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@Vivek 4*400 women has a good chance even if they do not improve - Not safe by any chance 4*400 men has to have another run close to / or improve the score they made earlier this month if they are to be in with a chance , currently they are not even in the top 24 as the average of two runs is taken ..................

I think we do much better with sportspeople at the head ...currently we have a few Raninder Singh - President heading the NRAI - he was a world class shooter and recently he won the Trap competition at the National Adil sumariwalla - President heading AFI - Olympic runner 1980- Indian record holder 100m forsome time are there any other ??? ......... I think these two are the better federations ( see the results of quotas )

Trinidad and Tobago boxers are TNT ......................... glad no Indians are meeting them ...we seem to barely beat Guatemalan boxers

7+1 quotas in 2012 ------->1( maybe 1-2 more from baku ) in 2016 .................. Thanks to Abhay Chautala desperation to have another source of political influence ..... I wish our Politicians would stay out of sports

excellent ball possession.................... no desperate last quarter clearances losing the ball by shooting into the other half

yes....... but in the last two major tournaments we did defeat them while we lost to BEL in the last two tournaments major tournaments and we drew with Germany in the last two tournaments which is like a peculiar pattern

I am waiting to see the world hockey rankings which should be updated after this tournament .... what I can see is that most probably India will be at 5th overtaking Belgium and Arg ............... The difference between NED( 2) and GER( 3) with GBR at 4th will be reduced even further while australia increases its margins .... the points will be a perfect illustration of what i said above in the last post

yes I currently feel Australia is ahead clearly Then India , Germany, GBR , Belgium , ARG and NED are in a close group in second position and anyone can beat anyone in any situation with peculiar patterns like India loses to bel often but beats GB most often so the quarters are going to be a any ones game who reaches the semis ( for India in the group the only thing may avoid lowest place as you may face AUS then int he QTRs ) ............... The rest of 12 like IRL , CAN , SPN , NZL , BRA will make up the numbers only and one may make the quarters ....................

we actually have rested 3 players for this tournament - Sardar , striker - ramandeep , Drag flicker and defender Rupinderpal ,,,and ,Lakra was out due to injury ................definately when they come back the indian hockey team will be further strengthened ........................ dreaming of a RIO medal in hockey ... after the bronze in the world league , a silver here showed that they have it in them to match any side, especially the ball possession and the full time 0-0 score - shows that India could have won even against australia

awesome just 3 kg below his own record in the 77 kg category ...this would be around 12-15 best in the world in 2015 ........which is great score ...... I am sure he can try to cross 340 in the olympics which if he does means he can come in the top 10 which for mens weightlifting would be a great result ....................any news on how vikas thakur did in the 85 I felt he was doing very well too

Thats great news 192 is close to medal at rio ...medal in rio will be around 194 I feel ....and she has improved a further 2 kgs since the asian qualifiers This is the first time since Karnams medal in sydney, that we have a world class female weightlifter , she can be added to any prospective medal list for India ... how much did satish lift ?.... I actually felt vikas may be the better option ....... but if satish came close / crossed 330 in total then he has some chance of being in the top 12 or so ?

I think personally we seem to mixing up two things Indian Boxing - We have messed up big time as IABF - This is the news of Dec 2012 after which IABF was suspended The IABF amended its constitution ahead of its September election to create the chairman's post to accommodate Abhay Singh Chautala at the end of his 12-year reign as the federation president. That paved the way for his unopposed election as president of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) on Wednesday, a day after the IOC banned the body for allowing government interference in its poll. Even though the AIBA suspension is a direct fallout of the Olympic ban, the Indian boxing federation's September election is now under investigation. "This provisional suspension is also due to the fact that AIBA had learned about possible manipulation of the recent IABF's election," the governing body of amateur boxing said in a statement. the sports ministry - News in 2012 Compounding the pressure, India's sports ministry also announced on Friday that it had suspended the IABF, effectively cutting off the sport's government funding. - there was no proper funding for the boxers This is vijender s comment after that in dec 2012 "The next AIBA event is quite far away but hopefully we would not sit on it for too long and get the suspension revoked as soon as possible." But our federation sat on it till last month .............................4 years ..this is the news item of 2016 four years later Hope for Indian boxing, elections to set up new body on May 8 what kind of international success do we expect when there is no association no govt funding etc.............. ( whether the scoring patterns are accurate etc is a different matter ............... ans of course they should changed) ...our boxers are doing badly not because of the scoring patterns or conspiracy theory but because we have had no assoc or funding ..... some boxers like shiva, vikas, sumit and manoj are funded by OGQ...so will do well but others are in bad state ......we will have a maximum of 2-3 quota places in boxing ...........

