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Tababi Devi reaches semis

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Tababi Devi faces Bhutanese Judoka in 1st round at 6.30pm....Later faces the difficult Kosovo athlete in quarters ...this part of draw is good... Only Kosovo athlete is difficult

OK.. But I wonder if they should have shown shooting ; at least 1 final....

Is there any event being shown now

Very good news ..but may I know why?

Out of 16 athletes 8 qualify for final A and other for final B... And then the results are calculated .So it's not the combined result..

Continued suspension of Chinese means Jeremy is favoured to win youth Olympic gold provided he repeats his performance of 273kg from the trials... By entry totals he is already in 1st but since it can always change nothing can be said... However no other lifter has 270+ PB....

Led in by their boys hockey 5s captain,21 member contingent of Vanuatu will also compete in beach volleyball and athletics... But the ones to be watched are the 2 hockey 5s team... Having a team larger than many nations including Serbia and Denmark is great... And they are one of the watchable teams on the 1st competition day in hockey 5s...if it's shown by the Olympics channel....

Will have 14 athletes in 5 sports, 12 girls and 2 boys... That means an incredible 85.7% of the contingent are girls.... It would be nice to cheer on the Tongan girls futsal team to score a couple of goals in the tournament.....

Flag bearer for - Manu Bhaker (Shooting)... Expected one ...Even though she has done so well in many senior world cups... Of late has been unpredictable. Her recent 593 in qualifying in asiad was good ..missing world record by 1 but went medalless in finals .. In 25m pistol..So would be interesting to watch her here...

Me too... I wish were inspired by Indonesia and added bridge to the programme... I would have participated at least in qualifiers... Even my 18th birthday is in a couple of days later... On 11th of this month.. So I could have been in qualifying at least

https://www.ijf.org/competition/1593/judoka_athletes?id_weight=69....The list is quite weak... They merge 2 weights here so that the 2nd weight I'm not sure... But the Spanish and Ukrainian could be good... Yet so many countries from developing nations including our neighbours Nepal and Bhutan are there... The No 1 in the category is a classic example... She is qualified as no 1 bcoz she participated in many tournaments but when it came to big tournaments... She has lost in first rounds... So it tells about the system... More you participate more you earn... TT : Sometimes rankings may not depict a lot... The Chinese and Japanese are good... And Manav took so many tournaments to qualify losing to many unknown athletes... In girl's Archana Kamath is from my state.. She attended the college 1 day whole year yet got 7th rank in 12th exams (I too wrote the 12th exam this year. and getting 97% is not that easy... I missed from being in top 20 by couple of marks ..)..So may be she takes more time for books than practice But that's common in India

Those predictions were on June 12th and things have changed a lot from there.. Many reallocations have taken place... So obviously that looks over optimistic now..... Here are the new chances. Athletics - javelin throw 1 medal.. 1s If the rule of 2001 and 2002 born only wasn't there.. Things could have been different.. Boxing -1g Jyothi... Badminton -1g/s Provided Lakshya doesn't crumble under pressure. Vaishnavi was ranked 4th and had a chance after winning certain tournaments.. But an injury doesn't give her so much chance now . Shooting -We should get 3 medals but it's not a very predictable sport... So at least 1 gold and 1s/b must come... Weightlifting -1s/b Jeremy Wrestling -Mansi should reach the finals but there she may face the Japanese(provided she beats Europeans first) .. Simran doesn't have any Chinese or Japanese to worry about.... But one American and a Mongolian... Hockey -We are the top 4 teams in the tournament in both categories..... We have a strong side in both boys and girls... We almost choked to Malaysia in the qualifiers in boys and girls lost to China.... Both these could turn as re match for bronze... The girls side though has a vast experience.... And one can not underestimate the forward in senior team Lalremsiami.... So 1-2 medals Judo -Tababi Devi 1 gold I thought 1 medal but now she is the favourite for the gold all of a sudden..... So 9-10 medals including 3-4 golds

#8 days to go for Buenos Aires 2018 Hotstar has Olympic rights but hopefully they don't show it.... Bcoz if they do, they'll only show highlights...and block other websites.... While Olympic channel will show some events live

#11 days to go for the wonderful opening ceremony at obelisk.... Youth Olympic Games 2018..... So many events at those games are going to be fun to watch..... Futsal for example can be enjoyed as neutral with Cameroon, T&T,Tonga ,Bolivia, Chile, Dominican Republic all in girl's 's futsal...Besides Spain and Portugal.... And in men we have Solomon Islands, Panama, Iraq etc with Brazil....

Iran is no powerhouse in youth and junior categories... Their under 23 team lost in Asiad and here u 16 team lost to Indonesia 2-0.....

It's the final list.. I'm pretty sure. Japanese judokas didn't participate in many qualifying tournaments

Here are the complete list of judokas qualified in youth Olympics ..... https://www.ijf.org/competition/1593/judoka_nations Someone update it on Wikipedia.... With less than 15 days to go no Wikipedia page for Judo at youth Olympics still

There is a lot of improvement in the swimming and diving teams... I just hope they can participate in Asian Championships and world championships... Bcoz we don't send them to compete with the best.... And India relies on individual talent... Who knows one day we could get a great young diver... Bcoz not everyone can be a sportsman but that sportsman can come from anywhere in any form..

Last action packed day coming up in these Asian games... Before the curtains are finally drawn on Sunday till 2022......

No Malaysia is going to win a historic gold

Gold to India in women's 4*400m relay..... 5th consecutive time we have won gold in this.... Bahrain despite having very good individual imported athlete has to settle for silver...We won it bcoz of our strategy.... Fielding the best athlete first ...#Hima Das

India lodges protest against Bahrain in the mixed relay after the Bahranian runner stays on Hima's lane.. And the protest has been accepted ...