!
#40 The Zambia I live in is blessed. You suffer alone with with your self imposed curse!
#40 its you and yr family who are cursed by KUONELA AMBUYE BAKO, zed is a blessed nation!!
Is that all the Olympic games participants we have from Zambia?? Ho2w about swimming, high jump, sprinters, marathon, short putt…countless other games, we are not good enough..I saw a Zimbabwe female swimmer, very competetive..perhaps we need bazungu to do things for us..is that where we are now?? We need to get away from mediocrity… We cannot continue to settle for bottom…nakalipa.
I watched Precious Makina in action. The amazing thing was that even commentaters wondered how some point for Makina were not counted. Let hope our ZNBC can televised a recorded on that one.
#39, it is true, you see what makes a shirt made by Luis Vitton different from the one made by my brother tailor at Kamwala is always the finishing, and that is where we suffer as a nation, the french call it la finesse or something like that someone help me I am not a french scholar. we expose our raw talent at the highest levels without fine tuning them. What I saw with Hastings is exactly what you see even in football. One footballer told me that there are two kinds of strikers, one that receives the ball and does not know what to do with it and one that receives a ball and plans for it before receiving it, the latter is a better striker. Hastings should have trained in an environment…
Give all the guys in Beijing the respect that they deserve. Just being there, they are Olympiads, something that most if not all of us on this blogg will never be in our life-time. They Guy who beat Makina is a bronze medalist from the previous Olympics showing that he has experience and the one that beat Bwalya is also an experienced boxer, he won bronze in the previous Thai tournament in which Bwalya won Silver. The boys are on the right track, only that we as Zedians, our Phds will always carry the day. Too quick to pull down and destroy and never to build people.
contd 45… that depicts the environment he was going to fight in. Why does his trainer think some teams from Europe have vowed to camp in Africa for 3 months ahead of the World Cup in 2010.
# 45 Well lets wait and see what Ellen will do in her 50m free style swimming. We are watching them. Mwana you could not tell me the fight was on? Bad manners my friend i kept checking. I was watching soccer Japan and Nigeria thereafter volleyball Brazil and Egypt. good blocks good spikes!!!!!!!!!!!
#46, “something that most if not all of us on this blogg will never be in our life-time.” we can not all be boxers, it is like comparing Franco and Kalusha Bwalya as to who was the better footballer, not all our professions are accorded gold medals. However, I am sure if he is like me who is open to criticism, then the next time he will get us Gold.
Zambia is not serious about sport. What other country sends a delegation to the Olympics where the officials out number the athletes?? 13 members in the Zambian delegation, 6 athletes and 7 officials!!!! This just shows you the Zambian Olympic committee is not serious, its just one big, free loading shopping trip for them.
# 40 you have will power within yourself. You can choose to be an eagle or a chicken. These two, they are all birds but one is superior than the other.
Tina #48, Mwana kabili unakwiya you did not call bakc and I watched it on SABC2 on the highlights. By the way tell that Presenter on SABC 2 it is very embarrassing for an african to fail to pronounce Bwalya and say Balwa while a commentator who sounded white was even pronouncing the boxer’s name better than me a Zambian, ma labishi!
#49, all I am saying is give the guys some measure of respect. No need to call the guy an *****, goat or whatever insult some simple minds might conjur up. When you represent your country at any level, let alone the Olympics, which I am sure you agree, is the ultimate, there is a level of achievement which has to be respected. In every sport, more so in boxing, chances of losing are just as high as those of winning. Don’t take it personnal that you will never be an Olympiad, I am sure your contributions to mother Zed are just as noble, if not more (wink,wink)!!
#53, I get it now, I agree with you and my apoligies for misunderstanding you. How agreed, I did not read all the posts and some guys can really be crude about these things. And I think likely you rightly said, if your son does not pass an exam, it is not wise to kill him and then go and have another, it is better to look at the circumstances surrounding his failure and deal with them there and then. We have learnt a lesson from this. Sometimes the frustrations we face as a nationa can be understood, because we believe that we belong to a certain category in sports but we are let down by administrators and the sportsmen/women themselves. Since 1988, we have had no major impact at the olympic
You know it pains me so much, to always read the failures that our nation is exposed to. Do you people feel like me? I know you do, now what is the way forward?
