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dinakar · Post by **dinakar** » 13 Nov 2011 09:40

Stan_Savljevic wrote: Assuming that it is in dilli in the final fih count and not pushed to brussels, which is more likely.

It will be in dilli only it seems.... So FIH has done a U-turn it seems
Olympic qualifiers in India

The Olympic qualification tournament in hockey will after all be held in India.

The International Hockey Federation (FIH) Executive Board meeting in Lausanne on Saturday decided to confirm the earlier arrangement by which India was to host one of the qualification competitions here in February next.

Whatever doubts there might have been of India retaining the qualifiers because of the tussle in the hockey administration in the country were cleared on Saturday when the FIH President, Leandro Negre, rang up the Union Sports Minister, Ajay Maken, to convey the news.

Negre told the minister that the Board had unanimously decided to conduct the qualifiers and “other major hockey tournaments” in India, as scheduled.

The FIH President also conveyed to Maken that the FIH had also decided to maintain its recognition of Hockey India as the National federation for the sport.

Stan_Savljevic · Post by **Stan_Savljevic** » 13 Nov 2011 11:46

Malaysian test for Savio Medeira’s India
http://www.dnaindia.com/sport/report_ma ... ia_1611715
Win should help us bettering our fifa ranking.

K. Humpy vs. H. Yifan for world championship women in Tirana beginning mday. Go Humpy go!

The drama surrounding og qualifiers being in India just means that HI has fully acquiesced to FIH on whatever FIH asked for. Seems like IOA is firmly backing HI. Seems like Maken ji has also fallen for the free dose of crack sold by the roadside junkies. He has also gone slow on the sports reform bill which means Pawarful ji has got more sugar and butter in his mouth than Lord Krishna could ever ask for. That has a lotta snide implications on the cwg scam case, but thats later. Which all means no HI-IHF union any more. WSH is ruined, at least there will be a major spokes in the works. So yes, India will get to og, but Indian hickey players seeing better fortunes ahead minus HI in the picture is gone for a tailspin. Take that you lowly hickey players....

Stan_Savljevic · Post by **Stan_Savljevic** » 14 Nov 2011 23:12

OG Qualifier grouping:
Mens: New Delhi (IND) - 15 / 26 Feb. 2012
India, Canada, France, Poland, Egypt, US

Womens: New Delhi (IND) - 15 / 26 Feb. 2012 rk.
India, South Africa, Italy, Canada, Ukraine, Poland

Winner takes all and goes to OG, both mens and womens look winnable.

Vipul · Post by **Vipul** » 15 Nov 2011 03:05

World Jr Table Tennis: India upset South Korea to seal semis spot.

Stan_Savljevic · Post by **Stan_Savljevic** » 16 Nov 2011 00:44

And so it begins...
http://www.thehindu.com/sport/hockey/article2629835.ece
I am confused on whether I wanna see pakis in wsh in the first place...

Nabi earns draw with Malaysia.
http://www.thehindu.com/sport/football/ ... 630889.ece

The theory of playing more international friendlies against better sides, as professed by former Indian coach Bob Houghton, is being carried forward by Savio Medeira, who has now assumed the mantle of coaching the national side.
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Malaysia, which arrived in the country with a favourable 2-1 record in the last three international friendlies, would be looking to add another win to the tally with coach K. Rajagopal preparing his wards for upcoming assignments.

So hickey coach as well as footer coach of Malaysia are Indian origin, weird.

First two games of Humpy-Yifan drawn.

Did nt realize Nana Patekar was a shooting man, excellente.

Stan_Savljevic · Post by **Stan_Savljevic** » 16 Nov 2011 21:11

Olympians caution hockey team after being handed easy draw
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/spor ... 742307.cms
It can be said with enough hope that if this team does nt make it through this qualifier given the crappy teams (including canada which I dont regard highly at all...) in the pool and the home advantage, they certainly dont deserve to be in Londonistan. I am pretty sure this team will win the event, but will give people some heart-attacks before they come through though. Just like crikkit of the 90s. Lets hope that IHF does nt pull the rug from underneath HI's bottoms and put a PIL or some sorts preventing the hosting of the qualifiers. As someone said elsewhere, Indians will kill Indians, no need for conspiracies....

