Govind

1 hour ago, shrikant said:

good day atlast...Hockey ensured that India need pull there socks in last quarter ...all the hard work of first 3 quarters will go in wind if 4th quarter our team play lethargic or lose composure..Manpreet was crumbling and losing easy balls in defence.... As such We were much better team today and even yesterday where we should have actually won against Germany... The best part about this match i can now expect medal from Indian hockey coz they are now not that team who will just scoop all the balls from defence as they cant play it in midfield and hoping someone will take it... or hit a hard shot in D expecting some indian stick diverting the ball in goal post... They are now playing awesome hockey with stamina equal to europeans and skills better than them except 4th quarter stamina....Now in archery, I am watching Atanu BINDas for the first time in archery and this guy is awesome... He has got nothing to do with external pressure ... Hitting the last 10 at such a pressure situation especially the cuban racing back from behind to equal 4-4 is commendable... 29 series on last set shows us all ... He is calm composed and confident... Lee should be sad to meet him so early for sure... Hope this will also ignite our woman archers.. Deepika and Bombayla devi may also play well tomorrow... Didnt expect anything from Heena but surprised to see her score low in precision where she is always at 295 and above range...

Henna score was low even in 10m Air pistol .. lost the hope in shooting now . Atleast 1 medal possible (Far sight impossible).. Don't expect anything now .. Atleast let the scores be better.

But Atanu (BIN)Das is just awesome.. I was just speech less to see his score in 1st round 29-29-30 .. Literally Insane.. If he overcome the Korean Monster in Q/F.. Sure shot of Medal .. No pressure for him.

Hockey, Looks like P.R. Sreejesh will ensure , Indian Kids taking hockey bat now instead of Circket Bat ..

Some news to cheer about finally

1 minute ago, Madhusudhan said:

finally good news started coming.....india def argentina in hockey after 6 years...... atanu das in archery QF

If Atanu Das come over the Korean monster in Q/F.. Sure shot of medal

Insane - he is trough to next round .. with 6-4

Gr8 show against Argentina ..

Heena - Fails to qualify for finals in 25m Pistol Women's

1 minute ago, Harit Garg said:

He is not a Dark Horse but a Medal contender.

Medal Contender .. I never heard his name before in Men's Archery ..Going to go through the Wiki link now about him

30 now in next set .. Wow through to next round :, Is he Dark Horse for us?

What a start by Atanu Das 4-0 now with 29 & 29

India 1-0 against Arg

14 minutes ago, Kiruphagaran said:

I agree. Especially in shooting and archery we should qualify as many as we can. So the probability of getting medals increases. Now Abinav gone and we dont know about gagan. So we should groom for 10 m airrifle, and 50 m prone and 3 positions. Already chain singh is there. Hope they dont stick with sanjeev rajput again. At least for shooting our juniors are good. We should aim 2018 asian games in short term. And regarding other sports I feel we should concentrate on swimming, Judo, fencing. Out of this three, swimming can easly reach ordinary kids. First we should perform well in asian games and commonwealth where itself we have world class competition with likes of china, japan, australia, south africa etc.,

Even Cycling & Rowing too .. Where we can able to fetch medals at Asian level .. we need to train more. .

Guys any idea what happen to Rojan Sodhi

9 minutes ago, Steve_RP said:

I feel going forward that we need to push our bench strength even more...Be it shooting, archery or other sports.....bring in the juniors or 2-3 athletes who can reach that position in a yr or two if they are given the opportunities....

atleast give them a chance to either fail or to improve......tough competition at the domestic level helps improve the quality of performance.....

I think its already tough at National Level .. There many good shooter now days even at national level . But some more training needed for us to hold the nerve at exact time..  And we need to train more Junior so that we will qualify for next Olympics in all the category ..

Not sure why these names are not spoken now a days -  Tejaswini Sawat,  Rojan Sodhi,  Anesha Syden ,  Showgun Chowdary etc..

Only 10m Air pistol is favorite for Henna, Not this .. Any how good show by her so far

Summary of Day 3 - India at RIO 2016 (Heart Break day)

Shooting - 

10m AirRifle Men - Brindra Missed medal by 0.1 finished 4th.Gagan fails to qualify for finals, finished at 23rd. 

Man Trap shooting - Both Manvjit & Kynan Chenai fails to qualify for finals finised at 16 & 19

Hockey

Men Team - Real heart break where India lost to current olympic champion Germany at 2-1. German scored last goal at last 3rd second.

Women Team - Lost to Great Britan at 3 - 0

Archery

Women Individual - Laxmirani Majhi lost to Slovikan at first round.

Swimming

Both Sajan Prakash &  Shivani Kataria did well in their heats finished 3 & 2nd but in final its expected result.
 

1 minute ago, hckosice said:

 

Everything bad comes with something good. You will celebrate your first medal even more. I am sure you will medal soon ...and I hope we too

 if we get the medal ..You will be first person to say thanks from my end.  Thanks again for your wishes

9 minutes ago, hckosice said:

 

Ah ok..no unfortunately nothing so far. we had one 4th place in mens Air Pistol. Our biggest hope in mens trap absolutely underperformed today too

Today I can make out how pain it will be when we finish 4th at any event,  I feel sorry for your shooter...

