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Great performance by U16 Football team in WAFF Cup 2018:
India : Jordan :: 4:0 (Jordan Current FIFA Rank 87)
India : Japan :: 1:2 (Japan Current FIFA Rank 61)
India : Iraq :: 1:0 (Iraq Current FIFA Rank 70) (Current U16 Asian Champions)
India Yemen :: 3:0 (Yemen Current FIFA Rank 133)

Total Goals For : 9
Total Goals Against : 2
Wins/Loss : 3/1

Significant improvement. With this consistent performance & further improvement we have chance to be a good footballing country at least in Asia & break our highest ever FIFA ranking of 94. Also at least a fighting change to qualify for 2026 FIFA World Cup.
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Youngsters are performing like Champions!!!

It is all because of Modi Sarkar!! not like earlier when officials and their extended familes would travel in business class while Athletes in 3rd class. Hima Das (father owns 2 acres land for agriculture) will win us at least 1+ gold medal in Asian games!!

Corruption and top leadership in India was always the problem. Congress/mamta/mayawati/laloo/etc are the problems!
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It has changed of late..but not to that extent. We still hear about jumbo official contingents whenever there is a tournament abroad. Even recently, there was the occasion of athletes travelling in economy while the officials were in business class. The unfortunate truth is that govt cant do much as the sports bodies are independent and any govt influence in its affairs will invite a suspension from the respective international body. Praful Patel (the same idiot who destroyed both Indian airlines and Air India in one stroke) is still the president of AIFF.
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https://www.sportskeeda.com/sports/meda ... games-2018


India is well prepared to compete at the Asian Games 2018 and here are the reasons:

(#1) Athletes peaking at the right time: India has never been better prepared going into an event such as the Asian Games 2018. Barring a few instances in athlete selection and scheduling trials, things have progressed rather smoothly this time. Indian athletes have received all the systemic support and facilitation from the authorities in terms of international training, coaching and competition exposure and therefore seem to be peaking at the right time.

For example, in the very recent past, Indian Boxers won 4 medals at Chemistry Cup Germany and Ulaanbaatar Cup, Mongolia. PV Sindhu won a silver medal at the Badminton World Championships, China. Jinson Johnson smashed a 42-year-old, 800m National Record. Hima Das won gold at the World U20 Championships in Finland and Neeraj Chopra won gold at Sotteville Athletics Meet in France. There are many other recent examples from other sports.

(#2) Synergized and coordinated facilitation: The Sports Ministry, the Indian Olympic Association and the Sports Federations have synergized efforts and the timely intervention from the Sports Minister has resolved issues from time to time.

(#3) Growing interest in sports beyond cricket: General awareness and interest in sports beyond cricket is at an all-time high while the level of support and encouragement reflected for non-cricket sports through social media mentions and impressions is encouraging to say the least. This time, all of India is waiting with bated breath and a sense of excitement to watch India compete at the Asiads 2018.

(#4) Emerging non-cricket stars: Today, India recognizes athletes across sports such as Hima Das, Dutee Chand, Mohammed Anas, Jinson Johnson, Arpinder Singh, G Lakshmanan, Rani Rampal, Lalremsiami, Gaurav Solanki, Mohammed Hussamuddin, Neeraj Chopra, Mirabai Chanu, Anish Bhanwala, Vinesh Phogat, Karman Kaur Thandi, Ankita Raina and many more. All these emerging athletes are key medal hopefuls at the Asian Games 2018.

(#5) Growing breed of world-class performers: In addition, we have a whole battery of prominent athletes competing at the Asian Games 2018 including Bajrang Punia, Sushil Kumar, Seema Punia, Sakshi Malik, PV Sindhu, Manika Batra, Sharath Kamal, Saina Nehwal, PV Sindhu, Jitu Rai, Heena Sidhu, Deepika Kumari, Vikas Krishan, Tintu Luka, Yogeshwar Dutt, Saurav Ghoshal, Joshna Chinappa and Dipika Pallikal. In most cases, these athletes are India's best medal prospects.