Ajay Jayaram may replace Anup Sridhar and Arvind Bhat in becoming no. 1 if he is not that already....
http://www.rediff.com/sports/report/hon ... 111116.htm

Now that both Hesh-Lee and Rohan are in different groups, hope both make it to the semis. ToI has planted a bomb saying that Hesh and Lee dont want to partner at Londonistan. Lee wants to partner Rohan, but Hesh will get away with Rohan, so the claim goes. Hope this is not one of those really crappy tabloidy rubbish from toi. Whatever the hell is wrong with Lee and Hesh, they came together to get a career slam, and now that the dream seems far away, its all looking drab and irritating.

Meanwhile, Tennis coaches ignored for awards: Mukherjea
http://www.thehindu.com/sport/other-spo ... 630548.ece

For all its achievements, including the Olympic bronze medal won by Leander Paes in the Atlanta Games in 1996, when Mukherjea was the coach, tennis does not have a single Dronacharya awardee.

Thats a fair enough whine profile.

On the question of awards, Telegraph had a really sorry story on JHK sportsmen and women. Read it at: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1111116/j ... 755701.jsp
At the end of the day, most if not all awards mean progress in career/jobs by way of higher pay-slabs etc. Now if the govt reneges on this deal by way of politics and turf intrusion, there really is no incentive to go sporty in any state. Shows how bad coalition politics in JHK is. Bring on President's rule please, its been long overdue.

Savio mulls changes
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1111116/j ... 756382.jsp

The India coach expressed dissatisfaction over the haphazard scheduling of the friendlies. “It is becoming taxing for the players. First, the I-League is going on and then we have to play two matches within 72 hours. It is taking a toll on the players. It is another reason for which I have to bring several changes to the squad,” said Medeira.
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The tie will also be India’s first match at the Salt Lake Stadium since the 2006 friendly against Saudi Arabia. They will also play on an artificial turf for the first time.

Stan_Savljevic · Post by **Stan_Savljevic** » 16 Nov 2011 22:40

Chhetri strikes brace as India beat Malaysia 3-2 in international friendly
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/spor ... 759207.cms

This is how the OGQ came to India.... Its gonna get messy...
Players have to decide between India and WSH: Hockey India
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/spor ... 758182.cms

Suraj · Post by **Suraj** » 16 Nov 2011 22:50

Vipul wrote:World Jr Table Tennis: India upset South Korea to seal semis spot.

We did well in the semis against the all-conquering Chinese too. Though the margin was 3-0, all the games went the full distance. Clearly we have the raw material at the junior level to take on the likes of SoKo and Japan, and push PRC to the wall; the difference is in their massive system, not just in TT, but elsewhere. Considering the various tales of sports administration, its the system where we fall short.

Stan_Savljevic · Post by **Stan_Savljevic** » 18 Nov 2011 06:40

http://www.thehindu.com/sport/hockey/article2635973.ece

A total of 150 Indian players, including all the top stars from the present national side, have virtually signed a three—year—contract ....

A media release from the organisers today claimed that veteran forwards Arjun Halappa and Prabhjot Singh, goalkeeper Adrian D’Souza and mid—fielder Sardar Singh have been signed up by the organisers ...

The other Indian players include ace drag—flicker Sandeep Singh, current captain Rajpal Singh, goalkeeper Bharat Chetri and emerging champion Yuvraj Walmiki ...

The league will also see the participation of Gurjinder Singh, the India U—21 captain, 19—year—old forward Kangujam Chinglensana Singh, forward Victo Singh and the best player of the last National Games, S K Uthappa.

Prominent international players who are on the roster include Baljeet Singh, Deepak Thakur, Dhananjay Mahadik, Diwakar Ram, Gurbaj Singh, Mandeep Antil, Prabodh Tirkey, Roshan Minz, Shivendra Singh, S V Sunil, Tushar Khandker, and William Xalxo.

