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The Russian had real class. Devendro's bout tomorrow. Will he too qualify if he wins?

Sorry to say we have been participating in large numbers in athletics for such a long time. What has changed? A few stars come up from time to time but nothing changes. I don't think anyone should be sent unless they cross the A qualification mark. Look at shooting wrestling even badminton. Boxing. There our Olympians are mostly true competitors pushing for medals. Only few of them will win but most have potential too. That has to be differentiated from the no hopers in athletics table tennis etc where we have been participating for a long time without anything tangible. This nehruvian idea of participation is better than winning has led us here. So many nations have much smaller contingents and are so much poorer than us still win more medals. For a lowdown on that - check out the GDP based medal tally.

Let us not worry so much about numbers . we have a very poor participant to medalist ratio.

A great day for boxing. Boxers take a bow for qualifying in face of such adversity.

Are the bouts live on AIBA's channel on YouTube?

disastrous result. playing champia inspite of his form - what to say -this is how all Indian sports are run. So in archery we have actually taken a step backwards from London 2012.

now we will go through smoothly .

India win 26-24. phew what a close shave

hell. losing to turkey!!!! so yesterday's poor show continues today

thats showing france vs kaz

hopefully india's match will be shown at least from the quarters or the semis. please post live link or inform us -everyone

Yeah 7th Olympics for Leander. What a legend. And we shall see how far the technically correct pairing of bopanna n sania goes at Rio. I will be surprised if they go too far

And welcome Kavita.

While getting excited about India's performance against Germany - we have to see whether they fielded their full strength squad or played some reserves. Missed the match so don't know about the lineups

Prasanth- I dunno why you are trying to decide what we can and cannot discuss. And to reply to someone's comment - if ravindra jadeja suddenly says he wants Stuart binny in the team in place of Sachin Tendulkar - he will obviously not get any respect

Its sad enough the winner of so many XD titles in recent times will not get a chance to represent India in Olympics one last time in that event in all probabilities.

it was due to his poor form but also due to his injuries due to which he had to skip tournaments. but he has shown that he is not finished by winning the XD at the French Open. Rankings once had Serena near 100 after a long injury lay off - did that mean she suddenly became that poor a player? rankings have to be taken in context. like I said - we are choosing partners for the national team for the Olympics - not for a ball room dance that friendships business interests and camps will trump national interest.

sorry to say that the two situations are not the same. in 2012 leander was the top ranked indian player in MD and he wanted to form the bets team by teaming up with bopanna or bhupathi who were the next best players.how is that an unfair demand? it was they who had ganged up against him to prevent india from fielding its best possible MD team. the result was for all to see. so its completely incorrect to blame paes for this fiasco. i will agree AITA messed up the situation last time by using sania as a bait for paes to give up his claim on bopanna for MD. and the difference in ranking is due to paes' injuries also -its not as if bopanna is setting the circuit on fire. and if you consider rankings -how come saketh is preferred over leander? nobody should have complete freedom - personal choice cannot trump national interest. sania can play with whoever she wants in the circuit. In the olympics - it has to be in consultation over AITA

exactly

exactly. paes is a natinoal hero. outside of cricket stars - the most well known sportsman? he will be isolated?

only three people in the sports team with business interests linked to bhupathi dislike paes . the whole country the whole sporting fraternity and the whole tennis community the world over loves him. what are you talking about dude? if paes goes to rio -he will be the cynosure of the village - its people who are trying to deny him a place in the team who will find themselves isolated?

we are talking about this coz this is the most important olympic related news from today. if you are not interested in discussing it -please dont comment on it.

complementing each other means nothing if you dont have the quality though.