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Congratulations Neeraj for this Glorious moment…. So last was the best

Good to see Saina winning her first game after Rio olympics..

Happy diwali to all the members

On 9/14/2016 at 20:49, Govind said:

 

Well done gaganjeet bhullar... he was actually playing better than Anirbhan 2 to 3 yrs back and then huge loss of form...hope this win gives him confidence back

USA hegemony speak a lot in Olympics... For sure if they were Russians then many would have cried foul...surprisingly no one is even questioning here...

http://m.eonline.com/news/794301/simone-biles-releases-a-statement-regarding-drug-testing-leak

Wada showing its color... anyways might is always right..simone biles was tested positive but no action

Advani played so well till semi final and one moment he came close to tie with ding...somehow his long pots didnt work well but his safety play is the best in modern snooker game ...even ding acknowledged that

Such a proud moment for all of us ...thanks thangavelu and Varun Bhatia...national anthem played atlast in rio

6 hours ago, kapil857 said:

 

NRAI actually had a detailed selection policy for the Olympics which considered scores from international tournaments as well as selection trials. It involved considering your best 6 scores across tournaments and trials + bonus points for doing well in international tournaments and winning quota. And they followed the policy to the tee. Its just that all the quota winners anyways came out on top as per the criteria of the policy. The one person who didnt come out on top was Sanjeev Rajput as Gagan finished 2nd in the 3 position category ahead of Sanjeev despite Sanjeev receiving significant bonus points for winning the quota.

 

A few people on this forum have also said that Pooja Ghatkar should have been selected ahead of Ayonika but Ayonika was selected not because she won quota but because she was way ahead of Pooja in the selection policy (and Ayonika's quota didnt matter at all. As per NRAI policy, winning a quota or performance equivalent to winning a quota gets you 3 merit points. BOTH Ayonika and Pooja got those 3 merit points based on their performance in the Delhi qualfier since Pooja's performance was quota-equivalent with a shooter having finished below her getting a quota)

 

Also, NRAI officially declared that Manavjeet was selected ahead of Kynan based on the selection policy for Kynan's quota. And then there was an application with ISSF to award Sanjeev's quota to Kynan. So, had ISSF turned down the quota exchange request, it would have been Kynan mising out and not Manavjeet.

 

So we don't have pure trials in shooting but it is a detailed policy based on scores achieved in trials and at international tournaments. And it works for an unpredictable sport like shooting where you don't want selection to be based on a single trial as anything can happen on a given day.

 

However, wrestling is a far more predictable sport than shooting with the stronger wrestler generally coming out on top. Also, it is unfortunately a sport where every country has only one representative in major international tournaments and thus u cannot compare the performance of two wrestlers at the same event. WFI anyways selects the wrestlers to represent India at all tournaments, except the Olympics, through trials. Why not even use trials for the Olympics ?? Trials are required to ensure that (a) the best wrestler at the time of the olympics actually goes and (b) to provide a chance to a wrestler like Amit Kumar who got injured at the time of quota tournament but is healed by the time of the olympics.

 

At best, what they can do is give an advantage to the quota winners at the trials. They can adopt the chess model where you have a challengers' trial for all the wrestlers other than the quota winner. The winner of this challenger's trial then challenges the quota winner for the olympic berth. If required, this final trial can also be a best-of-3 with the quota winner given the first win by default. So that would imply that the quota winner has to defeat his challenger just once whereas the challenger has to beat the quota winner twice. 

 

Further, such trials can even be televised to make wrestling in India more popular. There was so much hype this time for a Sushil vs Narsingh trial. WFI missed a huge opportunity to hold it, televise it, and earn some moolah. In my opinion at least, trials are now a necessity with India having multiple wrestlers in the same category at around the same level.

Wrestling match against Narsingh and Sushil would have seriously done good for the sport in our country, these trials should be arranged for all sports and they all need to be televised as only during Olympic phase other sports get huge importance and they should capitalize this opportunity also in terms of Olympic trials...

Sathiyan played very well against robinot Quentin lost 3-4

Awesome analysis Dolby... somewhere in case of Narsingh, i feel officials didnt want russian federation to be upset with narsingh inclusion, also they wanted to prove a point that no one will be given a chance in case of doping...

Saurav got defeated against Ramy ashour... former world no 1 and a great player.....

This Olympics from my point of view was very bad for India... From Doping taint to Minister Goof ups our nation prestige was in stake.... We got solace from Sindhu and Sakshi ( who were not even in our top 10 medal expected candidates)....In our work culture we are very good with Jugaad and we expect this jugaad to work even in our sports... Unfortunately Olympics was a clear learning that only hard work dedication and practice can fetch medals...Jugaad may help you to qualify and after that nothing... If we expect miracles in next 4 years then that will be wrong but one good thing is that lot of indians followed Olympics... lot of discussions in social media... But then again we indians will love to see our kids excelling in studies, dancing and singing... The number of shows happening in TV with respect to Dancing and singing even if 10% of such events take place to capture good sports person for various sports then we may see some increase in our tally....

Its good that today people watch Badminton match with a lot of interest but unfortunately this will be the last badminton match  they will watch until n unless another player reach medal round in future Olympics from our country... This attitude is a problem... Support them in each of there success so that they will treat Olympics as a normal tournament...

It was too early to start commenting on Aditi performance... Got some messages where people wrote one more lady Aditi silently moving towards Golf finals... First of all there is nothing called as Golf finals... In Golf there is cut applied after 2 rounds where players scoring below that score can no more continue the game but in Olympics they didnt have any cut so all the players will play 4 rounds irrespective of scores... This is an 18 hole game where first second round wont give any idea about the winner ... Infact even the third round cannot give a real picture.... Aditi participating for our country in Golf is itself a very big achievement... She is very strong girl and seems to have a great future... she is already going to US for USLPGA qualification rounds... But expecting medal from her was too much....

she is Tied 23rd position ... 7 shots behind leader...

Congrats Sindhu... 

This thread especially India thread was always active....  

Sindhu the first woman to win medal other than bronze...hats off

Atlast.... Awesome performance Sakshi 

This Olympics is not going good for us... Narsingh Yadav should not be dsq

Well played srikAnth .... Lin Dan next ... He can be defeated too 

Dipa karmakar...you made us proud...