#52 Mwiinga South Africans find it difficult pronouncing Bwalya and Zimbabwean they say Zimbabian…we have tried. Ha ha ha kukonda dyela ala i dont work for telkom to be calling you twice a day. i am still upset with you. ok that aside…How good is Ellen? badminton!!!! iam still not confident we will be wired as well. infrastructure ba kaaaaamba pa zed.
#54, true indeed and well said. I suggest, as way forward, these guys get sparring partners from Cuba, Mexico or the far east instead of just Africa. All boxing matches involving Africans have been disappointing for us.There is clearly a gap in skills when it comes to Olympic type of boxing. I am sure if these same guys were to meet at Chimwemwe or Matero market, umusungu kuti bamusakula (laugh!!). On a serious note though, we need to get back to the proverbial drawing board.
Were can I get the latest updates on the Zambian team at the Olympic??
Mwana if it is Ellen Hight, she has the confidence and discipline that can get us medals as Zambia. Muthiya is it Muthiya or I am confusing him with the for Golf, these maiden games such as Badminton, ping pong (table tennis), gymnastics, weight lifting forget about any medals these guys in the far east have these games for breakfast, lunch and supper even when they are …, they just think about these games.
Me I can beat that Mongolian chap, its just that I did not have transpot money to go to Beijin.
#57 “umusungu kuti bamusakula” ha ha ha ha indeed, yaba kale!! I did my education on the copperbelt and this just reminds me of the good old days. Anyhow it is true actually what we need in addition to proper sparring (sp kaya) partners how to score points, that has been a major weakness with our boxing especially, you see this even when our dear lady is fighting, sometimes if you know your partner is not the type that can be KOed, then you change the strategy, Bwalya thought he could knock out Rantumeg and that is why he depended in power instead of skill. Computer scoring like someone said is important, commentator even said, there is more energy in a missed punch that a landed one.
Did Bwalya go with mealie meal for his nsima? Somebody told me that power comes from nsima in Zed.
We could have ripped GOLD ku chiyenga. Unfortunately takwaba ichiyenga kuma olympics.
the problem with our chief blogger mwiinga is that he goes on and on without posing. mwana you should not be chatting but blogging. these two are quite different
Actually this is not blogging this is posting,big difference
Hastings punches were rather too wild,you could actually see them from Shangai,LOL
he had no guard,no defense whatsoever,he walked into about 7 punches or so coundn’t believe it,
anyway hope he didn’t lose the lesson aswell
I watched Bwalya’s Olympic fight on Sunday. I was suprised the way he was throwing his punches…like a windmill.
When his coach told him to throw straight punches…his reply..’I was born like this..you can’nt change me’. This was the first time I have seen a solder disobeying ‘orders!!’.
Like someone mentioned olympic boxing is totally different from prof boxing. It is rare to have TKO in a 2min 4 rounds.
Anyhow Bwalya will tell his grandchilds that he partcipated in China olympics..a similary story for most Zambian athletes/chipolopolo
Any news on Eli Mambwe’s game today?
Boxing is as much a mental and psychological sport as physic,strength or endurance,
you gat to be able to think yourself out of a difficult and tight situation,it’s time these guys knew that,
it also helps keep your opponent thinking/guessing (suprise element)
he never had a plan B or C,
he couldn’t mix things up,was just to predictable
He’s only one of about 3 boxers i have seen with no jab,ofcourse the others being pros from higher/heavier divisions
now there’s no way pro or amateur in smaller division like welterweight,featherweight,lightweight etal you can be great without having a jab(even a bad one),slick movement(in both head and feet),defense/guard,precision,variation etc
No plan, no strategy, kungo bilima chabe. Koma bene Nguduzani, benze ku shaya.
Today, I found myself cheering for the Zimbabwean swimmer at Uni, I really do not know why but being dark in a white (indian, chinese, korean etc) Australia I needed to support someone and the closest to me was the Zimbabwean. However, she was white but what the heck? She was as good as any Zambian to me at the time. And hey #40 I strongly agree with #41, the Zambia I still come from is not cursed. Uliweka mune on that one.