(#6) Holistic athlete development: Over the years, Indian athletes have understood that winning takes a lot more than technical skill and fitness. And therefore their holistic preparation today includes focussing on mental conditioning, psychology, sports mechanics, nutrition, lifestyle, etc. And this approach has started to deliver medals which in turn has built confidence and self-belief.

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India is ready to perform and deliver on big sports stages such as the Asian Games 2018. Not only will the Indian contingent win big, India will also record its highest sports event viewership at Jakarta Palembang 2018. Ever since CWG 2018, there is a high level of interest and a mass movement in following live sports on television.

I predict that India will:

#1. Feature at 4th or 5th position on the final medals tally.

#2. Win between 75 to 81 medals

#3. This will include 16 Golds, 20 Silvers and 45 Bronze medals

#4. One in 6 participating Indian athletes will win a medal

Over the last three editions of the Asian Games, India's largest proportion of medals has come from five Traditional Strengths - Athletics, Wrestling, Boxing, Shooting, Kabaddi. This is where the majority of medals will come from this time as well.

5 Emerging Strengths include Badminton, Table Tennis, Squash, Weightlifting and Hockey.

3 Developing Strengths where India could spring a few surprises include Archery, Cycling and Lawn Tennis.

3 Outside Surprise Springers would include Rowing, Gymnastics and Combat Sports.
Here is a break down of my prediction by sport:

(#1) BADMINTON

Events - 7 including Men's - 3, Women's - 3, Mixed - 1

Medal Prediction: 3

Key Athletes - PV Sindhu, Saina Nehwal, K Srikanth and Sourabh Verma

(#2) ARCHERY

Events - 8 including Men's - 3, Women's - 3, Mixed - 2

Medal Prediction: 5

Key Athletes - Deepika Kumari, Laxmirani Majhi, Atanu Das and Abhishek Verma

(#3) BOXING

Events - 10 including Men's - 7, Women's - 3

Medal Prediction: 6

Key Athletes - Gaurav Solanki, Vikas Krishan, Mohammad Hussamuddin, Amit Pangal, Shiva Thapa, Sonia Lather and Sarjubala Devi

(#4) SQUASH

Events - 4 including Men's - 2, Women's - 2

Medal Prediction: 3

Key Athletes - Saurav Ghoshal, Joshna Chinappa and Dipika Pallikal

(#5) SHOOTING

Events - 18 including Men's - 8, Women's - 7, Mixed - 3

Medal Prediction: 10

Key Athletes - Apurvi Chandela, Manu Bhaker, Anish Bhanwala, Elavenil Valarivan, Shreyasi Singh, Heena Sidhu and Akhil Sheoran

(#6) WEIGHTLIFTING

Events - 15 including Men's - 8, Women's - 7

Medal Prediction: 4

Key Athletes - Mirabai Chanu, Vikas Thakur and Sathish Kumar Sivalingam (Note: India is only participating in 4 weight categories fielding 5 athletes)

(#7) TABLE TENNIS

Events - 7 including Men's - 3, Women's - 3, Mixed - 1

Medal Prediction: 4

Key Athletes - Manika Batra, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Harmeet Desai, Mouma Das, and Sharath Kamal

(#8) ATHLETICS

Events - 48 including Men's - 24, Women's - 23, Mixed - 1

Medal Prediction: 18

Key Athletes - Hima Das, Mohammed Anas, Arokiya Rajiv, Jinson Johnson, Dharun Ayyasamy, Arpinder Singh, Neeraj Chopra, Dutee Chand, Nayana James, Seema Punia and Sarita Singh

(#9) WRESTLING

Events - 18 including Men's - 12, Women's - 6

Medal Prediction: 8

Key Athletes - Sushil Kumar, Sakshi Malik, Rahul Aware, Bajrang Punia, Yogeshwar Dutt, Mausam Khatri, Vinesh Phogat and Pooja Dhanda

(#10) FIELD HOCKEY

Events - 2 including Men's - 1, Women's - 1

Medal Prediction: 2

(#11) KABADDI

Events - 2 including Men's - 1, Women's - 1

Medal Prediction: 2

(#12) OTHERS

Cycling - 1, Combat Sports - 2, Gymnastics - 1, Rowing - 1, Swimming - 2, Lawn Tennis - 2
Conclusion

India's journey towards emerging as a dominant sporting nation has begun. Results at the Asian Games 2018 will make all of India proud.

