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4 hours ago, Griff88 said:

Well played

 

Whatever the average netizens said, India has won and Indonesia still have some works to do...

I saw a prominent Indonesian badminton handle tweet a similar thing. What is the issue? 

And we are the champions 

HSP HSP HSP

What a performance by Prannoy. 

59 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Here in the West, many people think women can have penises. Nobody, in the history of the world, going back to the days if the cro-magnons, has ever believed anything as crazy ad that. Yet here in , I can go to jail for denying it.

Why boxing is a joke exhibit 146435:

Yesterday in Women's World Championship, in 60kg bout betwen and , in first round, 4 of the 5 judges gave  the round 10:9 while the 5th judge gave  round 10:8. Similarly, in the next two rounds as well, the same 4 judges gave us round 10:9 and 5th judge gave round 10:9. Now, since I didn't watch the fight I can understand 2nd and 3rd rounds. But, how in the world can 4 judges think that boxer A edged a round while 5th judge thinks that boxer B completely dominated the round. This just doesn't make any sense. 

First Thomas Cup medal for us. 

The thing that impressed me the most yesterday was how close all 8 the teams are. On a given day, any of the 8 teams could defeat the others. I would put  as slight favourites but honestly anything is possible. 

Another interesting tidbit. We had same QF matchups  vs ,  vs  and  vs  in both Thomas Cup and Uber Cup. In 4th QF, it was  vs /. And except  which defeated  twice, rest all QFs were split giving us 7 different medallists. 

11 hours ago, heywoodu said:

 

From Wikipedia:

 

 

 

Either some opponent got his hands on the Wikipedia page and it wasn't edited yet when I looked, or this is actually real (and he'll probably attribute the current situation to not having gathered enough rings with elephant hair or something ).

 

I thought the US had an anti-science leader for a while....  

I am not a fan of Mahinda Rajapaksa but honestly this is a benign thing. Almost all of us have our lucky charms and superstitions. I won't call him anti-science as well. He didn't promote any crazy anti-science ideas. In fact, one of the big reason for the current situation in Sri Lanka is MR promoted organic farming without fertilizers, partly to reduce import bill, partly on advice of environmentalists and partly on advice of Buddhist monks. This resulted in crop yields dropping a lot and forcing Sri Lanka to import food. 

Meanwhile situation in Sri Lanka continues to deteriorate. PM Mahinda Rajapaksa has resigned. There are multiple reports of violence and arson. Ancestral house of Rajapaksas has been burned down. In another bizzare incident, a ruling party MP opened fire on protesters and then later committed suicide.  

36 minutes ago, Vic Liu said:

It's not official yet but according to volunteers' social media, Summer Universiade 2021 would be postponed again (for sure) and replace Russia Universiade 2023 (likely).

With the postponement of Asian Games, it seems highly unlikely that the games would be held on time. And if postponement results in solving another tricky situation (Russia 2023), that would be icing on the cake. 

41 minutes ago, Vic Liu said:

It's official now.

 

The Asian Olympic Council announced on the 6th that the 19th Asian Games, originally scheduled to be held in Hangzhou, China, from September 10 to 25, 2022, would be postponed.

 

 

3 hours ago, Griff88 said:

withdrew from Thomas Cup, replaced them based on team rankings

 

OTOH, Ygor Coelho tweeted that it is unfair because there are no official "team rankings" and they should be in instead of USA since they're better placed than USA in Pan Am Cup

But how does Pan Am Cup placement matter? But, honestly how did  qualify. According to wiki,  (also ) are ahead of in the team rankings. Did others reject the reallocation? 

3 hours ago, Siddhartha Talukdar said:

I am little confused about the badminton team selected for Commonwealth Games. Is Ashwini Ponnappa only playing in Mixed Doubles. Are we making any temporary doubles pair like Kidambi-Sumeeth or Sindhu-Ashwini

There is no clarity at present. With a limit of 5 men and 5 women, I think this was the best combination. 2 Singles, 1 Doubles team and 1 Mixed doubles player per gender. But, this means that almost certainly, we won't be fielding 2 Doubles team. Even in 2018 CWG, we fielded only 1 team apiece in MD and WD. For XD, apart from Ashwini/Sumeeth, it is possible that some combination of other doubles players might team up to field a second team. 

Bigger issue is XD at Asian Games. I won't be surprised if Krishna/Vishnu are replaced by Sumeeth and Ishaan for Asian Games allowing Sumeeth/Ashwini and Ishaan/Tanisha to participate in XD event. But this would mean that for Men's Team event, our reserve doubles pair will be Sumeeth/Ishaan who have never played together. 

2 hours ago, Sanjib said:

So Treesa and Tanisha will not be partnering each other is it, that seemed more logical to me?

As of today, Tanisha is looking for a new doubles partner. I am sure Tan Kim Her and other coaches will find a new partner for her soon. Whether it will be Treesa or someone else, let us wait and see. 

Finally BWF announces gradual unfreezing of rankings. 

 I am not seeing anything related to MQS and Double starter in Shooting. So, how would that be handled? 

