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Champions

Today is one day that I will remember, in fact it’s been a day which has been perfectly normal to me, but there is this huge sense of loss, perhaps more appropriately the sense of being let down by sources which would make me sound silly if revealed.

Well, this was one day which any sports fan would crave for, there were formidable contests among three of the sports which I love, F1, Cricket and Tennis.

Special occasions,

It was Silverstone, and the last f1 race at Silverstone. What makes it more special is that, I am a great fan of this circuit, I used to play the F1 game on my PC and I loved it. People who have played this game before would know what it is like to drive without Braking assistance, steering assistance and traction control in this game. I have driven about 800 laps of this exact simulation in all dimensions you can think, complexity, time, speeds and reaction times.

I have played against bots and have won under very competitive a preset, that’s for people who game, for others, the circuit is simply very close to my heart.

Back to the point, this makes the race very important to me. The race starts, Kimi is in the third place and he holds on to it as if he is extremely comfortable and the prowl is due any minute, specially when all the cars around succumbing to lack of traction control. I looked up to him as a champion and I expected the champion to do things easily which others struggle to do, but he was lapped by a kid who is just arrived in business.

Well Lewis drove like a champion but what makes me defer him as a champion in my opinion is that, In my definition, one becomes a champion when you see the lows and pick your self from the low to the top, but not merely start from the top.

Well I kept waiting all through the race and at the end of it I felt betrayed(I know it sounds silly to me too, as I am typing it, but its true).

Well then immediately it was the Wimbledon, let me give you a little prelude, Its been like the French open is owned by Rafel and Wimbledon by Roger, but this year for the first time there was a onslaught, Roger suffered a straight set loss in the French Open. Well, the greats always mark territory, and perhaps in all respects it was his territory, a consolation thought .
After this is the Wimbledon final today, it’s again Roger and Rafel.
Again, Roger is the champion to me, I have seen him loose the initial sets and come back into the game to sustain the reign, and I have seen him out power the opponent mentally and physically umpteen numbers of times. Rafel who has already won 4 grand slams is somehow a young overachiever than a champion to me.
Today's match, Roger scored twice as many winners as Rafel, but also scored twice as many unforced errors. Result, Roger is two sets down and chances of a heroic bounce back going bleak by minute. Well this is the story till now, when rains came down and the match's halted. I hope Roger wins when the match is back on.
Again, According to me, it is a perfect situation for a champion, to pick himself up and prove why he is the champion.

Now, that was not the end of it, I shift down a few channels and I see, the Indian cricket team struggling with 6 wickets down chasing 273, when they have been scoring well over par in all the contests in the Asia cup till then. But yet I am again feeling betrayed, because these fortune reversals are not happening.
Again the stage set for the champions to prove, but.., It is like all my champions have been demeaned by their fellowmen who have reached there without facing any major defeat, and that defies my beliefs of a champion as they could very well be extremely vulnerable to a failure because they have never seen one - The subtle difference between stardom and champions.

I am feeling lost, for causes not my own.
But what a day, Surely a day worth living at least to witness the battles.