Siddhartha Talukdar

Any news of Asian Archery Championships

Isn't Hong Kong the best team in Asia

Watched Kidambi in last few years, I feel his problems are more of low confidence and psychological rather than skill or fitness. Just yesterday against Chen Long, he played a lot of cross smashes but not one smash today. Cross-court smash is of key shots in Men's Singles and not one attempt of smash winner indicates extreme low confidence. In my opinion, Kidambi must visit a sports psychologist, play lower grade tournaments to regain confidence

Is everyone afraid of Kidambi . Chen Long retired after 1 set and Kidambi moves to semis

Everyone is panicking about Badminton qualifications but qualification is not that difficult even for Kidambi, Ashwini-Sikki, and either of XD pairs. Breaking it up by events Men Singles: Two players from same NOC need to be in top 16 for qualify. Sai Praneeth is comfortable in 8th but no other players in top 16. There are many likely candidates who have potential like Kashyap, Prannoy or Lakshya Sen but lets focus on Kidambi, who is currently about 17000 points away from 16th spot which looks tough at first sight but if we have a look at how ranking system works then its not that difficult. Kidambi is currently playing only Grade 2 tournaments and just participating in them garners atleast 2000-3000 points. Agreed that even the top 16 are also participating in these events, but still Kidambi even reaches quarterfinals consistently he can qualify. Women Singles: Sindhu is safe in 6th but Saina is only 8000 points away and needs minimum consistent quarterfinal finishes to qualify Women Doubles: Doubles is generally top heavy and the pairs from other nations are average. The pairs till Dutch pair Piek-Sienen are consistent and they should qualify. Ashwini-Sikki should qualify in top 14 as last two spots are likely to be continental quotas. They are just 2000 points away from the Russian pair, they are also probably better than the Canadian pair who are in 12th Mixed Doubles: The question is not whether an Indian pair will qualify, but which pair will; either of Satwik-Ashwini or Pranaav-Sikki. My money is on Satwik-Ashwini. Both of them are on 30000 points and 4000 points away from 14th place. Either of them can overtake the French at 12th and German at 11th Ranking System is given below https://extranet.bwfbadminton.com/docs/document-system/81/1466/1471/Section 5.3.3.1 - World Ranking System.pdf

Atleast Kidambi moves to Second Round after Momota chooses not to participate. He should reach the quarterfinals as he would face either Brice Leverdez or Sourabh Verma

Please try to be in shoes of Bhavani Devi. There was never a history of fencing in India and neither there are any past athletes to boast about. Federations get funds from Sports Ministry based on their past performance and realistic medal hopes in future (as far as I know). Bhavani Devi finished in last 16 of the World Championships yet got scant attention in media. Her Facebook page gets few hundred likes. Only those who follow fencing or Indians keeping track of Olympic qualifications recognise how big an achievement this is just to qualify for the Olympics. Now after all this should she forego her quota spot even though she won't come any near a medal but still may get media attention like DIpa Karmakar in 2016 and inspire some youngsters to take up the sport, which may help rise of fencing in India

Both Indians in Men's Trap final

The kid Pratap Singh Tomar is only 18 years old and this was perhaps his first Senior medal. His ISSF profile is below https://www.issf-sports.org/athletes/athlete.ashx?personissfid=SHINDM0302200101

So far, we can get a quota in Men's Skeet and Men's Rifle three Positions

Satwik-Chirag duo could be a dark horse among medal contenders. They beat 6th seed Japanese duo in China Open

Chinki Yadav in top 8 in Precision Stage of 25m Pistol. Rapid fire stage to take place tomorrow and combination of the two scores will determine qualification to final Hope we get a quota in this and perhaps re-allocate it somewhere

Shreyasi Singh loses in shoot-offs

Is Anish getting a quota based on ranking in 25m pistol

http://www.multipullsoft.it/Live/showMatchMobile?matchs=DZVYY115.161.31 It opens in smartphone

Day 1 in Men's Trap, Prithviraj Tondaiman is leading so far

http://www.multipullsoft.it/Live/showMatchMobile?matchs=DZVYY115.161.31 Trap live results

I am a bit confused, was there any Final in 10m Air Rifle as its not showing in results.sius

Doesn't have a host quota already

https://results.sius.com/ShootEvent.aspx?Championship=6694e7ea-eb53-43bb-91b4-766d8f993c37&ShootEvent=AR60

Deepak Kumar in top 8 accompanied by 3 Chinese, 1 each from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand. China and Japan have quota already so he has to be better than the others. Big news is that Sanjeev Rajput has achieved MQS by scoring 626 (MQS is 595), so even though Deepak Kumar can't secure quota we still would have 2 competitors in this event and 2 quotas in Mixed team

Shotgun events not showing at SIUS website at all.

Thanks for the information. I checked the FEI Zonal Rankings and even if China and Thailand don't qualify their teams, India's Fouaad Mirza still qualifies. I have 2 queries though - 1) By when should the requirements be fulfilled 2) What happens if China and Thailand don't qualify as team, does that team quota is re-allocated somewhere

Read in this forum that in Equestrian eventing team, that although China and Thailand have qualified all their riders haven't fulfilled some requirements. If these requirements aren't fulfilled by the end of the year then they won't qualify as a team. How will this affect chances of Fouaad Mirza's qualification

Team sports are round robin then knockout format with each group containing 4 to 6 teams depending on the sport. If there's any weak team granted quota on basis of Universality, those matches shall be vastly one-sided and boring to watch for the neutral. Hence, the strongest teams should be given quotas in team sports. If weak nations have to be brought up they can be done in the respective sports' World Cup or World Championships. In any case no sport has equal quality in all continents and some continents dominate. All the team sports seem to follow the same qualification pattern - one from each continent and an additional qualification tournament for the rest. Since every continent is represented, how good or bad their top team is, it somewhat fulfills the Universality principle Host nations can also be given quota on the condition they are good enough