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If soumyajit or any of the others qualify ... sharath is almost certain to get in through the world ranking ...he is effectively 39 currently ..................... so it may be better if one of the others qualify but then he cannot pull out as there is a slight chance that he may not get in through the world ranking ..................

possibly she is nursing an injury and does not want to over strain it ...........

Thanks ...did not know about this rule ...... but I have a feeling both men events may qualify....................... but due to the rule the NOC may have to take a call on whom they will confirm ... probably single sculls ...... and due to the rule the chances of women single sculls improves ...........

Guys it would be nice if on a weekly basis Maybe on Sunday ...one of the group members could update all the key Olympic events of the week for India At least ( as the chase is hotting up for quotas ) ......... am missing totally olympics list ....... I am trying to get a start on this - Key events of the next two weeks ( 10-24 th April ) for Indian Olympic Interest This week Badminton - Singapore Open ( starts 12th April ) - Maybe the last chance for the Indian men to get a second qualifier ....... Kashyap , Ajay and Prannoy still have a slim chance , Saina to get back into peak form and increase her ranking for seeding at the olympics and try to be in the top 4 ........ Sindhu again to push to be in the top 8, Table tennis ( thanks tirtha ) - Asian qualification - 13th April -Sure fire 1man , 1 women , In fact if sharath loses , he may get an entry through the ranking process Shooting - ISSF World cup at Rio ( starts 13th April ) - A chance to check Rio conditions for Indias Rio Squad Gymnastics - The all important Gymanstic test event at Rio - ( Starts April 16th ) - DIpa is There - .....................enuff said Next week Badminton ( starts 19th ) - China masters - see Singapore open comments Athletics - ( Starts 20th April ) Federation Cup at Delhi - Hopefully to see an improvement in the relay squad and also maybe for one or two more quotas Wrestling - ( starts 22th April ) - 1st Olympic qualification tournament - with 3 places available - Hopefully the light weights in Greco ( Ravinder and Ravinder ) and 56 Kgs in Freestyle- amit / Rahul , satyawrat Kadian in FS 97 and Vinesh, babita to qualify in womens lower weights Rowing- Starts 23rd April - Asian regatta - Almost surefire chance for single sculls male , decent chances for lightweight double sculls men , very long shot womens single sculls do add any other events which are coming up

as of the latest golf rankings for the olympics ... Indian men anirban -27 and SSP chowrawsia - 41 look comfortable within 60 places ....... In women aditi ashok holds on to a precarious 58th place as of now

Bangaldesh siddikur rahman holding on to the 60th place in the mens individual list ( out of 60 ) ....hopes he holds on .......

looks like that gold medal jinx looks over

now make that 7 straight losses.....unfortunately saina seems to get a couple of players she does not figure out ..Li now Tai Tzu

Indias second male quota in the MS looks down the drain ........................... poor year and no one in form .......................... and kashyap injured....... so It looks like we will have only one qualifier

she plays tai tzu ....saina has lost 6 in row to her ......................... so tough match tomorrow

Vinod comes from Sonepat in Haryana where during his initial days as a wrestler, he trained under the same wrestling coach as Sushil Kumar and Yogeshwar Dutt, India's wrestling stars.................. he came to australia 6 years ago ....so to some extent he has developed in australia ..............

Personally I think this sub quota system for Asia is fairly ridiculous ...especially as East Asia has China / Japan / South Korea / North Korea all seem to fall in one group ... that is like saying USA/ Jamaica / Trinidad/ Bahamas / Rest of Caribbean is one group and only one 100 metre athlete will selected...... while the other group comprises Peru/ Colombia / chile and one 100 meter athlete will be selected from them .............. The regions are so different it is funny .......................................... read the lists of each table tennis players from each group here http://ittf.com/Ol_Qual/2016AS/2016_AQT_Entries.pdf then check the ranking here ............................ http://www.ittf.com/ittf_ranking/ I think they should take at least the top 16 from the world championships first , then get into continental selections without sub groups .............

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Since we have been discussing quotas for india ...... I thought it may be fun to see the maximum quotas India has ever got in each sport, we have already got the most Quotas in a single games in two sports already for Rio ............... and hopefully in a few more SPORT MOST QUOTAS GAMES Atheletics 24 2000 sydney Badminton 5 2012 london Boxing 8 2012 london Archery 6 ( Maximum) 2004 &2012 Cycling 9 1948 london Football 17 1956 melbourn Shooting 12 2016 Rio swimming 7 1948 London Hockey 32 ( maximum ) 2016 Rio Table tennis 4 1992 barcelona Tennis 7 2012 London waterpolo 10 1952 helsinki Weightlifting 5 1996 Atlanta Wrestling 8 1964 & 1972 & 1984 Gymnastics 3 1956 melbourn Sailing 3 1972 athens Art competitions 2 1948 london Judo 5 1992 beijing Rowing 3 2008 & 2012 Diving 2 1964 tokyo Basketball 12 1980 moscow Equistrian 4 1980 moscow Golf NA