Thats the fricking entire senior and junior teams. If HI is going to deny these people a chance to play OGQ, India is truly eff-ed. There are no more bench players left and if they are around, they are gonna be u-19 players. Seriously, no kidding. This is no way to go, the whole setup (senior + junior) has revolted against HI and told em to go screw emselves

. No wonder then that....

HI asks units not to release players for WSH

http://www.thehindu.com/sport/hockey/article2636779.ece

Someone has to give way. If HI gives way, then FIH will get upset and may take the event elsewhere. Well, at least they will threaten to. Thats the modus operandi of the creeps. If HI does nt give way, India wont qualify, definitely not with u-19 players. The u-19 players are ok, but not fit for OGQ, the pressure will gulp em most definitely. I have a bright idea, someone lock the HI oiseaules in a bigggg toilet and do a jackass cannon gun of them to the moon. And if someone else sends the IHF oiseaules to pluto, it will be even better. As regards the FIH creeps, if each Indian contributes one mm^3 of ack thoo, they will get drowned in their own eternal shame. Please oblige me with bids for the first two....

Meanwhile, Baljeet has this to say:
Government of no help, says former hockey international
http://www.thehindu.com/sport/hockey/article2635957.ece

“My only submission was to help me in my treatment and provide me a respectable job under the sports quota,” said Baljit, who made 175 appearances for the country since his debut in 2000.

Feel sorry for the guy having talked with him through DNA people. Nice guy...

Gurusaidutt who made heads turn, on Thursday, as he stunned World No. 9 Pengyu Du of China

http://www.rediff.com/sports/report/hon ... 111117.htm

SBajwa · Post by **SBajwa** » 21 Nov 2011 20:27

Final:India won Kabbadi World Cup 2011

India beats Canada with the diff of 59 – 25.

India Women won Kabbadi World Cup 2011

Women:Final:India beats UK with the diff of 44-17

Pakistan places at 3rd place

Pakistan beats Italy with the diff of 60-22.

Bathinda, Nov 18: Kabbadi World Cup Results:

Semi-Final: India beats Italy with the diff of 74-15.

Canada beats Pakistan with the diff of 43-39.

Women:Semi-Final:India beats USA with the diff of 57-07.

Jalandhar, Nov 16: Kabbadi World Cup Results:

Pakistan beats Spain with the diff of 62 – 14.

Italy beats Sri Lanka with the diff of 74-16.

Women: England beats Turkmenistan with the diff of 56-17.

Mansa, Nov 15: Kabbadi World Cup Results:

England beats Nepal with the diff of 63 – 18.

India beats Afghanistan with the diff of 50 – 17.

Canada beats Germany with the diff of 58 – 19.

Women: USA – England women section draw by 36-36.

Stan_Savljevic · Post by **Stan_Savljevic** » 21 Nov 2011 22:04

Chennai Cheetahs, first WSH franchise to be unveiled
http://sports.ndtv.com/othersports/hock ... ome-sports

The Cheetahs are owned by Chennai Sports Organisers, backed by L.T. Nanwani, the director and promoter of Jubilee Granites mining company.
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Bollywood superstars Shahrukh Khan and Salman Khan and another popular actor from tinsel town Suneil Shetty are believed to have shown interest in the city-based franchises. The first four franchises will be by invitation while the remaining four will be through open bidding.

http://www.thehindu.com/sport/hockey/article2640028.ece

Former captain Rajpal Singh and veteran midfielder Ignace Tirkey were the notable omissions from an 18-member Indian hockey team announced on Friday for the FIH men's Champions Challenge I from November 26 to December 4 in Johannesburg.
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Tirkey was vice-captain of the team during the recent tour of Australia and has been replaced by forward Tushar Khandekar. Other notable omissions were forwards Bharat Chikara, Ravipal and Gurvinder Singh Chandi.

From all indications, Rajpal did well in the tour down-unter. So the drop of Rajpal and Ignace Tirkey is just routine politics. Just one tournament back, Ravipal was touted as hickey's biggest find for a while before Yuvraj usurped him from that spot. This kinda ring-a-ring-a-roses helps noone. Selection does nt seem to be based on form, but based on who holds the baggage for you in the selection panel. In any case, Rajpal had crossed too many swords with his fistfight over Sandeep and finally someone might have put it across the table.

