nitinsanker

Technically if everyone doing alpine sking catches COVID and only the  indian is left ....... We can technically win a medal 😂😂

Australia has a whole two swimmers going: Kyle Chalmers and Holly Barratt

The great Abdulrashid Sadulaev picked up the 3rd defeat of his career today in Aliev tournament in Russia. but before people get too much excited I have to say that was a walkover defeat he reached the final but didn't wrestle Magomed Ibragimov (Russian-Uzbek) in the final. Russian coaches claim because of a small injury
 
obviously the Russian tank is NOT in his best days. he struggled in that tournament against wrestlers he usually eats for the breakfast. he lost to Kyle Snyder in 2017 World Final mostly because he was too small for this weight at the time. yesterday I saw him "beatable" for the first time since 2017.  at the moment his gold in Tokyo is not a sure thing anymore.

Looks like we need a ton of Indonesian fans to travel to all AIBA events 😂😂

Taman has secured qualification for the vault final! History not only for  but for the whole sport of artistic gymnastics! First African woman to advance to an apparatus final at the World Championships!

 

Great job by Canada ...... I think one of your best finishes ...... Also you guys avoided the problem of too few gold's this time .....

Finally, we are competing at the World stage. We have not been lucky enough to watch our Golden generations live. Dhanraj Pillay, Dileep Tirkey, Sardar Singh and so many others gave us hope only for us to falter. Still remember the way we missed out on Semis in 2000 due to last minute goal by Poland. The heartbreak of not even qualifying in 2008. The ignominy of finishing last in 2012. The so near yet so far of 2016. Finally, we are in Olympic semis. I know, we have not won a medal yet and there is a chance we won’t win a medal this time but by God this feels special. Suddenly all the shooting and Archery misses seem trivial. Thank you Manpreet Singh and team. Thank you Graham Reid. Thank you God. 

This is too good not to pass on.
 
If they are going to use video game music the athletes ought to have to jump between platforms and occasionally grab a spinning diamond as they move along.
 

Be warned ..... If you pass by the tennis venue during Tokyo olympics and are carrying a tennis racket ..... You may be press ganged into playing tennis at the Olympics . 
        .................by order of ATP 

Be warned ..... If you pass by the tennis venue during Tokyo olympics and are carrying a tennis racket ..... You may be press ganged into playing tennis at the Olympics . 
        .................by order of ATP 

*Indian  at the Tokyo Olympics ……..6 days to Olympics ……….post 5 of 10 by nitin sanker*
 
Reaching halfway point here , these post  are taking time ( a couple of hrs of research )  do let me know if you have them useful and share them in other groups 
We have looked at 3 out of the 8 medal possible sports of India  and Today we look at *Athletics* 
 
This is the blue riband sport in the Olympics which gets the maximum viewership, A sport with a huge number of 48 events (  this divided into track , field and road events ) , it has made famous names like Jesse owens , Usain bolt , Carl Lewis, Abebe Bikila  and so many great names
India has participated in athletics in 1900 with 2 silvers on the name of Norman Prichard , since then we have not won a single medal though came agonizingly close with *Milkha Singh , PT Usha* who  both finished 4th and the *Gurbachan Singh Randhawa and Anju George* who finished 5th  . Let us look at our chances in athletics this time . we have a squad of 26 participating in 14  events ( out of 48 ) .  Lets look at the medal prospects . we have only two 
 
*Javelin* - Neeraj Chopra is the best athlete we have had since Anju George , In 2016 he won the  world under 20 world championship gold medal , he has been a commonwealth and Asian Gold medal and comes into the Olympics  as 4th best on 2021 leading scores . his is an event where gold will almost undoubtedly go to Vetter of Germany who is well above the rest and there are many who have a personal best higher than Neeraj , but javelin is a sport where athletes rarely reach their personal best at the Olympics ,  Neeraj both has the big game temperament  and has been consistent this year , if he throws  close to 90 he will probably get a medal  ( personal best of 88.07  which he has done in 2021) . So a *Likely* 
 
*womens discus* - Kamalpreet Kaur , this lady has been in great form breaking the NR fairly often , she comes in ranked 6th in 2021 , but we have to see whether she can replicate that in a big event , as she has shot up the ranks fairly fast . Well not likely but a *possible*
 
While we have only two prospects let us look at other who can reach the finals and that itself is a good achievement , every  games we have had the rare privilege to see an Indian name in the atheletics in a final. This happens  usually in just 1-2 events . This time besides the above two . tejinder toor in mens shotput , racewalkers  in 20KM in both men and women ( there is no finals here so I would look for a  10th place or above finish ) , Annu Rani in womens javelin , the mens 4*400 and the mixed 4*400 may give us a position in the finals . *If we get more than 3 finalists* ( we had a max of 3 at the london olympics )that by itself would be a sign of improvement ( I feel that is almost sure , I am hoping for around 5 finalists). *Medal prediction 0-1 at tokyo*

Enough fools in the world ..... If the want to crap about the one good thing in the world ........ This may not be the place ...

Apparently the rules were changed and you can only enter one team per event except those countries that won spots at the worlds. They can enter 2.

Enough fools in the world ..... If the want to crap about the one good thing in the world ........ This may not be the place ...

Indian fans are deeply suspicious of the archery team as they have regularly under performed at the Olympics 
 
We will be having a presence in 4 out of 5 events .....
 
The fabulously talented Deepika Kumari in women's individual she is on a very hot streak winning two world cups this year 
 
Deepika and her husband atanu in the mixed pair .....they are ranked 4th in the world ....
 
