India National Thread

[kapil857 31]

21 hours ago, tirtha22 said:

Good Idea  I also thought of this .

 

So we have some interest in an India based prediction game....thus I have created a shared google sheet at the below link.

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13TQQ4W-cut7RCuxnem5uQKZaBNJNq4HzYyiXv_JbTo4/edit#gid=0

 

Please just go to the link and enter ur teams of 15 athletes/teams. I say we keep the deadline as the end of July. So up till then, people can change their teams as many times as they wish by using the link above. 

 

Here's my team, at the moment.

 

Captain	Jitu Rai - 50m Pistol
Vice Captain	Narsingh Yadav
3	Jitu Rai - 10m Pistol
4	Abhinav Bindra
5	Gagan Narang - 50m prone
6	Saina Nehwal
7	Archery Women Team
8	Shiva Thapa
9	Yogeshwar Dutt
10	PV Sindhu
11	Gagan Narang - 10m Rifle
12	Dipa Karmarkar - Vault
13	Men Hockey Team
14	Bopanna/Sania
15	Heena Sidhu - 10m Pistol

 

 

[Harit Garg 1]

#Athletics 

2 More quota 
Srabani Nanda(200m) -23.07 and Ankit Sharma(Long Jump) -8.19 qualifies for Rio 

Qualification mark 
Men Long Jump : 8.15

Womens 200m : 23.20

Edited June 26, 2016 by Harit Garg

[tirtha22 232]

Athletics

 

Md Anas books a spot in 400m (45.40) Srabani Nanda in 200m (23.07) & Ankit Sharma jumps 8.14, 8.17 & 8.19 in the same meet to qualify 4 rio

 

Super weekend for India

[Vaibhav (minchu) 2]

On 6/24/2016 at 21:10, kapil857 said:

 

Guys, shooting quotas belong to the country, not to the individual. India has 2 quotas earned in 10m air rifle women - by Apurvi and Ayonika. But both quotas belong to India and NRAI can send any two shooters they desire to send, provided the shooter has met the MQS standard. So NRAI can still send Pooja if they so desire.

 

With that said, there is absolutely no chance of Pooja going. The NRAI is very firm and transparent on its selection policies and they don't change. They on purpose declare the team as early as March (in fact, the orig plan was to declare in Jan, got delayed because of the dealy in the Asian quota tournament) because they believe in providing athletes stability and a worry-free period of training, where their olympic place is assured and thus they can experiment, participate in as many tournaments as they want and skip whatever tournaments they want. Pooja has been doing well, but she's not gonna go to Rio !!!

Bang on Kapil! NRAI's selection policies need to be emulated by other federations as well. A couple of pointers:

 

1. While Pooja has been an in-form shooter, one should not forget Apurvi and Ayonika have come out on top of the selection process which was laid down well in advance. 

 

2. Both of them, even at their young age, are far more experienced shooters and Pooja has forayed in just an year ago...going by the form logic, shouldn't we also send Anjum Moudgil then? She shot 418+ in last wc and again finished in top 10 here in Baku

 

3. Most importantly, let's not forget the importance of pressure. AC / AP have immense amount of pressure to score good scores / retain their form on their road to prepare for Rio. Pooja has none. and thus a possibility of difference in performances @Sanjib

[tirtha22 232]

Ankit Sharma broke 3 NRs in the same meet. Some kind of record it seems

[tirtha22 232]

According to Sports Authority of India , Srabani clocked 23:03 seconds . According to some other media , Srabani clocked 23 : 07 seconds.

[tirtha22 232]

Archery

 

Archery Association of India President confirms that Atanu Das is going to represent India in Rio 2016

Edited June 26, 2016 by tirtha22

[Vivek 6]

Great going by our athlete's. After remain locked on 96, we jumped to 102. Now 120 looks comfortably in reach. Any news from 4x400 men participation in meet going on now. 

Edited June 26, 2016 by Vivek

[tirtha22 232]

22 minutes ago, Vaibhav (minchu) said:

Bang on Kapil! NRAI's selection policies need to be emulated by other federations as well. A couple of pointers:

 

1. While Pooja has been an in-form shooter, one should not forget Apurvi and Ayonika have come out on top of the selection process which was laid down well in advance. 

 

2. Both of them, even at their young age, are far more experienced shooters and Pooja has forayed in just an year ago...going by the form logic, shouldn't we also send Anjum Moudgil then? She shot 418+ in last wc and again finished in top 10 here in Baku

 

3. Most importantly, let's not forget the importance of pressure. AC / AP have immense amount of pressure to score good scores / retain their form on their road to prepare for Rio. Pooja has none. and thus a possibility of difference in performances @Sanjib

Has Anjum Moudgil attained MQS?

[nitinsanker 202]

1 hour ago, kapil857 said:

 

So we have some interest in an India based prediction game....thus I have created a shared google sheet at the below link.

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13TQQ4W-cut7RCuxnem5uQKZaBNJNq4HzYyiXv_JbTo4/edit#gid=0

 

Please just go to the link and enter ur teams of 15 athletes/teams. I say we keep the deadline as the end of July. So up till then, people can change their teams as many times as they wish by using the link above. 

 

Here's my team, at the moment.

 

 

Captain	Jitu Rai - 50m Pistol
Vice Captain	Narsingh Yadav
3	Jitu Rai - 10m Pistol
4	Abhinav Bindra
5	Gagan Narang - 50m prone
6	Saina Nehwal
7	Archery Women Team
8	Shiva Thapa
9	Yogeshwar Dutt
10	PV Sindhu
11	Gagan Narang - 10m Rifle
12	Dipa Karmarkar - Vault
13	Men Hockey Team
14	Bopanna/Sania
15	Heena Sidhu - 10m Pistol

 

 

awesome kapil !!!........................ will definitely participate .................... Probably the prediction contest manager can run a similar contest in totally olympics for countries like serbia / india etc which are active forums in India 

Edited June 26, 2016 by nitinsanker