#64 OK
Yap,late Gunduzani had some wonderful slick movements,quite entertaining to watch,
good value for money if you went to his matches,
had he been around now perhaps with a wee bit of exposure he could have an african Maywether,
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Anyway on another note,am watching a featherweight match btn a Botswana and a Georgian,
geez the tswana is allover the place,i wonder how he made to Beiljing,he must be drank or something,the worst piece of boxing i ever seen,
he’s busy punching the air,vi vukuvuku
such a dirty boxer too and the ref is so lenient,he elbowed,head butted the poor Georgian countles hmmm,Hastings not so bad after all
#68 Eli lost 2-0 to some guy called KEHLHOFFNER Erwin from France
Skills, africans are lacking skills. I watched a cameroonian the other day, he didn’t impress either. I am sure #73 that tswana guy must be the one Hastings beat at the All Africa Games. Seems african boxers need a different exposure..
How have our Swimmers Ellen Height and Zane Jordan performed? Data …anyone?
@ Aliyah…#71
Was that Kirsty Conventry,the one who minted silver at the weekend,
i remember she broke the world 200m world record in the semi final heats,
more so she a proud Zimbabwean-Afrikan,some journalists tried to bring her into this sh!t politics in Zim,
asking why she aint boycotting representing Zim,why she aint competing for another country,
her response was like…..”you know wat am a Zimbo,don’t care wat goes on home,i will never stop representing Zim,only time i’ll stop is when i stop swimming,i visit home every time,my parents are there was born there,will be there in 2 weeks time,”….
the journalist ofcourse a brit was disappointed,
i must say was impressed,
Yaba, elyo nomba chapwafye, naba Eli bonse balusa…
#74, thanx for the update & too bad to the young man.maybe London 2012.
Uko kwisano mulepepesha tata.
@ Uwakwisano…78
In this morden day,
talent alone is not enuf,
you need all them sports doctors/medicine,psychologists,exposure,dieticians,supplements,conditioning etc
not to mention technology to help in training,
i would suggest we pick one or two sports which we should focus on,
sports we feel we could have a natural edge over everyone or almost everyone,
the edge could from weather,climate,geographical terrain,tradition,body phsyic name it,
then zero in those,invest in them give ourselves 10-15yrs to dominate at the competitions,
this can be used as a marketing tool you,can help boost the country’s image you know,
Unga wine bwanji when ukongo kudja chabe vima banz. Banzungu ba pasa bawo za kudja zamene zi pas mpavu. Not vima bale.
Isn’t suprising that mention of Zambia nothing comes to people’s mind,
nobody can pinpoint anything to identify us with,unless ofcourse the educated and well travelled,
mention
Kenya- long and middle distance runners,game parks etc
Ethiopia-(yes starvation)but marathon runners,queen sheba etc
Australia-swimmers,cyclists and yes nice weather
Jamaica-(yes reggae,bob,weed),but but but also sprinters infact they may mint gold in both the 100m&200m
Cuba-(yes Fidel,communism) but boxers,long jump etc
i could on and on but my point,these things are not be taken lightly we need strategic planning,
other countries didn’t get there by way of happy accidents,
someone had to plan,long term
I NEED TO SLOW DOWN AM POSTING WORDS TOO QUICKLY!!!!
LATER
=====> 21; do not go just yet, we still need you
Will hang around,don’t worry
guys. for zed to be back in sports we need the government to tell those guys running the mines to invest in sports too. jst like the zccm days. without that zambia will never win a medal and our soccer will be ranked above 50 in the world. bwalya has the talent but lacks boxing skills.how can a country of 11 million zambians only manage 8 participates in worlds best games. it is a shame!!! we need to go back and see wat has gone wrong. mwana mayo zambia pilzz.
Bane which hit is Ellen doing, pantu swimming there is Bakcstroke, burrerfly, breast stroke
Ok got it, for those that maybe interested here we go
Date: Aug 15 2008
Time: 18:43
Heat: Swimming Women’s 50m Freestyle – Heat 6
21, I like your way of thinking,quite progressive and refreshing. As a country it looks like we are good at nothing. We are jack of all trades and master at none, quite depressing……….drastic and strategic sport development is needed to bring out the talent to compete. Just a reminder, we will be hosting the next All Africa Games in two years time!!
#90 and when one columnist raised how unprepared we are, he has been rubbished of being unpatriotic. In 1988 we were denied participation in the AFCON because of this kind of carelessness.
