nitinsanker

I agree ...if you go strictly by the last world championships in each sport it looks like this Shooting - 1 silver Wrestling - 1 bronze Boxing - 1 bronze Hockey - 1 bronze Badminton - 1 Silver Archery - 1 silver Tennis - difficult to estimate - Mixed Doubles perf - But possible bronze based on Grand slam average so comes to 7 medals............................... But couple of things may help us go ahead .....Some serious money comes in just before the olympics which does not happen before the world championship ....so expect some extra improvement especially in shooting , Our best wrestler did not participate in the world championship so had he done I could legitimately expect another medal ......but on the down side archery and tennis have never done well for us so they may come down ................. Upper side 10 .....lower side 4 ................ Best bet 7

My list - I think between 4- 10 medals is realistic as non of them are really favorites or even most likely medallists barring Jitu Rais two events where he is ranked 2 and 3 respectively Top 20 Medal chances for India( this is in no order ) 1. 50m Prone - Gagan Narang - Medalllist last year in one of the Fort benning world cups 2015 , has the big occasion temperament 2. 10m Air rifle(m) - Abhinav Bindra - Big occasion shooter , is showing signs of a return to form ( in baku world cup was leading finals after 2 rounds by a big margin ), a gold medallist has the temperament to shoot ( only a fool would say that Abhinav cannot medal in Rio..... In case any of you want to dispute that ) 3. 10m Air Pistol(m) - Jitu Rai - Bronze medal at the chongwon world cup - consistently has been in finals - One of Indias top hopes 4. 50m Air Pistol(m)- Jitu Rai - Currently Ranked world number 2 in this event , silver at the world championships - a class act 5. Skeet(m) - Mairaj - The only Indian who won a medal at the Rio World cup this year - currently ranked world no 4 ( never thought we would have a skeet prospect ) 6. 10m Air rifle(w) - Apurvi - broke the world record last year , last years world cup final silver medal 7. Womens Badminton - Sania Nehwal - world championship silver medallist , in good form 8. Mens Hockey Team - Last two major tournaments - Silver and Bronze 9. Tennis Mixed Doubles - With Sania in the team we have one of the best women's players with a very small field just two good matches and you are in with a medal 10.Boxing - Shiva - A medal at the world championship ....... 11. Boxing - Vikas - Indias finest boxer reached quarters of the world championship , is a world championship medallist 12. Wrestling - Narsingh - The only indian till now to win the olympic quota at the world championship , shows his class 13. Wrestling - Yogi- Missed the world championship due to injury but his form at the asian qualifiers was fearsome 14. Wrestling - Vignesh - Awesome form at the last qualifiers , again her form was so good 15. Archery womens team - Current world championship silver medal , has consistently been medal-ling 16. Archery womens individual - Deepika is a true championship so many medals , was immature last time in her first olympics , now is more mature 17. 10m air pistol ( w) - Heena Sidhu has been ranked world number one in 2014 was in fine form in the run up to the asian qualifiers 18. Womens weightlifiting - Mirabhai Chanu in the 48 Kgs has lifted 192 which puts her in the elite list of top 3-4 weightlifters, she has been consistenly improving in the last few months and I feel will reach the level of 194 or so at Rio ..that should fetch her a medal with some luck 19. Womens Vault - The fast improving Dipa Kramakar came 5th at the world championship , she has been getting a lot of support and will improve further , a medal prospect in gymnastics 20. Womens Badminton - PV sindhu - two times world championship bronze medallist is definately a prospect

Our Sports minister Sonowal has talked about the 10 medals "From whatever inputs I have got from the various sports federations, there is a strong chance of India bagging more than 10 medals in Rio. The preparations are going on in full swing and the government have put forward every effort to ensure that the medal tally goes up," Sonowal" But he has already been replaced before Rio ................................

Why did they not select sandeep as per the points chart he seemed a little above Sajan , though sajan is not a bad choice and was second

........... I do not think Basant Rana has any event ?.....MR Poovamma is not an additional quota she is already part of the 4*400 squad .................. so we will have to hope from the others at the Indian grand prix which are Men 100m - Amiya * 2 attempts 200m - dharambir 400m - Arokia 5000m - Lakshmanan Shotput - Tejinderpal , Om prakash * 2 attempts Discus - Kirpal ( seems unlikely though he is a good 4 meters behind ) Long Jump - Prem * 2 attempts Triple - Renjith , Arpinder ( he seems to be in poor form but I am including him as his PB is so good ) * 2 attempts Javelin - Neeraj , Rajinder * 2 attempts 4*400m - Two attempts 400mh - Durgesh , Jithin 110mh - Sidhanth *2 attempts Women 4*100w - 2attempts 5000m - Jaisha and Suriya Javelin - Annu and Suman - 2 attempts Triple - Mayookha * 2 attempts Long Jump - Neena and Prajusha * 2 attempts womens shot - Manpreet Jr The best hopes are the two relay teams mens 4*400 and womens 4*100 as they have only recently hit their desired mark they just need to make the same mark again , possibly sidhanth as he needs just one good run and he beat the mark in a slightly wind aided effort ( if you noted the Indian Atheletic Federation have repeated the most hopeful events ( womens triple and long ,mens shot , javelin. 110mh, 100m ) where they feel the Indian atheletes have a good chance ......but we may have some unknown player making like nirmala showed in the interstate

