Vijender Loss: Is media responsible ?

It was 10th September 2009, when I read the news that our own Vijender has reached the semi final of World Boxing championship, the first from India to have ever achieved the feat. Needless to say, I was elated with the News, that India is now gathering momentum in its zest towards sports.
But then what struck me is the hype, that media has made out of it. The questions like, 'Hows your feeling at this moment, or 'Are you feeling the burden of a billion people of India, watching you' can put any strong man, to inevitable pressure and Vijendar was not any different.

So when the news broke out that our boxer has lost in the semis, fighting to an opponent(Atoev) whom he has defeated, a couple of months ago in the Asian championship in China, my first thought was, 'Was he in too much pressure to perform'. May be or may be not, the idea is very much debatable but was media a very strong contender for his loss, many of us can really give a reply in resonance.

At time of Beijing Olympic, when he was just a normal Indian contender, there wasn't much speculation, media hype or hope, but his win changed the whole scenario. We expected him to do the same in Asian Championship and he delivered it. Now, the expectation from him, was in all time high and media played its part. Its a very positive sign that coverage of sports other than cricket is done extensively, at the moment when India is playing a tri-series, but the question still remains, do media over hype the thing and is it really able to bring the exact feelings of Indian mass and present it well too, the way it should be doing, which at present seems a distant dream.