Olympics! Will you be watching?

[Sane Less]

Originally Posted by Charchila

Yeah, I'm doing that for the most part, but just craving to watch the Tiranga fly high in Rio

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If you cannot yourself go to Rio and fly high the tiranga... do not expect others to do it The athletes currently participating in the Olympics are no different than you and I. They have been born of the same mitti as you and I. If you and I cannot fly high our tiranga...

[Charchila]

Originally Posted by sarv_shaktimaan

U'll have to contend with enjoying American medals.

Btw, my ordinary US university had olympic size pool, indoor 200m track, 10 wallyball/racquetball courts, etc etc .. You need such facilities with great coaches to practice year round. India is busy putting food on the plate.

True. It's unrealistic to expect Indian athletes to win boat loads of medals because of lack of resources and infrastructure in general, but there are a few sports like badminton, shooting, tennis, wrestling, (hockey?), etc. where we've started to show some promise. Winning a medal or two in areas we are good at would be an amazing feat. Hopefully that would encourage our sports ministry to invest more to build better facilities and programs with future events in mind

On a related note, hope Abhinav Bindra's message reaches the right people:

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March 16, 2012: Sachin Tendulkar scores his 100th century in Inter-fucking-national cricket

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[Charchila]

Originally Posted by Sane Less

If you cannot yourself go to Rio and fly high the tiranga... do not expect others to do it The athletes currently participating in the Olympics are no different than you and I. They have been born of the same mitti as you and I. If you and I cannot fly high our tiranga...

You shut up! You shut up! You meat-eater, non-brahmin, so called a Poetic Tamil musal-maani Madrasi

[Charchila]

Originally Posted by Charchila

Badminton:

Women's Singles - Saina Nehwal knocked out

Women's Singles - P. V. Sindhu has made it to quarterfinals She faces #2 from China next

Men's Singles - Srikanth Kidambi has made it to quarterfinals He faces the reigning Gold medalist from China, supposedly the greatest ever

Tennis:

Mixed Doubles - Sania & Bopanna lost in semifinal...

Gymnastics:

Dipa Karmakar came in 4th in Vault, missed the medal but what an accomplishment!

Boxing:

75 kg - Vikas Krishan Yadav is fighting right now vs. Uzbekistan in quarterfinal. Go VKY!

64 kg - Manoj Kumar lost in prequarters against another boxer from Uzbekistan... revenge coming up shortly.

Badminton:

Women's Singles - P. V. Sindhu is through to semifinals after defeating Chinese counterpart 22-20, 21-19!

[Napolean]

No medals yet - :sigh:
1-2 medals to aane chahiye the.

[sarv_shaktimaan]

Agree with Bindra.. You need monetary assistance, coaching and facilities if the sport is not a full time carrer option. Being from a developing country most folks choose proven dependable career options other than sports. A neighbor friend in Bangalore was super good at national level in tennis but chose a sports quota engineering seat

Bindra was able to play as his father apparently has a business of air pistols and is quite well off. I knew someone who was his classmate in Chandigarh.

[ashdoc]

p v sindhu raises hopes for medal in badminton with win over chinese world number 2 and entering the semifinals .

[Zorro]

Medal hopes alive today:

Vinesh Phogat battles Sun Yanan of China in Women's 48 kg freestyle wrestling Quarterfinals

Sakshi Malik plays Mariana Cherdivara-Esanu of Moldova in Womens 58 kg freestyle wrestling
She beat Esanu and has advanced to the Quarterfinals

PV Sindhu won her badminton QF. Semi final match is tomorrow


Medal hopes dead today:

Sri Kidambi lost in the mens badminton QF

[Zorro]

Ha! Both wrestlers lost in the QFs.

[Sane Less]

Originally Posted by Charchila

You shut up! You shut up! You meat-eater, non-brahmin, so called a Poetic Tamil musal-maani Madrasi

Athletes ka gussa mere par kyon nikaal rahe ho You are one of those who will make an athlete a god if they are doing at their best... but the moment they fail, you trod them all over... "hai hai" morchas galore.

p.s. you mistakenly added a space between "a" and "Poetic"... and forgot to call me a sardar

[Charchila]

Originally Posted by Zorro

Ha! Both wrestlers lost in the QFs.

Still some hope there for Sakshi:

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March 16, 2012: Sachin Tendulkar scores his 100th century in Inter-fucking-national cricket

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[sgars]

Originally Posted by Charchila

You shut up! You shut up! You meat-eater, non-brahmin, so called a Poetic Tamil musal-maani Madrasi

Looks like some one's praise has gone to your head

[Charchila]

Sakshi won quarterfinal. She'll play for bronze in 1 hour.

Live stream: http://stream.nbcolympics.com/womens...-medal-matches

[Zorro]

Finally a medal. Well done Sakshi.

[Charchila]

Good job Sakshi!