Whatever happened to the shooting contingent?
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That brings the question why were the two events held so close to each other? Some of my friends have been lamenting the amount of matches Indian cricket team are playing so close to the World Cup.Suraj wrote:Expecting elite athletes to peak in successive large events just a month apart was always going to be tough. And yes, the CWG is a lower standard than AG, except in some sports like swimming and cycling.
Great run by the long distance runners also. Esp the 3000 race was simply great, the Chinese runner caught up with Sudha with few meters left but then Sudha made a last second dash and won the race.Indian women archers settled for a bronze in the team event after missing out on an opportunity to stun world number one South Korea in the semifinals shoot-off.
After qualifying for the semifinals with an easy 214-202 victory over North Korea, the Indian trio of Dola Banerjee, Deepika Kumari and Rimil Buriuly were leading by two points at 167-165 after 18 of the 24 arrows against South Korea.
But, the Indians failed to get over their nerves in the final six arrows (two each by the three archers) and the score was tied at 221 each in the end.
In the shoot-off, one of the South Korean trio hit the bull's eye while the other two scored 9 and 10. India could only come up with 9, 8, 9 to lose the tie.
In the bronze medal play-off against Chinese Taipei, India were trailing from the beginning and they were four points behind after 18 of the 24 arrows.
India scored 56 from the last six arrows as against 51 by their opponents to win the close contest 218-217.
GUANGZHOU: Despite suffering heavy defeats in all three league matches, the Indian men's rugby team on Monday qualified for the quarterfinals of the Asian Games as only nine teams are in the fray.
India, who were thrashed 43-5 by Korea in the opening pool B match on Sunday, were drubbed 61-0 by China and 42-12 by sub-continental rivals Sri Lanka to finish at the bottom of the group.
Yet, they qualified for the quarterfinals and will play the winners of pool B at the University Town stadium on Tuesday.
The women performed no better, and were steamrolled by Japan 31-0 for their second straight preliminary league defeat after being thumped 50-0 by Kazakhstan.
Against both China and Sri Lanka, India looked clueless. Captain Lu Zhuan scored four tries and converted all of them to finish with 28 points for China and helped his team notch up the biggest margin of victory in the tournament. The winners led 35-0 at the halfway stage of the mismatch.
True, Look at Sri Lanka. Even more SDRE, but playing decent rugbyLalmohan wrote:why not? a few years ago japan was on the receiving end of similar drubbings, yet now they are a regular competitor in the rugby world cup (final tournament) - and are gradually working their way up. Italy was a similar contender, but are now regularly giving england and france a tough time in the six-nations rugby cup (used to be 5 nations until they were included)
it will take time, but i think eventually India can be a strong rugby playing nation
Actually that emoticon is for BWAHAHAHAkrishnan wrote:Why crying? Dunno why we even sent a rugby team?