Vivek

India will face Spain in Davis Cup World Group Play-offs 

Some are.saying what is the.difference between 102 &120. Medal contenders will remain same. I have big objection on it. Our athlets are qualifying through achieving a target set by international body. Except swimming none will qualify through so called wild card. Many of these standards were even better than our national record. These qualification standard gives inspiration to our athlets to better national record. Now these players main abjective is to earn quota, in sports with out international exposure you cannot create champions. Champions are not born, they are to be created. If our 120 player's achive quota it means our 120 players have crossed a big barrier. It means they have achive a specific international standard. Today those who are working hard for qualification, will be the medal contender tomorrow. I hope the sucess of these 115-120  players who will qualify through qualification process, will give inspiration to our swimmers also, and they too will decide that in 2020 we will atleast have a 3-4 swimmers achieving A qualification standard. Please enjoy the sucess of these 120 players, they have started a new.chapter in our sports. Please dont underestimate their success. Feel proud of them. And hope that minimum of 120 players  will qualify for rio.

Dear freinds this is a huge achievement for Indian sports, without any impressive goverment policy on sports since independence we have achived a great mark. Thanks to all players, coaching staff and sponsors. Today the way ngo's like Olympics gold quest are working with the support of society, and the way more and more corporates are coming in financial supports of players, I have no doubt that next time we will be 150+. 

Well deserved reputation with crisp information reasoning your choices. I was wanting to blog about India's chances of medals at the Olympics. Would surely want to use all the info and opinions on this forum

We are seeing very good result in shooting, Armed forces played a big role in creating a poll of good shooters in India. I think Army can easily repeat their shooting success in Equestrian, Canoeing, Rowing &  Sailing. Once they achieve success in these than they should also try for Fencing. In India it will take long long time to establish world class civil (non defence) coaching center for these games. But for defence forces it is not a big problem, as they already have primary facilities for these sports. All these sports have total 42 gold medal events. They can add swimming also. It alone has 34 Gold medal events. 
Army should have a sports quota for 8-10 year old children, so that those kids who have interest in sports gives full attention to sports, with already making their carrier safe in armed forces. We can produce world champions only if our players gets world class coaching early in their life, as early as 8-10. 

We are seeing very good result in shooting, Armed forces played a big role in creating a poll of good shooters in India. I think Army can easily repeat their shooting success in Equestrian, Canoeing, Rowing &  Sailing. Once they achieve success in these than they should also try for Fencing. In India it will take long long time to establish world class civil (non defence) coaching center for these games. But for defence forces it is not a big problem, as they already have primary facilities for these sports. All these sports have total 42 gold medal events. They can add swimming also. It alone has 34 Gold medal events. 
Army should have a sports quota for 8-10 year old children, so that those kids who have interest in sports gives full attention to sports, with already making their carrier safe in armed forces. We can produce world champions only if our players gets world class coaching early in their life, as early as 8-10. 

We are seeing very good result in shooting, Armed forces played a big role in creating a poll of good shooters in India. I think Army can easily repeat their shooting success in Equestrian, Canoeing, Rowing &  Sailing. Once they achieve success in these than they should also try for Fencing. In India it will take long long time to establish world class civil (non defence) coaching center for these games. But for defence forces it is not a big problem, as they already have primary facilities for these sports. All these sports have total 42 gold medal events. They can add swimming also. It alone has 34 Gold medal events. 
Army should have a sports quota for 8-10 year old children, so that those kids who have interest in sports gives full attention to sports, with already making their carrier safe in armed forces. We can produce world champions only if our players gets world class coaching early in their life, as early as 8-10. 

If you recall, someone had quoted team official and told about India's decision to replace Rahul with Mangal on Monday evening itself. Also, Mangal had participated in the normal team event as well. So, once again nothing to do with today's condition. 
 
In qualification, gap between Mangal and Rahul was 5 shots and Mangal had shot much better in 2nd series compared to 1st. So, maybe team thought that Mangal will bounce back. Also, its not like Rahul had a spectacular performance in qualification or Individual events. 

@dareza It cant happen because of points plus Sania /paes don't gel well they have personal issues going on. Hence its good to have Sania / Rohan. They play for same team and have played doubles together. I still think Rohan would choose Saketh over Paes. But all this mess was started by paes and now he is in the receiving end this time. He dug the well for Mahesh last time n now he would find himself  in same well, unless rohan chooses him...Now need to see what Mahesh advices Rohan. Personal rivalry over Country needs to be seen...

Last Olympics their was 5 wrestlers, this time 6. Its going upwards, we need some extra help for our heavy weight and Greco roman wrestlers. Now corporates are ready to invest in sports, so we need little more professionalism from our wrestling association. Hope in 2020 we will have 8+.

Wrestling Women 63 kg freestyle qualifications
 
 
Shilpi Sheora of India won against Chloe Anteda Spiteri of GBR  6 - 2

as per the International Judo database  ( as of current date with 2 events yet to go till the qualification closes ) 
Avtar singh qualifies for the continental quota .........in the 90 Kg category