Isn’t amazing that Jamaica,
population- 2.7m
independence- 1962
3rd world country,high crime,violence rates not to mention HIV,
a major force in the track and field events,they have always given the US a run for their fame,
infact this time around they have finally achieved their dorminance,
i attribute this to realism,
as poor and impoverished country they know they can’t manage to send competitors in every category(strong ones atleast)
so they concentrate on what comes natural,stamina and physic a natural growing talent(after all they’ve bn slaves)
climate and weather ideal to nature and groom the talent,no expensive indoor tracks and fields needed
you can practise all yr round
Mwiinga exactly, I hope this won’t be another Dag nitemare. This time around who ever needs to resign SHALL resign if that kind of embarrasment is brought on the nation again! Enuff is enuff!!! Logic says you can’t bid to host without any of the critical infrastructure in place. Over two years since winning the bid, nothing worth talking about can be seen on the ground. A complete circus with too many clowns!
I think Hastings was over confident in that bout and he was sure of knocking out his opponent. But as someone has already said, he fought hard but not smart. boxing is also about accuracy, not just expending energy throwing punches in the air. the guy didn’t even seem to know what he was doing. whoever said boxing is making zed proud should think about. did i hear someone say esther phiri?? come on, let her fight in a foreign land where cottan won’t know anyone to bride, then we will see if she indeed is good.
It seems these guys are hell bent on embarassing the nation,
what’s the obssession with hosting summits and tournaments,
again lets be realits learn to live within your means,
i’ve never heard of Malawi,Moz,Tanzania etc clamouring to host such summits and tournament,
i shudder at the thought of these All Africa games,wish i could just wake up and the whole episode is gone,was a dream
i wish it was you people criticizing me who were in the ring.amakofi yakalipa
@ Blah Blah Blah…..#94
I can’t seem to understand all this hype about Esther Phiri,
as an ardent boxing fun i think she’s not been tasted,
these belts she has, Global Union or something are not recognised,
i never heard of them,let her go and fight in the US,
firstly that’s she will earn the respect and ofcourse the real money,
if she truely good that is
Mwilambika mufyabupuba – osani ikamo muvaupuba.
I can’t believe it that in almost 42 years Zed has won two, if I am not mistaken medals at the games. Like someone said, we need long term planning, train boxers, footballers etc, at least spots we are good at and send at least 50 people.
#94 – i agree with you. she needs to go and fight outside the country and prove her worth. even her forth coming fight in october will just be like the previous ones: questionable wins!
Hastings did well tho its evident we need to polish up our training to olympics standards esp in the area of point scoring. A knock out should be a bonus but not an outright aim as we could see from Bwalya. Otherwise the guy did put up a good fight. Next time Hastings it will be a GOLD.
hahhahaaa
@ Shidada…99
For it’s not much the number of people you send but there strength or quality,
even if we send 10 athlethes and we come back with 5 medals thats an achievement for a poor country like Zambia,
that will be something to build on,
you will be amazed at how many ‘silly’ spots we can mint medals,
discplines like javelin,shooting(using a rifle),archery(bow and arrow),long jump,judo,shot put
discplines like these at least don’t need mass organisation and resources like say swimming,football,athletics etc
i would like to think it would fairly possible to be dorminant or atleast be force to be reckoned with in one of these minor disciplines for a long time,
#98, people like you can never belong or come from Kwisano. Too simple minded.
I mean isn’t there a Police or army chap who is a sharp shooter?
somebody good with a rifle,
what about them hunters who throw spears in the villages,
surely with a little of refinement and training that would be easy gold for Zam
#103, the more types of sports that you mention the more I shudder at the thought of us hosting the AAGs. I even wonder if the organising committee knows some of the games they will be required to host….let alone know how to construct the facilities needed.
