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Panda had an issue with the coach in PGBA so shifted to PPBA. Now there isn't any good partner for Crasto in WD meaning she's only focusing on XD with Ishaan, who is not even half as good as Satwik despite being almost the same age. If she's not getting a strong and powerful jump smasher she's going no where in XD either now.

Meanwhile upcoming pair of Crasto-Panda are non existent now. Both will look for new partners in different academies.

So Sen lost in the finals

What a day for Japan X3 G, 1 each for Indonesia and Denmark. Good tournament, lots of suprises! Wonder if there is a option of exchanging match results , maybe lakshya would want today's result to get exchanged with last weeks German Open semis when he beat Axelsen !

I'll go with Ahsan / Setiawan Matsuyama/Shida and for XD

Lakshya into the finals v Axelsen what a mouthwatering final Fantastic tournament for teenagers Treesa / Gayathri ,promoted from the reserves, reaching the semis ,first ever doubles semifinalist at All England. Treesa might revolutionize world badminton in women's doubles with her powerful jump smashes. Can hold their head high despite the loss yesterday coming through the quarter of world silver medallist and olympic champions to make it to the semis

World no 1s Bas - Popor losing to faimiliar foe Higashino / Watanabe just like the Olympic Quarters

Looks set for a mouthwatering women's finals between the 2 best women currently in singles An Se Young v Yamaguchi TTY has seen her game being read by most shutlers now while fluke Olympic champion CYF showing where she currently lies.

With it's new generation of men's doubles Minions out, Fikri and Maulana into the finals

What a match between LJZ And Lakshya ! And Lakshya is into the finals

With 3 SF IN MD already! Will there be a clean sweep of podiums Perhaps Leo/Marthin will have the answer

Treesa Jolly / Gayathri Gopichand Unbelievable, Marvelous, doesn't even feel like I'll get a dream about them reaching in semis. The teenagers have been saving match points all tournament , no different against Worlds '21 silver medallist and current No 2 Lee So Hee /Shin Seung Chan today. Was sad to see they didn't make the tournament at draws, just got a last moment entry along with the Brazilian pair due to withdrawals and they have made the most of it in a field of all Olympic medallists. The last time we had won a title in this tournament was when Gayathri's father Pullela won the Men's Singles .

After 5 years we will have a medal from the event, it'll be 2 medals!

All England living up to it's expectations! Lots of upsets and an exciting yet unpredictable brand of badminton, the reason I can watch the sport all year without getting bored.

Oh well happens people think we Indians are crazy about hockey, in reality it isn't . And yeah the ministry has clearly stated in 2020 that Hockey is NOT the national sport of the country . So as per the law India has no national sport not even a unofficial national sport.

OK this is some curiosity. Maybe some die hard hockey fans who watch both ice and field hockey. Just to clarify Field Hockey is NOT one of the popular sport in India in the last 2 decades. In most websites they may still write Field Hockey but no there is nothing like popularity. The sport is popular in Punjab, Haryana, 2 small northern states, then Odisha, Delhi, Jharkhand , and few other cities including Bangalore. Rest most people only know that hockey is about hitting the ball in the goal with a hockey stick . I never played or watched the sport in person , its played in very few schools and colleges except for those places. Don't remember the last time the last time there was a district level competition in field hockey in my district, even netball, ballbadminton, squash, tennikoit , throwball has those events here. Now coming to how much hockey is shown on TV. For the youth to be interested there needs to be something shown. Despite 15 odd sports channels hockey is shown during world cups, world juniors , asia cup apart from multi sport games ( Indian matches only with the FIH commentators ) on 1 channel, if there is something live in other sports like a cricket match or EPL the sport won't be shown at all on TV instead those same sports may be shown in multiple channels with multiple languages commentary. There will be streaming of it online but I won't waste my money on subscription for field hockey, let me be honest, I don't like the sport that much, lost the interest over the years and despite the highs of Tokyo I'm more than comfortable with watching it during multi sport events only. The only sports that you can watch on Indian TV regularly is Cricket, Badminton, Kabaddi , Football, Tennis, Motor Sports, WWE (Nope, no athletics either) Don't even talk about this sport there . Since Imran Khan came to power the sport has died as he has cut the funding. The players are now part timers who practice only before tournaments . Don't ask if the sport is shown on their TV or apps, non existent.

@LuizGuilherme A curious question. Did you by any chance watch/are watching the paralympics ?

V V Para ice hockey semis... I watched a couple of games from world champs 21' and 18'Paralympics last year and I liked it. Watching the sport closely, I must say I absolutely love it. It's the best sport in the games, one of the top 3 team sports in Summer/Winter Para Games. Lots of variety, including those flicks/scoop , sledge movement, using both sticks to move the puck, reasonable speed of game . The sport has just booked itself a permanent spot every year in my schedule, I'm looking forward to watch the next season of para ice hockey .

Not sure about the Chinese being classified properly all day. After all it's the Chinese organizing committee.

Wonder how many hours of practice was required for the Chinese actors to show that the Chinese are sympathetic towards Ukraine in some of those media .

Ukraine looks like Afghanistan now

Crushing In curling as expected

2 clean sweeps for Today! Loved the women's standing Bui won the gold from almost no where with her 20/20

Walter denies Shyshkova the visually impaired 10k biathlon gold