thala07fan

Or maybe not

I think Higuchi vs Aman might be closer than people think

Mirabai Chanu finished 4th in her category. The 6th number 4 finish for India this Olympics so far

https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/sport-others/vinesh-phogat-likely-to-be-disqualified-to-miss-paris-olympic-medal-9499953/

Vinesh is going to miss out on the medal! Potentially a gold 

https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/sport-others/vinesh-phogat-likely-to-be-disqualified-to-miss-paris-olympic-medal-9499953/

Vinesh is going to miss out on the medal! Potentially a gold one

Will Mondo go for more?

Duplantisssssssssssss

All the seeded wrestlers have bowed out from the top half of the women's 68 kg freestyle category in the R16 itself

Idk how the judges didn't give that fight to Nishant.

2 hours ago, LDOG said:

 

I won't say!  but here are my points of view individually:

 

-Germany is a bit stronger than in Tokyo.

-Argentina is a bit stronger too.

-GB is stronger.

-India is weaker.

-Belgium is weaker.

-Spain is stronger.

-Netherlands is pretty much the same level.

-Australia is weaker.

 

Overall this is a much more open tournament compared to Tokyo when Belgium v Australia was the obvious final beforehand. I can see any of these teams taking medals.

Coming into the Olympics, I definitely thought India was weaker than in Tokyo. However the hockey we've produced has been of a very high quality so far. Our passing, use of aerials and defensive structure seems much better overall, even though a bit of the attacking flair/effectiveness has gone down. 

Anyhow, here are my predictions for the knockouts: 

Germany vs Argentina: Germany win

Great Britain vs India: India win

Netherlands vs Australia: Netherlands win

Spain vs Belgium: Belgium win 

Germany vs India: India win 

Netherlands vs Belgium: Belgium win

Germany vs Netherlands: Netherlands win

Belgium vs India: Belgium win

🥇 Belgium 

🥈 India

🥉 Netherlands

6 minutes ago, sounak said:

I think it is good that we avoided Lee and Wang from TPE. They are on fire now.

That's true. Although I'm most fearful of the Chinese duo. They've beaten Satwik Chirag recently and hold a 4-1 lead in H2H over them.

Not the best draw for us in the men's doubles, with a very strong top half of the draw including Satwik Chirag.

Intanon beats Tai Tzu Ying in the important group stage clash.

Swapnil Kusale qualifies for the men's 50m rifle 3 positions Final

Belgium just destroyed Australia 6-2

And Amit goes out in the first round again

5 minutes ago, Roamingrover86 said:

Yessss  our 2nd medal & we won against Korea 

 

Manu creates history our first multiple medalist in a single Olympics 

 

🥉for us in 10m AP mixed 

Actually Norman Pritchard was the first Indian to win multiple medals at a single Olympics when he won two silver medals in 1900 (under British rule). Manu is the first to it in independent India though. Unreal achievement nonetheless 

Rafa beats Fucsovics and we are in for Novak vs Rafa in round 2 at Paris 2024

2 hours ago, Siddhartha Talukdar said:

I think what people have missed here is that we have 3 shooters reaching individual finals already. We had just 2 in Rio and 1 in Tokyo. This is itself should be a redemption of what hard work NRAI has done

And we still have some of our strongest events in the mixed 10m Air pistol, women's 25m pistol and women's 50m Rifle 3 positions still to go!!!

3 hours ago, Ogreman said:

Olympic Predictions (M92+kg, Predicted Medal Table)

 

M92+kg

 

Gold- Bakhodir Jalolov (1) , Silver- Kamshybek Kunkabayev (2) , Bronze- Joshua Edwards (4) , Bronze- Abner Texeira (6) .

 

	Seedings
1	Joshua Edwards (USA)	8	Mahammad Abdullayev (AZE)
2	Delicious Orie (GBR)	7	Kamshybek Kunkabayev (KAZ)
3	Mourad Kadi (ALG)	6	Abner Texeira (BRA)
4	Bakhodir Jalolov (UZB)	5	Teremoana Jnr (AUS)

 

 

Bracket 1

 

My pick- Joshua Edwards (4) .

 

Very interesting bracket to start off. Nelvie Tiafack (5)  and Mahammad Abdullayev (11)  reacquaint with each other after Abdullayev beat Tiafack to qualify for the Olympics back at European games. Tiafack had won when they met prior to that. Tiafack is inconsistent and both he and Abdullayev are quite similar being kind of traditional bruising powerful super-heavyweights that don’t move a whole lot. Diego Lenzi (10)  has taken a couple of quality scalps earlier this year (Orie and Ghadfa Drissi el Aissaoui) but has an uphill task against Panam champion Josh Edwards. Edwards is a tidy boxer but physically he is not as built as most heavyweights and whether it is Tiafack or Abdullayev, it will be interesting to see how he deals with that level of power. I like his chances though.

 

Bracket 2

 

My pick- Bakhodir Jalolov (1) .

 

Defending champion Bakhodir Jalolov is the most clear cut favourite in boxing, last lost a fight in 2018 and has beaten most of his primary competition here including Teremoana Jnr (3)  who is his toughest opponent between him and a medal. Teremoana packs a serious punch and should be able to dispatch Dmytro Lovchynskyi (14)  in his opening fight. Omar Shiha (13)  enjoyed a stroke of luck to qualify with a cut ending Danabieke Bayikewuzi’s hopes but got no luck here and will do well to last 3 rounds against Jalolov.

