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  On 7/25/2021 at 5:56 AM, Steve_RP said:

What about Women's 25m pistol and the 50m 3pos

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In womens 25m pistol we have rahi sarnobat and manu bhaker....but 10m is manu's strong point...rahi is world cup gold medalist

 

In 50m 3 pos women we have anjum mudgil and tejaswini....in mens we have aiswarya singh and sanjeev rajput...out of all these aiswarya singh looks promising

 

We may expect some good shooting from rahi and aiswarya.....but considering the way things are going am keeping lower expectations even in mixed team events

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One more tough loss....Sathiyan Gnanasekaran lost in 2nd round to a lower ranked hong kong player in Table tennis....but the opponent seems to have some chinese background as he was playing too good

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In shooting it seems like we are continuing from where were at Rio.......after rio there were lot of youngsters in indian shooting performing exceedingly well

 

But the pressure of Olympics and lack of experience is getting over them

 

With lot of potential but nothing to show as of now in terms of medals

 

Hopefully on 27th in mixed team events they will raise to occasion...am pinning hopes on that day

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Sania and Ankita lost their match after leading 6-0, 5-3....now i don't know what is the reason here (is it like some one injured? )

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It seems that Manu Bhaker has equipment malfunctioning during qualification round resulting in loss of time....still she shot good score and finished in 12th 

 

Already we are having tough draws and competition and adding to them these type of issues

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With the way things are going indian might find difficulty in getting the medal in mixed team air pistol event also

 

If you consider the qualifications scores in both mens and womens section china has 2 pairs who are in top 8, ukraine has also one pair in top 8 followed closely by Iran, ROC and India

 

So I feel with the china in competition the medal is not taken for granted......same may be the case in 10m Air rifle mixed team event also

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Manu and Yashashwini unable to qualify for 10m Air pistol finals...

 

Disappointment news keeps on coming from shooting

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  On 7/24/2021 at 10:52 AM, Bhaw said:

Is he really or is it the boxing judges again?

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i feel he was completely outplayed by japanese opponent....may be vikas did not expected such a aggressive opponent

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vikas krishnan surprisingly finding difficulty against japanese boxer

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I think most of indian action for today is completed except

 

Vikas krishnan boxing bout against japanese and

 

Indian women's hockey match against netherlands

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  On 7/24/2021 at 9:11 AM, Prashanth said:

Disappointing performance of the day surely goes to Sai. Though our shooters should have done better but archery n shooting are most unpredictable, hence they get the benefit on their performances.

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Hope Sindhu takes cue from sai performance and comes out firing on all cylinders straight away....as she has decent hongkong opponent in round robin matches to overcome

 

Even a blip like sai will keep completely out of olympics

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  On 7/24/2021 at 9:05 AM, Prashanth said:

Yes had no hopes on him at all. His recent results showed that he had no confidence at all. Its sad to see our top rated baddy play so horrible. 

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May be he lost his hopes as soon the moment he found out kento memoto as his QF opponent...

 

But anyway medal is not expected from him 

 

This disappointment has been completely covered by fantastic win by Satwik and Chirag

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  On 7/24/2021 at 8:37 AM, tirtha22 said:

Manika Batra is the first Indian woman to win a match in the Olympics since 1992.

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Now add to that Suthirtha Mukherjee

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  On 7/24/2021 at 6:55 AM, Prakash said:

Tennis

 

Nagal stuns Istomin

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now he may have to face medvedev in 2nd round

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One more good news is chirag and satwik got the all important win over 3rd seed chinese taipei team...

 

It was very tough match where they came back in 3rd thrilling set

 

They need one more win to move to quarters !!!

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But the saving grace is assured medal of mirabhai chanu..

 

she lived up to the expectations...well done...congratulations to her

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As i was saying in shooting we have to lower our expectations...only saurabh seems more composed but he lost in final

 

With the way things are going Only medal options left for india in shooting is in mixed team events

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such a disappointment saurabh is eliminated at 6th position in finals...

 

thats why had it could been 2 finalists for india, most probably india could have won the medal

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Mirabhai chanu is in 2nd position after snatch with a lift of 87 kgs

 

Now she is now left with clean and jerk where she holds the world record....but chinese is way ahead of her in snatch

 

FIngers crossed for medal!!!

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Saurabh qualified for final by finshing 1st...

 

Abhishek completely lost it in final 4 shots...he was in race until then

 

It would have been much better if both qualified for finals which could have assured us a medal

 

Now entire onus is on Saurabh....i hope he continues same tempo in finals !!!

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Sauarabh chaudhary is doing great in qualifcaition rounds....he is in 2nd position in 4th round of shooting

 

Abhishek is at 14th position....he is slowly picking up after lying in 24th position

 

Hope both qualifies for finals !!!

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some more good news...after thrilling match india defeated newzealand by 3-2 in hockey....

 

its a good result considering newzealand is a tricky team

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not such good news from shooting...both elavenil and apurvi did not qualified to finals

 

if you observe 2 koreans and one chinese reached finals

 

considering india performance at last world cup where korean and chinese shooters were not there, we have to keep our expectations realistic in shooting

 

Now its up to saurabh and abhishek to give good news !!!

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Good news from archery....indian mixed team entered quarters....most likely they have to face koreans

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In Archery mens team is big time disappointment and particularly atanu das....deepika did decent job

 

But some how our archery team finda way to finish ninth place in events where we have medal chances (i.e. womens individaul, mixed team and mens team) resulting in QF draw against korea....the only way we could have got archery medal is avoiding koreans before semis...

 

Most surprising is Atnau finishing behind praveen jadhav resulting in breakup of atanu-deepika combination

 

As some one said its either gold or no medal in archery....i hope they raises their level from now onwards