All that the team needs is love, encouragement, support and motivation from the rest of us. So make a big effort to support team India. Here are a few things that each of us can do to support Team India at the Asian Games 2018.
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in 2014 Asiad
India had 11 Golds, 9 Silvers and 37 bronze 8th position with total of 57 medals.

Sport Gold Silver Bronze Total
Athletics 2 3 8 13
Kabaddi 2 0 0 2
Squash 1 2 1 4
Shooting 1 1 7 9
Tennis 1 1 3 5
Wrestling 1 1 3 5
Archery 1 1 2 4
Boxing 1 0 4 5
Field hockey 1 0 1 2
Rowing 0 0 3 3
Wushu 0 0 2 2
Badminton 0 0 1 1
Sailing 0 0 1 1
Swimming 0 0 1 1
Total 11 9 37 57
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My prediction is 20 plus golds.
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https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punja ... 37333.html

Chandigarh, August 14
Asian Games gold medallist athlete Hakam Singh on Tuesday passed away at a private hospital in Sangrur.

He had been ailing for some time and was undergoing treatment for liver and kidney ailments. He was 64.

Singh won gold in 20-km race walk event during the 1978 Asiad at Bangkok.

The Dhyan Chand awardee had also served as Havaldar in the 6 Sikh regiment.

Union Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore had sanctioned financial assistance of Rs 10 lakh to the athlete, while Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh helped him with Rs 5 lakh.

Punjab Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi expressed profound grief over the demise of Singh.

Condoling the demise of the athlete, Rana Sodhi said both Punjab as well as the country would remember the glorious achievements of Singh in the sporting arena.

He termed the passing away of Singh as end of an era and an irreparable loss to the sports fraternity. — PTI
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Some entertainment instead sports for once!

Kollywood going GLOBAL!

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AG should be interesting. My thoughts:
1. Mirabai Chanu gets to take on her main world level competitors - the Thai, Indonesians and Chinese, and see if she can still win gold. A Thai won the Olympic gold and Mirabai won the subsequent world championship beating a Thai. Also an indicator of what she will face in Tokyo 2020.
2. Neeraj Chopra has the two Taiwanese for competition to win javelin gold.
3. Men's and women's hockey teams have the gold medal to lose, based on recent capability and form.
4. Hard to say much about the wrestlers or boxers. I hope they surprise.
5. Same from shooters . Strong young uns, but folks like Jitu Rai didn't even qualify.
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what about our women athletes? they used to bring in medals at AG level.
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I have no idea about how good our overall track and field contingent is at AG level right now. We did do well at the Asian Athletics Championship and even topped the tally in the last edition. Not sure how well that correlates to capability in the next 2 weeks. Athletics is increasingly dominated by Middle East sheikhdoms and their imported African sporting contingent.
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(#8) ATHLETICS

Events - 48 including Men's - 24, Women's - 23, Mixed - 1

Medal Prediction: 18

Key Athletes - Hima Das, Mohammed Anas, Arokiya Rajiv, Jinson Johnson, Dharun Ayyasamy, Arpinder Singh, Neeraj Chopra, Dutee Chand, Nayana James, Seema Punia and Sarita Singh
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Indian women move up to top 10 (9th) rank and are now the top asian team.
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Indian swimmers in Asian Games!

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The 18th edition of Asian Games is set to begin in Jakarta and Palembang on August 18, with 572 Indian sportspersons in contention for medals. After a successful Commonwealth Games, in which India finished third on the table with 66 medals – 26 gold, 20 silver and 20 bronze – the expectations from the Indian contingent are high.

