2014 Commonwealth Games

Dilbu · Post by **Dilbu** » 27 Jul 2014 21:16

So many bronze. India will not win gold onlee.

disha · Post by **disha** » 27 Jul 2014 21:31

It seems there is no vegetarian food available for our athletes. They are surviving only on pizza and potatoes!

Where is the scumbag media now?

Suraj · Post by **Suraj** » 28 Jul 2014 01:21

Gold and silver in Men's 77kg weightlifting, thanks to Sivalingam and Katulu. Sivalingam is a new star and lifted 328kg total, while Katulu won gold in Delhi 2010 and lifted 317kg this time. Sivalingam lifted a games record 149kg in snatch, and 179kg in C&J.

Interestingly, all of our women's lifters who have won medals are either 19 or 20 years old. The mens medalists are all between 21 and 25. AG standard is much higher in weightlifting, though. However, they'll clearly have trained so that they only peak in September. Sivalingam's performance would have earned him a silver in 77kg in the 2010 AG.

SBajwa · Post by **SBajwa** » 28 Jul 2014 06:47

Sivalingam is a new star and lifted 328kg total

thanks Suraj!!! Indeed Sivalingam is a rising star!!! This is a games Record!!! He can do wonders in two months in Asian games at Incheon!!!

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 28 Jul 2014 07:52

disha wrote:It seems there is no vegetarian food available for our athletes. They are surviving only on pizza and potatoes!

Where is the scumbag media now?

media is celebrating ramzan, telling us about the wonders of haleem and how despite being yindu they are sickular and love beef kababs too on the food streets.

darshhan · Post by **darshhan** » 28 Jul 2014 08:35

Singha wrote:
disha wrote:It seems there is no vegetarian food available for our athletes. They are surviving only on pizza and potatoes!

Where is the scumbag media now?
media is celebrating ramzan, telling us about the wonders of haleem and how despite being yindu they are sickular and love beef kababs too on the food streets.

Also no one in media is pointing that this is the holy month of shravan.

Deans · Post by **Deans** » 28 Jul 2014 08:59

Some general observations:

1. The games web site is the worst I've seen.
2. Commentators are fairly Britain-istan biased - that's whenever I can understand the Scottish accents.
3. A lot of medals won by Australia/Canada are from 'immigrants of opportunity'. 5 of the 7 Golds of Canada were from a Gymnast with
dual Russia-Canada citizenship. There is another male medalist with a similar background.
The Aussie TT team are all Chinese born, their gold medalist weightlifter is from Cameroun (competed for Cameroun in an earlier games).
England has such examples too. If these cases are removed, there is a decline in medals won by the traditional Commonwealth powers
(while countries like India are improving).

Can't help adding that Pakistan, which won 10 medals at Manchester (since it was almost home) and 5 each in 2006 and 2010 have
won only a bronze this time (Judo) and limited chances of more.

Suraj · Post by **Suraj** » 28 Jul 2014 09:22

Our athletes are polite to a fault. The games village is clearly sub par, but they're speaking diplomatically. Their Anglo counterparts would have fallen over themselves sneering if it was us providing such facilities:
Indians adjust to common bathrooms at CWG Village

The concerns arising over the outbreak of norovirus (stomach bug) outbreak at the Athletes' Village notwithstanding, the Indians have given a thumbs up to the hospitality offered by the Games' Organisers.

However, they would have preferred attached bathrooms like the ones built in Delhi four years ago.

"I think the Delhi Village was better planned and had more open space. But the overall quality of the Village is better here and the food is good. Here we also share the toilets but that has not been much of a problem so far," paddler A Sharath Kamal, a three-time gold winner in CWG, said.

His coach Bhawani Mukherjee gave a sneak peek into the Village built around 35 hectares comprising 6500 beds and 700 "future homes".

