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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?

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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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.

Please anything but World Rankings.

Latest example of impending Indian Muslim Genocide: Uniform Civil Code

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.

I had honestly hoped that as part of the deal with the World, Taliban would be allowed to take over Afghanistan and in return they won't indulge in overt discrimination and human rights abuses. Alas!!!

India's lone representative in Beijing WOG was Arif Mohd Khan, a Kashmiri. Apart from him, a large number of our winter sportsperson come from Jammu & Kashmir. In Cricket, a couple of Kashmiris have represented India. Suresh Raina, a Kashmiri Pandit by ethnicity, was an integral part of Indian cricket team for more than a decade. But probably the biggest J&K sportsperson to represent India would be rifle shooter Chain Singh. As J&K puts the past of terrorism behind and moves ahead on the path of normalcy and peace, I am sure that we will see many more Indian champions from J&K.

I would put Malvika in the same category as Unnati and Tasnim. She does seem to have potential. We need to be a bit lenient with this batch as they have missed out on 2 years due to COVID and hence, there development will be slower compared to others. Considering that, I still have high hopes from these 3. Even Samiya and Aakrishi are not that old and can improve a lot. One more name to watch out is Anupama Upadhyay. In MS, Meiraba is still young and has performed decent in his debut year on senior circuit. So, I still have hopes from him. Though I don't have high hopes from Kiran, but I think it is early to discount him. He is just 21 and already has some decent wins on senior tour. He can be next gen Prannoy. Among the rest, I think Priyanshu is another one who can be a top player. Also, for Paris, I have really high hopes on Lakshya Sen. And Srikanth still should be among top for 3-4 years more. For Doubles, we have 3 very good doubles players in Tanisha Crasto, Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand. On men's side we have a number of good young players (Krishna, Vishnu, Ishaan, Sai) Plus we have the beasts Satwik and Chirag. So, there is hope that among such a talented pool (and with return of Tan Kim Her), we should get some decent doubles team as well.

Mr. President, what should be our strategy to prevent Nuclear War? Arrange a zoom call with TikTokers https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/11/tik-tok-ukraine-white-house/

Same thing with Indian thread. I am following the thread so I get the notification but it is not visible in latest replies.

Indian Men's Hockey team will be coached by the legend Sardar Singh. We have already declared that we will be fielding a young team with the senior team focusing on Asian Games.

More importantly, almost surely, Asian Games would be a qualifying tournament for Paris Olympics.

Roman Abramovic has decided to sell Chelsea

Following the respective decision of the IOC Executive Board and a meeting with the IOC President, the ISSF decided that athletes from the Russian Federation and Belarus will not be allowed to take part in ISSF Championships. This decision entered into force at 16.00 CET on March 1, 2022 and is valid until upon further notice. Link