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good to see an equestrian team after a long time ....if I am not mistaken...............

I find the thomas and uber cup strategy really weird .... play with a second class team and even then Play with lower end players..... like prannoy not playing agaonst france ???

Just saw the team for uber/ thomas does not have sindu or kidambi or the top mens or womens doubles ir mixed doubles pairs ...... not clear why any answers???

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Would be great to see to see two indians in top 100 in singles....ramkumar seems close

Could have done better easily in mens lost narrowly to both austria and france ..... beat france later in the classifications ..... could have been in top 10 or even higher......

sai praneeth reaches semi finals of new zealand open ........semi against jonathan christie

also 9 indians in the top 10 rankings .....good achievement

Archery i feel is unlikely unless they move up amazingly in the next one year and i am tired of hoping from our hockey team and possibly just one from wrestling .... but the rest are doable ...... but waiting for the world championship in shooting...... also neeraj has the potential ...... i think world championship medals in the 2018-19 cycle will give us the best indicators..... currently we have 1 in wrestling and boxing i think and 2 in badminton and one in weightlifting..... 5 excluding shooting and possibly 7

in the mens tt world championship .............. What an amazing fight against france .................. lost 3-2

Yes very disappointing ....... But I feel it was very close to the CWG games and possibly shooters did not focus after the CWG for this ...... But three 4s show and many finalists was a positive .......

wow amazing job by Omar ...... he is brillaint

very excited to see if the world cup at mexico was a flash in the pan , the world cup this weekend at changwon will be the toughest tournament for indian shooters

This weeks issf world cup at changwon may be great preparation for the world championships at the same venue I think ?.... teams seem in full strength

I actually think that compared to 2014 our boxing has improved tremendously also 3-3-3 instead of 0-4-1 and so has our shooting 7-4-5 instead of 4-9-4 In atheletics also I was amazed that i n 2014 we had 8 Indians in finals and all in field and relays , this time we 14 including in track In swimming we had no finalists in 2014 in swimming ( non para ) ..... this time we had 2 and also one ninth ......... In badminton 1-1-2 but now that is 2-3-1

i am thrilled with Indias performance at the CWG....this has been the best multi game event for me till date ....... what stood out was the fighting attitude shown by Indians at every stage , in every sport ( barring hockey ) ....... fearless never say die attitude including so many NR in atheletics and Swimming....... But that being said if we want medals at the olympics......... what matters is not CWG or even asian games though these are good milestones to look at India overall ..... but total number of medals in world championships in the two years before the olympics .... I remember as per this forum list the total world championship medallists for India were only I think 4 before Rio .... I in shooting , 1 in boxing and 1 in wrestling and one in badminton....... we ended up with two finally .......... though we were excrutiatingly close in shooting ( 4th ) and had one QF with vikas we need to have at least 10-15 medallists to be assured of bettering Londons count ........ so let us see ..........

Srilanka is fast improving in quite a few disciplines ( Badminton , weightlifting , atheletics , boxing ) and also BAN in shooting is getting really good ....... also an amazing game for CYP........ 8 golds double their best ... shows how focussing on just a couple disciplines can help you climb the medal charts

see my above comment on the UK/AUS duopoly .. to be honest these two countries spend on doing the games so they take the decisions ..... I wish they would look at sports like taekwondo and archery too - this would really benefit african and asian nations like bangladesh, malaysia and improve sports in these countries ... and frankly they do not add much to the cost

I am sure with Shooting( India- 7 golds in CWG 2018 ) completely dropped in CWG 2022 this may be easier to do ..... but I hope India still can hold because they have improved further by then especially in Athletics ,Gymnastics and lawn bowls and who knows even swimming

Also every decision taken in the last 4-5 cycles of CWG has been helpful to the Aus/ UK duopoly ( and by incidental association CAN and SA ) and not helpful to the Asian , African countries ......... Thats why I called this the white mans burden. Look at the decisions 1. reduction of seperate medals in pairs in shooting - Hurt India , Singapore 2. removal of seperate medals in Lifting - Hurt Pacific nations and India 3. adding non standard swimming medals - helped UK/ Aus/ CAN/ NZ 4. adding more non standard track cycling events - helped UK / Aus / NZ 5. adding para event medals to the main medal tally - helped Uk/ Aus the most 6. Now - removing the Shooting from the games compelety in Birmingham - Hurts India the most - this was an extremely rude cut ...... I do not believe England says they do not have the facilities to conduct shooting !!!!

look the maths is clear ........UK won 12 Golds in non olympic events / para disciplines ..... I am not 100% sure but it will be around that , this would include events like queens pair etc ... .............................................India just won 2 golds in non olympic events / para disciplines ( double trap and mixed badminton ) so the medal tally if the core olympic disciplines is taken the scorecard would be 30 Golds for England and 23 to India now add the excluded olympic events in the sports already in the CWG ..... 9 events - 6 Greco roman in wrestling and 3 in shooting - 10metres mixed in pistol and 10 metres mixed in rifle and mixed trap ...... In these 9 events India surely would take 4-5 golds in Mens GR and in the first two shooting events India would be overwhelming favourites ...... so add 6-7 Golds to Indias Tally ..... quite obviously ENG and IND would be neck to neck in Golds ......

still Badminton and some TT to play for tomorrow !!!!

end of super saturday for india .... 8 golds , 5 silver and 4 bronze ........ India a clear third on the medal charts ..a huge 10 golds ahead of SA/CAN... In fact I feel Englands total gets inflated because of 16 extra events in swimming compared to the olympics( a huge 50 events in swimming ) and 10 extra track cycling events ( a ridiculous 20 events in cycling ) ..... and - (6) standard events in Greco roman wrestling and ( -3 ) events in olympic shooting ... if we had played with a standard olymic events in all sports with 2-3 extra events which I would consider normal ... India would have at least 8-9 extra golds and England at least 6-7 less golds which would have made India almost reaching england ....... But I believe we must take the white mans burden .... In the next games They plan to drop shooting altogether and add a a few more non standard events in swimming/ cycling I am sure to ensure they stay ahead ...... Maybe Canada and SA also may catch up........... ( to all the canadians in the forum )

I would back aruna .... He is in my opinion ... the best man by far in this contest

I agree ...... But still I feel she should continue this level of play and move up towards the top 20 .... then she can be considered truly world class