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Summary of Day 6 - India at RIO 2016 - Another Mixed Day

 

Tennnis- Mixed Doubles - Sania Mirza & Rohan Bopanna moved to Quarterfinals round after winning their first round. 

 

Badminton 

 

Women singles -  Saina Nehwal & P. V. Sindhu Won their first round inStyle

Womens Doubles - Jwala Gutta & Ashwini Ponnappa lost their first round against Japanese team

Mens Doubles -  little known Manu Attri & B. Sumeeth Reddy lost their first round after hard fought against Second seeded Indonesian Pair


Men's Hockey 

India lost higher ranked Dutch team by 2-1. But good news is we have booked our Quarterfinals berth.

 

Boxing

Star Kid Shiva Thapa lost to current Olympic champion in Men's bantamweight after giving good fight. 
Blame corrupt AIBA for not getting medal in this category.

 

Archery

Both Bombayla Devi & Deepika Kumari lost in pre-quarter finals. 
Third Straight Olympics, Higher ranked Indian women Archery team fails to win any medal. 
I feel sorry for them as they have all possible medals with them expect Olympic medal, again need to wait for 4 more years.

 

Golf - Indian Men completed their 1st round

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4 hours ago, Madhusudhan said:

Some good news... Indians through to Mixed doubles Quarter Final:)

Where they will face Andy Murray and Heather Watson of :GBR, who won Silver in London Olympics.

 

Edit: Murray won Silver alongside Robson and not Watson.

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As expected, we lose our women's hockey match against United States but surprisingly we are not out of race for QF. We can qualify for QF by simply causing the biggest upset of this Olympics and our women's team's history and defeat Argentina. 

 

Now off to watch Chak De to prepare for the match. 

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Very important day today...

Gagan Narang, Gurpreet Singh and Chain in action today..also Mairaj - we need medals today.....or we'd return home without a shooting medal

Atanu's big challenge...

Tennis Mixed doubles quarters.....need to win this one....

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15 hours ago, Dolby said:

Knowing how you helped in sustaining our Totallympics Indian community even during non-Olympic times, I am sure your love for Indian sports will prevail over this disappointment. :) 

Thanks for the statement.... Hope we get some boost very soon

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16 hours ago, Madhusudhan said:

I feel thats a too big statement to make..... don't loose hope...... even ever reliable djokovic, serena, australia hockey team. newzealand rugby, korean world record archer, argentina football team etc. had bad time in this olympics... 

You are right .... maybe as fans sometimes we expect to much... 

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1 hour ago, shrikant said:

You are right .... maybe as fans sometimes we expect to much... 

You cant help it...Expectations are bound to be there...WE are a medal starved nation...

Olympics previously meant government officials, netas and babus going on a paid vacation..

then slowly the results started coming...Now we our excepting out best performance ever, and by some decisive margins...

Lots of changes are coming together...For the first time im seeing a larger interest of the people and the media on Indian olympic hopes....

So, the outburst is understandable....

federations are slowly making efforts to manage their affairs better....ppl are realizing the need for sport science...

Government is realising the need for a long term planning and execution...

 

But there's one thing Im sure of....Even if we surpass our London tally or not, Indian sports would be the ultimate winner...

Say we dont surpass out London tally....the government will ask questions of the federations, which will improve accountability...

Say, we do surpass our London tally - lot of media coverage, increased following and viewership,  which means greater corporate participation

 

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On 11/08/2016 at 17:39, Dolby said:

 

Atanu das loses to korean No shame in losing to such opponent. Cnt blame atanu but he is a future star wel played . he cud have won the 3rd set but it was not his day

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