India National Thread

[Prakash 27]

Welcome @Sanjib 

[Suneet 16]

On 4/26/2016 at 10:50, gvaisakh said:

Guys.. Your opinion on the recent controversy of making Salman Khan as goodwill ambassador for Rio 2016

 

My views:

1) IOA should have appointed 1 from each field (sports, bollywood, music, arts, science) rather than concentrating on bollywood alone. Olympics is historic event and cannot be compared to IPL, ISL, HIL, PBL, etc

 

2) Salim Khan, father of Salman Khan, should apologize not only to Milkha Singh but to the entire nation for insulting a sporting legend

 

3) IOA should have considered Salman Khan's track record. In 2009, he became the brand ambassador of AIFF and it did no good in creating awareness or opportunities 

 

4) IOA is stating that they are now receiving corporate funding since appointment of Salman Khan, which is a good news. Will IOA ensure that these funds go to the athletes? Only 101 days remaining for Rio 2016 and I personally feel that the funds are coming at the 11th hour which will not benefit the athletes. If IOA felt that these funds would come, then why didn't they do this atleast a year ago so that our athletes could use these funds (provided it reach them) for high level abroad training

 

 

PS: 1 good thing coming out of this controversy - atleast few more people know that Olympics is approaching

 

@Prashanth @Dolby @nitinsanker @tirtha22 @Prakash @Harsh Shah @shrikant @Suneet

I have not followed this saga much but here are my 2 cents: I am not sure why there is so much of fuss over Salman's appointment. I feel he 'can' be a great ambassador. Let's now hope that he does well and is encouraged. Criticism can be reserved once we are at a stage to judge his work as the ambassador.

[Suneet 16]

Deepika Kumari equals world record in the qualifying round of archery world cup in Shanghai. Great piece of news!! 

[Prakash 27]

4 hours ago, Prakash said:

Badminton Asia Championships 2016

Saina & Sindhu wins Round 1

Ashwini & Jawla lost

Manu & Sumeeth lost

Akshay & Prannav lost

 

Srikanth lost again in 1st round....

Edited April 27, 2016 by Prakash

[Harsh Shah 4]

An article from Indian Express says Manavajit SIngh Sandhu competes in 10m air pistol and 25m rapid fire pistol... Lol

[Prakash 27]

Pools for Rio Olympic Hockey 

Men's groups

Pool A
Australia
Great Britain
Belgium
New Zealand
Spain
Brazil

Pool B
Netherlands
Germany
Argentina
India
Ireland
Canada

Women's groups

Pool A
Netherlands
New Zealand
China
Germany
Republic of Korea
Spain

Pool B
Argentina
Australia
Great Britain
USA
Japan
India

[Prashanth 157]

PSA World Championship, 23 - 30 April 2016

 

Joshna looses in 2Round.....

Deepika looses in 1st Round...

[Prashanth 157]

AFC Cup 2016....

 

Maziya S&RC 1-1 Mohun Bagan

[Prashanth 157]

Both Mahan Bagan and Bengaluru FC move into the Round of 16 of the AFC Cup with a match to go....

[nitinsanker 179]

 

Update from day 4 from the weightlifting Olympics qualifier 

 

Women's weightlifting 

 

Good news -   quota finalised in women's weightlifting for Rio ................................   though the standings will be officially announced in three days ................... the down side ..............   Punam 204 kgs total here slight fall from worlds championship total of 208  ....................... almost surely with current scores India will finish 2nd after Vietnam ... I was expecting her to beat the Vietnamese and keep the contest open for the first place but that contest is over ....by the way ..... Saikhom  Mirabhai has broken the Indian snatch record in the 48kgs and equalled the Indian total record in 48 kgs in this event  ... a great achievement as usual not highlighted by the press 

 

 

Men's weightlifting 

 

Exciting event ....Indias Captain ........... Sathish  Sivalingam did well to finish with 23 points ...narrowly missing out on 25 points ......he was o.n a knives edge on the weight in with being weighed in at exactly 77 kgs ...one gram more he would have been knocked out .................... then he did well in the snatch and then gave the start weight  in clean and jerk as 175 kgs ( the same weight he gave to crash out of the world championships without a lift ) , luckily he moved down to 172........... and got one lift in and then missed 2 lifts at 177 ..........  

 

Currently India is on the 8th position in the qualification with 7countries  to qualify but today's performance by Satish seems to help India's qualification chances as we now have 3/4 with 19 points or above if out of the remaining four 3 of them can  average 19 points we can surely qualify ........  In our corner are three accomplished weightlifters Vikas / Venkata and Pardeep with Gurdeep back up .........  So tomorrow is a critical day for the men's weightlifters with two Indians in the fray ................... Vikas and Venkata Ragala need  to cross 19 points ( i,e finish in the top 6 out of the qualifying nations  ) to ensure that India's chances become more concrete 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 27, 2016 by nitinsanker