Out of the 572 Indian sportspersons in Indonesia, 10 are swimmers. Here are their profiles:

Virdhawal Khade

Date of Birth: August 29, 1991

Event at Asian Games: Swimming (50m and 100m freestyle, 50m butterfly, 4x100m freestyle relay, 4x100m medley relay)

Past appearance (if any): Freestyle (50m, 100m, 4x100m), Butterfly (50m, 100m), 4x100m medley in 2010 (Guangzhou)

Best performance so far: Bronze medal in 50m butterfly in 2010 (Guangzhou)

Profile: Virdhawal Khade became the youngest swimmer from India to qualify for the Olympics at the age of 16 in the 2008 Beijing edition. After winning a bronze medal at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, Virdhawal put swimming on the back-burner to focus on his job and the cost was missing two Olympics (2012 and 2016), the 2014 Commonwealth Games, and the Asian Games. A serious knee injury added to his woes and Virdhawal’s career seemed to come to a premature end. He rose back to prominence after outpacing Olympic gold medallist Joseph Schooling in the 100-meter freestyle event at the Singapore National Championships this year.


Sandeep Sejwal

Date of Birth: January 23, 1989

Event at Asian Games: 50m breaststroke, 100m breaststroke, 4x100m medley relay

Past appearance (if any): Breaststroke (50m, 100m, 200m), 4x100m medley in 2010 (Guangzhou); Breaststroke (50m, 100m) in 2014 (Incheon)

Best performance so far: Bronze medal in 50m breaststroke in 2014 (Incheon)

Brief Description: Sandeep Sejwal was the first Indian breaststroker to qualify for the Olympics when he swam 100m and 200m at the Beijing Olympic Games. He was dropped from the Indian team for the 2012 London Olympics despite winning his qualification quota. The setback only made him stronger as he swam to win a bronze medal in the 50m breaststroke event in the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon. An ankle injury prevented him from participating in the Commonwealth Games this year. But he seems to have recovered well as he went on to claim the gold medal in 50m breaststroke event at the Singapore National Swimming Championships in June.


Sajan Prakash

Date of Birth: September 14, 1993

Event at Asian Games: 100m, 200m butterfly, 4x100m freestyle relay, 4x200m freestyle relay, 4x100m medley relay

Past appearance (if any): Freestyle (400m, 4x100m relay), 100m butterfly at 2014 Asian Games (Incheon)

Best performance so far: Finished fourth in the heats of 400m freestyle at 2014 Asian Games (Incheon)

Brief Description: Sajan Prakash, 24, is among the best swimmers in India and is on top form. At the Commonwealth Games in April, he competed in the finals of 200m butterfly and 1,500m freestyle events. A month later, he clinched the gold medal in the 200m butterfly event at the Malaysian Open Swimming tournament with a personal best time of 1:58.08s. Sajan’s mother, Shantymol, is a former athlete and has represented the country in several international events. The swimmer from Kerala is targeting a gold medal in the 200m butterfly event.
Sajan Prakash, 24, is among the best swimmers in India and is on top form (Image: Swimming Federation of India)
Sajan Prakash, 24, is among the best swimmers in India and is on top form (Image: Swimming Federation of India)


Srihari Nataraj

Date of Birth: January 16, 2001
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Event at Asian Games: 50m, 100m, 200m backstroke, 4x100m freestyle relay, 4x100m medley relay

Past appearance (if any): N/A

Best performance so far: N/A

Brief Description: This new kid on the block is already making quite a splash on the Indian swimming scene. He’s been breaking records and then bettering them, especially in the backstroke events, over the past few months. Despite clocking his best times in the Commonwealth Games, Srihari couldn’t make the finals of any of the events he participated in but the 17-year-old has the potential to match the likes of Virdhawal Khade and Sandeep Sejwal in winning a medal at the Asian Games. His primary target is to break the two-minute barrier in the 200m backstroke event at Jakarta.


Aaron D’Souza

Date of Birth: September 21, 1992

Event at Asian Games: 100m freestyle, 4x100m freestyle relay
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Past appearance (if any): Freestyle (100m, 200m, 4x100m, 4x200m), 4x100m medley at 2010 Asian Games (Guanzhou); 100m freestyle, 4x100m freestyle relay, 200m butterfly at 2014 Asian Games (Incheon)

Best performance so far: Finished fourth in the heats of 200m butterfly at 2014 Asian Games

Brief Description: Aaron is among the few from the Indian contingent who will take part in his third Asian Games. He started swimming at the age of three and has won several medals at the national and international levels. After being a part of the 2008 Olympic squad to Beijing and the 2010 Asian Games, Aaron missed the cut to be part of the London Olympics in 2012. But two decades after he started swimming, Aaron is still striving to win a major medal at a multi-sport event. This year’s Asiad at Jakarta could be his moment of reckoning.



