Siddhartha Talukdar

Jyothi Yarraji and Tejas Shirse won 100m H and 110m H events respectively at Harry Schulting Games, Netherlands yesterday https://www.athletics.app/wedstrijd/chronoloog/40325/ While Jyothi shall qualify easily as she is 29th in rankings (40 to qualify) it gives a huge boost to Tejas Shirse who is 63rd (40 to qualify). Also the big event to watch today is Doha Diamond League where Neeraj Chopra and Kishore Jena shall participate around 10pm today. https://doha.diamondleague.com/programme-results-doha/#baseFrame#__athDisciplineRoot#DisciplineInit#Doha_2024_TIMING_ATHMJAVELIN-DIAMOND---FNL-000100--_json##main-frame_content#__athLongJump#LongJumpSubFrame#Doha_2024_TIMING_ATHMJAVELIN-DIAMOND---FNL-000100--_json LiveStream at Jio Cinema: https://www.jiocinema.com/sports/athletics/neeraj-s-road-to-paris-begins-at-doha/3964354

https://www.youtube.com/@jayjay4932/streams https://results.ittf.com/ittf-web-results/html/TTE2954/results.html#/results/2024-05-10

Big names with an eye on Olympics participating in National Federation Competition below Entry List - https://indianathletics.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Event-Wise-Bib-List-27th-National-Federation-Senior-Athletics-Competition-2024..pdf Interestingly relay runners who participated in Bahamas are here and so is Neeraj Chopra Men 400m - AMOJ JACOB, RAJESH RAMESH 800m - MOHAMMED AFSAL 400m Hurdles - SANTHOSH KUMAR 3000m SC - BALKISHAN Long Jump - JESWIN ALDRIN Triple Jump - ABDULLA ABOOBACKER, PRAVEEN CHITHRAVEL Shot Put - TAJINDERPAL SINGH TOOR Javelin Throw - NEERAJ CHOPRA, KISHORE KUMAR JENA, MANU D P Women 400m - DANDI JYOTHIKA, POOVAMMA RAJU, JISNA MATHEW, AISHWARYA MISHRA, VITHYA RAMRAJ, 2 SUBHA VENKATESAN 800m - CHANDA 400m Hurdles - VITHYA RAMRAJ Long Jump - NAYANA JAMES, SHAILI SINGH Shot Put - ABHA KHATUA

I think with Cricket its fine. First Cricket needs to attract more nations and existing smaller nations to invest more in Cricket. T20 Cricket is the only viable format for multi-sport events as it can be completed within two weeks and much more chance of underdog beating better teams and results being known till the last ball. Currently, longer format like 50 over and Test are not much engaging because of huge difference in quality between top 4 nations - Australia, England, India and South Africa and the rest. Once there are much more nations and more investment in Cricket, longer formats will be more engaging

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Yes will get an Olympic House for the first time https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/ril-ioa-to-host-first-ever-india-house-at-paris-olympics-2024-11658931558986.html

https://worldathletics.org/stats-zone/road-to/7153115?eventId=10229988

And so do the men!!! Our contingent increases by 8 now. We still have a chance for qualifying for mixed team if we get top 2 timings among non qualified nations. There is Asian Relays later this month https://www.asianathletics.com/events/asian-relays/

Women's team qualifies for Olympics

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won't be able to participate in World Relays due to visa issues. They were a contender for the quotas https://island.lk/us-visa-issues-deny-sri-lanka-olympic-qualifying-opportunity-in-bahamas/#google_vignette

Officially we add 7 more athletes as Badminton qualification ends today. So the players who qualify are Men's Singles: HS Prannoy and Lakshya Sen Women's Singles: PV Sindhu Men's Doubles: Chirag Shetty / Satwiksairaj Rankireddy Women's Doubles: Ashwini Ponnappa / Tanisha Crasto

All depends on Athletics now. Key tournaments coming up next like World Relays and Indian Grand Prix 1

No quota in Fencing . But Taniksha came close and is for the future. Hope Fencing Association gives more exposure in next cycle

Maheshwari Chauhan wins quota in women's skeet!! Shooting contingent now 21

It's the same ranking but as on June 2024

Nethra Kumanan qualifies in ICLA6 after taking the ENP spot in Last Chance Regatta and finished 5th overall.

Who is eligible for ENP in ILCa6, is it or

Whom do you feel is likely to take the Universality quotas. Will it be and in men and and in women?

Boosts team rankings. I feel team qualification is almost confirmed; however the women would have to fight it out

Qualified for mixed race walking relay event as pair of Arshdeep Singh and Priyanka Goswami finished 18th in World Race walking relays. As quota goes to NOC we can choose to select upto 2 athletes extra in our contingent https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-race-walking-team-championshi/antalya-24/live/7199325/30261/46704/results#

I am aware of that rowing timings are based on natural factors and thus there is no 'World record' similar to athletics as no two courses are the same. I only mentioned we have a chance of additional quota and there's no harm in participating in last qualifier

Still have hope for LM2x qualification. In 2023 World Championships, the last spot was taken by who did 6:26.49, then it was with 6:28.49, then (6:28.66), (6:31.08). While pair of Arvind Singh and Arjun Lal Jat did 6:28.18 in Asian Games and 6:30.11 in Asian qualifiers, so we can assume they can do 6:30 again. Also hasn't won a quota yet and is entering European qualifiers in LM2x event. FYI there are two quotas available for Final qualifiers So fingers crossed!!

Potential Comparison 2024 vs 2020 Archery : 4 vs 4, no addition Athletics : 32 vs 26, +6 Badminton : 7 vs 4, +3 Boxing : 6 vs 9, -3 Equestrian : 1 vs 1, 0 Fencing : 2 vs 1, 1 Hockey : 16 vs 32 , -16 Golf : 4 vs 4 , 0 Gymnastics : 1 vs 1 , 0 Judo : 1 vs 1 , 0 Rowing : 3 vs 2, 1 Sailing : 2 vs 4, -2 Shooting : 21 vs 15 , 6 Swimming : 2 vs 3 , -1 Table Tennis : 6 vs 4 , 2 Tennis : 3 vs 3 , 0 Weightlifting : 1 vs 1 , 0 Wrestling : 8 vs 7 , 1 Total 120 vs 122, -2

Our contingent size might be higher than Tokyo even though women's hockey team isn't there