Monday, August 25, 2008

Gold, Boxing & Judo

Mongols are a very proud people group of their culture, traditions, and relationships. Mongolia is a humble nation that is usually peaceful and very friendly. Lately, one could add hyper-stoked regarding their Olympic results!

Now, heading into the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, Mongolia had won 17 medals in past Summer Games but never a "Gold Medal."

But, at the completion of the Games yesterday, Mongolia had earned its second Gold Medal and 4th overall medal of this Olympiad. The official medal winners from Mongolia are:

Gold Boxing - Men's Bantam Weight (54kg) Badar-Uugan Enkhbat
Gold Judo - Men's -100kg Tuvshinbayar Naidan
Silver Boxing - Men's Light Fly Weight (48kg) Serdamba Purevdorj
Silver Shooting - Women's 25m Pistol Gundegmaa Otryad

I along with all Mongols am very proud of my 'adopted' country's Olympic perforamance this year. Their have been many celebrations all around Ulaanbaatar. It is a wonderful thing for the Mongols to have something in which to find national pride after the national issues almost 2 months ago.

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