Bharat Rakshak

Doping in Indian sports. Many dope to win and land a job. An athletics career is not on their mind.

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Parul Chaudhary winning Gold Medal at Asian Games 2023

https://youtu.be/2yhfpMIxCPk?si=Gly_smjZ-9Fi9FYP

16 Golds now with total 74 surpassing 2018 Asian Games.

Jyothi Surekha Vennam and Ojas Deotale celebrate winning the gold medal in the archery compound mixed team event at the Asian Games

Also Indian pair is in Badkinton finals
Hockey semis today men's with S. KOREA

India 2 S. korea 0 1st quarter

hanumadu wrote: ↑04 Oct 2023 11:32

dsreedhar wrote: ↑03 Oct 2023 23:08 Seems we surpassed the past medal tallies. Wonder what more opportunities and how many more India can get?

We are assured of one gold and two silvers in compound bow archery for men and women.
We might have more medals in compound bow doubles men and women.
At least one bronze is assured in squash as we have two semifinalists in mixed doubles.
We might get some medals in wrestling.

Added Later:
Kabaddi, men and women.

You are forgetting Hockey, Cricket, Badminton,.Boxing and wrestling. Many events to come.

3-0 now. 1st quarter not over yet

Chess - we are very strong in men's team (Guki, Pragg, Arjun, Vidit, Hari).
but failed to beat Iran and Uzbekistan (both were 2-2 draws).
Iran is in lead currently.
most likely will have to settle for silver.

3-2 now

Bridge - we are leading narrowly over Chin in semis after 4 sessions (2 more to go). Fingers crossed.

PV Sindhu in Quarterfinals

5-3 final score. India in finals with winner of China vs. japan.

At least 10 gold medals that are silver are due to hired African sportsmen and women from Africa by Saudi, Bahrain, Qatar, and other Arabian countries. Asian games is supposed to be non-professional and these Arabian countries are abusing the spirit of the games. Well given their cult it is known.

SBajwa wrote: ↑04 Oct 2023 15:06 5-3 final score. India in finals with winner of China vs. japan.

Bajwa saab in chess?

Don't know it says 2-2 India vs Iran

I don't think I'm too concerned about the African-Arabs in the Asian Games or the consequent loss of medals. Don't care too much about Asian Games (or Commonwealth Games). Only focus should be Olympics. So, whether it is the javelin or shotput distance or the times in the track and field, we should look at the Olympic record or World record and see how far we are from it.

Neeraj Chopra 88.88 Gold and Krishan Kumar Silver 84.77

Chess: China-Bharat 2-2 draw. third draw in a row. we are on second position.
Iran continues to lead and will win gold.
Bridge: Mens team beat China in semi-finals.

A Deshmukh wrote: ↑04 Oct 2023 13:57 Chess - we are very strong in men's team (Guki, Pragg, Arjun, Vidit, Hari).
but failed to beat Iran and Uzbekistan (both were 2-2 draws).
Iran is in lead currently.
most likely will have to settle for silver.

Gukesh lost from a drawn position against Iran. If we had won the tie against Iran, we would have been number 1. This is the second time Gukesh losing a game is costing us a gold.

Squash mixed doubles finals will be both Gold and Silver for India.. Ghosal also in men's finals.

18 with 74 total so far

SBajwa wrote: ↑04 Oct 2023 20:42 Squash mixed doubles finals will be both Gold and Silver for India.. Ghosal also in men's finals.

18 with 74 total so far

Abhay Singh and Anahat Singh lost in the semi finals to the Malaysian pair. So they got the bronze. It's only one Indian pair in the final.

hanumadu wrote: ↑04 Oct 2023 18:37 Gukesh lost from a drawn position against Iran. If we had won the tie against Iran, we would have been number 1. This is the second time Gukesh losing a game is costing us a gold.

Gukesh blundered into loosing 2 pawns in an end-game with 3 pawns.
Engines said it was drawable. but Guki resigned. and we lost the gold.

Another gold was lost on the Golf course.
Aditi Ashok was brilliant and leading by a huge margin after 3rd day. On the 4th day I don't know what happened. She ended up 5 above par!

Learning experience. Hope they recover and grow and give more successes in the future.

Archery: Women's team wins gold - Compound beating Korea

Ju jitsu is a Japanese sport, but not a single Japanese among the contestants. It's being dominated by Middle Eastern countries, Central Asian Republics and Mongolians.

Same with Karate too.

Wow, India won the squash mixed doubles gold.

What happened to our boxers and wrestlers? We used to win at the Olympic and world level. Now we don't seem to have good prospects even at the Asian level.

21 Golds now total 84

India won Archery gold in compound bow men's team event.