In shooting though the seeding is very ephemeral ............. by the next scores which should be out this month end many of the top few players would go down the order and new players would go forward .................. so seeding do not necessarily show the best shooters

Actually in the race to Rio MS Kidambi has 50000 pts right now and even if he fails in all tournaments in the next 2 months he would reach rio in the top 16 . actually five Indians have a theoretical chance ........Taking only the tournaments from last may into account -> Ajay has 40000 pts , Kashyap 38000, Prannoy 37000 pts , Sai 36000 and Sameer 35000 ( this is approx ) ...................... they would need to increase their scores to approx 50000 by April end to be on the safe side and finish in the top 16 ....... There are just 4 major tournaments left ................. Indian and Singapore Superseries and the Malaysian Superseries premier and there is the badminton asia open individual ( carrying the same points as a super series ) and fifth not with the same points is the china masters ( grand prix gold ) World Ranking Points Table Rounds BWF Events(BWF World WCH & OG) BWF Superseries Finals & Premier Super series Grand Prix Gold Grand Prix Intl Challenge Intl Series Future Series Winner 12000 11000 9200 7000 5500 4000 2500 1700 Runner up 10200 9350 7800 5950 4680 3400 2130 1420 *3/4 8400 7700 6420 4900 3850 2800 1750 1170 5/8 6600 6050 5040 3850 3030 2200 1370 920 9/16 4800 4320 3600 2720 2110 1520 920 600 17/32 3000 2660 2220 1670 1290 920 550 350 33/64 1200 1060 880 660 510 360 210 130 65/128 600 520 430 320 240 170 100 60 129/256 240 170 130 100 70 40 20 257/512 120 80 60 45 30 20 10 513/1024 60 40 30 30 20 10 5 so for ajay to make it he needs to be in the semi-s of two of the first 4 tournaments to be in with a shot .................... presumably if he reaches the quarters of 3 of the 4 the will be in with a shot .... for kashyap/ prannoy the job is just the same almost except that they need to reach an extra quarter ( Kashyap not playing in the Indian superseries makes his job more difficult but not impossible ) ....so Ajay and Prannoy have a chance but they need to reach at least the quarters of the Indian Open to retain this chance Sai and Sameer have a long shot they would probably need to win a major title of these to be in with a chance ( also since they are coming through qualifiers ) this makes their task almost impossible

ouch ...........................

Great video of sarita ...... outlining her struggles including the one year suspension .. which ended last year end .... she won a gold in the south asian games after that http://www.thequint.com/women/2016/03/05/iamshatterproof-a-fighter-never-gives-up

This qualification is tough with just the first 3 in men and first two in women making it through .................... for india we have shiva and Mary Kom seeded first and vikas seeded second ... so obviously we would hope that these three would win the quotas ................ also since it would be really tough after this for the 91 / 91+ and 48 to get a chance at the final tournaments hoping that either Laishram ( 48-) or Satish ( 91+ ) or sarita in the pivotal 60 kgs make it giving us 4-5 quotas in this and then in the final events at least one more women and three more men make it to bring us back to londons 8 quotas

along with russia , now chinese swimming seems to be under investigation ...... http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2016/03/24/china-wada-drug-tests-swimmers/82206724/

since she is the lowest qualifier on the all round ....would that be easy ?.... she would require to overtake 3 people who qualified above her ............. and how does the qualification work here

out of the first 3 indian doubles pairs in action today , two win to reach QF at the NZ open .............. Good win for Sikki and chopra , close result for jwala and ashwini .............. aswini and manu lost to highly ranked korean pair but they seem to have good potential ....wish they will stay together which would give us a good option to kona / balan........... sikki and chopra seem to doing well too...... Another possible good pair in the mixed doubles

Indians Had a good start to the Nz open ................. 4 out of 4 doubles pairs won to reach round of 16 .......................

Great analysis ................... What is the scene in women's discus ...why is seema not there even amongst the one close- is she injured .... also I think we have Basant Bahadur Singh Rana who clocked 4 : 07:24 at the recent jaipur nationals in the 50 km race walk which is just a 1:24 minutes of the A standard, also I remember a 20km women walker did well at the saf games came close - I feel their name should also be added in the ones close to qualification as we have one place left in those disciplines

As per the report by Hindu .....there was an open event at the same time as the Asian 20 Km race walking event and two Indians clocked 1:20 times ( better than Gurmeets 1:20 ) , and one of them equalled irfans national record at 1:20:21................ This is great news as then there were 3 indians recording 1:20 timings in one event ...it is only a matter of time that they break the 1:20 barrier and reach 1:19 or so which could put them into medal contention at the olympics ( 2015 IAAF world championship 20km gold medal was 1:19:14 and bronze at 1:19:57 ) "Interestingly Devender equalled the four-year-old national record of K.T. Irfan while finishing fifth overall in 1:20.21s while Manish was sixth in 1:20.26" http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-sports/gold-for-gurmeet-but-rio-still-in-doubt/article8382725.ece