Anshul Kothari

Date of Birth: December 17, 1989


Event at Asian Games: 50m Freestyle, 50m butterfly, 4x100m freestyle relay

Past appearance (if any): 50m butterfly, 4x100 freestyle relay at 2010 Asian Games (Guanzhou); Freestyle (50m, 4x100m relay) and 50m butterfly at 2014 Asian Games (Incheon)

Best performance so far: Finished fifth in the heats of 50m freestyle in Incheon

Brief Description: Anshul, from Surat (Gujarat), was diagnosed with a chronic flat foot condition early on in his life. Doctors had advised surgery but his parents put him in swimming. As an eight-year-old, swimming for Anshul was just a treatment and an activity. But later on, it became his passion. Despite participating in the Commonwealth Games in 2010 and the previous two editions of the Asian Games, Anshul hasn’t had the chance to represent his country in the Olympics. To get to Tokyo in 2020, Anshul is working hard. For now, his target is to win a medal in Jakarta.

Neel Roy

Date of Birth: October 5, 2001

Event at Asian Games: Swimming (200m Individual Medley, 4x100m Medley Relay)

Past appearance (if any): NA

Best performance so far: NA

Brief Description: With seven medals, Neel Roy was one of the most successful swimmers at the Khelo India Games earlier this year. Neel, one of the youngest members of the Indian swimming contingent at the Asian Games, won gold in 50m freestyle, 200m Individual Medley and 200m freestyle – the last two of them by comfortable margins. He also won two silvers (in 100m freestyle and 100m butterfly) and two bronze medals (50m butterfly and 4x100m freestyle) at the inaugural edition of the event. Despite participating in many events, the Mumbai-based swimmer has constantly bettered his personal best timings in almost every tournament that he’s participated this year.
Neel Roy was one of the most successful swimmers at the Khelo India Games earlier this year
Neel Roy was one of the most successful swimmers at the Khelo India Games earlier this year

Arvind Mani

Date of Birth: September 10, 1996


Event at Asian Games: 50m, 100m backstroke, 4x100m medley relay)

Past performance (if any): N/A

Best performance so far: N/A

Brief Description: Arvind started out as a rower and he took to swimming as it was a necessity. But he enjoyed the swimming sessions at the Basavanagudi Aquatics Centre and it became his primary sport. It’s going to be mighty difficult for the 22-year-old to secure a place in the final on his first-ever appearance at the Asian Games but that is precisely what Arvind’s setting out to do in Jakarta. He finished third in the finals of the 50m and 100m backstroke in the Singapore National Swimming Championships in June. In his first major multi-sport event, he will be joined by younger brother Avinash, who’s a backstroker.

Avinash Mani

Date of Birth: May 31, 1998

Event at Asian Games: Swimming (100m butterfly, 4x200m Freestyle Relay)
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Past performance (if any): N/A

Best performance so far: NA

Brief Description: Despite beginning competitive swimming almost around the same time as elder brother Arvind (who’s also going to the Asian Games), Avinash took longer to start winning. His first national medal came in 2012 in 4x200m freestyle relay. Six years later, he’s on par with his brother as the duo will travel together to Jakarta to participate in their biggest sporting event hitherto. His parents and his brother, who were a big support during his days of struggle, can rejoice about him being among the nation’s best swimmers. But this will just be the beginning for Avinash. A medal at the Asian Games seems a distant possibility for him. But competing along with some of the top swimmers in the world will be an enriching experience for him.


