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A total of 27 members, including nine women, will represent India at the prestigious 2016 IAAF World U-20 Athletics Championships to be held in Bydgoszcz, Poland from July 19 to 24, the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) announced today. 

 

Besides Neeraj  It also has 2015 Asian Youth 800m champion Beant Singh, 2015 Commonwealth Youth Games 400m silver medallist Jisna Mathew and 800m bronze medallist Abitha Mary Manuel. 

 

This is the largest youth team ever which shows recent  Indias growth in atheletics is broad based 

strength does not come from physical capacity but from an indomitable will. - Gandhi

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As per Thailand media, Ratchanok Intanon seemed to have failed a dope test. Reports quote that final decision on monday by BWF over her participation at Rio. She is a real talent and sure shot for a medal. 

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1 minute ago, Reddy said:

As per Thailand media, Ratchanok Intanon seemed to have failed a dope test. Reports quote that final decision on monday by BWF over her participation at Rio. She is a real talent and sure shot for a medal. 

I do not know whether to be happy or sad .................. Ratchanok is such a pleasure to watch ....................... but saina chances improve 

strength does not come from physical capacity but from an indomitable will. - Gandhi

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20 hours ago, nitinsanker said:

Interesting stats 

 

More interesting than quota from a medal perspective is medal opportunities .......

 

for example the hockey squad may have 16 quotas but will have only 1 medal opportunity but gagan is only 1 quota but he has 3 medal opportunities  and medal opportunity does not also correspond to events as we may have both ayonika and apurvi in 10m air rifle which is one event but two medal oppurtunities 

 

As per my count so in Rio  while we have 120 -121 quotas we have 91-92 medal opportunities and participation in  66 events 

in london we had 83 quotas and 69 medal opportunities  in 55 events 

 

The increase is primarily from athletics (where it will unfortunately still all be about achieving personal bests and breaking national records as opposed to striving for medals - hopefully we can do that in Tokyo) , and gymnastics if Dipa is counted as having 5 medal opportunites (4 apparatus + all-round). 

 

In medal prospect sports, medal opportunities have remained more or less constant

 

Wrestling - increased from 5 to 8

Shooting - increased from 15 to 18

Badminton - increased from 4 to 5

 

Archery - decreased from 8 to 5

Boxing - Decreased from 8 to 3

Tennis - Decreased from 6 to 3 (though 2 of the 6 from London which have decreased were singles which were definitely not medal prospects)

 

Medal longshots

 

Hockey - increased from 1 to 2

Gymanstics - increased from 0 to 5 (though realistically, only 1 medal opportunity - in the vault - is a true prospect)

Weightlifting - stayed the same at 2

Golf - increased from 0 to 3 (but special case as Golf was not part of London)

 

Other sports

Judo - stayed the same at 1

Swimming - increased from 1 to 2

Rowing - decreased from 2 to 1

Table tennis - increased from 2 to 4

Athletics - increased from 14 to a whopping 30 (as per wiki lists)

 

Total - increased from 69 to 92 (increase of 23; 16 in athletics + 5 in gymnastics + 3 in golf = 24)

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9 hours ago, Reddy said:

As per Thailand media, Ratchanok Intanon seemed to have failed a dope test. Reports quote that final decision on monday by BWF over her participation at Rio. She is a real talent and sure shot for a medal. 

 

This is absolutely huge. Wonder how everyone in the media missed this. You will fit right into this forum Mr. Reddy - welcome !!!

 

While its obviously very sad - she is a great player and fun to watch - it would be HUGE for BOTH Saina and Sindhu as Saina's seeding would move from 5 to 4 and Sindhu's seeding would move from 9 to 8.

 

That would mean that Saina would avoid Marin, Xuerui and Yihan till the semis...though would be exposed to the risk of facing her nemesis Tai in the quarters...it would also mean she would have a 50% chance of getting a bye in the pre-quarters.

 

For Sindhu, this means she avoids a top-8 opponent in the round of 16 thus greatly easing her path to the quarters and likely even keeping her fresher for the likely big QF match against one of the top 4  

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3 hours ago, kapil857 said:

 

The increase is primarily from athletics (where it will unfortunately still all be about achieving personal bests and breaking national records as opposed to striving for medals - hopefully we can do that in Tokyo) , and gymnastics if Dipa is counted as having 5 medal opportunites (4 apparatus + all-round). 

 

In medal prospect sports, medal opportunities have remained more or less constant

 

Wrestling - increased from 5 to 8

Shooting - increased from 15 to 18

Badminton - increased from 4 to 5

 

Archery - decreased from 8 to 5

Boxing - Decreased from 8 to 3

Tennis - Decreased from 6 to 3 (though 2 of the 6 from London which have decreased were singles which were definitely not medal prospects)

 

Medal longshots

 

Hockey - increased from 1 to 2

Gymanstics - increased from 0 to 5 (though realistically, only 1 medal opportunity - in the vault - is a true prospect)

Weightlifting - stayed the same at 2

Golf - increased from 0 to 3 (but special case as Golf was not part of London)

 

Other sports

Judo - stayed the same at 1

Swimming - increased from 1 to 2

Rowing - decreased from 2 to 1

Table tennis - increased from 2 to 4

Athletics - increased from 14 to a whopping 30 (as per wiki lists)

 

Total - increased from 69 to 92 (increase of 23; 16 in athletics + 5 in gymnastics + 3 in golf = 24)

More medal opportunities this time.

My point is as follows:

1. Archery: Men's team was not a medal prospect last time. Atanu Das is a genuine medal prospect.

2. Boxing: Only medal prospects were Shiva Thapa and Vijender. Remains at 2 with Shiva Thapa and Vikas

3. Shooing:More or less same.

4. Badminton: Increased

5. Wrestling: Increased to 4 (Yogeshwar, Sandeep Tomar, Narsingh Yadav, Vinesh)

6. Tennis: Similar last time. None

7. Hockey: Its one now. Last time it was zero.

8. Weightlifting: Increased. One

9. Judo, Swimming, Rowing, Table Tennis: Similar to last time. None

10. Athletics: More chances of medal this time.

 

 It's better to count the medal opportunities than the also-ran.

 

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3 hours ago, kapil857 said:

 

This is absolutely huge. Wonder how everyone in the media missed this. You will fit right into this forum Mr. Reddy - welcome !!!

 

While its obviously very sad - she is a great player and fun to watch - it would be HUGE for BOTH Saina and Sindhu as Saina's seeding would move from 5 to 4 and Sindhu's seeding would move from 9 to 8.

 

That would mean that Saina would avoid Marin, Xuerui and Yihan till the semis...though would be exposed to the risk of facing her nemesis Tai in the quarters...it would also mean she would have a 50% chance of getting a bye in the pre-quarters.

 

For Sindhu, this means she avoids a top-8 opponent in the round of 16 thus greatly easing her path to the quarters and likely even keeping her fresher for the likely big QF match against one of the top 4  

Don't know how to react but this is breaking news 

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