Stan_Savljevic · Post by **Stan_Savljevic** » 23 Nov 2011 04:06

Indian boxers to compete in test event for London Olympics
http://www.dnaindia.com/sport/report_in ... cs_1616144

Five-time world champion M.C.Mary Kom, a medal hopeful for Olympics, will lead the charge for India.

Squad:
Women: MC Mary Kom (51 Kg), Pooja Rani (75 Kg)
Men: Amandeep Singh (49 Kg), Vikas Krishan (69 Kg), Dinesh Kumar (81 Kg).

Baichung Bhutia’s school soon to be launched in Mumbai
http://www.dnaindia.com/sport/report_ba ... ai_1615753

On Monday, he announced the Mumbai launch of the Baichung Bhutia Football School (BBFS) - the second centre in the country to have the facility after New Delhi. The school will be established across four centres in the city - Priyadarshini Park (PDP), Bandra, Juhu and Kandivli.

If Mihir or Tushar from DNA is reading this, the interface of dnaindia sucks, especially that "Definition" nonsense. I doubt you guys are reading though

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Elsewhere, Coaxed by Maken-ji's attempts at accountability....
IOA decides to set up Athletes Commission
http://www.thehindu.com/sport/athletics ... 651038.ece
Needless to mention that former sportsmen and women in an admin role have often been the worst offenders of the job of taking care of current sportsmen/women's critical needs/demands. Many of them have been willing ching-chaks of politicians/bureaucrats etc.

Thuddddd news in three parts with some not so hidden attempts at pissing some people

:
1) What the hell happened at the Calcutta derby? Duh... Not even the Calcuttans can explain this hotchpotch justified by Manish Gupta, can Mamtadi get too busy with the dire power situation in the state, doubtful... She is too busy chiding everyone else.

2) LP-MB lost their faarshht (kolaveri style

) matchup. How they contrived to lose the match with some no-namers is beyond me, but this is Hesh-Lee with all that baggage of splitville yada yada. They better win the

CENTRE COURT start 12:15 pm
[4] M Bhupathi (IND) / L Paes (IND) vs [7] J Melzer (AUT) / P Petzschner (GER)

and the later one with the bryans to stay afloat. Go Paes-Bhupathi, get the next 2 wins and get to the semis. Else, it will be Rohan style thud exit with 2 straight losses. Thuuuuddd is more likely, get used to it. Duh...

3) Koneru Humpy did nt talk to Anand, I am sure. She has taken the lessons of Anand's dragon attempts at NYC WTC in the mid-90s to a full circle. Too eager, too mike tyson-y out of the block, and has lost the mojo in a semi-marathon. Duh.... Too bad, who designs strategery for these people? I knowwww (say it in Monica of friends.. style)... dharmic Indic brfites with a gazillion minutes to type random garbage and make a mahabharat (Indic again

) out of it

. Did I add Jai Telangana to piss more people, ok just did

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Stan_Savljevic · Post by **Stan_Savljevic** » 24 Nov 2011 17:54

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/spor ... 856110.cms
Hesh-Bopanna at Londonistan then. Who will Leander partner? Somdev?

Rahul M · Post by **Rahul M** » 24 Nov 2011 18:54

>> 1) What the hell happened at the Calcutta derby? Duh... Not even the Calcuttans can explain this hotchpotch justified by Manish Gupta, can Mamtadi get too busy with the dire power situation in the state, doubtful... She is too busy chiding everyone else.

not the first time either. MB (the person not the club) is as usual making noises about sabotage. reality is facilities at yuvabharati need an upgrade by last week.

Kakkaji · Post by **Kakkaji** » 25 Nov 2011 22:19

SBajwa wrote:Final:India won Kabbadi World Cup 2011

India beats Canada with the diff of 59 – 25.

India Women won Kabbadi World Cup 2011

Women:Final:India beats UK with the diff of 44-17

Great victory! Even more important, large prize moneys distributed to players of an indic game popular in rural areas.

