Showing posts with label Olympics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Olympics. Show all posts

Thursday, August 21, 2008

આંખનું કાજળ ગાલે ...

Wow.. I found an interesting translation of a news story.. But to understand the funny part you will have to read both the stories...

This story is about How Sushilkumar won the medal, how adverse conditions were when he was practicing. Original story is from Shreya Chakravertty of Indian Express Now read the translation of this story in Gujarati in Sandesh

Original story says " The lack of coolers means they have to leave the doors open while they sleep but all that it does is invite mosquitoes." In Gujarati its "કુલર પણ ઘણી વાર મચ્છરોનું ઘર બની જાય છે"

Another example, IE says, "
For their food and lodging, they pay a sum of Rs 1000-1500, depending on the size of the room. “This is how we’ve been living. We have to make do with what we have. It’s very tough, but what choice do we have?” says Sumit, before adding: “Perhaps now that Sushil had got a medal, more money will come into the sport. We have brought it to the attention of the authorities many times but it hasn’t made a difference, so we carry on.” "

And the great translation "
રૂમમાં રહેવાનાં તથા જમવાનાં એક હજારથી પંદર સો રૂપિયા ચૂકવવા પડે છે. આ બાબતે ઘણી વખત ફરિયાદ કરવામાં આવી પરંતુ કોઈ પરિણામ મળતા નથી. પરંતુ સુશીલનાં જીતવાથી અમે ખૂબ જ ઉત્સાહિત થયા છીએ."

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

SHELLY ANN Fraser


SHELLY-ANN Fraser can thank her mother's uneasy relationship with the Jamaican police for helping her become an Olympic Games sprint champion.

Maxine Fraser, who brought up her daughter in one of the Caribbean's meanest ghettos, believes her quickfire genes have been passed on to the 21-year-old who led a Jamaican cleansweep in the 100m final in Beijing on Sunday.

Maxine has had to live on her wits all of her life and working as a street vendor she regularly has to put in a blinding turn of pace if police are chasing her for illegal trading.

"This is to show that something good can come out of the ghetto. Ghetto can't hold you back as long as you have ambition," said Maxine after watching her daughter take gold.

For Fraser, Olympic success will guarantee an escape from the island's grinding poverty.

Her family still lives in a tenement yard in one of Jamaica's toughest inner-city communities known as Waterhouse.

It is a place where zinc fences, bad roads and high levels of crime are a feature.

Jamaica's track program starts as early as the kindergarten level with children as young as four running in championships at the country's national stadium.

However, locals have scoffed at suggestions that drugs may be the reason for the country's recent success.

In fact, many argue that the heavy consumption of yam, banana and breadfruit have helped power the sprinters.

Source: Herald Sun Newspaper

For above story in Gujarati Click Here