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One of the medal hopes for India women discuss thrower Krishna Poonia improved her season's best to 56.02 m at the 2nd Indian grand prix. She will travel to United States next week for high performance training and look for attaining olympic qualification mark by participating in upcoming international events

None attained olympic qualification mark in the 1st day of 2nd Indian grand prix athletics at Patiala As for the star event of 100 m women Dutee chand - 11.37 sec HM jyothi - 11.57 sec Srabani Nanda - 11.60 sec

Swimming Swimmers Sandeep Sejwal and Supriya Mondal have surpassed the 'B' qualification mark for the 2016 Olympics at the 59th Malaysian Open Swimming Championships in Selangor, Malaysia. Competing in their first international event of the year, both the Indian swimmers also won gold medals in their respective events. Sandeep clocked a meet record time of 1:02.45s in 100m breaststroke, while Supriya dished out a National record breaking performance of 2:00.54s in 200m butterfly.

Athletics Over the weekend a batch of 30 Indian athletes, specialised coaches and support staff are to travel to Spala in central Poland. Till the end of June, the Olympic training centre in the East European country will be the base for these athletes. Those on the plane to Poland will be the men and women’s 4×400 metre relay teams and javelin throwers. The race walkers, a dozen of them who have met qualifying standards for the Rio Games, will eventually shift base from Italy to the Polish city before leaving for the Olympics. At the 2004 Athens Olympics, the relay team set the current national record (3:26.89 seconds) in the heats and advanced to the final, where they finished seventh. Four years later, at Beijing, they failed to make the final. The team failed to recover from the dope scandal of 2011 and did not qualify for the London Games. The resurrection came in the form of gold medals at the Asian Athletics Championships in 2013 and the Incheon Asian Games. Yet, the good run suffered a setback when the team finished second at the Asian Athletics Championships in Wuhan last year. At the Asian meet the team clocked 3:33.44, a below par timing which has come back to bite them ahead of the Olympics. For a national team to qualify for the relays (the top-eight teams at the IAAF World Relays in Bahamas have automatically qualified), the average of the two best timings achieved between January 1 last year and July 11, 2016 at an international meet must be good enough to be placed between No.9 and 16 in the world. At the World Championships in Beijing, the Indian women’s 4×400 metre relay squad clocked a season’s best of 3:29.08 but the performance at Wuhan has hurt the team’s chances and they are currently placed 17th in the world. The Indian team’s average stands at 3:31.34 and ahead on the list at No.16 is Germany with 3:30.93 and Japan with 3:30.85. The top-three in the list are the United States, Jamaica and Great Britain. If the suspension of Russia (average time of 3:24.29) is revoked then according to current standings the Indian team will drop another place. With time running out, the team coached by Ukrainian Yuri Ogorodnik, who was in charge when the squad failed a dope test in 2011, has assured the AFI that the women will peak by June. The AFI’s deputy chief coach Radhakrishnan Nair believes that timing, at one of the international competitions over the next two months, close to what the team achieved at the World Championships in Beijing, should push them back into the top-16. “The women’s 4×400 metre relay team needs one good race. During their trip to Spala, they will also be participating in more than one international competitions. The AFI is confident of the team making the cut for the Olympics,” Nair said What has come as a breath of fresh air and a boost for the relay squad is the recent form of Anilda Thomas, the Kerala sprinter who chose to train outside the national camp but has had a change of heart in the run-up to the Olympics. Anilda’s decision to train with her coach Jaikumar PB has resulted in progress though the AFI wasn’t happy that a top sprinter was unwilling to be part of the national camp. Anilda beat the country’s best in the 400, MR Poovamma, in the first leg of the Indian Grand Prix in New Delhi and the Federation Cup also held in the capital. Anilda’s training partner in Thiruvananthapuram Anu Raghavan, who is recovering from a niggle, has also been included in the national camp. At the Federation Cup, Anilda won the gold with a timing of 52.40, while Poovamma (52.60) finished second. The Olympic qualifying mark in the 400 metre individual event stands at 52.20, and with the women, including seasoned runners like Jauna Murmu and Priyanka Panwar pushing each other in the individual event, the relay squad is bound to get stronger. Add to this pool of runners the promising Jishna Mathew, a student of the Usha School of Athletics, and her senior Tintu Luka. In the group are also Ashwini Akkunji, Debasree Majumdar and Sini Jose. The mix of youth, experience and proven performers means there is no scarcity of athletes to choose from, but who will ultimately make the squad of six will depend on form and fitness over the next few weeks. But first there remains the task of qualifying for the Olympics for this squad around which expectations tend to soar before a major event. Qualifying Rules Should have finished among the first eight placed teams at the IAAF World Relays at Bahamas in 2015. Or finished among the best ranked teams (No.9 to No.16) to fill the remaining quota places. The two fastest times achieved by national teams in the qualification period — January 1, 2015 to July 11, 2016 — at international meets are taken into consideration. The Indian women’s 4×400 metre women’s relay team is currently in 17th position according to the average timings of teams around the world. If Russia, currently suspended, is readmitted, the Indian team will drop another place unless they improve their average timing. Source : Indian Express

