Thursday, August 18, 2016

Olympics News

At Rio Olympics 2016, Brazil

Courtesy TOI
Badminton
[SF] Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,10) bt Nozomi Okuhara (JPN,6) 21-19 21-10

[F] Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,10) vs Carolina Marín (ESP,1)

Women's Golf - Day 2
T6 Aditi Ashok (IND) 68 68 -6

Women's Freestyle 53kg Qualification
[R16] Babita Kumari (IND) l Maria Prevolaraki (GRE) 1-5

AND SINDHU CREATED HISTORY AFTER ENTERING INTO THE FINAL OF BADMINTON WOMEN'S SINGLES ... With that Sindhu secure second medal for India and that will be Gold or Silver as she defeated Japanese top player Nozomi Okuhara in straight games.

In first game Sindhu started with attacking game and was leading 6-4 then 11-6 ... From here Sindhu started to play little tentatively on the net and while attacking she was missing line ... Okuhara tried to take advantage of it, 10-12, 12-14 ... From 18-17 both players won a point alternatively, 19-17, 19-18, 20-18, 20-19 and 21-19 ... Both players were playing nervy game and making error but Sindhu kept her lead for converting second game point ... In the second game Sindhu took 3-0 lead but Okuhara caught her at 6-7 ... After that both players were neck to neck till 10-all ... After that Sindhu won 11 points in a row for complating win ... Sindhu played really well but Okuhara suddenly making tight and was looking under pressure .... SHe made numerous unforced errors for gifting hte match ... In the final Sindhu is facing in-form WR #1 Carolina Marín fir the Gold.

Aditi played sublime second round of another three under to remain inside top-10 ... She had 5 birdies and unnecessarily 2 bogeys ... Good to see young Aditi keeping herself in mix.

Disappointing loss Babita Kumari after excellent yesterday on the mat by Sakshi Malik.

In other sad development, Narsingh Yadav is banned for 4 yrs by CAS under doping ... This is huge setback for us and Narsingh ... This is what posted on CAS site.

Rio 2016 - Wrestling (FS 74KG): N. Yadav suspended 4 years (PDF of the decision at the CAS site)

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