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20 hours ago, Prashanth said:

Saketh reaches the main draw of the US Open 2016.....First Grand Slam for Indian #1....

good news... if he wins 1st round Djokovic can be his next opponent

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13 hours ago, Steve_RP said:

That's utter nonsense...did the whole world conspire against Narsingh???

His complaint affidavit is full of contradictions ....somewhere is says his food was contaminated and a cook saw something being mixed..

2nd part of the affidavit says his drink was kept on the side of the mat and somebody spiked it...

Last time WFI said the saboteur was a junior wrestler...

now they say junior officials of SAI and NADA are involved

 

However, CAS on the other hand say that there is no concrete evidence to prove sabotage....

on the contrary, CAS appointed expert say that Nasingh willfully took the drugs orally in a tablet form

They are making fools out of us... Never ever seen President of sports federation supporting an athlete involved in doping scandal to this extent... 

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On 8/23/2016 at 20:13, Govind said:

Hi Team,

 

Can you please tell me is portal where we can know about Promising Young athletics in each Sport for India .. let Neeraj Chopra in Athletics, or Nikhat Zareen for Boxing etc .. just want to track them till next Olympics..

I also would like to track them... Rather than simply following them can't we do some thing more

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Neeraj Chopra throw of 86.48m would have fetched him bronze medal at Rio... pity that he didn't qualify in time... btw i have a doubt whether junior level javelin throw differs from senior javelin throw in any way?

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My overall assessment/review of India performance at Rio Olympics:

 

Best Individual performance: Here it is very easy… It has to be Sindhu for her silver medal performance… She has defeated three top 10 players including world no.2 enroute to final

 

Most Disappointing Individual performance: Its very difficult to pick one out of many poor performances (shooting, male wrestlers, tennis…) my pick here is Mirabai chanu, because she simply has to lift her PB which would have ensured silver medal and even tad below lift would have given her bronze medal. India has lost a medal which is for begging and that seems to have set the tone for disappointing performance for India

 

Best Performance by Event: It has to be badminton and women’s wrestling(here we definitely lost a bronze if not Gold because of vinesha injury)

 

Most Disappointing Performance by Event: Shooting… I never expected zero medal from them… In worst case scenario one medal was expected based on law of large numbers (this theory has worked against us as we were winning medals in shooting consistently and one odd event inevitably turned out to be Olympics)  & Men’s Wrestling

 

Surprising performance: It has to be Sakshi malik……. She is the one athlete who won her matches from loosing positions where as all other Indians lost from winning positions.

 

Heartbreaks: Bindra loosing out medal in shootoff, Mixed doubles team unable to win medal after winning 1st set in semis, Womens Archery team loosing out in shootoff in QF, Vinesha/Saina Injury, Mirabai Chanu, India hockey loss in quarters after leading, Many shooters unable to qualify for finals after leading until final round

 

Special mentions:

Dipa Kamrakar (Gymnastics) and Aditi Ashok (Golf). They introduced 2 new Olympic events for India with a stellar performance. Followed by Srikanth(Badminton), Atanu Das(Archery), Lalitha Babar(Athletics), Dattu (Rowing) and Kethu Ram,Gopi(PB in Marathon)

 

Overall Verdict: Very Disappointing …. Sindhu and Sakshi medals in last few days saved India from Disaster

 

Conclusion:

Before Olympics started I gave thought about potential medal winners and then I realized as per the world rankings only Jitu rai and may be Shiva Thapa are expected to win medal. Few others are on border line. Considering the previous two Olympics performance I was also of the view that India would definitely win 5 medals. We were relying more on standout performances, luck, favorable draw which were definitely not the case this time.  

Finally after considering many things, because of underperformance from many athletes I would like to use Star sports caption for our Olympics performace as ‘Is se Bura aur kuch nahi’. Ultimately on a positive note I feel future is going to be good from here.

