Dolby

2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Harting 

 

Which comes to show there is absolutely no way someone is sure to win a medal. 

Urbanek as well 

23 minutes ago, Hazique said:

A second loss for the indians in womens doubles what is the criteria here how will they qualify can someone explain

They can't qualify for next round. 

As expected, we lose our women's hockey match against United States but surprisingly we are not out of race for QF. We can qualify for QF by simply causing the biggest upset of this Olympics and our women's team's history and defeat Argentina. 

Now off to watch Chak De to prepare for the match. 

4 hours ago, Madhusudhan said:

Some good news... Indians through to Mixed doubles Quarter Final

Where they will face Andy Murray and Heather Watson of , who won Silver in London Olympics.

Edit: Murray won Silver alongside Robson and not Watson.

3 hours ago, LDOG said:

 

This is so depressing, I never could have imagined this situation.

 

I can only feel bad for this girls, 4 years of preparation to play this garbage in the most important week. Now there is no chance, they will probably lose 4-0 to  

There is a way you can avoid Netherlands in QF.

Let us bear that huge loss. 

2 minutes ago, orangeman said:

 

I'm just watching the tennis feed on the CBC website, but they didn't show any replays (very frustrating).  Were there better replays on another stream?  Because at least 2 of those looked very...interesting.  One of them, unless the ump missed it and just guessed, was a very very suspicious call.  

No Hawk eye? Thats bad. 

2 minutes ago, Prakash said:

Remember..spain is a good team... We lost Twice in the recent counter..but we won the warm up match against them

To be honest I didn't expect Spain to do so well here. I thought they would compete with New Zealand for 4th place but their win against Australia, really opened the group up. And, there is no doubt, Spain is a good team, but I fear Australia more than Spain. Hence, hoping for Spain in QF and not Australia. 

1 minute ago, Kiruphagaran said:

No guys I think we will face Spain. Our group is settled. We will be 3rd if dont lose aganist canada. And Belgium will top the other group and spain will be 2nd (if they lose to england also because they already have 9 points and australia with next win will get 9 points but the goal difference between both is +7 in favour of spain). But there is a chance if spain loses aganist england and australia win with 10+ goals aganist brazil.

If Spain lose to GB by 1 goal, Australia would need to defeat Brazil by 7 goals. Australia play Brazil after Spain-GB match and after Group B is complete. So, they can basically chose if they want to face India by finishing 2nd or Germany/Netherlands by finishing 3rd. And, Brazil has a GD of -36 from 4 games, so it is safe to say, Australia can defeat Brazil by 7+ goals easily. 

Just now, orangeman said:

 

No.  No rest for Nadal.  Don't even allow him to sit down.  

Just now, orangeman said:

 

Maybe because Nadal just finished his singles match, too?  I'm not that familiar with tennis.  

Yes, delay was due to that only. Hence I was saying that organizers should have swapped the match, so Nadal gets deserved rest and schedule moves fine. 

13 minutes ago, orangeman said:

Apparently Nestor/Pospsil semi in tennis is scheduled for 2:15pm EST.  

Considering that almost full day of play was lost yesterday, I think it is silly, that they will leave the court empty for an hour. They should have swapped the match with the next match. 

29 minutes ago, shrikant said:

Olympics this year is making me lose interest in Indian sports

Knowing how you helped in sustaining our Totallympics Indian community even during non-Olympic times, I am sure your love for Indian sports will prevail over this disappointment.  

1 minute ago, Madhusudhan said:

if that is the case.... with spain in bad position in belgium match today and aus having match with brazil in last match am wondering what is going to happen

I am afraid we would face Australia in QF  Spain needs to get a point against GB 

BTW, with Argentina's draw against Germany, we have officially qualified for Quarterfinals in Hockey 

Just now, Madhusudhan said:

btw if both team are on same points... what is the criteria for placing

1) Goal Difference 2) Goals Scored 3) H2H (after that not sure, maybe coin toss?)

10 minutes ago, Madhusudhan said:

did some one following hockey placings in other group........ really surprising results.... with the way things are placed i feel india is better to be placed at 4th in our group 

Before Olympics started, the only things I wanted from group stages was 1) good performance 2) QF and 3) avoid Australia in QF. There is no way Australia is going to finish in top 2, so 3rd or 4th is not bad. 

Edit: Just rechecked, if Spain loses both their matches, then Australia can overtake them to finish second.

5 minutes ago, Govind said:

Third Straight Olympics, India Archery team which ranked best in world ... has ended without any medal .. ..

 

Ofcourse  We do have Wind to blame for every Olympics .. I never expected both with loose at together in Pre-Quater .. Off course I have great respect for Deepika .. But we need more young archers now who perform at world level ..  In India, no body cares you if you win medal at world cup or World Championship....