@…Blah blah blah…#100
Yep,if she can fight in front of the Nevada Sports Commission,
and come up with a descent perfomance,then she would be on her way to success,
if she’s however a dodgy boxer then that will be the day she’s humiliated or killed
@ Uwakisano….106
actually the last time i heard,our Minister of Football(yes not sport but football)
uttered something like,we are not going to have shooting at the Lusaka All Africa games for security reasons…Wow!!!!
now i don’t exactly know what the heck he’s talking about by security reasons/threat
could it be that someone would be accidentally shot? or people would be inspired to marksmen or sharpshooters?
i honestly don’t know
to me he’s too much of loud clown,
Still on shooting..
an Indian 15 yr old boy, Arbhiv Bindra(sp) has just minted gold,
now that’s history,becoming India’s first ever individual gold medal and medalist
Remember the name,you heard it from me..Hahaha
We need Esther to be fighting in Zambia, In fact the October fight should be the last one else she loses. We need to cling to something, whether she wins through BRIDES by cotton or not it does not matter, what is important is the larger good of winning. It unifies the country. Football has failed to bring about national pride Cotton has managed. It works.
Go to ‘si.com’ it’s a cnn network site.You will be updated on time.
We should try squash?
#111 We should try SEX
But kani ya sex mu ikonda ma Zambians, People are talking about sport all of a sudden #112 brings in sex.
Yah…we are in problems.
sex sex sex ocho mulefwila!!!!!ba mwisho ba lilandile take it easy bola ni panshi…we are talking about olypics and then sex!!!!lmao dammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Zambia is a joke. How can we win anything when our leaders are only interested n their pockets and not building infrastructure for our youngmen and women for sports?
We must not pretend that we can win any medal. We do not have any leadership that is focused on Zambia becoming a winner in any national sector.
Actually The scoring at these olympics leaves a lot to be desired. Amateur boxing is dead because of the scoring system. There will never be another Ali from the olympics. There was a Ghanaian guy who fought so well today but the fight was given to the Venezuelan. The guys was a package; he threw jabs uppercuts and roundhouses as opposed to the Venezuelan who only threw straight punches! If you notice no points are given for a jab because the system demands that three judges should simultaneously press a button for a point to be scored. Jabs are usually very fast so you wont find three judges pressing at once for jabs. Fast boxers are losing out. Its the slow and heavy punchers that win
Cassius chiyanika has been knocked out by an italian chap 10-3. We only have 2 swimmers and a 5000m runner remaining!
Am just see the olympic footy,
North Korea V Germany women that is,
there flair,tactics, intent etc definately the surpasses Zambia team
Do you a KO or has been eliminated,i think the latter,
did anyone manage to see the match it was a bit too early for me in the morning,
how was this Cassius anyway is he worth the name Cassius or it’s just some Zambian media hype
Why remain a boxer when you are beaten all the time. Once beaten twice should apply literally.
the chaps are just useless,,there is nothing like he put up agood fight or wat,,if he lost we just need to swallow the bitter pill,its high time we started developing sports especially in the rural areas,,u telling me the entire zambian population cnt produce runners and boxers,its an insult to send 8 sports men and women expecting gold medals,all the countires that had a large number of competitors are reaping medals,even our friends in zimbabwe are well represented by coventry whos reaped 2 medals so far,,this country is sick,,,,there is a LEAKAGE SOME WERE
#111…Squash is a good game that requires minimal investment and is very well suited to the majority of Zambians. Only so few can participate in swimming and boxing (one needs really good diet to box). So why don’t ‘we’ as a country invest in other ball games? Badminton comes to my mind as well. Ping pong too. We shouldn’t restrict ourselves to just football whose standards are deteriorating on a weekly basis.
a whole lot of yappin… but put urself in their shoes. wud u be able to do a better job? u people need to be constructive in ur criticism. wut have u done lately?
who is this chap representing us in 5000m, is he/she gonna compete favourably with the talented kenyans and ethopians? abene ba long distance, i doubt.
no medals for zed
Even though we laugh at Zimbos, at least they a silver medal already. Ifwe inchito nikupopota day in day out.Katwishi.
Even though we laugh at Zimbos, at least they have a silver medal already. Ifwe inchito nikupopota day in day out.Katwishi.
If we can’t do other sports that require expensive infrastructure, at least we can run. That’s the easiest and cheapest sport for most Africans. We just need to broaden the scoop to rural areas where most Olympiads are languishing and then groom them up for London 2012.
Namulambe bemoans inadequate preps Reports Times sports page. This is part of the extract and his sentiments
“SPORT, Youth and Child Development Minister, Gabriel Namulambe has said lack of adequate preparations for major competitions would continue hampering sports development in the country until associations start exhibiting more seriousness and selflessness.”
