India National Thread

[Bhaw 13]

1 hour ago, Steve_RP said:

the underachievers tag that we carry continues. shooters have been the biggest disappointment of these games. Sad to see, these bunch of shooters are not limited in skill, talent or facilities. Infact they are more privileged than the shooters from yesteryear. Yet, the results are out of sight.

We should be lucky if we can get close to our tally in London. 

 

It's mostly a young team. And have been in poor recent form except for Saurabh & Rahi. Rifle shooters were in horrible form. Hope they'll get better with experience.

[sounak 40]

Reddy and Shetty fail to qualify. This is just how India's luck is at the Olympics. Simply unbelievable.

[Steve_RP 5]

No Indian team will qualify for stage 2 of Mixed Rifle event

[tirtha22 232]

Badminton:

 

Rankireddy - Shetty pair beat their opponents from Great Britain 21-17, 21-19 in straight sets to finish their Olympics campaign on a high.

 

[Siddhartha Talukdar 231]

Just now, sounak said:

Reddy and Shetty fail to qualify. This is just how India's luck is at the Olympics

Lee Yang and Wang Chi Lin had beaten the minions. Satwik-Chirag would have beaten the British pair anyway

[Steve_RP 5]

 

If you want to see India in top 20 of the medals tally, start calling a spade for what it is.

Our present batch of shooters are capable and the facilities they get puts them in a much privileged position that shooters from yesteryears did not get.

Lets put things into perspective and leave out all the excuse behind.

Calculate the conversion rate of entries into finals and finals into medals. 

We need to get ruthless, because if we dont, the under-performers tag will stay on and the albatross of the past will keep weighing us down.

Truth is, the shooters have let us down big time. Almost everyone has faltered in crucial moments.

the performances are terrible, we are capable of doing much more.

 

[Sanjib 17]

9 minutes ago, sounak said:

Reddy and Shetty fail to qualify. This is just how India's luck is at the Olympics. Simply unbelievable.

The Taipei pair beat the world no. 1 pair to qualify and Chirag & Satwik were completely outplayed against the minions yesterday this was the group of death and such results are expected, they played well in the Olympics but not good enough and nothing to do with luck here.

[Siddhartha Talukdar 231]

Don't know when the next medal is going to come from. Perhaps we can trust on Aishwary Tomar, Manu Bhaker and Rahi Sarnobat. Also Amit Panghal, Simranjit Kaur didn't even start yet. Men's Hockey quarterfinal match will be barometer for medal potential as all teams in Group B seem equally good. And lastly hoping the wrestlers are in good shape

[Madhusudhan 12]

This is becoming too much.... satwik and Chirag doing so well and still unable to qualify for quarter 

 

How on earth minions lost to Chinese Taipei pair in straight sets ...they took the match lightly it seems

 

 

[Steve_RP 5]

1 minute ago, Siddhartha Talukdar said:

Don't know when the next medal is going to come from. Perhaps we can trust on Aishwary Tomar, Manu Bhaker and Rahi Sarnobat. Also Amit Panghal, Simranjit Kaur didn't even start yet. Men's Hockey quarterfinal match will be barometer for medal potential as all teams in Group B seem equally good. And lastly hoping the wrestlers are in good shape

Maybe Women's 25m pistol