"We have flats here like huts but rooms are very small. We have two rooms on second floor, one four bed and the other two bed with a common bathroom. On first floor, two bathrooms and four rooms. It is a problem but we need to keep in mind it is an athletes village. The nice weather here makes up for the minor shortcomings," said Mukherjee.

Asked about reports of diarrhoea, the coach said: "We are doing fine. We are very careful of what we eat."

India's top squash player Saurav Ghosal said it would have been better to have attached bathrooms.

"Common bathrooms have been alright so far. Of course it would be better to have your own bathroom. In comparison to Delhi, I would say it is cleaner here," said Ghosal.

Interestingly, 260,000 items of furniture, fittings and equipment were obtained from the London Olympics Village for use here.

The only reason it was cleaner at Glasgow was it was completed earlier. The facilities themselves are poorly implemented, and the food has been dangerous.

The games website has been TERRIBLE. The organization of the data is piss poor. That would be bearable if they updated the damn data in real time. It isn't merely seconds late; they don't update for 1-2hrs. That's not even the design - it often starts showing a live score, which suddenly halts and stays in some intermediate score for an hour, by which time the match or event has long concluded, and one has to go to some other live feed source to find out what happened.

Delhi 2010 was WAY better.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 28 Jul 2014 09:28

interestingly scotland is competing separately from main ENG this time.
is it always that scotland, n.ireland and wales compete separately in OG also?
I know in FIFA WC they are separate thats why gareth bale never plays for england (he is welsh)

Dilbu · Post by **Dilbu** » 28 Jul 2014 09:37

India will not win gold onlee.

Suraj · Post by **Suraj** » 28 Jul 2014 09:54

The 'home nations' (Eng, Wal, Sco, NI) always compete separately in the CWG, just as they do in football. These are, as far as I know (and I may be wrong) the only cases where they represent separately. Everywhere else, e.g. OG, they compete as Team GB. People from Northern Ireland can choose whether to represent GB or Ireland in OG.

Looking at our squad, we sent an understrength team, or people just didn't bother to compete in everything available. This is particularly pronounced in athletics, where some capable performers had not peaked in time for the CWG trials and did not make the cut.

Those who are participating have performed as well or better than 2010. We've exceeded 2010 performance in weightlifting and did as well as 1990 and 2002 combined, in judo. Our main medal events in shooting are yet to come, while boxing and wrestling events can add several more golds. 20+ golds would be a decent performance from this underprepared squad.

I don't think there are many more sports where Scotland can win golds, so we can overtake them and perhaps even Canada if they don't have enough imported paid athletes to get them the golds they need to make the #3 spot. Both of them have front loaded events here - rhythmic gymnastics for Canada, and judo for Scotland. The Scots were smart to bring back judo and train for it - more than half their medals seem to be from that event.

Supratik · Post by **Supratik** » 28 Jul 2014 10:43

What is disappointing is the decline of Indian women's hockey. They won gold and silver in 2002 and 2006. Other disappointments are the loss in TT and badminton to England.

Suraj · Post by **Suraj** » 28 Jul 2014 10:53

In 2002, when the women's hockey team won gold, they lost to NZ in group stages , and finished with a 1-1-1 record in group, and clawed their way to gold. This time, they again lost to NZ, but have matches against Trinidad and Tobago as well as S.Africa, both of which they could win. Thus it's too early to say.

TT and Badminton have both flattered to deceive, particularly because our top stars underperformed. Sharath Kamal lost his first match. Kashyap lost his match too. TT has 6 medals and badminton has 5. They better make amends elsewhere.

The bulk of our medal prospects - provided we perform - are in the next 4 days in shooting+boxing+wrestling . What we have so far is largely bonus performance in weightlifting and judo. We have slightly underperformed in shooting.

Supratik · Post by **Supratik** » 28 Jul 2014 10:55

It is good if we are taking it easy in the CWG. We peaked in Delhi and then flopped in AG. Need the reverse this time.

