India for the first time EVER in its history will win 3 medals at one Olympics. This will bring our total individual olympic medal tally to .. wait for it .. 9, thats right 9, Michael Phelps alone won 8 this year. We won 9 individual medals in 108 years of participation. Oh and the first two medals won for India was by Norman Gilbert Pritchard who was british.
Only if people in India would stop obsessing with cricket and play other sports we might win more medals .. Not to mention the lack of any money, government support or infrastructure for anything except cricket .
Save your money, buy from the US of A
20/08/2008
I needed a set of winter tires and I was contemplating which ones to buy or where to buy etc etc .. I had a set of Bridgestone Blizzaks for last 2 seasons and they were very good for Ottawa winters .. Turns out they are expensive too ($120 a tire), last owner had bought them .
My friend alexei pointed out to me that Tirerack was having a clearance sale and my tire was going for $44 each ! I bought them at Tirerack, got them to ship it to an installer in Ogdensburg, which is an hour drive from Ottawa. Drove down to Ogdensburg, got the tires mounted and balanced on my winter rims, drove back and paid the GST/PST at the border.
My total was $225 for tires, $75 for install, $25 taxes, $30 gas = $355. This compared to $480 ($120 x 4) + taxes ($62) + install ($75) = $617 if I had bought them here in Canada.
