Badminton - Had very good results in both men and women. Srikanth defeated Jano Jorgensen in straight games and Sindhu defeated Tai tzu ying in straight games. Lin Dan and Wang Yihan next up.
Athletics : Renjith Maheswary did his usual at olympics. He finished 30th and failed to qualify for the finals. He had a jump of 17.3 only last month and that jump would have put him in first place :(
Srabani Nanda finished 6th in her heats in women's 200m.
Lalita Babar the first finalists in the track in 32 years finished 10th in the 3000m steeplechase. Like the Asian games she did a slightly lower time than the heats. She could have finished 7th if she had the same heats time.
Seema Punia also ended the poor run for the athletes and finished a low 20th and didn't qualify for the finals in the Discuss throw.
Wrestling : Ravinder Khatri lost his first match and with the person defeating him losing in the semis he didn't get the second chance through repechage.
Boxing : Vikas was mentioning that if he gets past the quarters he will come back with gold medal. That didn't happen as the Uzbek boxer was just too strong and defeated Vikas in a pretty one-sided event. With this we end up boxing also with no medals.
There were 3 sports where we were expecting good haul of medals - boxing, shooting and wrestling. With us drawing a blank in boxing and shooting our only hope is wrestling now.
Athletics : Renjith Maheswary did his usual at olympics. He finished 30th and failed to qualify for the finals. He had a jump of 17.3 only last month and that jump would have put him in first place :(
Srabani Nanda finished 6th in her heats in women's 200m.
Lalita Babar the first finalists in the track in 32 years finished 10th in the 3000m steeplechase. Like the Asian games she did a slightly lower time than the heats. She could have finished 7th if she had the same heats time.
Seema Punia also ended the poor run for the athletes and finished a low 20th and didn't qualify for the finals in the Discuss throw.
Wrestling : Ravinder Khatri lost his first match and with the person defeating him losing in the semis he didn't get the second chance through repechage.
Boxing : Vikas was mentioning that if he gets past the quarters he will come back with gold medal. That didn't happen as the Uzbek boxer was just too strong and defeated Vikas in a pretty one-sided event. With this we end up boxing also with no medals.
There were 3 sports where we were expecting good haul of medals - boxing, shooting and wrestling. With us drawing a blank in boxing and shooting our only hope is wrestling now.
I believe badminton will bring as N medal this time...let's hope for the best
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