49 minutes ago, Vic Liu said:

Haha. It exactly shows how different people have different angles and views towards the same thing. Chinese fans are furious about our talent star lost to a 33 year-old player who also play mixed double paired with his 63 year-old mother. And no one in China will leverage it to the Ukraine conflict or Muslim-Israel battle. But it also somehow explains to me why the West always interfere sports with politics which is annoying for me but total justice for them.

To be frank, everyone mixes politics and sports. It is not limited to West. I am sure all of us can collectively list instances involving all the major countries. 

10 hours ago, dcro said:

"Each qualification system shall be clear and easy to comprehend for NOCs/NFs, athletes and coaches and should leave no room for interpretation."

-the IOC

 

It has been a day since the qualification documents are available for some sports and we are not arguing over how to interpret them, so I would say good start. 

22 hours ago, Prashanth said:

Even Treesa/Gayatri are also automatic don't see Ashwini/Sikki getting that spot. That clause is put to put them in automatically and to make Ash/Sikki play qualifiers. Technically also Treesa/gayatri are at present our top WD pair in terms of performance in recent times.

To be frank, Treesa/Gayatri have not done enough to get automatic spot. But they and Ashwini/Sikki should not have much problem in qualifiers. Specially since Tanisha/Rutuparna have split. 

My team:

MS: Lakshya, Srikanth, Prannoy, Mithun

MD: Satwik-Chirag, Arjun-Kapila, Krishna-Vishnu

WS: Sindhu, Malvika, Anupama, Aakrishi, Ashmita

WD: Treesa/Gayathri, Ashwini/Sikki, Tanisha

6 hours ago, intoronto said:

Boxing per this: https://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/boxing/boost-for-future-of-olympic-boxing-as-ioc-accepts-overhaul-of-qualifying-system-41516035.html

 

The top eight ranked boxers in each of the 13 Olympic weight categories on December 31, 2003 will qualify for Paris.

Boxers will earn qualification points in a new Golden Belt series being run under the auspices of the IBA in 2023. The number of Golden Belt tournaments which will be run next year, and the number of qualification points awarded at each tournament, has not been published.

The situation is further complicated because the IBA suggests that boxers from two different weight categories can earn qualification points for one of the Olympic weight categories. So, a 54kg boxer could qualify for the 57kg Olympic weight category.

Following the initial allocation of Olympic places there would be a second allocation on March 31, 2024 which would again be based on the ranking system.

However, the then highest ranked boxer – not previously qualified - from each continent (Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, and Pan America) would be guaranteed a place

The two final spots in each category would be decided at a World Qualification tournament which would be held before May 2024. The two finalists in each category would be allocated an Olympic place.

 

Some spots are missing, I am assuming host quota and wild cards.

Some more details 

On 3/28/2022 at 9:05 PM, Fly_like_a_don said:

I am not sure about that. Sindhu hasn't participated in the event for years hopefully returns. 

Grandma Saina doesn't have a future so she should just give the opportunity to others. 

Next in ranking are Akarshi Kashyap (52) ,Malvika (61) , Ashmita (62) who are soft players without a strong smash in them or good deception so they wont make it big in future .

Anupama (75) will be close to 60s (between 58-64 rank) so hopefully selected as one of the 5 singles players. 

BAI will hold qualifying tournament, April 15-20, for Thomas and Uber Cup. Top-15 in rankings (Lakshya, Srikanth, Sindhu and Satwik-Chirag) are directly selected to the tournament. There is another clause where top performers over the past 3 months might also get direct selection. The way I see it, Prannoy and Treesa/Gayatri are the only ones who can realistically stake a claim for direct selection. But, I think only Prannoy would get it. 

Day of resignations in South Asia. Entire Sri Lankan cabinet apart from PM Mahinda Rajapaksa has resigned. This follows the emergency which was imposed recently by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Sri Lanka has been facing a lot of economic turmoil recently which has started to result in civil unrest. 

In Pakistan, PM Imran Khan, cricket WC winning captain, has dissolved National Assembly after opposition parties moved a no-confidence motion against him. Opposition parties have rejected this and has ‘elected’ Shahbaz Sharif, brother of ex-PM Nawaz Sharif, as the new PM. There are reports of clashes in National Assembly as well. 

3 hours ago, JoshMartini007 said:

Assuming they are going with their original plan, the World Cups won't offer any direct quotas. It'll be the 2022 and 2023 World Championships, the continental qualifiers and I think the World Rankings (not 100% on that one).

Please anything but World Rankings. 

On 3/24/2022 at 12:28 AM, Vic Liu said:

 

 

 

 

Latest example of impending Indian Muslim Genocide: Uniform Civil Code

19 hours ago, MHSN said:

I don't think they can ever make a "deal" about these things. this is simply who they are. they believe women should only stay at home, educated women are harder to control.

 

Taliban is still the same shit, they just got a bit smarter to say something else to the media. they might promise so many things during negotiations but in reality they didn't give up an inch. they are having their old rules back one by one.

To clarify, I didn't think Taliban is going to change. I just thought that such old rules would be implemented at a local level and the top leadership would just be silent on them. But it is clear that I was wrong.