India National Thread

[shrikant 3]

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Well done vikas krishan..definitely a medal prospect 

 

[Sanjib 17]

Congrats, to all. Should we bring back thoughts of 120 which we forgot recently, What about the ban on the 3 countries, any update on whether we can get a few more in WL?

[tirtha22 234]

Vikas Krishnan

[Partha_SG 1]

Let us not worry so much about numbers . we have a very poor participant to medalist ratio. 

[Sanjib 17]

2 minutes ago, Partha_SG said:

Let us not worry so much about numbers . we have a very poor participant to medalist ratio. 

Can't agree with you here, we are improving and mainly in Olympics our target is participation and a few medals. We need to win over 100 medals in Asian Games/Commonwealth etc first, to have big medal expectations from Olympics. We are improving and target is 120 participation this time as agreed by a number of other members here. Hopefully we reach it.

[Vivek 6]

12 minutes ago, Sanjib said:

Can't agree with you here, we are improving and mainly in Olympics our target is participation and a few medals. We need to win over 100 medals in Asian Games/Commonwealth etc first, to have big medal expectations from Olympics. We are improving and target is 120 participation this time as agreed by a number of other members here. Hopefully we reach it.

Absolutely correct. With 120 delegation and with 10 total medals will be great performance for us. Our performance is improving year by year, it is good sign. For the first time we are going with atleast 20+ medal contenders. We are improving, players need our suport, be positive, keep faith in talent of our players. 

 

[Vivek 6]

How much time left for sumit bout?

[shrikant 3]

16 minutes ago, Vivek said:

Absolutely correct. With 120 delegation and with 10 total medals will be great performance for us. Our performance is improving year by year, it is good sign. For the first time we are going with atleast 20+ medal contenders. We are improving, players need our suport, be positive, keep faith in talent of our players. 

 

20+ Medal contenders.... Can you please elaborate... Its only Yogeshwar dutt, Saina nehwal, Woman archery team, Jitu rai ... Narsingh Yadav.......Deepika kumari...........Mens Hockey team .....and one from boxing at the most.. let us be practical ... 

Edited June 23, 2016 by shrikant

[Partha_SG 1]

40 minutes ago, Sanjib said:

Can't agree with you here, we are improving and mainly in Olympics our target is participation and a few medals. We need to win over 100 medals in Asian Games/Commonwealth etc first, to have big medal expectations from Olympics. We are improving and target is 120 participation this time as agreed by a number of other members here. Hopefully we reach it.

Sorry to say we have been participating in large numbers in athletics for such a long time. What has changed? A few stars come up from time to time but nothing changes. I don't think anyone should be sent unless they cross the A qualification mark. Look at shooting wrestling even badminton. Boxing. There our Olympians are mostly true competitors pushing for medals. Only few of them will win but most have potential too. That has to be differentiated from the no hopers in athletics table tennis etc where we have been participating for a long time without anything tangible. This nehruvian idea of participation is better than winning has led us here. So many nations have much smaller contingents and are so much poorer than us still win more medals. For a lowdown on that - check out the GDP based medal tally.

[Vivek 6]

27 minutes ago, shrikant said:

20+ Medal contenders.... Can you please elaborate... Its only Yogeshwar dutt, Saina nehwal, Woman archery team, Jitu rai ... Narsingh Yadav.......Deepika kumari...........Mens Hockey team .....and one from boxing at the most.. let us be practical ... 

All 12 shooters are medal prospect. 2 from women Archery, 3 in badminton, 1 in hockey, 3 wrestlers, 2 boxers. 

I am calling them medal contender s because in life " form is temporary whereas class is permanent." They all have proven in past that on their day, they have class to win medal at any stage. I hope at rio maximum will have their day. Hope for the best.