Asian potential - Mirabai Chanu (48kg women's weightlifting) ; Manu Bhaker (10m women's air pistol) ; women's table tennis team ; (men's and women's) team badminton ; Jitu Rai* (10m men's air pistol) ; Heena Sidhu* (25m women's pistol) ; Muhammad Anas (men's 400m) ; Hima Das (women's 400m) ; Seema Punia (women's discus) ; Tejaswini Sawant and Anjum Moudgil (50m women's rifle 3 positions) ; Anish (men's 25m rapidfire pistol) ; Sanjeev Rajput (50m men's rifle 3 positions) ; Neeraj Chopra (men's javelin) ; (men's and women's) hockey team ; Amit (men's 46-49kg boxing) ; Gaurav Solanki (men's 52kg boxing) ; Mary Kom (women's 45-48kg boxing)** ; Jinson Johnson (men's 1500m) ; Khushbir Kaur (women's 20km walk) ; Purnima Hembram (heptathlon) ; men's 4*400m ; Vikas Krishnan (men's 75kg boxing) ; Sushil Kumar (men's 74 kg wrestling) ; Bajrang (men's 65kg wrestling) ; Vinesh Phogat (women's 48-50kg wrestling) ; PV Sindhu (women's singles badminton)
*not good enough qualifying score
**may not participate
@sameer I haven't researched our squad here but outside of Mirabai, do we have a full squad as far as Olympic and Asian potential level athletes are concerned?
Is there anyone else you are looking forward to see?
I don't think anyone else of Olympic potential apart from ones mentioned above. Apart from Meerabai who is injured, Jitu Rai and Tejaswini Sawant are not selected based on current form.
Pawan Kumar loses his bronze medal bout against the Mongolian. So, 5 of the 6 weight categories done in mens freestyle wrestling and we have only 1 gold to show. Last time we had 3 medals - 1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze. But, there were 8 weight categories last time. So, at least 2 medals would have been par for the course in mens freestyle. There is 1 category left for tomorrow - mens 125 kgs. but that is hard to medal.
So, we still do not have depth in wrestling and have to depend on individual geniuses to get us medals - like Sushil, Yogeshwar in the past ( Narsingh Yadav for a brief while ) and Bajrang now. Bajarag is really improving his CV now. He won a silver at last Asiad at 20 , now has a gold at 24. In the meantime had a CWG gold and also a silver at world under 23 championships last year. If he can keep it up for next 2 years, a medal at Tokyo olympics is winnable.
I think apart from shooting and archery, we are still dependent upon individuals and not the system. Wrestling gets a lot of people to do it in Haryana, etc. but still there is no machinery producing one champion after another. There is some system that supports the genius but you have to be a freak to succeed. Shooting and archery on the other hand, I think we have a system now that can grind and polish the rough diamonds to create winners. Badminton, we have some semblance of a system. Need more coaches there though. Those sports also have more of luck factor needed to win.
2 new national records in swimming in 2 events but both of them failed to qualify for final. Promising thing is that both are just 17 year olds.
Advait Page - 800m freestyle - 8:09.13 (breaking his own national record timing of 8:10:22)
Sri hari Natraj - 50m backstroke - 26:19 (broke his own national record timing of 26:47 he set during the commonwealth games.)
Sin Hombre wrote: ↑Mon Aug 20, 2018 1:39 am
Does anyone have any streams ?
Ravi Kumar and Deepak Kumar are both thru to the final of mens 10M air rifle know 4th and 5th position. Final will start from scratch. Hope we pick up a medal here.
