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In the meatime Bhavani Devi has won a gold in the Commonwealth Fencing Chamionship that was not part of Commonwealth Games. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/sports/bhavani-devi-bags-gold-at-commonwealth-fencing-championship/articleshow/93470689.cms Makes me wonder why India can't organize a...

Prasen, boxing especially heavyweight professional boxing was the biggest entertainment event the world over- are you forgetting the likes of Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Mike Tyson and Rocky Marciano. The entire movie franchise Rocky was inspired by Rocky Marciano. And I guess Ali needs no introdu...

Now let's hope Lakshya reaches his target.

If it had not been for our 2 prima donnas Lovlina and Manika this would have been a brilliant Commonwealth Games. Of course some silly mistakes in weightlifting cost us medals. The rise in athletics is extremely pleasing. Looks like Neeraj Chopra's achievements can set of a revolution similar to wha...

England always struggles against Indian spin bowling

Overall this Games is turning out to be below expectations. I don't expect any dramatic improvement.

Watched the hockey match yesterday. In the 4th quarter the much hyped team was playing like a club side. They were mis trapping, giving away free hits, committing unnecessary fouls and so on. Can't blame everything on the referee.

Atithee wrote: ↑Fri Jul 29, 2022 5:18 am ^^^what's wrong with it, Rajit?

Nothing. I was saying even India has benefited in the past.

It works both ways. At one time in weightlifting there used to separate medals for snatch, jerk and total. India greatly benefitted out of it in the 1990 Commonwealth Games.

jayakris wrote: ↑Fri Jul 29, 2022 2:26 am Interesting that ATP corrected the data. How/why was it wrong before, I wonder... Those were the early days of computer ranking.

However they have revised Vijay down to 18 and credited Krishnan with the Canadian Open win in 1968 and Premjit Lall for reaching the Beckenham final in 1972.

Once you include sports like cycling and fencing the equation changes. Commonwealth Games is of really high standard. Even in badminton Malaysia, Singapore and England are pretty strong in their own right. Remember last time Srikanth lost to the legendary LCW and the current world champion is from S...

Maybe Sir Jadeja should be asked to change sports and partcipate in fencing. His sword celebration is the closest we have to demonstrating success in fencing. :D :p. His all-round credentails would be well established then. After all even Kapil Dev tried establishing himself in other sports playing ...

In Mahabharat Yudhishthir was the javelin thrower, Bheem the Wrestler, Arjun the Archer and Nakul and Sahadev the fencers. In the modern era India has achieved some success in wrestling, archers have flattered to deceive, there is no success in fencing but suddenly Yudhishthir's sport becomes a succ...

Arun Lal had almost single handedly won Bengal the Ranji Trophy in 1989-90 based on his mathematical ability to calculate quotients. This gave rise to a famous slogan- lal bangla lal e lal arun lal arun lal. That year a 17 year made his debut in first class cricket who later achieved a lot in cricke...

The first in controversy would be Lala Amarnath thrown out of the 1936 England tour by Vizzy