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Pretty excited...... For India the critical event is the men's 10m rifle....... We have closed out 7 / 8 quotas in the 10M events...... If we close this quota we will have the full quota of 12/12 including the mixed pairs...... That is the group we hope to dominate....... In the 25m events we have 1/4 quotas and with Manu being a double header in the women .... I am hoping for two quotas one in men and the other in women......... And in the 50m events we have a 1/4 so possibly at least one quota place In shotgun we have really struggled with 0 quotas so possibly one or two quotas...... So hopefully 4-5 quota places........

Lakshya wins the saarlux

Yes, Lakshyaisthebest youngster we have had in a long time

I do not know how what happens to our hockey teams......... It is like they just freeze like deer in the headlights....... Wtf did they do against US......... Home advantage, a 5-1 victory in the first leg, playing US which is a has been team......... And India almost snatched a defeat from the jaws of victory . ........USA just smashed 4 goals...... F...

Yes good victories.... The men did not play cohesively but some individual magic helped..,., The women were great

Indian steady improvement is building up in GR....... We were absolute no hopers at the world level...... Barring a couple of names like pappu yadav........ But now at the end of day 1 of GR...... Sajan kumar who is the best GR wrestler currently lost the Semis closely and I feel will medal tomorrow in 77 GR ..... Halakuri played well lost closely to RUS in the QF in the lowest weight and will play in the repechage and then we have sunil still alive in repechage so three will vie for medals tomorrow and both sajsn and halakuri have a good chancefor a medal ..... @MHSN how do you rate these two and chances of a medal...... Also tomorrow both Ravinder and Sachin are better known Indians in GR so

Russia played very well.... They just did not have the finishing skills, but played at a high pace in the midfield with spot in passes.... Indians passing was poor but had a couple of pieces of magic

Pooja Gehlot in 53 FS has also reached finals........ So good achievement

LOL...... Just noticed that this world Cup would uniquely be world cup cricket202O square........i.e world cup and the rest istwenty twenty in twenty twenty

IMHO 1) currently the scoring system is the most opaque system where there is absolutely no sense why the bout is given to the BLUE Or RED corner.... . so any change is good 2) The judges have absolute power to score and there is no check pts ...... so showing the scores live with a certain number of referrals would help....... Any corruption would show up easily 3) The problem with the pt based scoring system..... Boxers started adopting a high shell guard and boxers would just crouch and occasionally poke at others......bouts started resembling two turtles ? hitting each other... So +es and -es........ But far more positives than negatives

I like the idea as it helps junior wrestlers transition to the seniors...........also helps build the second string in weight classes where they may be a good wrestler already established...... Ravi who won a bronze in 57 at the world Championships for India came up through the u23 championships .....

Actually..... The CWG is dominated by ENGLAND and AUSTRALIA to the point that they do not allow any voice of other nations...... Many decisions in shooting, weightlifting have been anti india snd i guess that's what batra is saying

I think bhawani in Sabre is the only one who has a chance to qualify and she has a good chance

The indian Veer dev in 97 has been a junior world medallist so is a good best

Would agree I think ashwini - satwik would need to play in multiple tournaments to even qualify...... While the focus should be to qualify in the top 8 in men doubles and ensure seeding in Olympics

They have defeated three top ten players including world number 2 ...... Great effort .... I hope they can maintain this for the next few tournaments and be seeded in the top 8 for tokyo ..... Then they can be a genuine medal contender

That's good to know but we had golfers very often in the top 100 now not to have them in the top 200 is shocking

Golf I don't why our rankings are so low..... Last oly. Pics we had two qualifiers...... This time zero???

My logic is that AIBA is suspended....... Primarily because there was 1. rampant match fixing 2. Financial irregularities.... If there is a athelete protesting match fixing I think it only strengthen s IOC hand...... So i believe that they will not take any suspension into account...... I also believe the fact that the entire Dutch team stayed away is because they knew this..... They never work in such a concerted manner unless they were sure the team would not get suspended from olympics because of this

but the IOC having discredited AIBA and having their own qualifiers ......... AIBA can at best say that she cannot participate in further AIBA world championships but will not have any voice in the olympic qualifiers ........ which why Netherlands probably felt they could afford to do this

I do not think you need to worry about that as AIBA is not involved with the qualifiers

Olympic Boxing 51-Mary and 69-Lovlina anyway select themselves 57 -Neeraj was cheated and looked a fine boxer , we already have sonia lather and sonia chahal who are both world championship medallists and Jamuna Bora really looked good , if we have a fair trial between the four surely the boxer who emerges would be world class 60- Sarita looked completely out of form and just did not have the fire she normally has ( she was not technically ever very strong ) , we definaltely need simaranjit or possiblly one of 57 girls to move up and take over this key slot 75 - Saweety did well at the world championship reached the round of 16 lost to world number 2 in a close bout but Pooja Rani won the asian championship and lost out to her , it is a hair breath between them................... again an open trial will throw up the better I think we have a squad where all should qualify to the olympics ( provided Sarita is moved out ) and we can expect 1-3 medals depending on form

Watched all the bouts.... ... Mary....... A pleasure to watch..... Good defense strong offense....... The best boxing brain and a lovely style.. . Can go all the way..... Has a tough match against turkey who is the European champ Manju played very well against the much taller world number one...... A very amit like bout.... Go low.... Go in score and out.... Worked for her...... Jamuna - wow one of the best boxers I have seen, very Mary kom style upright.... Good offense and defense..... Very impressed.... Very young on her debut..... She may want contest the Olympic weight category 57 based on her performance here Lovlina..... Really fast and light boxer...... She should be nicknamed lightning..... But still has to work on her footwork..... Fell over at least 4 times was scared she will be penalised for it...... Kavita..... Good boxer but well past her prime needs to give way like sarita for some one younger .... Was beaten by a faster BLR boxer

Three Indian men in action at the Dutch open BWF round of 16 , also Indians in world junior badminton

QFs Manju tough she fights against the world number 1 Kim of NKorea Mary Fights against Rio bronze medallist from Colombia..... 50:50 with edge to Mary Jamuna bora fights against a GER, I think jamuna had edge...... Jamuna has been boxing beautifully Lovlina fights the European champ from poland and lovlina too had been boxing beautifully..... I think lovlina has a edge Kavita has a good draw fights the BLR boxer, I think kavita may have an edge The story till now I watched the other bouts as I had said sarita needs to be replaced..... Her form was terrible Saweety was reasonable.... Lost a close bout to world no 2 in the round Neeraj was cheated out by the refs Nandini was possibly on form the worst of our boxers Manju bamboriya was reasonable