Suraj · Post by **Suraj** » 28 Jul 2014 11:01

We definitely seem to be doing so in badminton - all our players look like they're taking it slow to avoid injuries or worsening any. Saina didn't even bother to participate. I can't blame her. I would rather see her medal in AG and OG against the Chinese and Koreans, rather than just spank everyone in CWG and lose on the bigger stage. She has done her bit at CWG level - her last day gold in Delhi 2010 put us in 2nd place on the medal table ahead of Inglistanis.

member_28539 · Post by **member_28539** » 28 Jul 2014 12:17

hecky wrote:and the usual:

Hours away from Commonwealth opening ceremony, Indians wait for costumes

With less than 24 hours to go for the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, several members of the Indian contingent reportedly still haven't received their ceremonial dresses for the parade.

Some athletes are reportedly wondering whether they will be given the ceremonial dresses at all.

"We have just received the India blazer with Glasgow Commonwealth Games embossed on them. We should have got the dress before we left India," one athlete, a veteran of three Games was quoted as saying by the Times of India.

The Indian chef-de-mission - Raj Singh - meanwhile, conceded that there was some delay in the arrangement of ceremonial attire for the Indian contingent but said he was confident that all the athletes would get them in time.

"The IOA Committee to decide on this issue of ceremonial dress which included myself delayed a bit in taking a decision. But it is not an issue and all the athletes will get the ceremonial dress for the opening ceremony," Raj Singh told PTI.

"We have already given the sports kits, including track suits, shoes, bags etc. But I think some athletes are yet to get the ceremonial dress for the opening ceremony. But all of them will get the dress today."

He said men members will wear a black blazer, gray trouser and Hush Puppy shoes along with the traditional turban.

"Women athletes will wear saris and we have three sets of saris with us. We will decide which one will be used," he added.

With the 20th edition of the Commonwealth Games just hours away, India are aiming for a top-three finish. India achieved unprecedented success in the last edition, amassing 101 medals to finish second. This time around the expectations have soared even higher.

http://www.firstpost.com/sports/commonw ... 30441.html

Sirji I went to Play South Asian Championships some time back & I have still not got the Coat & track suit...purchased it on my own

member_28539 · Post by **member_28539** » 28 Jul 2014 12:21

Suraj wrote:One more bronze in Judo. Kudos to Rajwinder Kaur. The match is showing live on youtube right now - the Kenyan looks like she's from 2 weight classes higher:

Yashpal Solanki the Indian Judoka & Arjuna Awardee was joking with us a day before saying Rajwinder Kaur Defeated a Lorry to win Broze

krishnan · Post by **krishnan** » 28 Jul 2014 12:27

all those Nigerians in women weightlifting , they could probably even defeat men in weight lifting , the one who lifted 125 kg

, made it look so easy

Murugan · Post by **Murugan** » 28 Jul 2014 17:11

Now waiting for winnings in gati sports, we are mastering sthiti sports

krishnan · Post by **krishnan** » 28 Jul 2014 17:23

during the women WL , i saw scotish one sniffing something on camera before going to do the weight lifting , dunno what it was

Supratik · Post by **Supratik** » 28 Jul 2014 17:45

Thats something (camphor???) that prevents passing out while lifting.

Rai and Singh - gold and silver - shooting.

Supratik · Post by **Supratik** » 28 Jul 2014 18:03

Narang - silver - shooting.

Prasad · Post by **Prasad** » 28 Jul 2014 20:27

Off day for jwala gutta. Kept hitting so many into the net. That's why we lost out to SIN

Suraj · Post by **Suraj** » 28 Jul 2014 20:50

The games website continues to suck with some sports being updated and others frozen. They don't even have separate youtube streams for different sports like the Olympics did. Instead of reusing the data management system from the Olympics, they only thing they reused is the furniture. Such incompetence.

Supratik · Post by **Supratik** » 29 Jul 2014 15:04

Thakur - silver - weightlifting.

