India National Thread

[Prashanth 184]

Asian Games gold-medallist Vikas Krishan assured himself of an extra shot at Olympic qualification in style, beating Kenya's Nickson Abaka in a gruelling six-round contest of the AIBA Pro Boxing fight. This was his 2nd pro match and now stands with 1 - 1- 1 in career stats. Imagine a state where Vikas and Vijender would fight for the same slot in Pro quota and now who should go....6- 6-0  6TKo or the inform Amateur boxer..

[tirtha22 238]

Hoping that Indian Men archery team play well tomorrow. This is the last chance to secure the Rio berth.

[Prashanth 184]

@Smit @shrikant GB is with full strength but Ger is not with full strength. Sardar would make the deference, So would not see that has a problem.

[kapil857 31]

23 minutes ago, tirtha22 said:

Hoping that Indian Men archery team play well tomorrow. This is the last chance to secure the Rio berth.

 

Tomm is actually just a practice session. The qualification will take place on Monday which will determine the draw. And the Olympic qualification tournament will be on Thursday - from start to finish. Thus, Thursday is the big day. Not sure it will be telecast though (I remember waking up around 3 am before London to follow the final Oly qual tournament in USA and had to be content with just live scoring)

 

Also, the world cup will essentially be separate from the Oly qualifiers and will continue on throughout the week.

 

Also, http://info.ianseo.net/ is the world archery press site. It is generally much easier to follow as compared to the World Archery main website which looks good but is pretty poor in function.

Edited June 11, 2016 by kapil857

[tirtha22 238]

Tintu Luka's medal winning run last week

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY3TRxelqmw

[Dolby 754]

10 hours ago, kapil857 said:

 

There is no chance of top 4. I have done the calculations. There are only 2 grand prix gold tournaments between now and Rio, and no super series. Only if Saina wins Australian open and wins BOTH of them, and Okuhara and Intanon either dont play or do badly, can Saina enter top 4.

 

However, the draw of the Chinese Taipei Grand Prix Gold tournament is already out and Saina is not in it. Not 100% sure but don't think she can enter now. Only way Saina can get to top 4 seeds in Rio is if China pick Shixian over Yihan and Saina reaches world no. 5.

WS has a very strong field this time around. There is no clear favourite. In the last year or so, Marin, Okuhara, Intanon all have had excellent runs. Saina and Chinese have been consistently been near the top throughout the Olympic cycle. So, I consider these six as group 1A. Ideally, medals should come from this group only but Koreans, Tai Tzu, Yamaguchi and Sindhu (group 1) are more than capable of multiple upsets and winning a medal. So, with so many top players, more than seeding, draw is important to avoid unfavourable matchups (like Saina vs Tai Tzu)

[kapil857 31]

3 minutes ago, Dolby said:

WS has a very strong field this time around. There is no clear favourite. In the last year or so, Marin, Okuhara, Intanon all have had excellent runs. Saina and Chinese have been consistently been near the top throughout the Olympic cycle. So, I consider these six as group 1A. Ideally, medals should come from this group only but Koreans, Tai Tzu, Yamaguchi and Sindhu (group 1) are more than capable of multiple upsets and winning a medal. So, with so many top players, more than seeding, draw is important to avoid unfavourable matchups (like Saina vs Tai Tzu)

 

Well the seedings greatly determine the draw.

 

There will be only 13 seeds and 13 groups at Rio. That means that the top 2 seeds, and one player out of the 3rd and 4th seed depending on the draw, will actually get a bye in the round of 16.

 

So, Bae Yeon Ju, Yamaguchi, Sindhu and possibly even Porntip will be banana peel opponents for the top girls who don't get a bye in the round of 16. And the QF will all be huge matches which can go either way, but the 3 girls with byes in the round of 16 would have had some extra rest (but less match practice).

 

One good thing about Saina not making the top 4 is that she is ensured of not bumping into Tai atleast until the semis. The draw rules ensure that seeds 5-8, which will consist of both Tai and Saina - will all be placed in different quarters. 

 

And i agree with your groups 1A and 1, but Tai is definitely now part of 1A, especially after her victory in Indonesia which included wins over all the 3 Chinese. And Koreans will claim that Sung Ji Hyun is also part of 1A, though we Indians always underestimate her a bit due to Saina's dominating record against her.

[Prashanth 184]

India loose to Iran in Rd1 of the Wrestling Freestyle World Cup

It was a total domination with 2 matches forfeit...Only match which was close was of Bajrang in 61kg

[nitinsanker 206]

11 hours ago, kapil857 said:

 

Well the seedings greatly determine the draw.

 

There will be only 13 seeds and 13 groups at Rio. That means that the top 2 seeds, and one player out of the 3rd and 4th seed depending on the draw, will actually get a bye in the round of 16.

 

So, Bae Yeon Ju, Yamaguchi, Sindhu and possibly even Porntip will be banana peel opponents for the top girls who don't get a bye in the round of 16. And the QF will all be huge matches which can go either way, but the 3 girls with byes in the round of 16 would have had some extra rest (but less match practice).

 

One good thing about Saina not making the top 4 is that she is ensured of not bumping into Tai atleast until the semis. The draw rules ensure that seeds 5-8, which will consist of both Tai and Saina - will all be placed in different quarters. 

 

And i agree with your groups 1A and 1, but Tai is definitely now part of 1A, especially after her victory in Indonesia which included wins over all the 3 Chinese. And Koreans will claim that Sung Ji Hyun is also part of 1A, though we Indians always underestimate her a bit due to Saina's dominating record against her.

 

Yes I think the WS would be a cracker of an event .......................... If I had a preference would prefer Saina not to meet Li xuerui   or Marin till the finals ........ In the current performance standards ...... Ratchanok and Marin may be favorites but now sanias recent performances in both the uber cup and australian open have been really good and Tai recent indonesian open was great so both of them would be the next group of possible winners ......................any of the players would hate to run into Sindhu especailly the chinese so she would be a dangerous sleeper as long as she does not come in Sainas group !!!!!

 

I just wish Sindhu Form would jump in the next couple of grand prix but i do not see her participating 

 

 

Edited June 12, 2016 by nitinsanker

[Prashanth 184]

Athletics performance was not so good. No idea about the relay teams..