Madhusudhan

good news... if he wins 1st round Djokovic can be his next opponent

Out of all countries with more than 1 medal Argentina seems to have highest % of Gold medals..... Out of all countries with minimum of 1 gold medal Azerbaizan seems to have lowest % of Gold medals.....Hard luck Azerbaizan...

They are making fools out of us... Never ever seen President of sports federation supporting an athlete involved in doping scandal to this extent...

I also would like to track them... Rather than simply following them can't we do some thing more

With USA doing well in womens hockey in RIO i would say it as 5 continents now

spot on ... can't agree more with your observations on hockey and swimming

Judo/Taekwondo/Karate: Adding karate as one more combat sport is too much... Ideally I would like to have only one out of these three along with wrestling and boxing Football: If at all it has to stay remove the age cap… but I doubt this happens because of hugely powerful clubs around the world… even neymar and messi has to choose only one event out of Copa/Olympics Hockey: There is no way it can be removed... IHF has done enough to make it more fast paced with 4 quarters.... someone rightly said teams from 4 different continents are good enough to win medals Swimming: Too many medals here(32)... mostly distributed among small group of nations... Free style should stay and may be back stroke... remove all other categories Wrestling: By far the best combat sport along with Boxing.... but would like to remove Greco Roman and expand the free style to 9 events per gender Regarding new additions Baseball seems to be ok…. but not convinced with Skateboarding/Sport climbing… Squash and even chess could have been looked into as new additions

Neeraj Chopra throw of 86.48m would have fetched him bronze medal at Rio... pity that he didn't qualify in time... btw i have a doubt whether junior level javelin throw differs from senior javelin throw in any way?

My overall assessment/review of India performance at Rio Olympics: Best Individual performance: Here it is very easy… It has to be Sindhu for her silver medal performance… She has defeated three top 10 players including world no.2 enroute to final Most Disappointing Individual performance: Its very difficult to pick one out of many poor performances (shooting, male wrestlers, tennis…) my pick here is Mirabai chanu, because she simply has to lift her PB which would have ensured silver medal and even tad below lift would have given her bronze medal. India has lost a medal which is for begging and that seems to have set the tone for disappointing performance for India Best Performance by Event: It has to be badminton and women’s wrestling(here we definitely lost a bronze if not Gold because of vinesha injury) Most Disappointing Performance by Event: Shooting… I never expected zero medal from them… In worst case scenario one medal was expected based on law of large numbers (this theory has worked against us as we were winning medals in shooting consistently and one odd event inevitably turned out to be Olympics) & Men’s Wrestling Surprising performance: It has to be Sakshi malik……. She is the one athlete who won her matches from loosing positions where as all other Indians lost from winning positions. Heartbreaks: Bindra loosing out medal in shootoff, Mixed doubles team unable to win medal after winning 1st set in semis, Womens Archery team loosing out in shootoff in QF, Vinesha/Saina Injury, Mirabai Chanu, India hockey loss in quarters after leading, Many shooters unable to qualify for finals after leading until final round Special mentions: Dipa Kamrakar (Gymnastics) and Aditi Ashok (Golf). They introduced 2 new Olympic events for India with a stellar performance. Followed by Srikanth(Badminton), Atanu Das(Archery), Lalitha Babar(Athletics), Dattu (Rowing) and Kethu Ram,Gopi(PB in Marathon) Overall Verdict: Very Disappointing …. Sindhu and Sakshi medals in last few days saved India from Disaster Conclusion: Before Olympics started I gave thought about potential medal winners and then I realized as per the world rankings only Jitu rai and may be Shiva Thapa are expected to win medal. Few others are on border line. Considering the previous two Olympics performance I was also of the view that India would definitely win 5 medals. We were relying more on standout performances, luck, favorable draw which were definitely not the case this time. Finally after considering many things, because of underperformance from many athletes I would like to use Star sports caption for our Olympics performace as ‘Is se Bura aur kuch nahi’. Ultimately on a positive note I feel future is going to be good from here.

In midst of the drama Romanov absolutely destroys asgarov... never seen such a performance in wrestling olympic finals... he won the gold like usain bolt wins the races

With Olympics officially over for india now i also would like to give assessment/review of India performance... may be every one would like to Can't we all assess/review indian performance in some common format which would be very easy to follow...for example in the order of 1.Event wise review 2.Best performance 3.Worst performance 4.Surprising performance 5.Overall verdict on Indian performance (Very good/Good/Bad/Worst/Disaster...) 6.Suggestions The above format is just an example

creditable performance by indians in marathon...... 2 guys finished 25th and 26th out of 150 odd

loss of final medal chance in yogeswar dutt is exact indication of india performance in this olympics........ so much of promise but no medals to show Now officially yogeshwar is out... the mongolian lost to russian in QF

The Cuban guy(Ramirez) who defeated shiva thapa in 1st round went on to win gold.... such a unlucky 1st round match for thapa even though he is ranked in top 5.... I thought Shiva is our best bet but he was literally toyed by Cuban guy....... even vikas krishnan got pounded by uzbek guy.... its pity that boxing has gone backwards thanks to internal pollitics

Congratulations to Brazil for historic football gold !!

Congratulations to Brazil for historic gold !!

in case of tie so the criteria order is 1.highest scoring move 2.least number of cautions 3. wrestler who scored the last point

Is there any criteria how the draw is made in boxing and wrestling? These are the two events i felt that where there was a chance of two top players meeting each other in initial rounds

Am also wondering what was that.... I want to be sure abt these rules for yogeswar match to avoid tension... my view was sakshi was winner even with 5-5 score but even then sakshi was desperate to score points in last seconds

Did any one have idea what would have been the result in case of Sakshi match ended in tie 5-5? I felt that sakshi is winner in case of tie as she scored the last points but commentator was saying some thing else

it is destined that great Lin dan has to loose to only Lee Chong Wei.... Lee Chong Wei avenged for his painful losses in last 2 olympics.... btw what a match it was !!!

Congrats to Argentina for winning the Gold medal... If at all there is one team other than India which i wanted to win Gold, it is Argentina

I feel in case of Srikanth it is destined that great Lin dan has to loose to only Lee Chong Wei (to avenge for his painful losses in last 2 olympics).... Bravo Srikanth

Congrats to Argentina for winning the Gold medal... If at all there is one team other than India which i wanted to win Gold, it is Argentina