Roamingrover86

Sonnekalb gets 🥇for Germany in 500 m speed skating (M) -🥈& -🥉

We are the only asian country to qualify in Men’s Hockey. Really surprising stat. Europe has 7/ 12 qualified teams. Taking 5/6 quotas from the last qualifiers in Oman & Spain. Safe to say, while Europe has excelled in field hockey Asia has gone backwards. Congratulations to & for the final quota places .

For anyone interested, Highlights of these matches are available in the youtube channel of CONMEBOL

Muscat, Oman SF 4- 0 Qualifies for Paris Olympics

Yes, it should cross 100. We have excelled in Shooting so far , already 4 extra qualifiers from Tokyo . I think we can add 1/2 more in shooting. So out of 16 lost in hockey we can compensate with 6 from shooting. I hope we can make up another 4-5 from athletics this time & reach break even in most of the other sports. Hopefully then we will have figure very close to Tokyo .

Anant Jeet Singh Naruka finished 2nd in Skeet (M) at the Asian shooting championships & qualifies for Paris Olympics by getting 1 of the 2 available quotas. 36th Quota place for & Athletes contingent size now up to 51 in 7 sports Our 19th Shooting quota out of a maximum possible 24. We will now have representation in all shooting events at Paris olympics.

Raiza Dhillon finished 2nd in Skeet (W) at the ongoing Asian shooting championships & qualifies for Paris Olympics by getting 1 of the 2 available quotas. 35th Quota place for & Athletes contingent size now up to 50 in 7 sports

Good day for us after a disastrous day yesterday. not only getting the two Skeet quotas but are now eligible for mixed skeet too which means we will compete in every shooting event at Paris Mathematically we can still get 24/24 quotas in shooting with the world qualifier & rankings. Good performance from our shooting team , credit to our federation NRAI. And finally with these two quota places our contingent size now goes up to 51 athletes in 7 sports

Will participate again

We need proper funding for winter sports, the sports ministry & our NOC are only focussed on Summer games & sports. Getting more kids into winter sport is never a problem but getting proper funding & raising interest in winter sport is a big problem which can only be initiated by the NOC & sports ministry. Whatever little achievement we have in winter sports is solely due to individual athletes perseverance & effort. We as a nation are slowly putting efforts to make sports a priority & not just recreational pass time. Hopefully that will translate into participation & results in winter sports too.

Our lone representative in this edition of winter youth games . Sahil Thakur ( Alpine Skiing)

Very hard to take , considering we beat this same Japanese team in Asian games last year & playing at home we should have won . We wasted so many penalty corners. This is a big setback considering we finished 4th in Tokyo olympics & now we can’t even qualify. Blame has to start with the coach as it is always , controversial team selection, leaving out experienced players but the players that played today must shoulder some of that blame. At the end we were not good enough & that has costed us a place in olympics! This will hit us hard in our overall contingent size too, don’t think we can match the numbers for Tokyo now

It could still change, Vietnam vs Iraq will not be easy. It could go either way.

One game doesn’t make a tournament. Japan are far superior in every aspect , they are so fluid & so good to watch. Today has just not been their day so far.

This will impact badly on our final contingent size. It will be tough to overcome Tokyo numbers now. Very poor from the girls, playing at home and still can’t qualify. Need to start building from now for next Asian Games too many average players in the team.

AFC Asian cup ⚽️ 0-3 Disappointed with the way we conceded those goals. The gap between the best in Asia & us is still too big .

FIH olympic qualifiers , Ranchi 2 - 2 Won 4-3 in shootout & qualified for Paris games. v for the last olympic quota place.

WOW! Big big result for Indian Tennis!! Sumit Nagal ( WR 137) took out WR 27 & seeded player Alexander Bublik in the first round proper in straight sets 6-4, 6-2 , 7-6 In grand slam tennis this is a first win by an Indian Tennis player over a Seeded player since 1989

WOW! Big big result for Indian Tennis!! Sumit Nagal ( WR 137) took out WR 27 & seeded player Alexander Bublik in the first round proper in straight sets 6-4, 6-2 , 7-6 In grand slam tennis this is a first win by an Indian Tennis player over a Seeded player since 1989

& to compete for the 2 quota places in Men’s Trap.

Olympic qualifiers ( Ranchi, India) Day 2 Pool A 1-1 6-0 Pool B 2-0 3-1 Big win for us. Keeps us in the hunt . We should be able to win against & improve our GD.

Irrespective of the quota , we will double up in both the pistol events. Esha, Rhythm or Manu will start both events. So either way we will have a full Pistol team. If we get that 10m Pistol quota at the final qualifiers, it will most likely be exchanged for either Trap/Skeet (W) quota. Probably Skeet , as it will have a mixed event at olympics.

AFC Asian cup ⚽️ 0-2 Excellent team effort from the boys against a much stronger & higher ranked opponent.

2- 0 Excellent team effort from us. A goalkeeping error resulted in the first goal. The gap in quality was evident but defensively we were so disciplined.

Vinayveer Sidhu won a 🥈& olympic quota in the R&P Asian Championships . Our 34th quota overall & Athletes contingent size is 49 in 7 sports. With this quota we have also completed a full team in R&P events for Paris.