Men's team who enter as reigning silver medallist s at the world championships 
 
Atanu Das , Pravin Jadhav and Tarundeep Rai in men's individual
 
 
Every indian sports fan is praying that this time we break the jinx and win our first Olympic medal in archery 

My prediction based on current world ranking status 
 
Most likely to medal at least 9 medals from this group  ( based on world rankings ) at least 50% probability  so 9 medals from this 
 
  sport event  name  world ranking  1 shooting  10m pistol pair  india1 1 2 shooting 50m3positions  aishwarya  singh tomar 1 3 shooting  10m pistol  yeshashwani 1 4 shooting  25m pistol  rahi sarnobhat 1 5 Boxing  52 kg Amit  1 6 wrestling  53kg kg Free Vinesh 1 7 archery  recurve women deepika kumari 1 8 shooting  10m pistol saurabh chaudhary 2 9 shooting  10m pistol  manu 2 10 shooting  25m pistol  manu bhaker 2 11 wrestling  65 kg Free  Bajrang 2 12 shooting  10m rifle pair  india1 3 13 shooting  10m pistol abhishek verma  3 14 Boxing  51 kg Mary Kom 3 15 Boxing  69 kg Lovlina 3 16 wrestling  57 kg free Ravi 3 17 wrestling  57 kg free anshu 3 18 weightlifting  womens 49 kg  mirabai chanu 4  
and then from this group  at least 25% probability . so possibly 4 medals 
 
 
  sport event  name  ranking  1 archery  recurve mixed  India 4 2 Hockey  Mens team Mens team 4 3 shooting  10m pistol pair  india2 5 4 shooting 10m rifle  divyansh  panwar 6 5 archery  recurve women India 6 6 Badminton women singles  PV Sindhu 7 7 wrestling  86kg Free Deepak Punia 8 8 shooting  10m rifle pair  india1 9 9 shooting 50m3positions sanjeev Rajput   9 10 shooting 10m rifle  anjum mudgil 9 11 archery  recurve men atanu das 9 12 Hockey  womens team womens team  9 13 Badminton Mens Doubles Chirag and satwik 10 14 shooting 10m rifle deepak kumar 10 15 archery  recurve men India  10  
 
TOTAL - Likely medal tally  12-15medals ...........................................MInimum 7 ( with Rio kind of luck )  ........ Maximum 20 ( with london kind of luck ) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Kyrgios ....you should be renamed crygios... Or cry-goes

in my opinion......   The excuse given by the CWG is ridiculous .......
 
 
They could not hold a shooting championship in South England as they did not have facilities ....Sounds ridculous ... while they could do it manchester , glasgow , edinborough , london, bisley  etc etc  ....... the biusley venue is just an hour and a half away ..... ( closer than the cycling venue ) 
 
 
This is clearly aimed at an unsportsmanlike thwarting of sports they do badly at ( and India does wellat ) .........
 
Personally I think that the Birmingham team are a pack of cheaters ....... and should be called out for what they are ....... I am glad Indians called them out for this .......
 
 

The thing is, shooting has been on the Commonwealth Games program longer than a quite a few of the core sports. It’s omission as core sport raises some questions, especially since the core sports program was recently reworked. It might not be the most well known Olympic sport, but shooting enjoys a high participation rate at both the Commonwealth Games and Olympic Games. For instance,  all had entries in shooting, when they didn’t even have entries in many of the core sports. Also, with electronic scoring, compelling finals format, and good graphics, it’s not too hard to follow in-person or on television.

"India is the worst performing nations in the CWG"     well as per last chart  we were third and above Canada .......
 
 
  Rank CGA Gold Silver Bronze Total 1  Australia (AUS)* 80 59 59 198 2  England (ENG) 45 45 46 136 3  India (IND) 26 20 20 66 4  Canada (CAN) 15 40 27 82  
so if we are the worst performing , Canada ?? 
 
I personally think that to cut shooting was a clear strategy of the big three to cut india  down to size .......   
 
 
 
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the ranking will be closed in some 12 hours when it will be midnight somewhere around Anchorage
 
but I do not expect the final list before 5th July, like in all other sports

Better to struggle here than Olympics 

We here in India are going absolutely crazy after this.We will support Zhang Wangli, Kang Yue, Liao Qiaoyun, Deng Wei and one of my favourite Li Wenwen t the fullest .hope they smash all records! 

Let us look at tomorrows womens qualifiers 
My take .......
50 kg : 5 only ..... The top place would definately go to susaki of Jap ...... A double world champ ....I am suprised to see her here ....
I would give the second to indias seema n this field maybe the mongolian tsogt would also be a contender ....
But seema for me is definitely a strong quota prospect
 
53 kgs : tatyana in the upper draw and aktenge of uzb in the lower draw 
The 57 : the upper draw definitely Anshu from India 
And mongolian in the lower
 
 
The 62 : upper draw definately sukhegin of MON ... A world gold medallist again suprising to see her here 

Lower draw - Sonam looks the one to beat ....China always have a strong team and long jia could upset sonam but I will say Sonam 
 
 
68 : upper draw CHN and KAZ both have really good players....edge to KAZ 
Lower draw : all the three are relatively unknown but will give the edge to UZB as she had beaten the indian in junior asians and Kor has been weak 
 
 
76 : 5 relatively unknown wrestlers so very open ...but still may prefer Aiperi of KGZ and second either of IND or MGL ...
 

Sorry to hear that ...... Get better fast .... But you can watch the qualifiers hopefully in peace .....all the best