India National Thread

[shrikant 3]

Why so ordinary shooters representing us this year like ashtaputre suhas in 25 mtrs pistol swapnil kusale in 50 meters rifle ... they are no where near international standards... why so much hurry... yes we speak about sportsperson not getting enough support but in this case it is totally vice versa ... first let them reach to some standards and then exposure can be given

[Smit 4]

According to this article trial will be held between Sushil and Narsingh

Edited May 22, 2016 by Smit

[Partha_SG 1]

Sonia Lather safely through to the next round.  We seem to have some neat boxers in these non olympic categories.can only augur well for the future . hope our lone remaining boxer in an olympic category - Pooja Rani -wins too today

[Partha_SG 1]

pooja is up against savannah marshal though - tough tough fight

[Prashanth 175]

Pankaj Advani ousts Aditya Mehta to reach Asian 6 Red Snooker Championship final...

 

[Smit 4]

Pooja Rani also out. No Indian female boxer in Olympics this time.

[Prashanth 175]

@Smit  

[shrikant 3]

Pankaj advani has won the Asia 6 red snooker championship....

[Prashanth 175]

He is an superb billiards player.....

[nitinsanker 202]

On 3/7/2016 at 11:42, gvaisakh said:

EVENTS TO FOLLOW THIS WEEK (May 16 to May 22)

 

RIO QUALIFICATION

Athletics - 2016 IAAF World Challenge, Beijing - May 18

Athletics - 2016 Taiwan Open - May 19-20

Boxing - 2016 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships, Astana - May 19-27

Rowing - 2016 FISA Final Olympic Qualification Regatta, Lucerne - May 22-25 - Not sure if our rowers is particiapting

Tennis - 2016 Roland Garros French Open, Paris  - May 16-June 5 - Doubles Qualification this week (draw not yet out - Leander Paes might be participating)

Swimming - 2016 Japan Open Swimming Championship - May 20-22

 

RIO PREPARATION

Badminton - 2016 Thomas & Uber Cup, Kunshan - May 15-22

Shooting - 2016 ISSF World Cup, Munich - May 21-26

 

NON RIO EVENTS

Tennis - 2016 Roland Garros French Open, Paris  - May 16-June 5 - Singles Qualification this week (Saketh Myneni & Ramkumar Ramnathan)

Tennis - 2016 ATP Challenger, Bangkok - May 16-22 (Sanam Singh & Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan as pair in MD)

 

 

Hey Gv looking forward to seeing what events are there this week 

 

last week has been really frustrating as an Indian olympic fan 

 

1. Loss of all three Indian boxers from the quota race - the poor state of Indian boxing was exposed while we are seeing  record numbers in other  sport ....... Boxing seems to be the where there will be a steep fall from London .....partially it is the qualification process but mainly it is the poor state of the federations ... Many of our federations seem to go through this political crap and Indian sports and fans suffer ...... the last two years the boxing federation has been going through all the jockeying for power and our sports lack exposure , support and hence are coming down , the same thing happened with hockey , gymnastics and now rowing and boxing 

 

2. Sidhanth thilanya acheiveing the quota standard and then the wind being just above the norms ( +2.1 ) 

 

3. Jitu and anissa reaching the finals but no medals 

 

4. poor baton exchange in the taipei open led to no results 

 

5. strong -1.4 winds lead to our women runners not improving on our fed cup results at the taipei open 

 

6. No improvements even on PBs at the Japan seiko open 

 

So I am looking forward to the luck changing this week and looking forward to see your list ............

 

of course major events seem to be continuing into this week ...... Roland garros , boxing shooting