India National Thread

[Shravan Kumar 109]

1 hour ago, Siddhartha Talukdar said:

Now that qualification to Boxing events have been released with Asia/Oceania 4-6 quotas per weight class, is the Asian Boxing Championships a good parameter to judge how many Indians would qualify. India ended the event with 13 medals - two gold, four silver and seven bronze medals

I don't think so maybe Asian games and Commonwealth games combined could be a good indicator

[Shravan Kumar 109]

1 hour ago, nitinsanker said:

That is good news ............................ We should see Indian women in all weight categories as the number of quotas seats have increased from 36 to 100 ...

 

 

 

 

Technically it's increased from 80 to 100

It was decided to allocate 80 quotas to women in 2017 

So it gives us a better chance to qualify as women's boxing is the strong discipline

[Shravan Kumar 109]

One more thing participants will be entered by NOCs (IOA) to qualification and Olympic competition and not BFI.

 

[Dolby 754]

3 hours ago, Shravan Kumar said:

Advait page wins gold in 800m freestyle at Singapore National Championship in 8.00.76 & hence achieved.  B standard for Tokyo.

That is a new NR as well. 

[Fly_like_a_don 1,142]

As IOC said the quotas were based on the performance of continents in World Championships the last 2 women's world championship were in India and Kazakhstan. So we got quotas easily. 

Women's categories :

*48-51 :  Mary Kom

China, Kazakhstan, Japan, North Korea, India + 1. Easy qualification. Even Mongolia and Taipei are good in this weight but with 6 in world qualification, more will join. 

 

*54-57 :Sonia Chahal/Nikhat Zareen/Manisha Moun

China, North Korea,Thailand /India /Mongolia /Vietnam 

 

*57-60 Sarita Devi

Thailand , China,South Korea, Mongolia /Tajikistan - unpredictable but Olympic bronze medallist from 2012 Chorieva is still 28 /India - may get a difficult draw due to poor performance in this category 

 

*64-69 Basumatry /Lovlina

China, South Korea, Kazakhstan, India - not difficult competition unless a difficult draw, mostly not bcoz of world bronze

 

*69-75 Pooja Rani

After beating the world champion in 81kgrecently, she's expected to be in top 4 easily if not the best returning to 75kg. 

China India South Korea Kazakhstan 

 

Optimistic :5

Pessimistic :3

 

Average : 4 

 

Edited June 20, 2019 by Fly_like_a_don

[zob79 192]

Excuse me for asking, it's just a curiosity, nothing offensive: all Indian people are colored?

[Dolby 754]

16 minutes ago, zob79 said:

Excuse me for asking, it's just a curiosity, nothing offensive: all Indian people are colored?

Define colored. 

[zob79 192]

3 minutes ago, Dolby said:

Define colored. 

 

Colored means they ain't white  

[Shravan Kumar 109]

1 hour ago, Dolby said:

That is a new NR as well. 

Yeah correct forgot to mention

[Dolby 754]

3 minutes ago, zob79 said:

 

Colored means they ain't white  

Genetically, culturally or just skin color?

 

Genetically, I think Indians are their own genetic group with a lot of mixing with Central Asians. Some groups in Central India and Andaman Islands are genetically very close to African groups. Some groups in North East are genetically very close to Mongoloid groups of East Asia. There is some recent addition of Caucasian genes in a small group as a result of colonialisation. 

 

Culturally, there is a very small group, mainly in large cities, which think they are whites but rest all are once again uniquely Indian culturally as well.

 

As far as color of skin is concerned, we have a wide variety ranging from pitch black to milky white, sometimes even in the same family.