 

Bracket 3

 

My pick- Abner Texeira (6) .

 

On paper the weakest of the four brackets. Both last 16 fights should be fairly straightforward wins for Djamili Aboudou Moindze (12)  against Mourad Kadi (16)  who does have the odd good win on his resume and Abner Texeira against the tricky Gerlon Congo (15)  who Texeira has beaten before. That would set up an fascinating quarter final between Aboudou Moindze and Texeira with both boxers having beaten each other in the past, with the most recent contest going in favour of the home boxer. With home advantage I really feel like I should pick the Frenchman but I do think Texeira is the significantly more talented boxer and as such expect him to produce the goods when it counts.

 

Bracket 4

 

My pick- Kamshybek Kunkabayev (2) .

 

Quality bracket this where all four of these boxers have significant pedigree. 2021 world silver medallist Davit Chaloyan (9)  meets European champion Delicious Orie (8) . Orie has had some bad losses of late and the Brits comparing him to Anthony Joshua is delusional but he is talented and for me should beat Chaloyan. World bronze medallist Ghadfa Drissi el Aissaoui (7)  faces Olympic bronze medallist Kamshybek Kunkabayev in what should be quite a close fight. Ghadfa Drissi el Aissaoui is a big man and consistent operator but I will back Kunkabayev although he is the boring pick. Kunkabayev against Orie should also be close but I’m not that convinced by Orie so let’s back Kunkabayev.

 

Medal Fights

 

Josh Edwards (4)  vs Bakhodir Jalolov (1) , Abner Texeira (6)  vs Kamshybek Kunkabayev (2) .

 

While I think Edwards is talented, he won’t get close to Jalolov. I’m close to certain the second semi-final will be different than this prediction but if this was the particular semi-final, I’ll stick with the boring pick of Kunkabayev. The final would then be a renewal of the Kunkabeyev vs Jalolov rivalry although calling it a rivalry is generous as Jalolov has always won this matchup comfortably consistently.

 

Gold- Bakhodir Jalolov , Silver- Kamshybek Kunkabayev , Bronze- Joshua Edwards , Bronze- Abner Texeira .

 

Predicted medal table
	Predicted Gold	Predicted Silver	Predicted Bronze	Total medals	Contenders (Top 8 in rankings)
Uzbekistan	3	1	1	5	8
Turkey	2	0	0	2	3
Kazakhstan	1	2	1	4	6
France	1	1	1	3	4
Ireland	1	0	2	3	7
Chinese Taipei	1	0	1	2	3
Italy	1	0	0	1	3
North Korea	1	0	0	1	2
Canada	1	0	0	1	1
Ukraine	1	0	0	1	1
China	0	3	0	3	6
India	0	1	3	4	4
USA	0	1	2	3	4
Cuba	0	1	1	2	5
Philippines	0	1	1	2	3
Thailand	0	1	0	1	3
Romania	0	1	0	1	1
Brazil	0	0	3	3	6
Bulgaria	0	0	2	2	4
Georgia	0	0	2	2	2
Australia	0	0	1	1	3
Colombia	0	0	1	1	3
Congo	0	0	1	1	3
Spain	0	0	1	1	2
Azerbaijan	0	0	1	1	1
Dominican Republic	0	0	1	1	1
South Korea	0	0	1	1	1
Great Britain and NI	0	0	0	0	3
Serbia	0	0	0	0	2
Algeria	0	0	0	0	1
Croatia	0	0	0	0	1
Denmark	0	0	0	0	1
Refugee team	0	0	0	0	1
Germany	0	0	0	0	1
Mexico	0	0	0	0	1
Norway	0	0	0	0	1
Panama	0	0	0	0	1
Poland	0	0	0	0	1
Tajikistan	0	0	0	0	1
Zambia	0	0	0	0	1

 

So I have Uzbekistan expected to top the medal table with Turkey in a very precarious second, Decent and successful games for Kazakhstan, Ireland, France and Chinese Taipei. I have India winning a miraculous four medals and while the USA and China would be happy with 4 and 3 medals respectively the lack of gold would frustrate them. I should note this is already wrong as Oh Yeonji  lost today to Wu Shih-yi .

A very good and detailed analysis on the boxing draws. I was very concerned about India's boxing contingent, after the draws were announced as our star boxers Nikhat and Lovlina were handed exceptionally tough draws. Though I'm not quite sure about Nikhat's silver prediction, anything in the range of 4 medals from boxing will be a miracle and we'll gladly take it 

9 minutes ago, sounak said:

Apart from shooting it has been a good day for us.

Manu did qualify for the finals..Sarabjot's non qualification probably the only disappointment for today. The mixed rifle event was always going to be very difficult for us.

And Sarabjot at 31/33!!!

Not a good start in the 10m men's Air pistol qualification for us.

14 minutes ago, Somebodyyouknow said:

Great start to the Olympics!!
India finish 3rd in men's team ranking round

 

Will face Italy/Kazak in quarter's and probably France (or Columbia/Turkey) in semis. 

 

3rd will play 6th right? Hence will face Turkey/Colombia in quarters.

5 minutes ago, Somebodyyouknow said:

And we jinxed her. A 56 series.

Another one!