Olympics News
At London Olympics 2012, England
Shooting - Men's 10m Air Rifle
3 Gagan Narang (IND) (100 100 98 100 100 100) 598 pts
16 Abhinav Bindra (IND) (99 99 100 100 99 97) 594 pts
Men's 10m Air Rifle - Final
Gold - Alin George Moldoveanu (ROU) (599 + 103.1) = 702.1 points
Silver - Niccolo Campriani (ITA) (599 + 102.5) = 701.5 points
Bronze - Gagan Narang (IND) (598 + 103.1) = 701.1 points
(10.7 9.7 10.6 10.7 10.4 10.6 9.9 9.5 10.3 10.7 = 103.1)
Archery - Women's Individual
[R1] Bombayla Devi Laishram (IND,48) bt Evangelia Psarra (GRE,57) 6-4 (25-27 28-24 28-26 23-23 25-25)
[R2] Bombayla Devi Laishram (IND,48) l Aida Roman (MEX,13) 2-6 (26-30 25-24 24-26 20-27)
Badminton
Women's Singles - Group E
(4) Saina Nehwal (IND,5) bt Lianne Tan (BEL,55) 21-4 21-14
Women's Doubles - Group B
Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) bt Cheng Wen Hsing (TPE)/ Chien Yu Chin (TPE) 25-23 16-21 21-18
Boxing - Men's Light Heavy (81kg)
[R1] Sumit Sangwan (IND) l Yamaguchi Falcao Florentino (BRA) 14-15
Men's Hockey - Group B
India l Netherlands 2-3
Goal Scored - Dharamvir Singh (IND) 45, Shivendra Singh (IND) 48' and Robert van der Horst (NED) 20', Roderick Weusthof (NED) 29' PC, Mink van der Weerden (NED) 51' PC
Tennis
Men's singles
[R1] (ALT) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,302) l Blaz Kavcic (SLO,77) 36 26
Men's doubles
[R1] Leander Paes (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt Robin Haase (NED)/ Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) 76(1) 46 62
[R1] (7) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt Max Mirnyi (BLR)/ Alexander Bury (BLR) 76(4) 67(4) 8-6
[R2] Leander Paes (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs (2) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA)/ Michael Llodra (FRA)
[R2] (7) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs Julien Benneteau (FRA)/ Richard Gasquet (FRA)
In Men's 10m Air Rifle event Gagan qualified for the final scoring 598 points ... He scored perfect 100 pts in 5 rounds and had lost 2 pts in the third ... He is currently 1 point behind two leaders ... But Abhinav missed final by 2 points in this high scoring event ... In the final round Abhinav needed 99 or better to qualify but he managed only 97 ... So last Olympics gold medalist failed to qualify for the final.
Gagan Narang won the BRONZE medal in Men's 10m Air Rifle ... With that Gagan Narang becomes India's 8th individual medalist at Olympics, following Khashaba Jhadev (1952 - Wrestling), Leander Paes (1996 - Tennis), Karnam Malleshwari (2000 - Weightlifting), Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (2004 - Shooting), Abhinav Bindra (2008 -Shooting), Vijender Singh (2008 - Boxing) and Sushil Kumar (2008 - Wrestling) ... Very happy for Gagan, who is a talented shooter but before this failed to win an individual medal at the major games like Olympics and Asiad ... So deserving win ... In the final after 6 shots he was in the second position but his next two below 10 points shots drop him on fourth position ... But Gagan controlled his nerve and produced next shot over 10 and 10.7 last shot to win the Bronze ... He missed Silver by 0.4 points.
Bombayla Devi Laishram had tough time against Greece archer but she moved into the second round ... After losing first set Bombayla Devi won next two ... In the fourth Bombayla Devi's first arrow was 4 points but she recovered scoring 9 and 10 in next two arrows ... Other hand Greece archer failed to take advantage so both archers shared 1 point after 23-23 ... The last set also ended with 25-25 and Bombayla Devi won this match with one point.
Bombayla Devi was struggling in the first match and same happened against Mexical archer Aida Roman in the second round ... Aida take full advantage of inconsistency of Bombayla Devi and scored comfortable win ... Aida won the first and the third set ... Bombayla Devi won the second set but in the fourth set Bombayla Devi missed target by her 1st arrow scoring zero points ... Shocking.
In tennis, Blaz Kavcic broke Vishnu early and kept the advantage ... At 3-5 while serving for staying in the set Vishnu again failed to hold his serve and lost the first set ... In the second set also Blaz controlled the game and broke Vishnu twice to win this match.