Question for SBajwaji:

I watched some of the games on Youtube, and it seemed all players on the India team were from Punjab/ Haryana region. Nothing wrong with that except that I know that there is a strong Kabaddi tradition in states like Maharashra, UP, and Bihar. So, were the selections done on merit or is the Kabaddi federation also now in the grip of regionalism?

kshatriya · Post by **kshatriya** » 26 Nov 2011 00:00

Kakkaji wrote:
SBajwa wrote:Final:India won Kabbadi World Cup 2011

India beats Canada with the diff of 59 – 25.

India Women won Kabbadi World Cup 2011

Women:Final:India beats UK with the diff of 44-17

Great victory! Even more important, large prize moneys distributed to players of an indic game popular in rural areas.

Question for SBajwaji:

I watched some of the games on Youtube, and it seemed all players on the India team were from Punjab/ Haryana region. Nothing wrong with that except that I know that there is a strong Kabaddi tradition in states like Maharashra, UP, and Bihar. So, were the selections done on merit or is the Kabaddi federation also now in the grip of regionalism?

Kabbadi is the State games of TN ,AP , Punjab/Haryana. I have heard regionalism creeping in. Also the rules are quite different in these states.

Stan_Savljevic · Post by **Stan_Savljevic** » 26 Nov 2011 03:28

Lee and Hesh in semis. Niceeeeee.... Go win the whole show folks.

Champions Challenge hickey
http://www.thehindu.com/sport/hockey/article2659704.ece

Elsewhere, Vasili Alexeev is dead. With Sultan Rakhmonov now dead for like 8 years, that brings the curtain on the golden era of Soviet heavyweight lifting.

Yayavar · Post by **Yayavar** » 26 Nov 2011 04:05

Kakkaji wrote:
SBajwa wrote:Final:India won Kabbadi World Cup 2011

India beats Canada with the diff of 59 – 25.

India Women won Kabbadi World Cup 2011

Women:Final:India beats UK with the diff of 44-17

Great victory! Even more important, large prize moneys distributed to players of an indic game popular in rural areas.

Question for SBajwaji:

I watched some of the games on Youtube, and it seemed all players on the India team were from Punjab/ Haryana region. Nothing wrong with that except that I know that there is a strong Kabaddi tradition in states like Maharashra, UP, and Bihar. So, were the selections done on merit or is the Kabaddi federation also now in the grip of regionalism?

See my note above..almost all members from Germany and oz were the same. Almost looked like a club team. Also, I got bored seeing the rule is that only one person can stop or hold a raider. Not the classic Kabaddi I had in mind.

SBajwa · Post by **SBajwa** » 26 Nov 2011 21:57

I think that kabaddi is part of indian Olympic committee who are responsible for selection. There are two type of kabaddi one-to-one and group-one. One-to-one is the format played in international competitions it is also called sanjivini kabaddi. There were couple of non Indian players in us, UK and Canadian teams vastmajority being diaspora of Indians. UK women team was all white women of UK army.

Yayavar · Post by **Yayavar** » 26 Nov 2011 23:14

thanks...the 1-1 was boring to watch. Changes the complexion of the game.

Suraj · Post by **Suraj** » 27 Nov 2011 02:06

Paes/Bhupathi lose in the semis of the ATP Finals to the Polish pair. Very inconsistent performance by them - first losing to some no namers, then surprisingly pasting the Bryan bros with ease, and then losing the semis to a less favoured team. The Bryans lost their semis too.

suryag · Post by **suryag** » 27 Nov 2011 02:08

these oldies can retire to commenting roles, they are a generation old and they dont have a chance of a beating a new pair

Stan_Savljevic · Post by **Stan_Savljevic** » 27 Nov 2011 04:32

Suryag, that is an unfair statement. I have said this before to KJoishy too. Lee and Hesh are the best we have in India, age no bar. Even today. Rohan Bopanna could climb up there if one gives him time and space, but with aisam as partner, I dont know if people (read as jingoes) will be keen on supporting the Indo-pak pair. I am all for Rohan Bopanna, but confused on rohan-aisam. I am a strict no to any bakwaas with pakis on any sporting matter across all sports because they make profits out of us in every sport and that gain does nt compensate for the net profit we ourselves make in the process, but others go through this confusion paradise based on subjective opinionating.