To the citizenry scapegoats like this are very bad. Why do you have to spend big dollars sending our national teams to Europe when we have the best training infrastructure if renovated in mining towns like Luanshya.The Luanshya Sports complex we have everything. The govt. of Zed only has to put good instruments to rectify matter
@ Katwishi Baba….126,
It’s actually 2 silvers now,
Kirsty Conventry just minted another one,
and guess what she’s another final,the 2OOm IM,
she’s a class act this one
To all members of mother zambia if a soldier,Hastings Bwalya can be pounded in the ring like that what can me or just the ordinary you do at the Beijing olympics.It seems he is misleading by example.
Angola going down to USA basketball team right now.
LT please change the subject. This is becoming boring now.
Investment in sport is the only way foward. Boxers run mu Nyanji, which is not good coz they over work themselves. Hard luck Hastings, concentrate on local tournaments.
#133. People like u amuse me. How can we invest in sport when our hospitals are dilapidated? Just recently coz of an illness of a family member I understand, we only have one cat scan at UTH ! We keep closing UNZA coz of indaquate funding.
In my opinion, with what we have ,it is all organisation! Togo just recorded a medal in some discipline, what infrastructure do they have? Be real Pushi iwe!!
Ba Hastings, tabasakamana sana. Yika balansa
Ka hastings bana kamenya
I agree with what some one jst commented earlier on lets not jst concentrate on football but also look at interesting games like Shooting,Archery (which we could easily dominate by tapping at talent in tha rural areas or get sum sharp police chap whose a killer with dat gun),Track and field,Water polo(go to baobab and pay dem kids)
DAMN i WISH rally was a sport man we could send satwan sign and muna U KNOW!!!!!!!!!
C’MON ZAMBIA WE CAN DO THIS WE BLESSED NOT CURSED I LOVE MY COUNTRY ZED-BOY 4 LIFE!!
BY THA WAY LETS NOT DOUBT ZANE JORDAN AND ELLEN HIGHT CAUSE WE NEVER KNOW WHAT THEY’RE TILL THEY SHOW US WHAT THEY RE MADE OF.
we need to support our sports men both in loses as well as wins.Hastings won just a month or so ago.All other countries are not so negative abouty tgheir competitors even if they have never wo anything.We should know they are all we have so lets be behind them at all times.Itys never easy but they always try their best
#140 Nonsense. Sport is about winning. How can you start glorifying losers, when so much money is spent on them. 1 zero or ten zero , knock out or unanimous decision, a loss is a loss.
They will keep up thier lazy attitude if you suppoort losers. People need drugs in Hospitals!! Thats where money could be well spent.
#141 ur just talking rubbish lets see if u can go there yourself and prove a point.This is guy Hastings is an African Champion and its not easy to achieve a feat like that.In life there Ups&Downs its not like Man U doesnt lose either they lose and win and people still support them.U are the lazy one Mbuzi what have u done so far for Mother Zambia?
#142. It is not about me. Talk about the other boxers before him like lottie Mwale or other olyimpians like Matete.
You must be a loser, typicla Zedian gloryifying defeat. Look at the Nigerians they just beat the US in soccer, that is what we also want after 44 yrs of Independence. Kowse iwe can’t you see sense in my opinion!!
Sorry Mbuzi im human not a kowse like u thats why u have that name ‘Mbuzi’ u deserve that name thats why i cant see ur logic.Besides im no loser like u no has no time but to press negative comments on this site.Who said Lottie Mwale was built in one day? This takes time all these guyz need support an animal doesnt know that and all u can do is talk sh*t ka kowse…ur self!
#144. I get your point. Lottie was not built in a day and on the same token he started getting support when he started winning medals. What other support do you want Hastings to have when he just got exposed to the Olumpics ?. There a so many other sports diciplines we could have had go, but they opted for boxing.
Next time if he wins he will get attention from promoters etc. Right now he will be back in Lusaka and people like you can keep supporting him!!
Kwindi Iwe!!
sumtimes there is no point arguing wit fools but yes im happy u got my point.Good day
Disolve the National Sports Council and ZOCAGA. Going by the evidence since donkeys years of independence, they done nothing to talk about. This not Zambia’s first Olympics. If these Olympics are being looked as a lesson, I am a afraid we are never going to learn. The problem with our sport is management plus policy. What policy have we in Sport?