nitinsanker

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

We have never had a women player of the class of Manika .... but she still is ranked only in the 50s in the world .......but the way she has played in CWG .. there is a huge improvement...If she pushes up her ranking she has a chance to go to top 20 and then and only then can we see any medals in the asian games .............. also the asian games level is more or less the same as the world level ....possibly stronger ............... But in this commonwealth games we have had possible world beaters ....... the badminton team is truly world class ... the best they have been in any commonwealth games according to me ..... Already in singles we are the best in the world ...... if the doubles pairs improves than we can become a world power like china or indonesia...... I have high hopes of mens doubles ( chirag and satwik ) they are 17 and 20 very young they can easily become a top 10 team possibly in 1-2 years ..... The wrestling team still may struggel .. the only world class players are sushil , bajrang and vinesh ..... we need a couple of others to be of that class to really think of world medals .... I also loved the weightlifting team ...... Mirakhom is a world champion and she is coming into her own, Sanjita needs to improve around 10 kgs to be world medal range ....The other weightlifters like deepak lather , Rahul are all in 16-20 in age .. if they improve really well we can have a world class weightlifting team besides Mirakhom And what about the shooting ... In jitu and heena we had a world class shooters already but anish at 15 was indias youngest CWG gold medallist ever I think ...... Manu Bhakker is amazing she has it in her to dominate the world and she is only 16 , Mahuli is 17 ..... and I personally feel we did not get some of best shooters here . Bubuta , akash sheoran and shivar raza , vallikal were not here .. this squad can win multiple medals and I am hoping to see what they do in the world champs ...... so plenty of talent

This is the best CWG as far as me .. The common wealth games are always very different .... If we had the same events here as in 2010 we would have been far ahead of england ..................... in 2010 we had pairs events in all categories of shooting and centre and standard pistol in shooting - I reckon we would have won almost all the pairs events in pistols and most of the pairs events in rifle , also centre fire and standard pistol which are pet specialities in India would have been 3-4 golds for us ...... total plus gold 12-14 golds In 2010 we had greco roman which we do not have here ..... at least 5 more golds on current form In 2010 we had archery - out of 10 events I feel we could win at 5-6 golds If we add that to the 25 or so golds I feel we will win here ............. we would have ended up with 45 -50 golds with the current team ......... and That would have been well ahead of England ....... also note that England this time have lot inflation of gold through 2 simple techniques ...... 1. they have added events in swimming ( 50 in 2018 instead of 44 in 2010 ) so reduce their tally by 3-4 golds 2. They have added events in track cycling ( 20 in 2018 instead of 12 in 2010 ) so reduce their tally by 3-4 golds again They may get 1-2 golds in archery extra to be honest but if the 2018 commonwealth had the same games of 2010 the medal table would read India 50 gold and England would read ( let us say they end up with 42-44 golds by tomorrow ) reduce that tally by 7-8 they would end up with 35 golds ........... India has done much better this time ...... our team is stronger .......

suprising to see Sumit beat Korey in the 125 freestyle ................

great effort but India cam in 4th ......

yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.......gold for India ......... Neeraj dominates the Javelin ........ Any of his 4 throws would have won gold

super exciting ...... India fought back hard

true first gold was tooooooooooooooooooooooo excited

wow wow ........... Indias first medal in Atheletics looks like high probability ...neeraj throws a 85 m

I am not sure if garside even connected ..... most ridiculous decision ...... surely australia doesnot need another gold medal and to steal it from India

I am so glad we are not facing any other australians in the finals

ridiculous decision for australia ... manish kaushik was clearly better ...usual home side ridiculous decision for the home side in boxing

wow ... great start to a our super saturday ....... Three golds in 60 minutes ....... Sanjeev Rajput in 50m three position > Mary Kom .... both expected but in rifle we can very easily slip ...... finally our rifle shooters come into their own in the 3 positions ......... then an unexpected gold by gaurav who really slammed irvine the european silver medallist

mens 400*4 metre heats was surreal for me ....... india almost overtaking jamaica what a sight

thanks for the info .....

pretty exciting stuff on the medal table ...... India extend their lead to three golds over Canada .... and SA making a hard swing to try beat Canada.......... just one behind Canada .... to be honest I do not see Canada catching up now to India ...... India still awaiting results in TT, Badminton and Boxing and two events of shooting and 4 of wrestling, also some hopes in the athletics tomorrow ...... but sad to see both our hockey teams though out of gold medal contention ..........

what happened in 4*400 m for men ... nigeria disqualified and ENG did not finish ...... ????? Opens a small window for India to medal on the positive side

yes the PNG lifter did an amazing lift ...... santavy was not there in the range .... he did have some bad luck in the snatch though where he missed one lift due to time out but Still he came out with an amazing lift in his final attempt ... even with three that might have been it .... and if gymnasts did not perform in the final that is their poor performance not luck ..... India did top most of the rifle qualifications - almost all but came up short in the finals ... that was not bad luck but lack of focus ....... Batty yes I give you that ...... India - Canada both won a gold today so the margin is still 2 ....................

opinions from canadians ??

good day for Canada and are beginning to catch up to India for the third place .... Hope India hold on but with Boxing, Badminton TT and Wrestling ....hope we can hold on to third place that would be the best we have done except when hosting

also great to see every single Indian boxer reach their Semis in the men ............... In the women though only mary reaches the finals ..... but both pinki and Lovina were unlucky to face the best boxers in their category ( both from England ) and lost so very narrowly .......

amazing win really in the dying moments ....... India holding their nerve