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jayakris wrote:gautam, that 4th was temporary. hold on. Jay

They finished 12th and 23rd.

Once again, a poor first round cost them.

ankit1407 wrote:How bad can we get really

We can end without a medal

The shooters are 41st and 43rd

Abbos Atoev(uzb) won his bout against a moroccan boxer 11-9 edit : vijender singh def. suzhanov 14-10 :bounce: Finally! :bounce: Next round is a tough one against the American champion Gausha who destroyed his opponent today :-( Not that it matters from a medal POV but Ghosh won his first round mat...

China are now a swimming superpower as well

gautam wrote:So a good fight by our pair. Hope they pull an upset.

They are down 0-5 in the third so not likely.

On course for a bagel in the third

Atithee: The British press (& the Aussie & NZL) press were more interested in rubbishing the Delhi CWG rather than reporting on the sport or at any rate, looking at the positives. Here, the opposite is happening. Any gaffes are 'gently' ignored and everything is reported as a 'dazzling' suc...

Swarn Singh came in 14th overall in his rowing single sculls event. Not sure whether he did a PB. But he was second among the Asians behind a Chinese and ahead of a Korean. So, hopefully he is at least an Asian medal prospect. That's positive. Rowing always feels to me a potential high RoI Olympic ...

In mens team archery, USA beat Japan just by 1 point 220-219 in the QF & then upset Korea 224-219 in SF . So, it seems all the teams were really close together here. If only our men had kept their nerves in the last turn anything would have been possible. Now, USA & Italy play in the final....

Yes, seemingly we are back to our Olympic ineptness again - the kind where we win 1 medal and the hockey team comes 10th. :D I am still optimistic that we will win 3 medals overall but we had very few sure shots going in. Some of our long shots will hopefully come through in unexpected fashion. At ...

Given the results so far, we would do well to not draw a complete blank.

gautam wrote:Vijay Kumar wikl be in action in sometime. Hoping from an upset from him.

Assuming he has no chance in air pistol?

Ukraine got a 223 in the other 1/8 match.

Poor start to the Olympics continues.

Japan win in the tiebreak 29-27

21 arrows right?

I haven't been able to find a stream yet but if you are in the UK, BBC have 24 new channels and one of them will be showing it.