Advait Page

Date of Birth: November 16, 2001

Event at Asian Games: Swimming (1,500m Freestyle, 200m backstroke)

Past appearance (if any): NA

Best performance so far: NA

Brief Description: The swimmer from Madhya Pradesh showed a lot of promise during the Khelo India Games. He bagged four medals – gold in 800m freestyle and 400m Individual Medley, silver in 200m Individual Medley and 200m backstroke – there, bursting into the limelight. But the year just got better for Advait as he broke records and qualified for the Youth Olympics at the Singapore National Championships in June. He won the 1500m race there, breaking the national record by a whopping 20 seconds. He also broke the 800m national record earlier with a time of 8:10.22s. Along with Srihari Natraj, the exploits of Advait on the pool augur well for Indian swimming.
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Aporve Ravi gets bronze in shooting! Bajrang Puniab into 65kg finals! Sushil lost in 1/8th.
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Bajrang Punia wins first gold
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Great performance from Bajrang Punia. Living up to his expectations, as CWG champion, former Asian championship winner, and upgrading his 2014 silver to a gold this time. Here at AG the standard is close to OG except for the Russians missing. The winners in Men's Freestyle on Day 1 are Mongolia, India, Uzbekistan and Iran - all major world wrestling powers.

Bajrang needs to do something about his legs being attacked. He's already said it's his weakest part. He led 6-0 in the final, which became 6-6, before he pulled ahead 11-8 to win.
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Suraj wrote:.....Bajrang needs to do something about his legs being attacked. He's already said it's his weakest part. .....
Watching top wrestling on his smartphone, gold medallist Bajrang Punia gets smarter
My focus is on Bajrang. The Asian Games is a big deal and I know it. You see how he has improved in the last few months.He is talented and I am working hard on improving him. At the Asian Games, he will have to wrestle at his best. He gives up his legs too often and that is a big problem. We’re working on his leg defence. He knows that too,
Shako says.

Good read.

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Hah nice to know the coach also agrees. All those first 6 points he lost were repeated lunges for his legs by the Japanese. At that point it looked like it could go either way, but thankfully he came back to his senses. It's been a good year for him - Commonwealth and Asian Games champion, titles in Georgia and Turkey, all within the past 4-5 months . In a field full of Central Asians + Iran / Japan / SoKo / Chn, winning makes him a medal contender at Tokyo 2020.
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Vinesh Phogat has won gold.
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She has done the near impossible - beating the unconquerable Japanese . She also beat the Chinese woman who broke her leg at Rio 2016.
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Suraj wrote:She has done the near impossible - beating the unconquerable Japanese . She also beat the Chinese woman who broke her leg at Rio 2016.
Congrats to Vinesh! And that backstory deserves a Bollywood movie if one ever did!
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She looks like a goddess.
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chola wrote:
Suraj wrote:She has done the near impossible - beating the unconquerable Japanese . She also beat the Chinese woman who broke her leg at Rio 2016.
Congrats to Vinesh! And that backstory deserves a Bollywood movie if one ever did!
Boss, Dangal is about the Phogat family! It focuses on the first one of the dynasty Geeta, but Vinesh is her cousin .
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I am surprised at the loss of our Kabaddi team to Koreans.
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Suraj wrote:
chola wrote:
Congrats to Vinesh! And that backstory deserves a Bollywood movie if one ever did!
Boss, Dangal is about the Phogat family!
LoL

I suck as a chini watcher. I posted that Dangal made $200M in the PRC box office but never even watched the flick unlike all those chinamen.
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Kashi wrote:I am surprised at the loss of our Kabaddi team to Koreans.
We need to make a Bollywood flick about this too. A comedy.

How the hell do we in kabaddi to Koreans?!
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Maybe their chant went bulgogi bulgogi bulgogi and our team got hungry ...
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Saar, bulgogi is beef!
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I know that :) it’s a joke !

Anyway what’s the kabaddi situation ? I guess the defeat is a group match ? Or are we eliminated from gold contention ?
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WTF! Kabaddi lost to Koreans! I guess the sports minister is still filling in the team with his/her relatives!
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Gold in 50m men's air pistol from 16 year old Saurabh Chaudhary, who beat world and Olympic champion from Korea on the way, and that too with a Games Record. Abhishek Verma also medaled, with a bronze.

