India National Thread

[tirtha22 238]

Archery:

 

Deepika Kumari enters Round of 16 in Women's individual archery by defeating Jennifer from USA 6-4.

 

 

[Siddhartha Talukdar 244]

No match of Deepika Kumari is complete without a 6 or a 7. Somehow she is in round of 16

[sounak 40]

Is Sai Praneeth injured or something like that? 

[Sanjib 17]

17 minutes ago, sounak said:

Is Sai Praneeth injured or something like that? 

These things are not checked is it? Do we blindly send athletes, Srikanth could have been sent instead, rmbr Li Xuerui won gold like that in 2012?

[tirtha22 238]

Badminton:

 

Mark Caljouw defeated Sai Praneeth 14-21,14-21 in Men's Singles

 

 

[tirtha22 238]

1 minute ago, Sanjib said:

These things are not checked is it? Do we blindly send athletes, Srikanth could have been sent instead, rmbr Li Xuerui won gold like that in 2012?

Here Athletes earn quota through rankings. Not the country. Right?

[Siddhartha Talukdar 244]

2 minutes ago, Sanjib said:

These things are not checked is it? Do we blindly send athletes, Srikanth could have been sent instead, rmbr Li Xuerui won gold like that in 2012?

Saina was also injured in Rio

[Sanjib 17]

1 hour ago, tirtha22 said:

Here Athletes earn quota through rankings. Not the country. Right?

Yes they earn it for their country and hence can be swapped by another athlete if the country wants to.

[Siddhartha Talukdar 244]

1 hour ago, tirtha22 said:

Here Athletes earn quota through rankings. Not the country. Right?

 

Eg Carolina Marin was injured but her seeded place didn't go to the next Spanish player Clara Azurmendi though but she qualified based on her own rankings. 

So if Praneeth wouldn't have gone to Tokyo then Kidambi would have taken his place but unseeded 

[Dolby 754]

9 minutes ago, Siddhartha Talukdar said:

 

Eg Carolina Marin was injured but her seeded place didn't go to the next Spanish player Clara Azurmendi though but she qualified based on her own rankings. 

So if Praneeth wouldn't have gone to Tokyo then Kidambi would have taken his place but unseeded 

Not that I support swapping Praneeth for Kidambi, but if we had done that Srikanth would have been 14th seed. Same if we had selected Lakshya, Sourabh, Kashyap or Prannoy. Any of them would have been the 14th seed. But, I don't think Praneeth's injury was serious enough to make this change.