Belarus pair gave tough time to Rohan and Mahesh, who won this tight match in 2 hours and 26 minutes ... Mahesh and Rohan won the first set in tie-break but lost the second set in tie-break with same score ... In the final set our pair take crucial break in 13th game to win this match ... In the second round they r facing tricky French pair of Benneteau and Gasquet.
Lee started his Olympics doubles medal quest with a new partner, Vishnu Vardhan ... They won the first set after dominating tie-break ... In the second set both pairs had multiple breaks before Dutch pair take crucial break in 9th game and our pair failed to convert break point in next game to lost it ... In the decider our pair broke their Dutch opponent int 6th and 8th games to win it comfortably ... This was Vishnu's first win at Olympics ... Next they r facing tough challenge of 2nd seed French pair Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Michael Llodra.
In boxing Sumit Sangwan failed to play his game due to quick footwork by Brazilian Yamaguchi Falcao Florentino ... Brazilian Yamaguchi scored important points when matters ... He won the first 2 rounds with identical 5-4 score ... In the final round Sumit tried hard after falling behind 2 points but he managed to win 6-5 and lost bout by 1 point ... From my point of view this looked controversial decision considering Sumit dominated second round with scoring punches and still lost that round 4-5 ... tough luck for the kid.
In hockey, Dutch side were better on the field in the first half and they take lead through field goal in 20th minute ... They doubled their lead in 29th minute converting 1st penalty corner and were leading 2-0 at half-time ... But in the second half Indians came back firing their all cylinders ... We scored 2 field goals in 5 minutes to make it 2-all but Dutch side converted their second penalty corner to regained lead ... Then they defended well to complete the victory ... Dutch side converted both penalty corners but we failed to convert from our two penalty corners.
Saina scored another comfortable win in 24 minutes against Belgian Lianne Tan to win Group E ... Saina dominated the first game to win it in 9 minutes ... Lianne Tan gave little fight in the second but Saina was too good for her.
Ashwini and Jwala scored hard fought win over WR #10 Taipei pair ... Our pair needed extra points to win the first game ... Taipei pair fought back in the second game to win it lot easily ... In the decider both pairs gave their full but our pair won important points to complete victory and also keep their hope of qualifying for quarter-final from the group.
At London Olympics 2012, England
Shooting - Men's 10m Air Rifle
3 Gagan Narang (IND) (100 100 98 100 100 100) 598 pts
16 Abhinav Bindra (IND) (99 99 100 100 99 97) 594 pts
Men's 10m Air Rifle - Final
Gold - Alin George Moldoveanu (ROU) (599 + 103.1) = 702.1 points
Silver - Niccolo Campriani (ITA) (599 + 102.5) = 701.5 points
Bronze - Gagan Narang (IND) (598 + 103.1) = 701.1 points
(10.7 9.7 10.6 10.7 10.4 10.6 9.9 9.5 10.3 10.7 = 103.1)
Archery - Women's Individual
[R1] Bombayla Devi Laishram (IND,48) bt Evangelia Psarra (GRE,57) 6-4 (25-27 28-24 28-26 23-23 25-25)
[R2] Bombayla Devi Laishram (IND,48) l Aida Roman (MEX,13) 2-6 (26-30 25-24 24-26 20-27)
Badminton
Women's Singles - Group E
(4) Saina Nehwal (IND,5) bt Lianne Tan (BEL,55) 21-4 21-14
Women's Doubles - Group B
Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) bt Cheng Wen Hsing (TPE)/ Chien Yu Chin (TPE) 25-23 16-21 21-18
Boxing - Men's Light Heavy (81kg)
[R1] Sumit Sangwan (IND) l Yamaguchi Falcao Florentino (BRA) 14-15
Men's Hockey - Group B
India l Netherlands 2-3
Goal Scored - Dharamvir Singh (IND) 45, Shivendra Singh (IND) 48' and Robert van der Horst (NED) 20', Roderick Weusthof (NED) 29' PC, Mink van der Weerden (NED) 51' PC
Tennis
Men's singles
[R1] (ALT) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,302) l Blaz Kavcic (SLO,77) 36 26
Men's doubles
[R1] Leander Paes (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt Robin Haase (NED)/ Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) 76(1) 46 62
[R1] (7) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt Max Mirnyi (BLR)/ Alexander Bury (BLR) 76(4) 67(4) 8-6
[R2] Leander Paes (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs (2) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA)/ Michael Llodra (FRA)
[R2] (7) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs Julien Benneteau (FRA)/ Richard Gasquet (FRA)
In Men's 10m Air Rifle event Gagan qualified for the final scoring 598 points ... He scored perfect 100 pts in 5 rounds and had lost 2 pts in the third ... He is currently 1 point behind two leaders ... But Abhinav missed final by 2 points in this high scoring event ... In the final round Abhinav needed 99 or better to qualify but he managed only 97 ... So last Olympics gold medalist failed to qualify for the final.