Edited August 21, 2016 by Madhusudhan

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With Olympics officially over for india now i also would like to give assessment/review of India performance... may be every one would like to

Can't we all assess/review indian performance in some common format which would be very easy to follow...for example in the order of

 

1.Event wise review

2.Best performance

3.Worst performance

4.Surprising performance

5.Overall verdict on Indian performance (Very good/Good/Bad/Worst/Disaster...)

6.Suggestions

 

The above format is just an example  

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creditable performance by indians in marathon...... 2 guys finished 25th and 26th out of 150 odd

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loss of final medal chance in yogeswar dutt is exact indication of india performance in this olympics........ so much of promise but no medals to show 

Now officially yogeshwar is out... the mongolian lost to russian in QF

Edited August 21, 2016 by Madhusudhan
update

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The Cuban guy(Ramirez) who defeated shiva thapa in 1st round went on to win gold.... such a unlucky 1st round match for thapa even though he is ranked in top 5....

I thought Shiva is our best bet but he was literally toyed by Cuban guy....... even vikas krishnan got pounded by uzbek guy.... its pity that boxing has gone backwards thanks to internal pollitics

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Congratulations to Brazil for historic football gold !!

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19 minutes ago, Dolby said:

I asked @MHSN about it and he has clarified. What we missed is that after highest scoring move, next tiebreaking criteria is number of cautions (before last point). Sakshi had been cautioned once and hence was losing at that time. 

in case of tie so the criteria order is 1.highest scoring move 2.least number of cautions 3. wrestler who scored the last point

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Is there any criteria how the draw is made in boxing and wrestling?

These are the two events i felt that where there was a chance of two top players meeting each other in initial rounds

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53 minutes ago, Dolby said:

My initial assessment was that even without those last second points, she would have been winner. In case of tie, the wrestler with the highest scoring move wins. In that match, both had 2-2-1 points, so another tie. In which case, last point wins, i.e. Sakshi. I am assuming that commentator assumed that Kyrgyz wrestler had scored 4+1 instead of 2+2+1 as her 2+2 came in succesion, one move of 2 leading to another move of 2. But, it was still 2+2 and not 4. But, there is one thing that is bothering me why would Kyrgyz wrestler challenge. Even if she won challenge, it would have ended 5-5 and Sakshi would have won the match. So, there is a good chance, I am missing something and commentator was right. 

Am also wondering what was that.... I want to be sure abt these rules for yogeswar match to avoid tension... my view was sakshi was winner even with 5-5 score but even then sakshi was desperate to score points in last seconds

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Did any one have idea what would have been the result in case of Sakshi match ended in tie 5-5?

 I felt that sakshi is winner in case of tie as she scored the last points but commentator was saying some thing else

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1 hour ago, Prakash said:

I strongly believe that Yogeshwar Dutt will bring the Yellow metal to end Olympic on higher note.

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Congrats to Argentina for winning the Gold medal... If at all there is one team other than India which i wanted to win Gold, it is Argentina

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I feel in case of Srikanth it is destined that great Lin dan has to loose to only Lee Chong Wei (to avenge for his painful losses in last 2 olympics).... Bravo Srikanth

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Just now, Steve_RP said:

i saw she was 7 after round 1...17 after round 2....but ysterday it was showing she was 3rd....

Many are saying she's very close to a medal......

I think she is in 9th position as of now (including 3rd round position)... after yesterday 2nd round she was in 8th position

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Congrats to Sindhu for such a gutsy performance against world no.1 in Olympics final

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Yup... Narsingh name is in the official draw for 74kg.... seems to be tough draw.... best part is Burroghs and Russian wrestler is in other half

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1 minute ago, Prakash said:

Breaking: Narsingh Yadav has been cleared & will participate in Rio 2016

this is one more good news....... 

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2 results/medals (Sakshi and Sindhu) has some what made up for the disappointing show of india at this olympics

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hurray... 2nd medal is confirmed... sindhu is just outstanding

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I had high hopes on Vinesh but injury stopped her.... now Sakshi done it

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What makes it special is she won it from losing position until last second...... she some how manged the same in 3 matches