Lets hope we cross a 100 this time

I just discovered a sport that actually has been an olympic event since 1992. Its called Canoe Slalom where people canoe through artificially created rapids and they have to pass through some gates both in the forward and reverse direction. The amount of energy needed to recirculate and keep the water running for lengthy durations must be mind boggling and we wonder about our carbon foot print. Imagine the energy needed to practice this sport every day.

There are at least two Indian athletes as well who are participating at the Asiad. God knows where they get to practice. Can't imagine having such a facility in India. (Added Later: OK, There is a natural facility built on Narmada river in Maheshwar, MP. Plans are there to build a artificial one in Bhopal)

India wins Hockey gold, badminton men's single bronze (Prannoy played with a bad back), 3 bronzes in wrestling. The only wrestler who lost his bronze medal match today is Bajrang Punia who was active in wrestler's protest. Our tally becomes 92 (22 gold) with this and we have several assured medals tomorrow which should take us past 100 medals. We should end up with at least 25 golds.

Also India wins bronze in sepaktakraw (also called kick volleyball)., came 5th in Canoe slalom.
Also
Compound Men's individual final tomorrow (7th October)
VERMA Abhishek VS DEOTALE Ojas Pravin for Gold Medal so both Gold and Silver are assured for India.
Also ( 7 Oct, 8:40) Compound Women's Individual Bronze Medal Match
SWAMI Aditi Gopichand INA FADHLY Ratih Zilizati
( 7 Oct, 9:00) Compound Women's Individual Gold Medal Match
IND VENNAM Jyothi Surekha vs KOR SO Chaewon

Golds=22
Silver=34
Bronze=39
Total=95

Indian domination over the pakis in #AsianGames

Squash 2 - 1
Hockey 10-2
Football 3-0
Kabaddi 61-14

Embarrassing for the jihadis

Inching closer to the magic figure 100

We crossed the 100 medals guaranteed figure.

The gold tally is now 22 + 1 guaranteed (men's compound archery is India vs India final)
There are potentially 5 more golds possible:
* Kabaddi mens and womens
* Cricket men vs Afghanistan
* Satwik/Chirag in badminton men's doubles final
* Jyoti Vennam in compound women's archery

So a best case of 28 golds would be absolutely incredible - I'd rate it far higher than the previous zenith of Indian performance in a multi-sport competition - the 2010 CWG 2nd place. This is because our top medal hauls came from:
* Shooting against the Chinese and Koreans - the world's best
* Archery against SoKo - the world's best
* Best ever athletics performance, including both men's and women's javelin.

We did all this despite a - relatively speaking - calamitous performance from the wrestling squad from whom 1-2 golds were expected. Instead they come back with 5 bronzes.

Meanwhile we medals in sepak takraw, roller speed skating, wushu and canoeing. Amazing performance.

In the past I'd argued we're not really getting to world standard until we can get 25+ golds in AG in major sports, but I definitely did not expect to get there in this edition - I hoped we'd crack 20, but the potential to get to almost 30 is amazing. But for the Middle-East countries turning the athletics competition into the Afro-Asian Games, we'd probably have crossed 30 golds too.

dsreedhar wrote: ↑06 Oct 2023 20:27 Inching closer to the magic figure 100

We are in the finals of several events where at least a silver is assured. We have de facto already crossed hundred.

There are four different types of wrestling - Freestyle, Greeco Roman, Judo, Jujitsu. Except Freestyle, the rest are boring. In greeco-roman, you cannot touch the opponent below the waist which means the opponents just lock their shoulders and nothing happens for long periods of time. Judo and Jujitsu is where you spend most of your time adjusting your robe which is called 'gi', apparently.

Wushu is buffoonery as far as I can tell. There are no opponents but you display your skills like wielding a fake sword that is not stiff, shakes a lot and makes a lot of noise because it looks like it is made of aluminium foil.

hanumadu wrote: ↑06 Oct 2023 22:28 Wushu is buffoonery as far as I can tell. There are no opponents but you display your skills like wielding a fake sword that is not stiff, shakes a lot and makes a lot of noise because it looks like it is made of aluminium foil.

chetak wrote: ↑06 Oct 2023 19:49 Indian domination over the pakis in #AsianGames

Squash 2 - 1
Hockey 10-2
Football 3-0
Kabaddi 61-14

Embarrassing for the jihadis

Kaneda is the new Pakistan . We can forget abt green pakis

Suraj wrote: ↑06 Oct 2023 22:35

hanumadu wrote: ↑06 Oct 2023 22:28 Wushu is buffoonery as far as I can tell. There are no opponents but you display your skills like wielding a fake sword that is not stiff, shakes a lot and makes a lot of noise because it looks like it is made of aluminium foil.

OK, there are combat events too in wushu that look more like MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) than the traditional chinese kungfu we are accustomed to see. They just repackaged MMA.