Swimming With a vision of more Indian qualification in Olympics 2020 , Speedo , the leading swim brand announced " Team Speedo for India" . Under this programme , selected swimmers from India will gain valuable exposure . One of the mentors for this programme is Nisha Millet, who represented India in the 2000 Olympics. The swimmers included in this programme are : India's Rio 2016 hopeful Aaron D'Souza The fastest Indian female swimmer Aditi Dhumatkar Ananya Panigrahi who represented India in the 2013 FINA World Championships South Asian Games gold medallist Damini Gowda Accomplished National Championship medallist Trisha Karkhanis Ansh Arora who participated in the 2015 World School Games in Poland Madhu PS who won 2 gold medals at the South Asian Games Arvind Mani who represented India at the 2014 FINA World Championships

Four Wrestlers have been banned by Wrestling Federation of India from participating in the final Olympic qualifier due to disciplinary reasons for their behavior and wrong actions during the last Olympic qualifier which is scheduled to take place at Istanbul, Turkey, from May 6-8 , 2016. Phogat Sisters - Babita Kumari ( forfeited her repechage bout in women's 53kg ) and Geeta ( had pulled out citing injury in 58kg) Sumit ( Men's 125 kg freestyle ) ( had a chance to book an Olympic berth had he won his repechage round followed by two more bouts, but the heavyweight grappler did not turn up for his repechage bout in 125kg freestyle citing injury ) . Rahul Aware ( Men's 57 kg freestyle ) ( who was also shortlisted by the federation to train in Tbilisi along with his colleagues, however, refused to go to Georgia, citing that his visa was not done for the two qualification events in Mongolia and Turkey )

Jahnavi srivastava from India participated in the canoe slalom asian olympic qualifiers held at Tayoma , Japan held between April 17-24 , 2016. She failed to qualify.

Out of 64 , 56 will be direct entries , 6 will be final qualifications and 2 will be tripartite invitations Currently Men's doubles ranking are as follows Rohan Bopanna - 11 Leander Paes - 52 Mahesh Bhupathi - 214 Last date to improve qualification rankings - 6th June , 2016

Good performance. Olympic qualification in sight Men's qualification standard - 10.16 Women's qualification standard - 11.32

Feel pity for the Athletics participants from India who might have lost a few Rio Qualification marks due to poor show by the organisers ( power cut ) . I am not saying that they have surely crossed the olympic qualification marks as the calculation was done through handheld devices. But who knows.. Some athletes might had qualified. Odisha government has taken up the matter with the union ministry regarding the AFI fiasco. Apart from Srabani Nanda ,Odisha had been investing in Amiya Kumar Mallick silently for 3 long years preparing him for Rio.

The Olympic athletes till now thought that Cricketers were the only stars in the country and they didnt get their due importance. Now above that comes the bollywood stars. The Olympics and the multinational games ( and now the premier leagues ) are the only time of the year when these athletes come to limelight and feel special. So before going to Rio and representing the country , they need a hell lot of motivation so that they have a feeling that the entire nation is behind them and they are equally important. But in this case , a wrong message is sent to the athletes on the appointment of Salman Khan. And it is not wise to distract the athletes ( specially the medal hopes and star ones ) for some wrong reasons which might affect their preparation and concentration towards Rio.

Kashyap cant be sent for sure because of his injury status. Rest I agree with you.