I dont know what the future holds out because once Lee and Hesh quit to commentating, there is noone else to be a specialist doubles pairing in DC in India, let alone fight in the OG/AG/CWG type tamasha. Somdev is not too keen on doubles and he may come back to doubles once his singles climb hits the concrete wall of ATP shenanigans. But till then, we are stuck. Lee and Hesh are going through a second split and even at this age, they have done better than most 20 year old wunderkids of the world. Why, Rohan-aisam had three straight losses to get shut out of the other group. OTOH Lee-Hesh just the other day beat the Bryans, who are ranked no. 1. They are old, have wild swings either side, play either sublime or lose out if either one wakes up on the wrong side of the bed, etc.

Cmon, have you seen who all have won the season ending matchplay or been finalists in the past 10 years? You can see a buncha no-namers/non-specialists who you will never remember playing doubles here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATP_World_Tour_Finals
At the end of the day, there is no guarantee that a specialist doubles pairing will get whipped at the hands of essentially a non-specialist combo. Dont be so harsh on them because you expected Himalayas out of them.

SBajwa · Post by **SBajwa** » 27 Nov 2011 06:43

I dont know what the future holds out because once Lee and Hesh quit to commentating, there is noone else to be a specialist doubles pairing in DC in India, let alone fight in the OG/AG/CWG type tamasha.

It was exactly same when Amritraj Brothers were playing and before them Krishnan was playing. India never has enough tennis players to go the next level just enough for one generation to keep in the same place.

Suraj · Post by **Suraj** » 27 Nov 2011 06:48

Agreed. What's age got to do with it ? They've consistently ranked in the top 5 in the world whenever they're together, for the last 14 or so years. The Rohan/Aisam combo are not as competent a pair, and without having to indulge in jingogiri, Rohan's anyway the better player of the two. I wish he had a better regular Indian partner for more than just DC, AG, OG etc. Somdev is a parttimer at doubles.

Between them, Lee/Hesh have given us about a dozen unique grand slam successes over the years in men's and mixed doubles. One or both of them, either as a team or not, are typically at least in the semis of pretty much every grand slam. In terms of performance and repute in their domain, they're way better than any prior player, the Amritrajs and the Krishnans included - before them we had a single Wimbledon semifinal visited by Ramanathan Krishnan to claim. I'd be happier seeing Hesh's academy produce more prospects, rather than have them just spouting hot air.

Stan_Savljevic · Post by **Stan_Savljevic** » 27 Nov 2011 09:09

Oltmans, Brasa appointed coaches of Delhi, Chennai
http://www.thehindu.com/sport/hockey/article2662966.ece

Narinder Batra responds to the WSH mess:

The FIH has made it clear they will ban players and officials who will be part of the WSH. Ok, Tomorrow I may reconsider and compromise with my players. Despite their role in WSH, Hockey India may select some of them for the Olympics or Olympic Qualifier. What will happen then? The FIH won’t allow them for these tournaments, which means India would have to play with less number of players. We are heading towards that situation.

Players are in government service. They are governed by the Central Civil Services (conduct) Rules. They are forbidden from making profit out of service, there is a limit for them to accept money, but the contract they signed with the Nimbus for WSH is against the Code. Receiving prize money is a different thing from accepting it for doing a service (playing).

This claim is because many of the hickey players are employed by IR, AI, P&SB, IB, etc.

I cannot stop anybody from playing in WSH. But I will play junior team in the OQ if seniors miss out training and prefer to play in the WSH.

Wow..... Amazing stuff, Harvinder Singh, can you bring in a chappal parade for HI and IHF maakis, please? They deserve it as much as Pawarful ji deserves it for being the supportcast behind Suresh Kalmadi.

