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Mary Kom defeated Pinki Jangra in Delhi and she will participate in the World Championships which is her final chance to qualify for Rio. She needs to enter Semi Final to earn the ticket for Rio

Wrestling Updates Men's Freestyle and Greco-Roman teams, including qualified wrestlers -- Yogeshwar Dutt (65kg Freestyle), Narsingh Yadav (74kg Freestyle) and Hardeep Singh (98kg Greco-Roman) -- will be undergoing special training in Tbilisi, Georgia till May 4. Meanwhile, the Indian female wrestling team, which comprises Vinesh Phogat (48kg), Babita Kumari (53kg) and Geeta Phogat (58kg), will attend the training camp at Sofia, Bulgaria till May 4. While the men's team would be based in Tbilisi and female team in Sofia, all of them will go to Mongolia to participate in an Olympic qualifying tournament -- 1st World Qualification tournament from April 20 to 24, before coming back to the respective cities to continue their training. Whoever fails to qualify for the Olympics at the tournament in Mongolia, will then proceed to Istanbul, Turkey for the last Olympic qualifier -- 2nd World Qualification tournament, scheduled from May 6-8. A 15-member India squad will be heading to Mongolia, where it will fight to acquire Olympic berths in four freestyle, five Greco-Roman and six women's quota places. The race for an Olympic spot in the 57kg category of the Indian wrestling team took an ugly turn after Rahul Aware, one of the three contenders, abandoned his team en route to a training camp in Georgia, alleging bias against him. He is now facing a disciplinary action after being pulled up by the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI). The wrestlers left for Tbilisi, Georgia, last Thursday for a month-long camp ahead of the penultimate Olympic qualifying tournament in Mongolia later this month. However, when Aware reached the Delhi airport with rest of the contingent, he found out that the WFI had already processed Mongolia visa for Sandeep Tomar, his rival in the same weight category. Miffed that he was not being given an opportunity to compete in the qualifiers, Aware boarded a flight to Mumbai instead of Georgia, deciding not to be a part of the training camp as well. The WFI defended its decision by saying that since Aware blew his chance by not managing to win a quota at the recently-concluded Asian Olympic Qualifying tournament, they gave chance to the second-best wrestler in the 57kg category for the Mongolia event. In case Tomar too fails to qualify, then the federation will send Amit Dahiya, who represented India at the London Olympics, for the final qualifying tournament in Turkey next month. At the selection trials last month in Delhi, Aware had emerged on top, beating Tomar in the final while Dahiya finished third.

Wrestling 1st olympic qualification starting from 22nd april 2016. How many quotas can India secure? What are the optimistic chances? Is Sushil kumar participating in the same weight category of narsingh pancham yadav?

2015 World Championships seems to be the only option.

India can now hope for a medal finish in women's vault event in Rio Olympics.

Link for the Asian Qualification Tournament in Toyoma , Japan http://www.canoe.or.jp/tournament/2016/9th_asian_sla_championships.html

Canoe Slalom Ace paddler, Bilquis Mir has been nominated national coach to represent India in 9th Asian canoe slalom Championship and Canoe Slalom Asian Continental Qualifier for Rio Olympics 2016, to be held at Toyama in Japan from April 17 to April 24, 2016 as coach.She has the reputation of being the most competent national coach in women Kayaking and Canoeing internationally.It is pertinent to mention here that earlier in 3rd National Canoe Slalom and Canoe Polo Championship, J&K team coached by Bilquis won one gold three silver and 2 bronze medals.Bilquis said that she is hopeful of good show of Indian team at the National scene, adding that she also believes that JK paddlers will represent India in the forthcoming Asian Championship. http://www.canoe.or.jp/tournament/2016/9th_asian_sla_championships.html

Cycling Federation of India aiming for 2020 Tokyo Olympics qualification with proper planning and preparation Source : Times of India

Dipa Karmakar has become the 3rd gymnast and 5th overall to successfully complete the Produnova Vault which is considered the toughest and has a difficulty level of 7.0 So definitely she is a medal hope if her execution is succesful. because anyways she will score the highest in difficulty.

In both her attempts , Dipa Karmakar scored highest in difficulty and lowest in execution. But above all , she secured gold. 1st attempt Difficulty - 7 Execution - 8.1 Vault score - 15.1 2nd attempt Difficulty - 6 Execution - 8.566 Vault score - 14.566 Final Score - 14.833

Congrats Dipa Karmakar.

The Asian Olympic qualifiers for Weightlifting is also scheduled this month. It seems India can secure at max 2 quotas if they perform to their level best.

But Indian media claiming that she is the first Indian gymnast ever to qualify for Olympics

Historic day for India. Congrats Dipa

Good for India that they earned 4 quotas , 2 each in mens and womens category

Good analysis. Assuming that indian team quota hopes are alive

Shooting Indian squad for the Rio ISSF World Cup beginning April 16, 2016 Abhinav Bindra, Gagan Narang, Chain Singh, Sanjeev Rajput, Jitu Rai, Gurpreet Singh, P.N. Prakash, Manavjit Singh Sandhu, Zoravar Singh Sandhu, Kynan Chenai, Md. Asab, Ankur Mittal, Sangram Dahiya, Mairaj Ahmed Khan, Sheeraz Sheikh, Man Singh, Rajeshwari Kumari, Seema Tomar, Shagun Chowdhary, Heena Sidhu, Ayonika Paul, Apurvi Chandela, Pooja Ghatkar.

Though Sharath and Noshad have not met each other in recent times they have played against one another five times before between 2010 and 2014 with the Indian having a 4-1 win-loss record over the Iranian. In a head-to-head match-up, the North Korean has an upper hand over the Indian, having beaten Mouma once in the Asian Championships in 2011.

Swimming Sajan Prakash clocked "B" standard time for Rio Olympics qualification in 200 m butterfly in Speedo Thailand Open 2016

By two spots I mean to say Mens and Womens spot in the 2nd round. I hope Mens and Womens will get one quota each in 1st round

Yes I think Sharath Kamal will qualify through that South Asian Countries quota and Soumyajit Ghosh and others will fight for the other quota in the 2nd round. Similar cases for Womens Group also.

Dipa Karmakar's Rio Olympic test event is on 17th April , 2016 The Executive Committee of Gymnastics Federation of India headed by Shri Sudhakar Shetty (President) nominated Dipa for the 2016 Rio Olympics Test Event scheduled at Rio de Janeiro from 16th to 19th April 2016. This will be a golden opportunity for Dipa to qualify for the 2016 Rio Olympics. Dipa have earned this position through her performance and hard work. Good luck to her and hope for a first ever Olympic Qualification by an Indian Gymnast.

As per norms, two men and two women per country can make the cut. All eight will first compete in Stage 1 of the event (South Asian region qualification). However, it has been learnt that Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and Maldives have decided to forego the event, leaving the Indians to compete against each other. The competition will be tougher in Stage 2, where India vie for two more spots.

Dipa Karmakar gets last chance to qualify for Olympics at test event starting April 16; will need to prove execution over all 4 apparatus.