India at the AIBA qualifiers 49 kgs - Devendro seeded 4th gets a bye to the round of 16 52 kgs - Gaurav Bindhuri fights antonia vargas of USA ( will be tough ) on 17th for the round of 64 56 kgs - no entry as shiva has qualified 60 kgs - dheeraj wins first bout against guatemalan boxer and enters round of 32 has extremely tough fight with delgado ( no 1 seed from mexico ) on the 18th afternoon 64 kgs - Manoj fights de la rosa of puerto rico on 17th afternoon and I expect him to win but if he does he faces second seed aly mohd of egypt in the round of 32 69 kgs mandeep jangra fights esp boxer for round of 64 .( today ) ..expect jangra to win 75 kgs - Vikas seeded 2nd - is given bye to reach round of 32 on 20th 81 sumit sangwan faces TTO boxer in round of 64 tomorrow exp him to win but if he wins he faces 8th seeded colombian on 19th - I still feel sumit can win but tough fight 91 Amritpreet singh faces KOS boxer in round of 32 and then is likely to face tough US boxer if he wins in the round of 16 91+ Satish kumar faces TGA boxer on 17th for round of 32 and if he makes it through as I expect faces tough IRL boxer in round of 16 Really tough ....it is enormous competition and India has no real bout experience due to bad NOC issues ...... I expect 2-3 boxers to make it through and that is on the high side ....best bets obviously Sumit , Vikas , Devendro , Satish .................. all are very experienced and hence can be tough ...mandeep has a better draw so has a chance One major issue for devendro and satish is that there is only 2 quotas for the 49 kgs and devendro has to reach final and satish has to win to qualify as there is only 1 quota for 91+ .....again very tough ....... I think there are more vacancies in the professional rankings / bouts only vikas is eligible ................... all round keep your expectations low for boxing qualification is my thought ......................

India did very badly in mens recurve ........ round one 53/53 ................ poor scores by both countries ......1 point each round two 54/53 .................. India scores 54 but brazil scores 53 so india get two points ( india 3 and Brazil 1 ) round three 54/55 ................... Brazil outscores us and gets two points..... a very poor 7 by one of our archers ( the scoring is not clear who ) let us down ( India 3 and brazil 3 ) round four .............................India just 53 a very low score and brazil do just a little better 54 and we lost ( India 3 and Brazil 5 ) Real poor shooting all round by India - we had 5times 8's and 1time 7 vs brazil just 4 eights and no sevens ............................... Brazil did not do anything spectacular.............. India shot very badly

Mangal , Rahul and Rimil were the only archers knocked out ...compound rounds happening - both men and women seem to be doing well in close matches though ... today we will see how Mangal does in the team recurve - He is the only weak link ...atanu and jayanta seem in good form as evidenced by their singles and Atanus mixed where he has reached the finals

Also I think sreejesh is feeling the stress of being both the captain and goalkeeper , - it is a difficult combination ...also it is good that he is realising this weakness he has a month or so to practice and eliminate it But still Indias performance has been great ....... By the way India with 7 points plays against Aus with 10 points Belgium ( 4) Plays GBR with 5 points Possible scenerio India draws or wins against australia we are in the final If India loses and GBR and BEL draw - India is in the final If India Loses and GBR wins - GBR in the final , India plays for Bronze If India Loses and BEL win - India and BEL end up with same points .......... Goal difference BEL is -3 and India +1 , Is the position going to be determined by goal difference ? - Currently in the table Korea is placed ahead of Germany I am not clear why ???

prasanth any live streaming link ?

I feel that 120 means all the qualifications the way we want it to happen I do feel one or two may not and we may end up around 114-117 with one or two drops ...But I do hope you are right and I am wrong as I would love to see India cross 120 ..................... It would be tremendous achievement

To be honest 4 from boxing looks too difficult

and of course you could not find them

yes I think we have a good chance to cross 110 but 120 seems impossible to me as of now

I think it is starting on 16th ?

@Sanjib If more than 3 atheletes reach the A qualification - then the NOC can select the best Unfortunately in womens marathon we have only 4 women who have reached A qualification standard - besides Kavita and Lalitha Orchatteri P. Jaisha 2:34:43 Beijing (CHN) 30.08.2015 Kavita Tungar-Raut 2:38:38 Guwahati (IND) 12.02.2016 so if sudha and lalitha do not participate ...India can nominate Jaisha and Kavita ( which I am sure they will do and if any other women reaches that standard before July 11th then that women ( but currently there does not seem to be anyone close )