South Asian Games 2019

[nitinsanker 206]

and coming to commonwealth games 2018 

 

 

India( 26-20-20 )  did defeat Canada( 15-40-27 )  by a huge margin 

 

Pakistan incidentally 1-0-4

 

 

just proves my point 

[Shravan Kumar 109]

7 minutes ago, intoronto said:

does not compete anymore.

 

Wouldn't India be considered a bigger fail? 28 medals all time for the second most populous nation is pretty embarrassing imo.

 participated in the last edition.

Maybe if you say second most populous country. But being the second most populous country thrust into poverty with no basic life amenities is more important. Sports doesn't form a priority when putting food to the tables and growing a depleted nation is considered. Add to that a  nation which is democratic in nature excluding 5-6 yrs having 30 or more individual power centers known as stated. Also the fact that India doesn't allow dual citizenship, hence not buying any athletes from outside or not allowing Indian origin athletes to compete without citizenship. 

 

 

Comparing India and Pakistan is a joke. If you have to compare them you have to do it in Asian perspective. India has always been improving in most of the sports in contrast Pakistan is facing major problems financially.

[Siddhartha Talukdar 244]

Sports performance is directly proportional to economic performance. Pakistan's per capita GDP (PPP) was better than India's from independence till early 2000s when India surged ahead. This reflected at the sports performance as well comparatively. Pakistan were world beaters in cricket, squash and hockey. Now the state of Pakistani sports is dismal and abject

Nowhere the trend can be clearly seen in India vs Pakistan H2H ODI wins where the table is given below

Decade	India	Pakistan	No Result
1978-1980	1	2	0
1981-1990	9	20	2
1991-2000	19	30	2
2001-2010	17	17
2011-2019	9	4
Overall	55	73	4

 

In fact, in the last 14 ODI matches India has won 10 of those

[Fly_like_a_don 1,142]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/wap.business-standard.com/article-amp/news-ani/schedule-for-13th-south-asian-games-2019-announced-119110801429_1.html

 

Looks like  can finally win a medal in table tennis. 

The medal table will look much even this time around.  can win 5-6 golds in Taekwondo. 

 

Suprised to see Kabaddi left out. 

[Olympian1010 8,230]

1 minute ago, Fly_like_a_don said:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/wap.business-standard.com/article-amp/news-ani/schedule-for-13th-south-asian-games-2019-announced-119110801429_1.html

 

Looks like  can finally win a medal in table tennis. 

The medal table will look much even this time around.  can win 5-6 golds in Taekwondo. 

 

Suprised to see Kabaddi left out. 

I haven’t seen a single article besides this, that indicates these games will actually take place. No official website, no webcast info, no team announcements, nothing.

[Fly_like_a_don 1,142]

https://www.13sagnepal.com

 

The official website. 

 

 

BTW why Afghanistan is not a part of it? 

[Olympian1010 8,230]

5 minutes ago, Fly_like_a_don said:

https://www.13sagnepal.com

 

The official website. 

 

 

BTW why Afghanistan is not a part of it? 

May have something to do with the Taliban controlling about 60-75% of the country currently. Not worth the risk. I think the Afghan government will fall within the next 2 years. Tokyo 2020 could very well be the last time we see Afghan women for awhile. Of course this is all assuming the Taliban advances as quickly as they have been, and that the ANA continues to weaken and retreat.

[Olympian1010 8,230]

1 hour ago, Fly_like_a_don said:

https://www.13sagnepal.com

 

The official website. 

 

 

BTW why Afghanistan is not a part of it? 

That website qualifies as “something is better than nothing” 

[Fly_like_a_don 1,142]

1 hour ago, Olympian1010 said:

May have something to do with the Taliban controlling about 60-75% of the country currently. Not worth the risk. I think the Afghan government will fall within the next 2 years. Tokyo 2020 could very well be the last time we see Afghan women for awhile. Of course this is all assuming the Taliban advances as quickly as they have been, and that the ANA continues to weaken and retreat.

But how come other sports it's playing?Like football and cricket. 

[Olympian1010 8,230]

27 minutes ago, Fly_like_a_don said:

But how come other sports it's playing?Like football and cricket. 

My guess, players are largely based outside the country, or based in the few big cities the government still controls.