Just now, hckosice said:

 

Ah ok..no unfortunately nothing so far. we had one 4th place in mens Air Pistol. Our biggest hope in mens trap absolutely underperformed today too

Same happening with India buddy .. Our biggest medal in 10m Air rifle missed medal by Whisker.. Finished 4th , Same with Women Archery Team as well... We are too close yet too far

7 minutes ago, hckosice said:

 

you mean in Rio ?  No. Or in History ? yes 7-9-8

Just asked Rio..I know Slovakia is good in Canoeing.. Sure shot of medal for you .. All the best though

57 minutes ago, hckosice said:

 

haha just wrote the same   congrats great perf of Glasnovic

Did Slovakia won any medals. .So far.

16 minutes ago, Kiruphagaran said:

http://www.espn.in/olympics/story/_/id/17246261/abhinav-bindra-speaks-finishing-fourth-rio

 

Nice words about Abinav.

That's why I am great fan of Abinav and Sachin .. For me these two are living legend in India..

28 minutes ago, Kiruphagaran said:

Thats the spirit. See today in archery the south korean lost to a lower ranked player and  in mens 10 m air rifle chinese favourite yang was way behind. And in olympic  shooting (mainly mens rifle and pistol) I see the same guys winning or getting in to finals most of the times. I hope bindra returns for 2020.  

Hmm I agree..

Summary of Heartbreak for us so far:

1. 10m Air Rifle Men - Bindra missed medal by 0.1 point

2. Women Archery team - Team missed in shoot out against Russia after trying so hard. eventually Russian won silver medal winner in same event

3. 48Kg Women Weightlifting - Saikhom Mirabai Chanu - if she lifted 106 in clean and Jerk which she done before , Bronze assured.

4. Men's Hockey - Losing against 2012 Olympics champion just 3 seconds before end of the match else it will be spoken for Ever.

Summary of Good Performance so far

1. Dipa Karmakar - She is in headline in all the Indian Channels - First Indian women to qualify for Vault Finals.

2. Dattu Baban Bhokanal  - Rower directly qualifies for Quaterfinal for first time.

3. Prarthana Thombare - Women double tennis - Hard fought by her. Even if she lost in first round.

Expected results from my side:  (I am not Sports Journalist, this is completely my opinion)

Men's doubles - Its expected result, Ego will not fetch the medal. 

Ayonika Paul - 10m Air rifle women - She never won major medal expect 2014 Common wealth games. She won bronze one world cup. And never be consistent. Not sure why this quota is not sure used for other( Eg. Sanjeev Rajput)

Manavjit Singh Sandhu - Men's Trap - Why we need to keep trying with same person for more than three Olympics. I agree he is once world champion. But unable to sustain the pressure and he is not qualified for finals even once in Olympics.

More Shocking results :

TT Players not even moved to next round - Even Soumyajit Ghosh lost in first round.

10m Air Pistol Men- Considering the current form of Jitu Rai. I got shocked to see his low score in finals while he was starting

I will support India Olympic athletics .. Any time .. Any where

8 minutes ago, Kiruphagaran said:

Chin up guys. We have some more events to go.  If we dont support who will. you wont get to watch olympic moments often.

very true...  .. My frustration gone .. Back to normal .. waiting for today EOD to post my Summary .. even if we return with out medal .. I will still support Olympic sport athelitics.

56 minutes ago, shrikant said:

Its too sad that we want every indian participating in olympics win gold while nobody is even interested how these sportsperson have qualified for Olympics... Nobody follows sports till olympics except cricket where the cricketers servant is getting higher salary than some of our sportsperson... Check Saina then Indian men Hockey... they got some push and they are doing good... while deepika kumari win world cup ... creates world record .. at that time somewhere near obituary we find this news and she may be given Rs 50000 as inaaam.... suddenly in olympics billion eyes will focus on this poor girl who never got importance for her past work and now we want her to get only gold...

Anyways point is simple and easy... in this forum too I have seen sports lover posting indian athletes updates irrespective of events and are regularly updated ... This also helps us to monitor our sportsperson progress... while some are here only for olympics... Olympics is not everything and if we need to make it everything then give importance to all of there success too... 

I totally agree with your posting sir, Many of them started blaming about the sports person when they fail on that day at Olympics .... No body cares to know what they achieved previously before coming to Olympics.  This adds frustration when we talk to them about this Olympic sports.. that's why makes me to get more frustrated, Though I am following Olympics from Sydney 200, I am new to this forum ..I got it while I am searching something in google. I really know where moved from Sydney 2000 to RIO 2016. 

Though we won many medal at Olympics after Sydney 2000, for me, Still Boxer Dingko Singh is hero for me.

For me, my best loved athletics should not fail at Olympics after achieving everything before. Because they will get the things that they deserved only after the Olympic medal. That's the way we treat our Athletics.

So I am showing the frustration here as I know that every one here is Understandable crowd.