India National Thread

[Madhusudhan 12]

Is neeraj chopra participating in any event before olympics?

Btw can 2 indian teams partcipate in shooting mixed events at olympics as has been seen in world cups?

[Shravan Kumar 109]

35 minutes ago, Madhusudhan said:

Is neeraj chopra participating in any event before olympics?

Btw can 2 indian teams partcipate in shooting mixed events at olympics as has been seen in world cups?

I believe yes. I heard joydeep Karmakar speaking regarding it in a discussion.

 

[Madhusudhan 12]

What an important day july 24th will be for india at tokyo olympics....

 

its overloaded with so many events for india and some of the events we are expected to win medals :

 

Archery mixed team

Weightlifting - Mirabai chanu

Shooting - 10m Air rifle women and 10m Air pistol mens (Saurabh chaudhary)

Hockey - India vs New zealand (Mens) and India vs Netherlans (womens)

TT - Mixed dpubles round of 16

Tennis - womens doubles

Badminton - Group stages

Rowing

 

Hoping for atleast good/better results on this 1st day unlike 1st day of Rio which was really bad and set the precedence for entire olympics

 

One good thing is we have sure shot medal on 1st day in form of mirabai chanu if she completes even one lift in both snatch & clean and jerk!!!

 

 

[Prashanth 175]

Indians in Action

 

Grand Slam

Wimbledon :- Rohan/Saina lost in Rd3

 

ATP Challenger

Germany :- Sumit lost in Rd2

[Siddhartha Talukdar 234]

10 hours ago, Madhusudhan said:

What an important day july 24th will be for india at tokyo olympics....

 

its overloaded with so many events for india and some of the events we are expected to win medals :

 

Archery mixed team

Weightlifting - Mirabai chanu

Shooting - 10m Air rifle women and 10m Air pistol mens (Saurabh chaudhary)

Hockey - India vs New zealand (Mens) and India vs Netherlans (womens)

TT - Mixed dpubles round of 16

Tennis - womens doubles

Badminton - Group stages

Rowing

 

Hoping for atleast good/better results on this 1st day unlike 1st day of Rio which was really bad and set the precedence for entire olympics

 

One good thing is we have sure shot medal on 1st day in form of mirabai chanu if she completes even one lift in both snatch & clean and jerk!!!

 

 

Rio was unusually disastrous and controversy started even before the Olympics started - the Sushil Kumar vs Narsingh Yadav saga, Rohan Bopanna not wanting Leander Paes as his doubles partner and Dharambir Singh banned for 8 years.

No major distracting news coming out except Covid related is a good sign of preparedness. 

[Prashanth 175]

4 hours ago, Siddhartha Talukdar said:

Rio was unusually disastrous and controversy started even before the Olympics started - the Sushil Kumar vs Narsingh Yadav saga, Rohan Bopanna not wanting Leander Paes as his doubles partner and Dharambir Singh banned for 8 years.

No major distracting news coming out except Covid related is a good sign of preparedness. 

We had relay disaster causing the loss of 2 teams. Though no ban things so far and hope not afterwards also.

[Madhusudhan 12]

18 hours ago, Shravan Kumar said:

I believe yes. I heard joydeep Karmakar speaking regarding it in a discussion.

 

if its yes then definitely it boosts our medal chance further...who knows we might win 2 medals at same event !!!

[Madhusudhan 12]

Just read some where that neeraj will skip diamond league event in london because of covid restrictions in Japan for persons travelled to UK.....

 

He will continue training in sweden until month end and directly travel to tokyo from there

 

Ideally it would have been better for him to get some more competition as he was peaking slowly...lets see how it goes

[Madhusudhan 12]

Satwik and chirag are drawn along world no.1 indonesian pair in mens doubles badminton

 

In one way its good that even if they finish second in their group they will avoid this pair until finals

[Siddhartha Talukdar 234]

Olympic Badminton Draw is out

Men's Singles: Sai Praneeth is in Group D with  Mark Caljouw and  Misha Zilberman. The match against Caljouw is tricky but Praneeth should win. He is then expected to meet  Ng Ka Long in the Round of 16

 

Women's Singles: PV Sindhu is in group I with  Cheung Ngan Yi and  Ksenia Polikarpova. Again the  match is tricky but Sindhu should win. She is expected to meet  Kim ga Eun in Round of 16

 

Men's Doubles: Perhaps the toughest draw as Satwik-Chirag pair are in Group A with  Minions, World no 3  Lee Yang-Wang Chi and  Sean Vendy-Ben Lane.