Babita is also a World Championship medallist, she has medals from Asian Championships, SF appearances in Asian Games, and last year's Asian Championships definitely make her a medal contender. She has been performing well
This is so unfair. There should be some criteria for playing doubles and mixed doubles tennis at Olympics. Singles players will easily dominate the regular doubles players.
Criteria like considering only doubles rank to play in doubles. Why should singles rank be considered
Yes I agree about this conspiracy thing. We need a strong presence in AIBA. And after all the scandals and a lot of unfair results I should say Boxing no longer deserves to be in the Olympics. It should be removed in next cycle. Stay away from Olympics for one Olympic Games atleast, clean your shit, assure IOC of your cleanliness and come back
Extremely disappointed with Men's Archery team. They did really good at qualification and lost in both events so poorly. Not digestible.
Answer is needed from these archers please. If you are not of that world class level then its okay if you fail to qualify but if government is spending so much on you only because nation hopes from you, nation knows you are potential medal winners and you deliver absolutely nothing? Unacceptable! They are capable of winning an Olympic medal. Everybody knows it
He is there with the team so maybe he is right. Also aren't the no. of 10s taken into consideration in case of tie? Because there were 2 more ties - Finland and Japan but Finland have more 10s so they are placed higher same with Turkey and Thailand.
So if there is no tie breaker in this case India will still be top seeded as we will have one 10 more than Mexico with Champia in
Yes that was what I was told by a guy from Archery Association of India. He said it is possible to change team and swap players. He also claimed that Mangal is in better form than Rahul
Okay I have news from Archery Association of India that Mangal will play instead of Rahul here and at Olympics as well. Mangal Champia finished poor here as he failed to judge the wind in first round. I am happy with strict policy of AAI unlike WFI
Qualification should be easy for India Men. Road to till SF is easy. Canada in Round of 16 then Indonesia or Belarus in QF. Then a real test in SF with Mexico as 3rd seeds but they got tough draw. They have GB in frst round then Rus/Fra in QF. Mex may lose before SF
Indian Men's Recurve Archery Team led by Atanu Das finished 5th in #WCAntalya team qualification and 2nd amongst #Rio2016 non-qualified teams!
There will be a separate draw for non-qualified teams on June 16 where top 3 finishers will be awarded Olympic quota places.
2nd seeds India will play Canada in Round of 16
Good idea! I'm in for this. She clocked 2:5.4 which is so cool as the Rio mark is 2:01.50.
They should send her to some international meet immediately. She can go down 4 sec in one month considering her fast improvement ability you mentioned
Any idea in which event OP Jaisha is gonna participate. Marathon or 5000/10000m?
She should go for track only. Indians in Marathon will be just lost in the crowd. But she can achieve better results in track events