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INDIAN ENTRY Indian National Jury selected a song which created ripples in Malayalam movie industry last year Song - Malare Movie - Premam (means "Love") Lyrics & English translation is in the spoiler/hidden content

Saina lost to Tai Tzu Ying in straight games

Great news

http://www.ittf.com/Ol_Qual/2016AS/2016_AQT_Appendix.pdf Here's the complete Asian qualification scenario.. For those who still have doubts

Not sure about it. India is without Ritu Rani

1 event which I am eagerly waiting for. The par performance should be India reaching the final

India (world no 13) lost the 1st match by a solitary goal against the host (world no 4). Didn't watch the match but the scoreline indicates that our women's team is improving day by day

Mary Kom loses to Ren Cancan

Congrats @shivathapa on winning India's 1st boxing quota for @Rio2016_en #AsiaOceaniaOlympicQualifier #Boxing #56kg #Rio2016 #RoadToRio

As expected, Devendro lost to the top seed.. Now he will have to win the box off to win Rio quota

Today was rest day... Semis will happen tomorrow Tmrw 11:30 IST (1st match of the day): Men's 46-49kg SF - Devendro vs top seed Rogen Ladon Tmrw 11:55 IST (3rd match of the day): Men's 56kg SF - Top seed Shiva Thapa vs Kairat Yeraliyev Tmrw 13:10 IST (9th match of the day): Women's 51kg SF - Top seed Mary Kom vs 4th seed Cancan Ren Mary Kom needs to win to get Rio qualification while Devendro & Shiva will get a chance in the box off with other losing semifinalist if they lose their semi match

In 52kg, Gaurav Bidhuri lost to Japanese boxer while in 69kg, Mandeep Jangra lost to Thai boxer Comfortable wins for Laishram Devendro Singh (46-49kg), Shiva Thapa (-56kg) Boxers qualified for QF (29th March - Noon session starts at 11:30 IST & Evening session starts at 16:30 IST) Men's 46-49kg: Laishram Devendro Singh vs tomorrow evening. Devendro should win comfortably Men's 56kg: Shiva Thapa vs tomorrow evening. Shiva should win comfortably Men's 60kg: Dheeraj Rangi vs tomorrow noon. Tough match. Don't expect him to pull off a surprise Men's 91kg: Parveen Kumar vs tomorrow evening. Tough to predict. Aussie is the slight favourite Women's 51kg: Mary Kom vs tomorrow noon. Should be an easy win for Mary Kom Women's 60kg: Laishram Sarita Devi vs tomorrow noon. Vietnam boxer is the favourite as per the rankings. But Sarita was banned for a long period which might have affected her ranking. So I am expecting Sarita to win comfortably PS: AIBA is the most corrupted sports body in the world & hence anything can happen. Hence I kindly request everyone not to scrutinize my predictions

Since XD performance is not considered for rankkings, I completely agree with your point about Sania partnering with Bopanna/Paes in French Open & Wimbledon. But AITA must announce the possible team by April end or May 1st week

It's too early to discuss.. The goal should be to improve the last time of 6 medals and secure atleast 2 gold medals (India has never won 2 gold medals in single Olympics) Just like we did in 2012, we will be doing complete analysis of each & every India athlete going to Rio in June/July once Indian NOC & other NOCs have announced the respective teams

In the past Olympics, Paes was in top 10 in Men's Doubles (infact the best Indian doubles player) and hence was able to form a team without any issue. But the current situation is completely different with Paes ranked 61st & Bopanna 11th. Maybe, Paes must be optimistic that he can improve the rankings in next 2 months. Right now, I see him playing only Men's Doubles with Bopanna and Sania partnering Bopanna in XD.. I have a feeling that India might not field a Women's Doubles team so that Sania can solely focus on XD unless Ankita Raina improves by huge margin (break into top 150 or 200 in singles ranking, current singles rank is 281) or Prarthana Thonbare (break into top 125 in doubles ranking, current doubles rank is 228 - improved 30 places in last week) in next 2 months

Bopanna will be Sania's partner in mixed doubles due to 2 reasons: 1) For XD, the best 16 combined single/doubles ranking are considered & not like MD or WD where anyone in top 10 is assured a quota/team. Sania & Bopanna are in top 10 whereas Paes is not even in top 20. 2) Sania plays with Bopanna for Indian Aces in IPTL and has shown good chemistry between them

Completed the remaining qualification scenario & timeline (4th post in the 1st page) Key events that are happening this week Badminton - Skycity NewZealand Open (March 22-27) Boxing - Asian & Oceania Olympic Qualifying Event, Qian'an (March 23-April 3, 2016)

I started a blog & fb page few months ago.. Wrote only 1 article in the blog.. Not getting time.. So I stopped it.. I used wordpress. Now my studies are over.. But I am wondering whether to restart or not.. Will depend on my job.. If my company prefers, I might start writing articles in my company website blog

Indian Athletes who have achieved the Qualification Standard (Max 3 per NOC in each event) Men Marathon (3) - Nitender Singh, Thonakal Gopi, Kheta Ram 20km Walk (9, max 3) - Gurmeet Singh, Krishnan Ganapathi, Sandeep Kumar, Irfan K T, Manish Singh, Davinder Singh, Baljinder Singh, Chandan Singh, Neeraj 50km Walk (2) - Sandeep Kumar, Manish Singh Shotput (1) - Inderjeet Singh Discus Throw (1) - Vikas Gowda Women 800m (1) - Tintu Lukka 3000m Steeplechase (1) - Lalita Babar Marathon (4, max 3) - O P Jaisha, Sudha Singh, Kavita Raut, Lalita Babar (Lalita announced that she will not participate in Marathon at Rio) 20km Walk (2) - Khushbir Kaur, Sapna Punia Shotput (1) - Manpreet Kaur Who can still qualify (the best effort during the qualification period is indicated) Men 200m - Dharambir Singh (20.66s - 0.16s behind) 400m - Arokia Rajiv (45.57s - 0.17s behind) Long Jump - Prem Kumar (8.01m - 0.14m behind), Ankit Sharma (7.89m - 0.26m behind) Triple Jump - Renjith Maheswary (16.45m - 0.40m behind) Javelin - Neeraj Chopra (82.23m - 0.77m behind) Women 400m - Poovamma Raju (52.60s - 0.40s behind), Anilda Thomas (52.71s - 0.51s behind) 10000m - Loganathan Surya (32:39.86s - 0:24.86s behind), O P Jaisha (33:03.91s - 0:48.91s behind) 3000m Steeplechase - Sudha Singh (9:47.31s - 0:2.31s behind) Triple Jump - Mayookha Johny (13.85m - 0.30m behind) Javelin - Suman Devi (59.45m - 2.55m behind), Annu Rani (58.85m - 3.15m behind) 4*400m Relay - 8 slots available. India is currently 9th best among the nations not qualified. But Russia is suspended. So India is upto 8th hanging by thread

Think he's rested

Sure.. Within next 3 days

Amit was beaten by Rahul Aware in the national selection trials I found a lot of improvement in our Greco wrestlers.. Very much impressed with Ravinder