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Sumit Nagal qualified in Men's Singles Tennis ?

One week to go and still...? https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/tokyo-olympics/indiatokyo/wfi-to-assess-preparedness-of-seema-bisla-anshu-malik-and-sonam-malik/articleshow/84463279.cms

Which new athletes/teams came in after these withdrawls specially in Men's doubles?

She was adamant to come back to her home to seek blessings from her parents before flying to Tokyo. Visa not extended was an excuse. https://www.amarujala.com/sports/wrestler-anshu-malik-will-return-to-india-to-seek-blessings-of-parents

How is it good to have World number 1 in the group? They cannot even cross group stage.

Three olympics quota confirmed in Badminton for India P V Sindhu Sai Praneeth Chirag/Rankireddy

Athletics Women's 400 m relay 400 m women relay trials Revathi 53.55, Shuba 54.26, Dhanalakshmi 54.27. Jisna 4th 54.31, Vismaya 6th last 55.34! Poovamma suffering injury No Priya Mohan either

Athletics: Madari Palliyalil Jabir qualified in men's 400 m hurdles through world ranking

Athletics: Annu Rani qualified via rankings

Athletics: Dutee Chand qualified for 100 m and 200 m on account of world rankings

Tennis: So far looks like only participation is Women's doubles. Sania and Ankita In Men's Singles, last rank will be 105. But Sumit Nagal is 144 and Prajnesh is 148.

Equestrian: Congrats to Fouaad Mirza & Djara for their win (finished on dressage score 2 position) at CCIO4* Nations Cup

Neeraj Chopra not taking part in Lucerne event. May be after getting this news ??

Badminton Rituparna Das wins Polish Open

Tennis India lose to Spain 3 - 0 in Davis Cup . Saketh Myneni / Leander Paes lost 1 - 3 to Rafael Nadal / Lopez

Basketball Japan (I. Brown 20, M. Heijima 19, R. Shinoyama 12) beat India (Amritpal Singh 22, Amjyot Singh 18) 77-66 [22-14, 18-19, 20-18, 17-15] in FIBA Asia Challenge

Difficulty values of lots of moves changed post Rio Olympics http://www.wogymnast.com/2016/09/beyond-rio-skills-difficulty-values.html

Produnova difficulty points changed from 7.0 to 6.4 http://www.wogymnast.com/2016/09/beyond-rio-skills-difficulty-values.html

Badminton Sourabh Verma enters quarterfinals of Belgian International Challenge

Story of Ashmita and Abhishek , the two promising stars of Indian Gymnastic after Dipa Karmakar http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/more-sports/others/Ashmita-and-Abhishek-the-two-gymnasts-primed-to-surpass-Dipa-Karmakar/articleshow/54325802.cms

"I am very happy to inform you that Archer Monika Soren who is a student of a school in Paschim Medinipur has won with three others from India the 2nd Stage Asia Archery Cup World Ranking Tournament held at Chinese Taipei Taiwan from 07/09/2016 to 14/09/2016 and has got a Gold Medal. Monika is a Kanyashree from Nayagrm Block under Jhargram Sub Division, Paschim Midnapore. We had gifted her one international standard archery set on Kanyasree Day, 2015. Heartiest congratulations and best wishes to Monika. We are proud of our Kanyashrees." --- Mamata Banerjee ( CM, West Bengal)

Swimming World record holder and Indian open water swimming champion Bhakti Sharma is seeking crowdfunding to try her luck at Tokyo 2020 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/more-sports/others/Swimmer-Bhakti-Sharma-seeks-financial-aid-via-crowdfunding/articleshow/54170273.cms

After personal bests in Rio , Marathon runners Kheta Ram , T Gopi and Rawat have targeted to break the national records because they feel this is the only way to garner public attention and revive long distance running in India which is considered less glamorous compared to the short distance sprints http://www.hindustantimes.com/olympics/after-personal-bests-in-rio-army-marathon-runners-target-elusive-record/story-6Tj0MEUXq4vW6VBGJPbTjO.html

Over 50 interfaith and advocacy organisations have called on the International Basketball Federation to lift its ban on religious headgear that bars Muslim, Sikh and Jewish athletes from competing on a professional level and "defies human rights norms".

Bollywood actor Salman Khan lived up to his promise of paying Rs 1.01 lakh to all the participants of Rio Olympic Games and has requested the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) to send him details of the athletes.