nitinsanker

seems to be a very slow week after the fairly hectic first week ...... I guess the next major event would be the women's world boxing championships in the 2-3 week of may ......

interesting situation....is this the only weight category where this issue is there

what is he currently ranked ?

priyanka finished the 20km walk for woman with a PB of 1:40:04 .......improving on her PB of 1:40:10 ......

also the only 2 non-European quotas given today ......good job by Sakshi and vinesh ......... Vinesh was awesome in the 48 kg category ....... gaining 50 points vs losing just 3 points

not a great performance at this level ....was hoping for someone to clock 1:20,,,,,,,, which would hv been a top 10. perf

may be for the best ...Sushil has not been participating at all while Narsingh won a world championship medal to qualify ...................................can we take the risk for all sushils greatness

There has been so such mention any way other than the face off between Sushil and Narsingh

a quick point ......................out of 12 qualifiers today for Rio in women's wrestling ...........Europe was so strong 10/12 qualifiers were from Europe ...the only two non europeans were the TWO s

I think satyawrat was replaced by Mausam as they felt he may have a better chance ................. This is not a completely bad Idea ............ as we saw that both sakshi and sandeep were replacements and did well

In the 48 kg category both have been overwhelming ....... I would love to see the final though it may be non-serious ..... In the very next bout India added the second non european - SAKSHI !!!!

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN FOREVER we will have TWO women wrestlers in the olympics

wow what a day ........................... Sakshi !!!!!!! but she was really running out of steam .......................

wow what a win .................VINEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESH

Both are wrestling extremely well ......so

sakshi wins

I feel we would have had 3 definately in the quarters had Babita been here,,,,,,, I am also seeng that in all the categories there are so many people forfeiting their match by Injury etc even in the finals .... but are not facing any official suspension why is this there only for the Indians ....I think our officals had over reacted ......................

i had seen in a news item http://www.firstpost.com/sports/domination-continues-dutee-chand-bags-gold-in-indian-grand-prix-100m-dash-2769378.html

thanks

is there a link for online results

Let us look at the qualification process in swimming as I understand it 1.Any swimmer, up to two per event per country, who hit the FINA “A” standard can go to the Olympics, in the first priority. India has no swimmer with an A standard ...... will any hit the standard by july 5th ..... seems unlikely at this point of time but anything is possible 2. The next priority will be athletes in relays, where the first 12 from the 2015 World Championships will go, and the remaining 4 spots in each event will go to the next-best 4 teams in the qualification period in approved qualifying events. No chance here as we are not eligible 3. Up next will be the Universality places, where countries who have no swimmers with an “A” time or a selected “B” time may enter up to 1 man and 1 woman for Rio, presuming that man and woman competed at the 2015 World Championships. Each can swim in just 1 individual event. If a country has a male swimmer invited, they can invite 1 female swimmer under the Universality rules, and vice-versa. i presume India will select 1 man and one women for Rio .... India had sent 8 swimmers to the world championships ........aaron , sandeep , virdhawal , saurabh and sajan in the pool events and mandar in the 10 km swim , two women nikita ( 10 km ) and shivani ....... I am sure that India will select the best man and women from this group .... The swimmers who did best sajan prakash , virdhawal and sandeep ...so I think India will select one of them ........ and from the women shivani most probably ..............4. Up to the cap of 900 swimmers (the same as London), FINA will begin inviting swimmers with “B” times. By July 5th, 2016, FINA will inform “B” standard swimmers of their invites (up to 1 “B” swimmer per country). The change, and this is significant, is that FINA may continue to invite swimmers with “B” standards above the 900 quota to ensure that every country represented at the 2015 World Championships will have an (eligible) swimmer at the Olympics. I think we will get an opportunity to qualify one more swimmer , but that will depend on the timing in B .....in this supriyo mandal may be amongst the highest ranked close to 110 in 200m butterfly ...........but that depends on FINA I feel hence in swimming we may have 2 men and 1 women from the above group

................. congrats to all members of Indian National thread...... we have overtaken serbia to become the number 1 national thread in Totally olympics

Indian Juniors are doing extremely well as per the IAAF records . The following are the Indians in the top 10 world leading juniors ( Under 20 ) for 2016 High Jump - Tejaswin - 9th - 2.17 Triple Jump - Sonu Kumar - 9th - 15.83 800m - Beant Singh -10th - 1:48:51 Javelin - Neeraj Chopra - 1st - 82.23 4*400 - Tamil Nadu Junior - 9th - 3:14:19 amongst the women lili thomas is 11th in the womens 1500

loosing geeta is not the end of the world ...but babita I feel was someone who could have qualified so a great pity ..................... let us hope for Vinesh and Jyoti ................. In the heavy freestyle some hope for satyawrat ..............

the wikipedia list is showing countries qualifed...is this official ...... we seem to have missed out narrowly Singapore above us and then russia who has qualified