despite many walkovers given........5 men, 1 MD, 1WD, 1 womens singles in round of 16 at the US open badminton for india

any atheletics till the indian grand prix ...................... Events till the 11th - I am just trying to keep track Athletics Indian Grand prix - 10 and 11th Belgium - 9th ( thanks rohan ) Badminton US open - lots of indian action Tennis Wimbledon Swimming I think there was some event @Prashanth i think you had mentioned something guys do fill in the gaps @tirtha22 @rohan sharma @gvaisakh @Sanjib @sasidhar @RickygoestoRio @ritesh@Partha_SG@Smit @Prakash

the double ihab ?

just a quick question is july 11th the final day by which time the final teams would be finalised

Well in badminton we have saina who was a silver medalist at the world championship last year and some hopes in boxing and wrestling , mixed doubles in tennis we have some hopes ( sania has been dominating womens doubles with martina ) and we have good mens doubles tennis player , archery our womens team won a silver at the world championships......also in mens hockey finally we seem to have our act together though a medal may be tough , but unlike you guys we do not have a huge depth in one sport but tend to be spread in a large number of sports ................... but colombia and India do have one thing in common that we started doing well in the last olympics and this time have further improved our numbers ( last time we got 6 medals and so I think did you guys ) ........and this time both hope to improve so

welll this year we also crossed a 100 places for the first time ........................and hope to come beat our six medals at rio Coming to colombia ....... I know that you have a strong cycling and weightlifting team .... But this time around the best hopes are ?

Great dude .......hope you guys do well ...........

looking at the possibilities for the final Indian grand prix ( provided they all participate which I expect they will do as this will be the final attempt ) Men 100m - Amiya * 2 attempts 200m - dharambir 400m - Arokia 5000m - Lakshmanan Shotput - Tejinderpal , Om prakash * 2 attempts Discus - Kirpal ( seems unlikely though he is a good 4 meters behind ) Long Jump - Prem * 2 attempts Triple - Renjith , Arpinder ( he seems to be in poor form but I am including him as his PB is so good ) * 2 attempts Javelin - Neeraj , Rajinder * 2 attempts 4*400m - Two attempts 400mh - Durgesh , Jithin 110mh - Sidhanth *2 attempts Women 4*100w - 2attempts 4*400w - 2 attempts 5000m - Jaisha and Suriya 400m - Anilda , Poovama Javelin - Annu and Suman - 2 attempts Triple - Mayookha * 2 attempts Long Jump - Neena and Prajusha * 2 attempts womens shot - Manpreet Jr Only Surprising omissions was the mens 800m ( with Jinson ) and womens discus ( with Krishna ) 2 attempts indicates that the event is repeated on both days

smart moves ... They seem to have cherry picked the events we have hopes in except womens discus and mens 800 ...little surprising they dropped those two - Krishna has been doing well and can i believe achieve the mark ....Jinson has been improving and is close ?.......otherwise all of the events which we can hope to qualify are there I believe

Great to see India hit its maiden century in quota places ...our previous maximum was 83 in London ............................ and the good news is we still have 10 sure fire quotas and at least 5-6 hopefuls .............

wow............................did not know that colombia qualifies so many people .............. is this partially because brazil is getting host quotas and that helps colombia or this is the usual number ?

Good Info prakash .................. I think that is a fairer system then the earlier method ................ Neeraj Goyat is an accomplished boxer ...Asian Champion for WBC in thios category so definitely a Good chance

@Vivek is there going to be a box off for the 3rd place or are they going the way they did loser to the gold medal winner which is the stupid way that we saw in the olympic qualifier

Thanks for the information about shivani ....I am still hopeful that we may have 2 swimmers then ................ Actually in 2012 this what was reported in the papers ...... based on why gagan was selected and not virdhawal ....... maybe it was the FINA rule that time ( and it has changed this time ) , or the newspaper is just blowing smoke or swimming federation sent out this press release as they had by mistake not sent the correct names ......everything is possible as far as goof ups go .............. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/Not-much-expected-of-lone-Indian-swimmer-at-Olympics/articleshow/14994333.cms

thanks dolby ................ very clear as usual .................... did we have any women swimmers at the world championships at kazan ? last time I remember the issue was this Viradhwal, Sandeep, Aaron and Sangvekar were ineligible to be considered for 'Universality' quota even though they had crossed the Olympic Selection Timing (OST). Their OST qualification rather made them ineligible for being considered under 'Universality' quota. hence Gagan who had competed in the World championships in the 800m but did not reach the OST was considered ................. Is this going to be the case this time ? The other point is there is a limit of 2 per event for countries in each event so I am not sure how many such swimmers are eligible under OST ( after removing the swimmers whose countries have already reached the limit ) is there any such list ?

????................this is not clear and new info................ clarify please ....................are you saying we can have 4 men swimmers in rio how ?

good info bro ...so that means as of now it is sandeep and not sajan who will go if the points do not change .................what about the women ?

So one more NR ...............how will they decide which Indian swimmer goes to Rio ..................