India at Rio - what to look forward today - August 15th

Can India win its first medal on its independence day?  Going to be very difficult.  

Badminton : Srikanth faces 5th ranked Jan Jorgensen in the pre-quarters. Sindhu faces 8th ranked Tai tzu ying. It will be tough matches for both. Srikanth plays at 5.30pm ist and Sindhu at 2am IST. 

Athletics : Renjith maheswary is in the triple jump qualifiers.  He has been a huge disappointment at the Olympic stage all his career. He usually does something spectacular to qualify and then fades in the big stage. This time also he has qualified with the third best jump in the world this year. I hope he does well at the big stage to get to the finals. 

Then there is the ever smiling Srabani Nanda in womens 200m heat 5. She has a clear aim of getting a PB, hope she achieves that - no hope for progressing

Then we have the first finalist in 32 years in the tracks in Lalita Babar, who is in the finals of 3000m steeplechase. She smashed the national record in the heats, hope she betters that time today. Praying for a top 5 finish.  In asian games she got a PB in heats and in the finals didn't meet that time to settle for the Bronze,  hope she doesn't do that again. 

Seema Punia is in the discuss qualifiers group B. She has a chance of making it to the finals. 

Triple jump starts at 6pm IST

Womens 200m heat 5 - 6.24pm ist

Steeplechase 7.45pm ist

Discuss starts at 5am ist

Wrestling : With the shooting team coming empty handed it is wrestling that should give us some medals. Wrestling starts today. Ravinder KhatrI 85kg Greco roman. Greco roman has not been our strong area, lets see what Ravi does today.  Starts at 6.45pm IST

Boxing : Vikas Krishan the only boxer left in fray faces Bektemir Melikuziev in the quarter finals. Bektemir is very strong and defeated Vikas last year in the asian championship finals easily.  Win today wilk ensure a medal for Vikas but that is going to be very difficult.  At 3.15am ist