OUR VIEW: Most issues Narinder Batra rake up are legal ones, which are subject to interpretation, scrutiny and also discretion by competent authorities / courts. Secondly, if players are united, most things will take different shape in the resultant national sympathy and media frenzy, the twin factors that come to the forefront in such situations. We have seen such things in the past. Thirdly, HI and FIH know almost one and half year in advance the coming of the WSH. They could have easily presented a matching, if not a better, proposition to take control of the situation instead of now becoming Master Hurdlers. This site only reports and analyses events, and will continue to do without bias. The last word has not been said, but its unfortunate every hockey event is marred by politics. Certainly, hockey fans first interest is wish and welfare of players and this factor cannot be wished away. With regard to chamcha word, ok, I am sorry.

http://stick2hockey.com/ViewArticle.asp ... leOID=9060

CChallenge: 3-3 with Belgium, last min goal conceded.

SBajwa · Post by **SBajwa** » 28 Nov 2011 02:56

India defeats South Africa 7-4 (Hockey)
http://www.rediff.com/sports/report/cha ... 111127.htm

Asit P · Post by **Asit P** » 28 Nov 2011 04:00

Are they showing these matches any where?

Rahul M · Post by **Rahul M** » 28 Nov 2011 04:55

ten sports.

sum · Post by **sum** » 28 Nov 2011 09:43

^^ Saw the match yesterday but have to say that the Indian defence looked pi$$-poor and really shaky ( despite the 7-4 scoreline). Any more fancied team like Spain or Aus and there will be a flood of goals.

Even this match turned around only in last 10 minutes and it was 4-4 till then and was very, very close.

Asit P · Post by **Asit P** » 28 Nov 2011 20:17

Bopanna-Qureshi split. Bopanna to pair up with Mahesh Bhupati

India's Rohan Bopanna and Pakistan's Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi have ended their successful tennis doubles partnership, which was hailed as a symbol of friendship between the rival nations.
Bopanna said on Monday that he will team up with veteran compatriot Mahesh Bhupathi in 2012, while Qureshi will next partner Dutchman Jean-Julien Roger at the Australian Open in January.

Bopanna should have done it long back. But as they say - 'It's never late to do the right thing'.

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Stan_Savljevic · Post by **Stan_Savljevic** » 28 Nov 2011 22:11

Bhupathi will retire at the end of Londonistan games. So will Leander. For Rohan, I am wondering what is his plan after 2012 when Hesh retires?

All this tamasha of splitsville is all internal politics between the 3. Luckily, at least these days, they dont wash their dirty linen like they used to in 99. At least Leander sounds far more diplomatic on these issues.

If someone looks at the Champions Challenge schedule, the mind-numbingness will make one wonder. You can finish no. 4 in your pool, yet have a glorious chance to make the semis. Who was the stoopidfck who came up with this schedule that has no incentive for finishing 1st or 2nd in your pool apart from playing the 3rd and 4th ranked players in the other pool? Very stoopid, 3 idiotic round robin matches of kumbakarnan proportions.

SwamyG · Post by **SwamyG** » 28 Nov 2011 22:39

So Koneru Humpy loses, sad onlee for us jingos.

But Karthikeyan Murali won the Gold medal in the Under-12 Open Category of the World Youth Chess Championship held at Caldas Novas.
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes ... a-benjamin
India bagged five medals in the championship including the gold, a silver and three bronze.

How Indians finished in Brazil:

Under-8 girls: Salonika Saina (3rd), Lakshmi C (4th), Bommini Mounika Akshaya (19th), Tanishka Kotia (34th)

Under-8 open: Ram Aravind L N (2nd), Ritam Nag (41st), Sai Krishna S (52nd) Under- 10 girls: Bidhur Rutumbara (8th), Bansi Prathima M (12th), Tarini Goyal (13th), Priyanka K (21st)

Under-10 open: Rathanvel V S (3rd), Rakesh Kumar Jena (5th), Mitrabha Guha (11th), Nitish Belurkar (24th), Anand Nadar (31st)

Under-12 girls: Ivana Maria Furtado (13th),Riya Savant (14th), Priyamvada Karamcheti (24th), Tejaswini Sagar (28th)

Under-12 open: Karthikeayn Murali (1st), Aravindh Chithambaram V R (10th), Abhimanyu Puranik (14th), Hetul Shah (15th), Harshal Shahi (22nd)

Under-14 girls: Srija Seshadri (8th), Mahalakshmi M (9th), Lasya G (16th), Monnisha G K (24th)