SwamyG · Post by **SwamyG** » 29 Jul 2014 16:40

In 2010 india came 2nd with 30+ gold. Currently it has only 7, is it going to be not as good as last time? How many mor4 possible golds?

Ashokk · Post by **Ashokk** » 29 Jul 2014 17:09

Commonweath Games Live Blog

05:41 PM - Wrestling -- Amit Kumar will face Nigeria's Ebikweminomo Welson in Men's 57kg Wrestling final
05:36 PM - Wrestling -- India's Vinesh reaches Women's 48kg wrestling final after beating Canada's J Mian 4-1 in semis
05:31 PM - Wrestling -- India's Jyoti beats Sophie Edwards of England in Women's Freestyle 75kg Nordic System Match 5
05:22 PM - Wrestling -- Amit Kumar is also through to Men's 57kg Wrestling final with a 10-0 victory over Azhar Hussain of Pakistan
05:13 PM - Wrestling -- High voltage Indo-Pak final in Men's Freestyle 74kg as Sushil Kumar fights for gold against Qamar Abbas
05:06 PM - Wrestling -- India's Amit Kumar will take on Azhar Hussain of Pakistan in Men's Freestyle 57kg semifinal
04:58 PM - Wrestling -- Another medal assured for India in wrestling as Rajeev Tomar enters final in Men's FS 125 kg after defeating Marcus Carney of New Zealand 11-1
04:48 PM - Wrestling -- Another CWG gold in reckoning for India's Sushil Kumar as he beats Melvin Bibo of Nigeria 8-4 in Men's Freestyle 74kg semis

Looking forward to a good haul of medals from wrestling

Supratik · Post by **Supratik** » 29 Jul 2014 17:12

About 30-40% of the medals in events in which India won in 2010 are not there in these games.

Supratik · Post by **Supratik** » 29 Jul 2014 17:23

Also it is better to focus on AG as you don't qualify for OG through CWG. We are also not participating in many athletics events.

Supratik · Post by **Supratik** » 29 Jul 2014 17:24

H. Singh - silver - shooting.

Supratik · Post by **Supratik** » 29 Jul 2014 18:36

M. Sandhu - bronze - shooting.

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 29 Jul 2014 19:17

Sushil Kumar & Tomar were brilliant today in wrestling. Sushil will face the Pakistani off for the gold tonight 9 PM IST.

Suraj · Post by **Suraj** » 29 Jul 2014 19:59

Shooting has been a downer today. We didn't even win the 25m rapid fire pistol where Vijay Kumar won silver in the Olympics. At least all of today's wrestlers are in their respective finals.

member_23658 · Post by **member_23658** » 29 Jul 2014 20:47

Amit kumar wins gold!

Suraj · Post by **Suraj** » 29 Jul 2014 20:51

Website is getting worse and worse. Earlier it only refused to show the live score. Now it won't even show the daily schedule.

KJo · Post by **KJo** » 29 Jul 2014 21:00

Skinny weak cowardly SDRE Amit Kumar beat strong fair beef eating Paki?

AoA!

Suraj · Post by **Suraj** » 29 Jul 2014 21:01

Only because he won 10-0 . 1 baki wrestling point = 10 SDRE wrestling points. Had Baki scored 1 point he would have tied it.

Suraj · Post by **Suraj** » 29 Jul 2014 21:13

2nd gold of the day in wrestling. Two more finals, for the lady wrestler and Sushi.

Oops it looks like it was the lady who won gold. The games website isn't helping at all.

Ranjani Brow · Post by **Ranjani Brow** » 29 Jul 2014 21:14

Vinesh beats Yana Rattigan to win gold in women's 48kg wrestling
Final score: 11-8

Ranjani Brow · Post by **Ranjani Brow** » 29 Jul 2014 21:19

More to come: Sushil Kumar in 74Kg and Tomar in 125kg in GOLD Medal Match