nitinsanker

Nice to see you posting in the blog..... Great job

It is obvious that there is no chance of anything here but hope they can win a match or so.....

I am surprised at nirmala as she seems to have come from nowhere and I think she is in her mid thirties, would have liked pooja gehlot or seema to have qualified........ Sonam I think deserves her chance, she is young and will only improve, she has dominated the cadets . .... And sakshi has not been good form Anshu again is young and deserves her place...... She will have a tough time preserving her place with pooja danda and mansi being very good wrestlers

Yes powerful squad up to 75 ...... Sachin is an unknown name...... Naman has a flawed technique unless he changes it could have a problem and. ...satish is past his age bar......

Good selection trials in boxing I feel the teams are the best we could have hoped for Mary kom ... 51 Sakshi 57 Simranjit - 60 Lovlina 69 Pooja....... 75 I am happy that sarita got defeated in the 60 because she has not done anything in the global arena at all...... I think sakshi is a really fast boxer and has age on her side, lovlina , Mary and pooja to some extent select Themselves

What was the final standings??

Interesting to see at the current point ( india would qualify bhawani devi in sabre women and may have a qualifier in epee women in the Asian qualifier with kabitha........

For men I do not see why you feel we cannot beat romania ...... Last time we met them at the world team championship if I remember right we did beat them 3-1 ... Unless their quality has improved I believe we can beat them again

Yes the 50m short course record is normally couple of seconds less than long course in the shorter races and that difference only becomes more in the longer races......... So without taking anything away from srihari or virdhawal...... I do not consider this any marked improvement

Also in the race to tokyo badminton ranking..... Good improvement by kidambi and saurabh...... I feel fairly confident that one of kidambi, saurabh , prannoy or kashyap will join sai in male singles....... Saina needs a period of rest to get completely fit..... But time for her is running out and she would 3-4 good results to bring her back

That's a great achievement...... Will it help with the seedings for the Olympics?

Well if the Italian wins the quota in the European shotgun championships...... They will be out but almost surely then it would go to turkey....... So kynan will miss out either way...... So only Anish can get a quota..... He is 11th currently has to shoot better than ukr and should be safe

Good analysis...... Also the highest ranked players in order will be in mixed pairs..... So no leeway...... Likely pairing divyansh-apurvi, x- deepak....... And saurabh-manu and yeshashwini-abhishekh....... The x would be either anjum Or velarivan..... That may go down to the last world Cup......

Since we do not have a quota in mixed, only the shooters who are in the squad ;can be pair events. NRI as to decide who would be the 2 ten metre rifle shooters..... They would be conducting a trial I think it would be apurvi and valairavan...... They would need to exchange chinki yadavs for anjum if she gets dropped from 10M rifle and then anjum could shoot in 3 position and also be part of pairs if required...... Let us see who the shooters in 10M rifle are likely to be.........

This is the 2019 world ranking..... Do check... Possibly you are looking at the general world ranking..... I am using this as the basis as most of the young indian shooters were shooting in the junior section at the world championships

was looking at world shooting rankings for 2019 released today .... This will be the end of the year rankings and gives some picture of how are shooters did in 2019 a great year for Indian shooting ....... Three of our shooters finished at world Number 1 .......a fantastic result for us ..... Divyansh - 10M rifle men Valarivan - 10M Rifle women Saurabh - 10M Pistol I am sure our both rifle and pistol teams also would have finished in the No 1 slot based on overall performances ( though there is no ranking ) ...... So we can say we had 5 of our shooters in world number 1 slot ......China- 2 , US-2 other shooters in the top 10 would are Abhishek -10M pistol - 3rd sanjeev - 50M 3 positions - 9th Apurivi -10M rifle - 2nd Anjum -10Mrifle - 9th Manu -10M pistol - 3rd Yeshashwini - 10M pistol - 5th Rahi - 25M pistol - 6th and quite surely both 10M mixed second pairs we can say we had 14 top 10 performers .........

Any news of sathiyan...... He is playing a legend...... Timo boll

Saurabh reached finals...... Good effort by him

Other than atheletics and swimming which is continuous..... I think TT in third week of Jan........

I understand that there is a team qualification event left....... So if an individual qualifies here and then the country qualifies later .....what happens to the individual quota...... Isn't this very messy

Ranking round scores

QI think with Indians being part of the gold and silver member teams in both mixed events ... We can say with some justification..... That we would have two more golds today......... So we can say we won 5 golds and dominated the 10m events....... But the 25 and 50M events were a bit disappointing especially 25m pistol not having a finalist...... Rahi i think seemed to have a weapon problem because her score was really abysmal

Wow...... Three golds in 4 events...... Divyansh, Manu, Elavanil........ All under 20 I think........ I was hoping for 6 medals in the world Cup finals ..... Got three...... Possibly in the mixed pairs we can get two I hope but the pairs team may not have any of the gold medalists barring manu

Brilliant shooting..... . A great achievement..... To cross 250 itself is huge

India finally open their account in world Cup final...... Gold by manu in 10M pistol