Under-14 open: Girish A Koushik (12th), Diptayan Ghosh (4th), Satvik M (50th)

Under-16 girls: Pratyusha Bodda (5th), Nandhidhaa P V (8th), Anjana Krishna (26th), Bala Kannamma (38th)

Under-16 open: Antonio Viani D'cunha (7th), Shiven Khosla (35th), Sarang Ponkshe (53rd)

Under-18 girls: A Akshaya (18th), Saranya J (32nd), Visalatch R (37th)

Under-18 open: Debashis Das (3rd), Stany G A (4th), Himal Gusain (15th)

Stan_Savljevic · Post by **Stan_Savljevic** » 28 Nov 2011 23:48

sum wrote: the Indian defence looked pi$$-poor and really shaky

Thats because Indian defence is synonymous with Sardara and Sandeep. On the one hand,

Coach Michael Nobbs used Sandeep Singh at the defence only sparingly, he was not available when India got its both penalty corners.

And on the other,

Sardara Singh on the other hand was sluggish, Belgium got two penalty corners off his body.
...
Even as couple of seconds remained, Belgium got another penalty corner. Coming as it is with the hooter, the match saw tense moments. The penalty corner was taken after the hooter. But India survived.

I dread the day when Sandeep and Sardara are off-color. I wont be surprised if I see a CWG final scoreline. Indian D-line has no depth past these two guys. Pity and gritting of the teeth.

PS: I know you are talking of the suud afrika matchup, it was the same with Belgium.

Stan_Savljevic · Post by **Stan_Savljevic** » 29 Nov 2011 23:39

India beats Poland 7-zip after leading 3-zip at half time. Now it begins all over again. You carry none of the pomp and bravado of the round-robin, begin fresh guys. Dont go into the overindulgent "we won" mode. India takes on Malaysia in the QF and I have seen some heart-break with the Malaysians these days. See you in the semis.

Asit P · Post by **Asit P** » 30 Nov 2011 01:48

Thanks to Rahul's response, I watched the second half of this match after returning back a bit early from office. I guess I am lucky for Team India

On a serious note, hope for the same show in upcoming matches too.

Stan_Savljevic · Post by **Stan_Savljevic** » 01 Dec 2011 01:04

For those not in India,
Free Live Streaming from Champions Challenge 1
http://www.fih.ch/en/news-3428-free-liv ... -challenge

I will abscond from live matches as I get a heart attack watching these ups and downs.

SBajwa · Post by **SBajwa** » 01 Dec 2011 02:23

Ever since the 1982 Asiad finals where naPakis defeated us 1-7., I haven't watched hockey online.

The match in 1982 was such a cluster **** that I still dread it. There has to be match fixing.

Stan_Savljevic · Post by **Stan_Savljevic** » 01 Dec 2011 03:24

Mir Ranjan Negi once mentioned that an Iqbal hypnotized the Indian team and hence they lost so badly. Some matches like 96 semis, the 7-1 in Delhi, the Santiago meltdown, the Poland draw are not worth revisiting, even for lessons. Definitely not for me.

Sardara and Sandeep's final warning by HI has ensured that both have quit the WSH drama. Interesting is that Yuvraj has come back too, which is what would have been expected given that he is a malleable kid. Bharat Chhetri, Tushar, Sreejesh -- all have a lot to lose given that they are close to being el-kapitans. So why is Arjun Halappa not quit yet? Or Rajpal? Are they so out of the woods in terms of el kapitanissimo? Possible given the mistreatment both saw. Rajpal may just be sick of the whole show and the Brasa episode. The other guy in this mess Prabhjyot has gone completely MIA. Like Irfan Pathan. Same for Diwakar Ram. Grooming shooming my arse.
http://www.thehindu.com/sport/hockey/article2674998.ece

sum · Post by **sum** » 01 Dec 2011 11:12

Stan_Savljevic wrote:For those not in India,
Free Live Streaming from Champions Challenge 1
http://www.fih.ch/en/news-3428-free-liv ... -challenge

I will abscond from live matches as I get a heart attack watching these ups and downs.

Amen to that..... really not for the weak-hearted, esp the last few minutes ( if India in a lead)