India National Thread

[Prashanth 168]

Saketh (4) and Sanam (1) loose in the 1st Rd of the respective Future tournaments...

[tirtha22 232]

Wrestling 1st olympic qualification starting from 22nd april 2016. How many quotas can India secure? What are the optimistic chances? 

 

Is Sushil kumar participating in the same weight category of narsingh pancham yadav?

[Prashanth 168]

Important 10 days for India in terms of Olympic Qualification in various sporting events...All the best to all the people.

[nitinsanker 202]

15 hours ago, Prashanth said:

 Hope Indians fire in Olympics...

 

Normally olympics are often a little easier than the world championships ...................................   partly it is because with a limited set of 30 or so shooters compared to a world championships within 80or more shooters........................ it is easier to make the finals 

Edited April 20, 2016 by nitinsanker

[tirtha22 232]

Wrestling Updates

 

Men's Freestyle and Greco-Roman teams, including qualified wrestlers -- Yogeshwar Dutt (65kg Freestyle), Narsingh Yadav (74kg Freestyle) and Hardeep Singh (98kg Greco-Roman) -- will be undergoing special training in Tbilisi, Georgia till May 4.

 

Meanwhile, the Indian female wrestling team, which comprises Vinesh Phogat (48kg), Babita Kumari (53kg) and Geeta Phogat (58kg), will attend the training camp at Sofia, Bulgaria till May 4.

 

While the men's team would be based in Tbilisi and female team in Sofia, all of them will go to Mongolia to participate in an Olympic qualifying tournament -- 1st World Qualification tournament from April 20 to 24, before coming back to the respective cities to continue their training.

 

Whoever fails to qualify for the Olympics at the tournament in Mongolia, will then proceed to Istanbul, Turkey for the last Olympic qualifier -- 2nd World Qualification tournament, scheduled from May 6-8.

 

A 15-member India squad will be heading to Mongolia, where it will fight to acquire Olympic berths in four freestyle, five Greco-Roman and six women's quota places.

 

The race for an Olympic spot in the 57kg category of the Indian wrestling team took an ugly turn after Rahul Aware, one of the three contenders, abandoned his team en route to a training camp in Georgia, alleging bias against him. He is now facing a disciplinary action after being pulled up by the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI).

The wrestlers left for Tbilisi, Georgia, last Thursday for a month-long camp ahead of the penultimate Olympic qualifying tournament in Mongolia later this month. However, when Aware reached the Delhi airport with rest of the contingent, he found out that the WFI had already processed Mongolia visa for Sandeep Tomar, his rival in the same weight category. Miffed that he was not being given an opportunity to compete in the qualifiers, Aware boarded a flight to Mumbai instead of Georgia, deciding not to be a part of the training camp as well.

The WFI defended its decision by saying that since Aware blew his chance by not managing to win a quota at the recently-concluded Asian Olympic Qualifying tournament, they gave chance to the second-best wrestler in the 57kg category for the Mongolia event. In case Tomar too fails to qualify, then the federation will send Amit Dahiya, who represented India at the London Olympics, for the final qualifying tournament in Turkey next month. At the selection trials last month in Delhi, Aware had emerged on top, beating Tomar in the final while Dahiya finished third.

 

[Prashanth 168]

Brazil-born former Costa Rican midfielder Alexandre Guimaraes will coach Mumbai City FC in next season’s Indian Super League. He has had successful stints with Costa Rica’s national team that qualified for FIFA World Cups in 2002 and 2006. The 56-year-old has been manager of the Panama national team, several clubs in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, UAE and China.

[Prashanth 168]

FIFA/AFC should allow India to send Indian Super league champion to the AFC Championships and the winner of I-League to the AFC Cup rather than to the present system of I-League winner to AFC Championships and Winner of federation Cup to the AFC Cup. What do the rest say on this.

Edited April 20, 2016 by Prashanth

[Prashanth 168]

Bonny China Masters Grand Prix Gold

Indians Move into R2

Pranav /Akshay  in MD

Jwala / Ashwini  in WD

PV Sindhu          in WS

Prannoy              in MS

 

Manu /Sumeeth in MD loose in R1

[Prashanth 168]

AIFF confirms ISL, I-League merger in 2018

 

The All India Football Federation (AIFF) is all set to revamp the country's footballing structure, by merging both I-league and Indian Super League (ISL) by 2018. However, the governing body is not terming the association a merger as it is looking to change several nuances within its administrative hierarchy as well.

AIFF General Secretary Kushal Das said, “We have had discussion regarding changing the entire structure. We are not merging both the leagues, but we are attempting to create a completely new one that will encompass India's football ecosystem. The talks are at a preliminary stage, but the decision has been taken.

He added, “Our initial plans was to complete this by 2017 so that it would go in tandem with the U-17 World Cup. However, we have taken a collective decision on not rushing this, hence our last date for execution will be late 2018.”

[Suneet 16]

India's lowly performance in shooting continues with Heena Sidhu struggling in the 25m pistol. Not her specialty but getting desperate for a medal.