Saturday 13 August 2016

India at Rio - What to look forward today - August 13th

Golf : Round 3 continues in the men's event. Anirban Lahiri and SS Chawrasia are in the fray. We can forget about any medals. Starts at 4pm IST

Badminton : Jwala and Ashwini are already out of contention to move forward and finish their Olympics with their last league match against the Thai pair. Sumeeth and Manu are against the 8th ranked Japanese team. In case the win their match they have a possibility of moving into the quarters. Womens at 7:15pm IST and mens at 4:25am IST

Shooting: Skeet - Mairaj Ahmed Khan will continue in the qualification and if he shoots as well as the first two series yesterday he should make it to the semis. 25m Rapid Fire - Gurpreet has to improve his scoring to get to the finals. Both are 10th currently. 
Qualifications Skeet - 6 pm IST and 25m RFP - 5:30pm IST
Semis and Finals - 1:30 am for Skeet and 9pm for 25m RFP - Hope the two qualify

Rowing : Dattu Bhokanlal will be in the lower placing rounds (13-18) - he is already out of medal contention - 6:20PM IST

Hockey : Women's team take on Argentina and if they defeat Argentina they get to the quarters. Hope they make it. 6:30PM IST 

Tennis : Sania and Bopanna take on Venus Williams and Andy Ram. If they win we are assured of a silver or Gold and if they lose they will play for bronze. 11:30 PM IST

Athletics : 
3000m Women Steeplechase : We have Lalita Babar and Sudha Singh in the Heat 2 and 3. It will be good if they can go beyond the heats and I think they can. Starts at 6:50pm IST.
400m Womens : Nirmla is in Heat 1. Don't expect her to go beyond the heats. Starts 7:30pm IST

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