Sunday, August 05, 2012

Olympics News
At London Olympics 2012, England

Boxing - Women's Fly (51kg)
[R1] Chungneijang Mery Kom Hmangte (IND) bt Karolina Michalczuk (POL) 19-14

[QF] Chungneijang Mery Kom Hmangte (IND) vs Maroua Rahali (TUN)

Men's Hockey - Group B
India l South Korea 1-4
Goal Scored - Gurwinder Singh Chandi (IND) 10' and Jong Hyun Jang (KOR) 6' PC, Hyun Woo Nam (KOR) 60' PC and 70' PC, Seung Il Lee (KOR) 68'

Shooting - Men's Trap
25 Manavjit Singh Sandhu (IND) (24 + 24 + 22) 70

Magnificent Mary scored very important win against tough Polish opponent ... Karolina Michalczuk was Bronze medalist from the World cup ... Both boxers started cautiously in the first round which ended 3-3 ... In the second round also both boxers were cautious in their attacking but Mary Kom won this round 5-4 ... In the third round Mary Kom was aggressive and attacked Karolina to won this round 7-3 ... After taking 5 points lead in the last round Mary Kom decided to defend and counter-attack ... She successfully handled Karolina's aggression and this round ended on tie, 4-4 ... In the quarter final Mary Kom is facing Tunisian boxer Maroua Rahali.

After three rounds of 25 shots Manavjit Singh Sandhu was lying on 25th position ... In the first 2 rounds he missed 2 shots but in the last round he missed 3 shots ... Qualifying for the final is very difficult for Manavjit Singh Sandhu with this low score.

Indians struggled on the hockey field continued ... Koreans take early lead through Jang when he converted penalty corner in 6th minute ... In four minuted Indians responded with field goal through Gurwinder Singh Chandi ... At half-time score was 1-1 ... In the second half we missed chances and Koreans converted another penalty corner through Hyun Woo Nam to take lead ... Indians tried hard as our all players were in Korean half and Koreans take full advantage of it ... They scored field goal through counter attack in 68 minutes through Seung Il Lee ... Koreans added another goal through penalty corner at end of the game through Nam ... Another poor performance by Indians ... We failed to convert single penalty corner through four penalty corners and other hand Koreans converted three from five penalty corners.

Table Tennis News

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