Golf - Anirban's poor run continued on Day 3 and he had a 4 over par score. Chawrasia had improved with a 2 under. However, both are way down in terms of overall performance. Chawrasia - 22nd and Anirban 57th (field of 60 golfers).
Badminton : Jwala and Ashwini lost their match in second set. The end their campaign at the olympics having lost all their 3 matches. Men's team of Manu and Sumeeth however finished with a win against the 8th ranked team from Japan in straight sets.
Shooting : Another day of so near yet so far. Gurpreet moved up from 10th the previous day to 7th yesterday but only the top 6 qualify for the finals. Mairaj also improved from 10th to tied 5th (there were 5 of them with the same score). In the shoot off for the 2 spots in the finals he was the first to drop out. Till the shoot out he had very good score of 49 out of 50 yesterday.
Rowing : Dattu finished a credible 13th and that was the best possible position for him to finish having lost out in the quarter finals. All papers and media are reporting it as 15th not sure why though.
Hockey : The women's team needed a win to get into the quarters but unfortunately they got thrashed by Argentina, losing 0-5 They finishing their campaign with just 1 draw and was placed last in their group
Tennis : Sania and Rohan lost their semi finals match to Rajeev Ram and Venus Williams in 3 sets. Venus was too good after losing the first set to the Indian pair.
Athletics :
The highlight for yesterday was Lalita Babar - She became the second women from India to qualify for the finals in Olympics. She fell down during the race but got up and ran and in the process smashed the National Record by 7 seconds. Way to go. Sudha Singh who had that record earlier finished a 9th in hear and failed to qualify for the finals.
Nirmla the other Indian in the track yesterday finished 6th in the 400m heat and didn't qualify for the next round.
Badminton : Jwala and Ashwini lost their match in second set. The end their campaign at the olympics having lost all their 3 matches. Men's team of Manu and Sumeeth however finished with a win against the 8th ranked team from Japan in straight sets.
Shooting : Another day of so near yet so far. Gurpreet moved up from 10th the previous day to 7th yesterday but only the top 6 qualify for the finals. Mairaj also improved from 10th to tied 5th (there were 5 of them with the same score). In the shoot off for the 2 spots in the finals he was the first to drop out. Till the shoot out he had very good score of 49 out of 50 yesterday.
Rowing : Dattu finished a credible 13th and that was the best possible position for him to finish having lost out in the quarter finals. All papers and media are reporting it as 15th not sure why though.
Hockey : The women's team needed a win to get into the quarters but unfortunately they got thrashed by Argentina, losing 0-5 They finishing their campaign with just 1 draw and was placed last in their group
Tennis : Sania and Rohan lost their semi finals match to Rajeev Ram and Venus Williams in 3 sets. Venus was too good after losing the first set to the Indian pair.
Athletics :
The highlight for yesterday was Lalita Babar - She became the second women from India to qualify for the finals in Olympics. She fell down during the race but got up and ran and in the process smashed the National Record by 7 seconds. Way to go. Sudha Singh who had that record earlier finished a 9th in hear and failed to qualify for the finals.
Nirmla the other Indian in the track yesterday finished 6th in the 400m heat and didn't qualify for the next round.
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