Siddhartha Talukdar

Yup 31 entries so far in Men's Doubles https://event.itftennis.com/media/319254/319254.pdf

Sumit Nagal it is Can Rohan Bopanna still qualify with Sumit as partner. Not observing many withdrawals in doubles

How good are Jourdan Delacruz and Beatriz Piron

I think draws of all combat sports will be out after the weighing. Eagerly waiting for Table Tennis draw though

Preparations at Olympic village https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/tokyo-olympics/daily-tests-cardboard-beds-24-hours-at-tokyos-olympic-village/articleshow/84366005.cms

PM Modi will interact with Tokyo bound athletes at 5pm, 13 July. The event will be aired on DD News. The event can also be watched in below link https://pmevents.ncog.gov.in/

Bhutan - 4 Archery - 1 Shooting - 1 Judo - 1 Swimming - 1 https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=351932166297734&set=a.199674024856883 Maldives - 4 Athletics - 1 Badminton - 1 Swimming - 2 https://www.facebook.com/OlympicMDV/photos/a.674699219247119/4391977684185902/

I am one of those who never had trust in archery team. Deepika Kumari did take help from a sports psychologist. Don't know how much it has helped https://www.mykhel.com/more-sports/deepika-kumari-appoints-sports-psychologist-aims-medals-at-tokyo-olympics-065963.html?story=3

Archery minimum is zero, never had hope on Deepika Kumari. Athletics minimum is also zero as even as top javelin throwers like Magnus Kirt and Andreas and Hofmann aren't participating there are many still good throwers. Boxing maximum can be increased to 3. Hockey too is a not sure-shot medal. Although Shooting a sport of fine margins, India can look to win many medals here. The World Cup in Croatia was just a blip hopefully.

In Doubles, except for the Pan American, African and Oceania pairs, all of them are fairly competitive. But perhaps there should be 8 seeds instead of 4 to make all the groups fairly equal

In all the doubles events there shall be a draw for the knockout matches. This is done because of the match fixing controversy in 2012

A vs B (dummy group) C vs D, E vs F and so on

Olympic Badminton Draw is out Men's Singles: Sai Praneeth is in Group D with Mark Caljouw and Misha Zilberman. The match against Caljouw is tricky but Praneeth should win. He is then expected to meet Ng Ka Long in the Round of 16 Women's Singles: PV Sindhu is in group I with Cheung Ngan Yi and Ksenia Polikarpova. Again the match is tricky but Sindhu should win. She is expected to meet Kim ga Eun in Round of 16 Men's Doubles: Perhaps the toughest draw as Satwik-Chirag pair are in Group A with Minions, World no 3 Lee Yang-Wang Chi and Sean Vendy-Ben Lane.

Can you post early predictions of the quarter-finalists of all the events

Bangladesh - Team Size 6 2 - Archery 1 - Athletics 1 - Shooting 2 - Swimming https://www.thedailystar.net/sports/more-sports/news/six-olympians-shoulder-nations-hopes-2124709

Rio was unusually disastrous and controversy started even before the Olympics started - the Sushil Kumar vs Narsingh Yadav saga, Rohan Bopanna not wanting Leander Paes as his doubles partner and Dharambir Singh banned for 8 years. No major distracting news coming out except Covid related is a good sign of preparedness.

1. The two male swimmers Srihari Nataraj and Sajan Prakash who created history after becoming the first Indian swimmers to breach the 'A' qualifying mark and qualifying to the Olympics on merit. Another could be Pranati Nayak who qualified in Artistic Gymnastics on basis of bronze in 2019 Asian Championships as the Asian qualifiers were cancelled 2. Obviously table tennis men's team not qualifying. They were ranked 8th and 5th seeds going into the team qualification tournament but played below par. Also the women's team lost 2-3 to Romania which was a close encounter Srikanth Kidambi and Saina Nehwal in badminton Women's 4x400 m relay team. They were in top 16 till the very end of qualifying date but finished in 17th and just 0.02 seconds short Women's Archery team. Goofed up in both qualifying tournaments

Massive facepalm , it's 'Gurpreet' Singh who qualified not 'Gurmeet'

https://www.worldathletics.org/stats-zone/road-to/7132391?eventId=10229628 It says Gurmeet Singh qualified. Will he be part of the contingent

Wikipedia and this article says Gurmeet Singh qualified in 50 km walk. But I checked the Olympics ranking page which said Gurmeet Singh is in 62nd place while top 60 qualify. Can anyone confirm

Every nation shall be represented in Swimming and Athletics in both gender. So it's a formality of confirmation of Maana Patel's quota

The current qualification system with high qualifying marks and World Rankings are fine in my opinion. But I feel World Athletics didn't manage the qualifying system properly during the coronavirus pandemic. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, many competitions got cancelled or had travel restrictions. Hence most of the top competitions were held in Europe & North America and athletes from Asia and Africa couldn't participate. To remedy this, World Athletics could have held region wise tournament and assigned a category of C or D which offers enough ranking points. Hence it would be fair for African and Asian athletes not having the pressure to attain qualifying mark but garner enough ranking points.

Official Link: https://www.gymnastics.sport/site/events/detail.php?id=15571#loaded

No news yet on Bopanna-Divij but will get clarity by July 5. I think the Spanish pair of Pablo Andujar and Roberto Baena comes from Singles priority quota