Gagan Narang won the BRONZE medal in Men's 10m Air Rifle ... With that Gagan Narang becomes India's 8th individual medalist at Olympics, following Khashaba Jhadev (1952 - Wrestling), Leander Paes (1996 - Tennis), Karnam Malleshwari (2000 - Weightlifting), Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (2004 - Shooting), Abhinav Bindra (2008 -Shooting), Vijender Singh (2008 - Boxing) and Sushil Kumar (2008 - Wrestling) ... Very happy for Gagan, who is a talented shooter but before this failed to win an individual medal at the major games like Olympics and Asiad ... So deserving win ... In the final after 6 shots he was in the second position but his next two below 10 points shots drop him on fourth position ... But Gagan controlled his nerve and produced next shot over 10 and 10.7 last shot to win the Bronze ... He missed Silver by 0.4 points.
Bombayla Devi Laishram had tough time against Greece archer but she moved into the second round ... After losing first set Bombayla Devi won next two ... In the fourth Bombayla Devi's first arrow was 4 points but she recovered scoring 9 and 10 in next two arrows ... Other hand Greece archer failed to take advantage so both archers shared 1 point after 23-23 ... The last set also ended with 25-25 and Bombayla Devi won this match with one point.
Bombayla Devi was struggling in the first match and same happened against Mexical archer Aida Roman in the second round ... Aida take full advantage of inconsistency of Bombayla Devi and scored comfortable win ... Aida won the first and the third set ... Bombayla Devi won the second set but in the fourth set Bombayla Devi missed target by her 1st arrow scoring zero points ... Shocking.
In tennis, Blaz Kavcic broke Vishnu early and kept the advantage ... At 3-5 while serving for staying in the set Vishnu again failed to hold his serve and lost the first set ... In the second set also Blaz controlled the game and broke Vishnu twice to win this match.
Belarus pair gave tough time to Rohan and Mahesh, who won this tight match in 2 hours and 26 minutes ... Mahesh and Rohan won the first set in tie-break but lost the second set in tie-break with same score ... In the final set our pair take crucial break in 13th game to win this match ... In the second round they r facing tricky French pair of Benneteau and Gasquet.
Lee started his Olympics doubles medal quest with a new partner, Vishnu Vardhan ... They won the first set after dominating tie-break ... In the second set both pairs had multiple breaks before Dutch pair take crucial break in 9th game and our pair failed to convert break point in next game to lost it ... In the decider our pair broke their Dutch opponent int 6th and 8th games to win it comfortably ... This was Vishnu's first win at Olympics ... Next they r facing tough challenge of 2nd seed French pair Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Michael Llodra.
In boxing Sumit Sangwan failed to play his game due to quick footwork by Brazilian Yamaguchi Falcao Florentino ... Brazilian Yamaguchi scored important points when matters ... He won the first 2 rounds with identical 5-4 score ... In the final round Sumit tried hard after falling behind 2 points but he managed to win 6-5 and lost bout by 1 point ... From my point of view this looked controversial decision considering Sumit dominated second round with scoring punches and still lost that round 4-5 ... tough luck for the kid.
In hockey, Dutch side were better on the field in the first half and they take lead through field goal in 20th minute ... They doubled their lead in 29th minute converting 1st penalty corner and were leading 2-0 at half-time ... But in the second half Indians came back firing their all cylinders ... We scored 2 field goals in 5 minutes to make it 2-all but Dutch side converted their second penalty corner to regained lead ... Then they defended well to complete the victory ... Dutch side converted both penalty corners but we failed to convert from our two penalty corners.
Saina scored another comfortable win in 24 minutes against Belgian Lianne Tan to win Group E ... Saina dominated the first game to win it in 9 minutes ... Lianne Tan gave little fight in the second but Saina was too good for her.
Ashwini and Jwala scored hard fought win over WR #10 Taipei pair ... Our pair needed extra points to win the first game ... Taipei pair fought back in the second game to win it lot easily ... In the decider both pairs gave their full but our pair won important points to complete victory and also keep their hope of qualifying for quarter-final from the group.