The Final Top Seeded Archers who Are most Probable For the Journey Of Rio De Janeiro From Archery are as follows Recurve Men 1 Atanu Das. 2 Mangal Singh Champia 3 Rahul Banerjee 4 Jayanta Talukdar Recurve Women 1Deepika Kumari 2 Laxmi Rani Majhi 3 Rimil Buriuly 4 Bombayla Devi Laishram Hoping 2 more individual quotas in Men and a team quota in Men

According to Pullela Gopichand, 7 players will get Rio Olympics quota in Badminton. Let's see how far Gopi's prediction materializes.

Athletics 1st Indian Grand Prix Gold medalist in the women's 200m in the 2016 SAF Games, Srabani Nanda and men sprinter Amiya Kumar Mallick scorched the track in the 100m race for women and men respectively in the first Indian Grand Prix held here at the JN Stadium on Sunday. Nanda, who was part of the Indian women 4x100m relay quartet which won the bronze medal in the 2010 Commonwealth Games, clocked 11.23sec (National record 11.38s) while Mallick stopped the watch at 10.09sec (National record 10.30s). In the other highlight of the day, Muhammed Anas clocked 45.41sec (National record 45.48s) in the men's 400m, ahead of Asian Games bronze medalist and favourite Arokya Rajiv, to take the first spot. Suriya Loganathan bagged the top spot in the women's 3000m with a performance of 9:04.45, the fourth best Indian timing recorded in this meet. However, all the four Indian bests were recorded manually as a power black-out in the stadium rendered the electronic timing system useless. The 2016 Olympic Games qualification standards for men's and women's 100m sprints are 10.16sec and 11.32sec respectively, while the 400m cut-off stands at 45.40sec. Nanda was followed by S Sini who clocked 11.53s while HImanshree Roy finished third with 11.74s. In the men's 100m, Vidhya Sagar from Navy finished second behind Mallick, with 10.30s while Vikas Ghulia took the third spot at 10.37s. In the men's 400m, Arokya took the second place, clocking 45.87, while Kunhu Muhammed finished third with 46.47s. SAF Games Gold Medalist Neeraj Chopra threw 79.54m, unable to match the Olympic qualification standard of 83m in this outing, but the youngster will be definitely aiming to sail through in the forthcoming Federation Cup, to be held at the same venue from April 28-30. Meanwhile, women javelin thrower and Asian Games bronze medalist Annu Rani took the top position with 58.42m, but fell short of the Olympics qualification mark of 62 metres. Anilda Thomas took the top honours in the women's 400m (52.93s), piping Asian Games bronze medalist and favourites M.R. Poovamma (53.05s., while Anu Raghavan took the third place (54.24s). In the women's discus thrower, Navjeet Kaur Dhillon, who won the bronze medal at the 2014 IAAF World Junior Championships stole the thunder from 2010 CWG gold medalist Krishna Poonia, to take the top honours with a throw of 55.73 metres. Poonia managed a best throw of 55.22m on her comeback after two years. It is unfortunate that these timings wont be considered for Olympic Qualification. Or else awesome performance specially in the short distance sprints.

As Vinesh was given a warning and she was an offender for blowing the hopes of the Indians without even appearing on the mat, I think she will come back strongly mentally in the final qualifying event. She needs to prove something.

From the performance of Mairaj , it can be assumed that we can hope a medal in any disciple of shooting. All the Indian shooters are medal hopes provided they sign on their particular event day.

Finally a quota for India in this particular qualifier. Sigh of Relief

Rowing Men's Single Scull (M1X) Dattu Baban Bhokanal is in the Final A and attains ticket for Rio ** Hoping for a quota in the doubles and then have to see which quota India uses for the Rio

Weightlifting Sukhen Dey who won Gold in commonwealth games in 56 kg category and was considered as a future medal hope for India is not participating in the qualifiers as he is suffering from Jaundice and currently under rehab and rest.

You are correct. Mausam Khatri was the last rare Indian wrestler who qualified in Greco Roman way back in 2004 Athens Olympics

Weightlifting not yet started

FISA Asia Oceania Continental Olympic Qualification Regatta, Chunjhu, South Korea Men Single Scull (M1X) is in Semifinals Light Weight Men's Double Scull (LM2X) is in Final