Monday, August 15, 2016

Olympics News

At Rio Olympics 2016, Brazil

Golf - Men's Individual - Final Standing
T50 Shivsankar Prasad Chawrasia (IND) 71 71 69 78 +5
57 Anirban Lahiri (IND) 74 73 75 72 +10

Badminton - Women's Singles - Group G
Saina Nehwal (IND) l Maria Ulitina (UKR) 18-21 19-21

Badminton - Men's Singles - Group H
Srikanth Kidambi (IND) bt Henri Hurskainen (SWE) 21-6 21-18

Badminton - Women's Singles - Group M
P. V. Sindhu (IND) bt Michelle Li (CAN) 19-21 21-15 21-17

[R16] Srikanth Kidambi (IND,11) vs Jan O Jorgensen (DEN,5)
[R16] P. V. Sindhu (IND,8) vs Tzu Ying Tai (TPE,10)

Shooting - 50m Rifle 3 Pos. Men's Qualification
23 Chain Singh (IND) 1169-52x
33 Gagan Narang (IND) 1162-50x

Athletics - Women’s Marathon
89 O. P. Jaisha (IND) 2:47:19
120 Kavita Raut (IND) 2:59:29

Men's Hockey - Quarter Final
India l Belgium 1-3 (1-0)
Goal Scorers - Akashdeep Singh (IND) 15' and Sebastien Dockier (BEL) 34' and 45', Tom Boon (BEL) 50'

Tennis - Mixed doubles Bronze Medal match
(4) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) l Lucie Hradecka (CZE)/ Radek Stepanek (CZE) 16 57

Boxing - Men's Light Welter (64kg)
[R2] Manoj Kumar (IND) l Fazliddin Gaibnazarov (UZB) 0-3 (27-30, 27-30, 27-30)

Courtesy TOI
Gymnastics - Women's Vault Final
4. Dipa Karmakar (IND) 15.066

DIFFICULTY  EXECUTION  SCORE
  1.  6.000      8.866               14.866
  2.  7.000      8.266               15.266

This was day of missed opportunities and chances ... Most heart breaking was Dipa missing Vault Bronze medal by 0.15 pts ... Sania-Rohan had off-day (avoiding word 'choked') in Bronze medal match ... Men's hockey team no-match to Belgium's solid and perfect defense.

Our both golfers ended on disappointing note ... SSP carded one of worst round of the final day, +7 and Anirban failed to improve on his standing.

In Badminton, shocking loss of Saina against 60+ ranked Ukrainian in straight games citing injury ... So with this loss she missed knock-out stage.

Expected win by Shrikanth against his Swedish opponent, though he stretched Srikanth in the second ... In knock-out Shrikant is facing in-form Danish player Jan O Jorgensen.

Sindhu needed to fightback after losing first game against Michelle Li ... Sindhu played controlled game for winning next two games ... In knock-out she is facing tricky match against Taipei's Tzu Ying Tai.

In shooting, our disappointing performance continued as our bto shooters, Chain Singh and Gaggan Narag, failed to finish inside top-20 in 50m Rifle 3 Pos. Men's Qualification ... With that shooting event finished on sour note as our shooter failed to win a single medal.

For Jaisha and Kavita this Rio Marathon proved too demanding as their timing was off-mark by standard.

In hockey we lost this match due to poor performance by our team ... We failed to repeat performance of our matches against Dutch, Germany and Argentina ... We managed hardly 4/5 attacks on Belgium goal and failed to create single penalty corner chance ... Other hand non-stop attacking by Belgium ... They created so many chances it was surprising that they failed to score in first-half ... After their equalizer in the start of the second half gave clear indication of one way traffic ... Disappointed to see our performance as our team was looking like without any plan on the turf.

Sania-Rohan missed golden opportunity of winning the medal ... Yesterday they squandered big opportunity of closing the match after dominating the first set ... Today our both players were looking too much tensed and failed to control their nerves ... Czech pair took full advantage of it for winning the first set comfortably ... In the second our pair tried matching Czech pair but Sania took pressure in 11th game ... She committed two double faults for losing her serve and then match.

Uzbek boxer was better in the bout and so he won bout against Manoj Kumar after winning all three rounds.

Dipa Karmarkar is true champion and knows when to raise her game/ efforts ... In the final she was having outside chance of medal but in end she came agonizingly close of Bronze medal ... Her first vault was decent but on the second in Prudonova she went a bit deep while landing, if she landed with a perfect standing pose then had huge opportunity of winning the medal ... Dipa is a huge talent and we can hope medal from her in World championships and Tokyo Olympics.

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