These teenage shooters are something. No baggage or weight of expectations. Hopefully Manu Bhaker will also win a medal.
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time was when just seeing japani korean induced fear and defeatist mindset.
now everyone is putting up a fight.
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Yes there's a lot of internal competition now among youngsters who are high achieving buddies. At CWG, Neeraj Chopra, Tejaswin Shankar and Vinesh Phogat were ribbing each on twitter telling each other better not miss a gold. Vinesh watched Chopra win javelin gold, then hurried to the wrestling hall and proceeded to win her gold. Now that she's won gold here, I'm sure there's pressure on Neeraj to also win his gold in javelin. Similarly, no doubt the young shooters are repeatedly setting high bars for one another, and each of them wants to outdo the other. Manu Bhaker is CWG champ and world cup winner. Anish Bhanwala too. Now young Saurabh is Asian champion, arguably a much harder bar. So the others are going to be very keen on winning their own golds to keep up.

Through all this, the competitors become something less threatening, some entities to be overcome just so they can hold their heads high to their buddies in the evening. It's a powerful motivator of group dynamics. "I beat the Asian champion to win my gold" "Oh yeah ? I beat the Olympic champion to win mine!"
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Revelation 1: India has a sepak takraw team!
Revelation 2: We won a bronze in the team event in Sepak Takraw, losing to world champion Thailand!
Revelation 3: We have two guaranteed Wushu (Chinese martial arts) medals!

Good stuff from the lads from the northeast.
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Four guaranteed in Wushu.
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SBajwa wrote:WTF! Kabaddi lost to Koreans! I guess the sports minister is still filling in the team with his/her relatives!
In a way its good to have an occasional defeat. Kabaddi could be removed from the AG if only one country has a realistic chance at gold. A good performance from teams like Korea and Iran increases the overall standard of the game and viewer interest.

The comment on the sports minister - who is not just a sportsman but an Olympic Silver medalist and ex Army officer is unfair. He might have got his son - a national level shooter himself, into the games but instead looked beyond the army, and encouraged the teenage shooters who are winning our medals today.
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While our sports standards are improving, the one thing that saddens me is the declining contribution of the armed forces to our sports.
While the army contributed a lot in recent times in boxing & rowing , with all 3 services having medal winners in weightlifting & shooting, there is a declining contribution in team sports and an inability to develop potential in sports the services have an affinity for.
The following could be looked at -

The Navy `adopts' Sailing (declining contribution to the Indian team) and Water polo (where we haven't even fielded a team for AG). All we need for water polo are swimming pools and every Navy base has one (I grew up in them).
The IAF can take up paragliding (now a AG sport).

The army adopts equestrian (made the President's bodyguard a Riding `centre of excellence' and assign the best army riders in the country to this unit.
Identify potential riders at the NDA and follow up their development when they move to the IMA. Let every cavalry unit - particularly those with a rich `horse' tradition develop its riding team. Similarly, fencing can be incubated at one of the regimental centres, with the best prospects from NDA/IMA being assigned to that regiment.
Similarly with sking (HAWS Gulmarg can be the CoE).

The services could be tasked to improve the standard of team sports where national standards are abysmal - Basketball. Handball & Volleyball, by looking at winning the national championship within 5 years and as a result getting their men into the Indian team.

In sports where there is now keen club level competition, individual regiments could develop their own teams (assuming they first become the best services team) competing with other clubs e.g. the Gorkha regiment in football, or the Sikh regiment in hockey.
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That is the PSU model of socialist India where you have a govt job and you do some sports on the side which has failed miserably. The new model is based on the market economy. It is based on professionalism where you get amply rewarded for your efforts and a system is put in place to get you there. Our standards in many sports are improving as a system of professionalism and rewards are getting introduced. You do the same for cycling or swimming or basketball or volleyball you will get the same results.
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Gone are the days when the entire Indian contigent would rely on P. T Usha to haul in gold.

Here is the medal tally: https://en.asiangames2018.id/

India: 3G 3S 4B

If we beat 2014 and get @15 Golds, that will be a great outcome. Not sure with loss in Kabbadi.

But Indian wimmen thrashed 21-0 the Kazakhstanis. Missed the world record again held by India of severe thrashing done to KingKong by one goal.
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