nitinsanker

Good performance..... Beating the NR twice

tomorrows

cannot agree more ...did see your data on India - Pak ODI - That was good indicator of the fall of Pak sports .......as per my analysis on the atheltics data ...medals will happen next 3-4 years , possibly 2024 we will realise our first atheletics medal at the olympics ....we are close right now but neeraj chopra has to get healthy or Hima has top improve on her PB by one second and hima will come through to the mixed 4*400 where her time difference 50.7 with Jisna 52.7 will cut two seconds and bring us into the realm of an unlikely but possible victory from being the 5th best side

My take on the situation , careful tracking is required to understand what is happening in a sport three predictive indicators for the success of a country at a sport are ( I work in analytics so sorry my terminology may go towards 1. Performance in the World championship 2. World ranking 3. Medals at a junior level For example today we are a dominant player in Shooting , we could have predicted this 3-4 years ago when our junior team started getting many medals at the Junior world cup Now coming strictly to atheletics performance in the world championship ( number of Indian Finalists ) 2009 - 0 2011- 2 2013-1 2015 - 3 2017 -2 2019 - 3( already hoping for at least 1 more ) I think that is a good improvement especially if we touch 4 since we have 3 of our best atheletes injured - Hima , Neeraj and Dharun ( rajiv Arokia was also injured ) ...... This affected our performance heavily in 3 events as well as all the three 4*400 relays Coming to world ranking ( this is from my tracking files ) sept 10th-06 oct 1st -06 Feb-07 august 10th-08 Feb-09 nov10 sept11 Aug-12 Dec-15 Subtotals- mens - atheletics top 100 5 5 5 15 15 20 16 17 22 Top 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 In 11-25 0 0 0 2 2 4 3 3 4 In 25-50 1 1 1 5 5 3 2 1 6 fifty plus 4 4 4 8 8 12 10 12 13 currently we are having close to 30 in the top 100 in world ranking if I am not mistaken ( and at least 1 in the top 10 Also at the junior level we have had 2 Gold medals recently .............................. so my prediction If the same rate of increase continues we should have some atheletics medals in the next 3-4 years in world atheletics

stayed up to watch Jinson .......disappointed he was well off his personal best ............. finished 10th and is out

Saw the bout to get a sense of it First round - Fadda dominated clearly her round Second round - More even in terms of punches hitting , The MGL boxer fell down after a blow , : I would give to Fadda again Third Round - Faddas punches were a bit wild , MGL landed more punches and more effective than camilla - I would give the Round to MGL Overall though I felt Fadda was dominant and I would expect a 4-1 or 5-0 in her favour , a 3-2 was ridiculous , The judges who ruled in Fadda gave it 30-27 ,whereas the others gave it marginally to MGL ......... Just another of AIBAs Crap decisions

Sad to see Indias only medal hope / even final hope not there due to Injury.... Dila karmakar is having recurring injury problems

Russia is not very well known for its women boxers so you should have a reasonable chance

chitra as expected was hopelessly outclassed but she still did her PB so good job by her

and coming to commonwealth games 2018 India( 26-20-20 ) did defeat Canada( 15-40-27 ) by a huge margin Pakistan incidentally 1-0-4 just proves my point

I think comparing India with Pakistan the Asian stage is a fair stage but look at the Asians stats for a minute AG -1954 ( just after independence ) ....India 17 medals ( 5G ) , Pakistan 13 ( 5G) - head to head and this was the case for the next 12 years or so .............. Skip to 2018 - last Asian games ......... India 70 Medals ( 16 G ) ......... Pakistan 4 medals ( all bronze )............ You can see there is no comparison as to who is doing worse in sport ...... stats similar for commonwealth games Coming to Olympic games our nadir was in the 60s to 90s ........we went down in all the sports terribly of course hockey was the exemplar ......but now we are on an upswing and I think 2020 is the olympics we will arrive on the world stage and I think ( mark my words ) we will probably have our first double digit score in the olympics and it will get only better in 2024 ........

PU chitra I think must have got a special invite because she is an Asian games medallists .............................. her SB time is pretty poor 4:12 ...... she probably will not be in the top 100 of the world ........ hope she beats her PB at best

go to hotstar....... go to atheletics ...check .day 5 of championship ....just checked it is at around 2hr 30 minutes into the replay ........

3 countries with population in the top 10 .... India 2nd , Pakistan 5th & Bangladesh 10th .... Could have been a cracker of an event...... If you go back 60 yrs India and Pakistan were head to head at the Asian Games...the SA games could have been exciting ............But today India can win medals at will in all events even if we send our 5th stringers I feel..... Pakistan is the definition of a failed and sports is just a metaphor of its fall.........

good to know

great news for india

why ?

avinash sable does well do break the national record by 3-4 seconds .........good effort , not enough to qualify but moves him in top 50 in atheletics top list and gives him some chance to get a quota place for tokyo second NR and the 4*400 Mixed came very close to NR also , so good efforts by the atheletes..... I think the heat and humidity is helping the Indians

it was lovely to see a person from norway in the typical ETH-KEN .......... so brave

Fabrice Zango ........ bronze at the world iaaf championships ....... Burkina Faso ...... he should be a real prospect

anjali................................ finished 6th but 52.33........ good time if she is consistent at this distance ....... she could be a good alternative to jisna in the 4*400 ........ i

yes she finished a great 5th in the qualification

Great effort by Annu Rani ........ NR and 3rd in the group A would surely qualify

wow ...... what a good throw by rani ...... a new NR and surely she should be through to the finals

Bwf update : kaushal wins maldives open defeating siril verma......... Seems like a long time since I saw sirils name anywhere..... Malvika Bansod won the nepal series defeated gayatri gopichand....... I hope one of these girls comes up......