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current World Rankings:

Atanu Das: 22

Deepika Kumari: 12

Laishram Bombayla Devi: 69

Laxmirani Majhi: 15

Women's Recurve Team: 4

Archery, like other precision sports, is very fickle. Thats why we have Myanmarese tripartite archer in Rd of 16 and Korean who broke WR in qualifiers already out. 

Of course Valencia was not affected by wind. She shot couple of 6s for fun. You know to make match more interesting. 

Taipei girl was in God Mode. Deepika shot well in windy conditions. Ting shot better. 

2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

What do you mean?  

 

I haven't posted a single prediction in Misc 3 yet, so I can simply enter it and fill in my predictions for events that haven't started right? 

Just to clarify, I think you can't even predict Artistic Gymnastics events as their qualifications are over or Sailing events where races have been held. Be quick before Golf and Badminton start tomorrow early morning 

Those last two arrows 

7 minutes ago, Prashanth said:

@Dolby Regarding cheering of Ice hockey team, The event mentioned by you was held in Kuwait and made sure there were atleast 10 people from my company where taken to cheer for the team and would proudly say that 14 people over shadowed 100 Kuwaiti people during Kuwait vs India match. Even our coach was stunned to see us over power them.

 with such bad. I have the puck has the souvenir of that tournament. 

Agree every bit mentioned above....I refrained from participating since I felt really bad with the comments....

To call a person traitor at bad times and patriotic at good times is such a shame on our fans...

this event reminds me of the Mir Ranjan Negi who was accused of throwing the match....

 

Yes, I remember you telling us about it. I meant all the people who went on a guilt trip about not supporting other sports. Trended Ice Hockey for couple days and then went back to not caring about Ice Hockey because we lost. 

Also, worth mentioning the kind of ridicule Sania Mirza and Somdev faced when they went out in initial rounds of GS. People don't appreciate the effort put in to qualify for GS. They want champions from day one . 

P.S. I think I have written a variant of this rant atleast 2-3 times before on the old forum. So, to all old timers kindly ignore if you find it repetitive. 

Didn't feel like posting anything due to too much negativity here but couldn't help. So, time for my rant. 

I don't understand this desire for sportspersons as administrators. Below is the list of some of the important federations of India:

1) Shooting: Raninder Singh, son of Capt. Amarinder Singh, ex-CM of Punjab. Did participate at national level in shooting. 

2) Archery: Vijay Kumar Malhotra, politician

3) Hockey: Narinder Batra, an egotistical industrialist who runs Hockey India as a dictator

4) Badminton: Akhilesh Das Gupta, politician

5) Athletics: Adil Sumariwalla, ex-Olympian

6) Swimming: Digambar Kamat, politician is President, but all power is with Nanavati, businessman

7) Tennis: Anil Khanna, don't know details but not an accomplished player

8) Wrestling: Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, politician

9) Weightlifting: Birendra Prasad Baishya, politician

*10) Cricket: Anurag Kumar, politician (almost all the state federations have politicians or businessmen as heads)

11) Boxing: No Federation

If politicians can manage cricket very well, why can't they manage other sports? Will Leander Paes or Mahesh Bhupathi be better than Anil Khanna in running AITA? Archery is headed by an old politician well past his prime, but still it is one of the better managed Federations. There are trials for each event. They declared a clear selection policy for Olympics and stuck to it. After London, they provided mental conditioning to team and ensured that team reached Rio well in advance to get acclimatised to conditions. On other hand we have Athletics, headed by an ex-Olympian, who selected a dope tainted coach for our relay team, didn't know that 400m runners had to be included in relay teams and wasted time trying to get a non-existent wild card for Neeraj Kumar. Which do you prefer? 

Way forward is not to summarily replace these administrators with ex-Olympians. We developed in Archery because of Tata Academy. We developed in Badminton due to efforts of Gopichand and Padukone academies. A large portion of our Boxing and Wrestling progress is due to a handful of coaches at Bhiwani. We need scores of such academies to develop all over India. We need 10-15 organisations like OGQ and JSW to nurture and take care of young talents. 

Also, as fans, we also need to step up. We need to support (and criticise within limits) our players throughout. We can't forget about them, once Olympics are over. For example, I remember that there was this awesome twitter campaign to support Indian Ice Hockey team. They were short on funds and hence, were not sure of competing in a Asian level tournament. People stepped in and ensured their participation. People even cheered for them during the first couple of games, which we lost. After that, people forget about them. We need to try and minimise this. Also, we need to set reasonable expectations. Over here, people are disappointed that Sathish finished 4th in his group. Guys, he still managed to get his PB. Lastly, please don't question their commitment. Olympians have given everything to reach that stage. All they ask in return is respect and support. Let us give them both.