Adi_91 Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 The President of the association stating that the players stand no chance is pathetic in itself and will be a blow to the morale of the athletes. Shameful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randomGuy Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 22 minutes ago, Adi_91 said: The President of the association stating that the players stand no chance is pathetic in itself and will be a blow to the morale of the athletes. Shameful. Let's say for olympic qualification in shot put event, you need to throw x metres minimum. And for any chance of a medal , you need to throw x+5 metres . Now since Pakistani athlete is only given a wild card entry, he/she couldn't even throw x metres...and probably her/his life time best is x-5 metres....so president is just stating plain truth.... athletes themselves wouldn't have any hopes of winning a medal at the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adi_91 Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 1 minute ago, randomGuy said: Let's say for olympic qualification in shot put event, you need to throw x metres minimum. And for any chance of a medal , you need to throw x+5 metres . Now since Pakistani athlete is only given a wild card entry, he/she couldn't even throw x metres...and probably her/his life time best is x-5 metres....so president is just stating plain truth.... athletes themselves wouldn't have any hopes of winning a medal at the first place. Its still disgraceful. Can't be making such statements to the media even before the event. I can understand him saying this after the games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randomGuy Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 Just now, Adi_91 said: Its still disgraceful. Can't be making such statements to the media even before the event. I can understand him saying this after the games. It's not....you will find many individuals/teams saying before an event that their aim is to finish in top 8 or top 10 or top 15 as they know they aren't good enough to win. Ya but it's pretty bad (call it disgraceful if you want) that not a single Pakistani could qualify let alone winning a medal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adi_91 Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 9 minutes ago, randomGuy said: It's not....you will find many individuals/teams saying before an event that their aim is to finish in top 8 or top 10 or top 15 as they know they aren't good enough to win. Ya but it's pretty bad (call it disgraceful if you want) that not a single Pakistani could qualify let alone winning a medal. http://dunyanews.tv/en/Sports/345607-China-says-expects-tough-challenge-for-medals-at-R Looking at the source of this article, looks like the friendship is too strong that Pakistan is considering sharing medals with their ally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sourab10forever Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 (edited) and 21 officials are accompanying them Edited July 20, 2016 by sourab10forever randomGuy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zen Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 May be all the world class athletes in Pak are carrying AK47 and not interested in such kafir games sandeep and velu 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PBN Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 Lack of infrastructure rather than talent. velu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nova Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 And here in India, the first female Olympic shot-putter, Manpreet Kaur, has been told that she can't take her coach to the Rio Olympics. The reason given was that she is not going to win anyway. Really..that's the reason the Athletic Federation of India comes up with? G_B_ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adi_91 Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 7 hours ago, Nova said: And here in India, the first female Olympic shot-putter, Manpreet Kaur, has been told that she can't take her coach to the Rio Olympics. The reason given was that she is not going to win anyway. Really..that's the reason the Athletic Federation of India comes up with? Terrible. Bias against her because she is a woman maybe? Horrible player management. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sourab10forever Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 8 hours ago, Nova said: And here in India, the first female Olympic shot-putter, Manpreet Kaur, has been told that she can't take her coach to the Rio Olympics. The reason given was that she is not going to win anyway. Really..that's the reason the Athletic Federation of India comes up with? IOA is the worst sports association ever.They made a mess about the yogeshwar dutt issue as well. chewy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mishra Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 ^ Have you seen how many guys are there in Indian team when India does enters flag march in opening/closing ceremony. Ratio of Indian Olympic team vs medal won is probably bets in world. Lets not blame IOA for this. They are supposed to be blamed for not being able to provide equal opportunity or find talent good enough to be trained and compete at that level. But this is the story of every sports in India. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandeep Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 Dont pick on our misguided brothers. Entire country is falling apart - hard for them to compete at that level when they are struggling for survival. Nova 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zen Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 (edited) The recent debate in US about whether Pak is a friend or a foe brings the question as to whether Ind should officially declare Pak its enemy state and cut off all ties with it. I don't think I need to specify why Pak is a foe. If Ind wants other countries to recognize Pak as a state that not only supports terrorism, but is also a threat to civilization, Ind should take the first step and show the way to the world on how to deal with such states. Edited July 23, 2016 by rett tweaker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beetle Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 I think we should stop interaction till they stop sponsoring violence against us. This two faced monster should not be mollycoddled.It needs a firm hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zen Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 An example of how many in Pak try to justify their action w/o understanding or knowing the facts: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chewy Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 Unofficially many have already declared Pakistan as enemy of state and would like nothing to do with the country...it just that there is group of people along with successive governments taking softie softie approach with this eneemy state. Pakistan should have been declared officially as enemy state of India long time ago tweaker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Book_Worm Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 Their PM has openly stated that "waiting for kashmir to become a part of pakistan." We should declare pakistan as an enemy state beetle and Detonator 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Book_Worm Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 13 hours ago, radhika said: I think we should stop interaction till they stop sponsoring violence against us. This two faced monster should not be mollycoddled.It needs a firm hand. Despite all that Bollywood is bending from all sides to accommodate their artists and singers. It is really galling that they take their TV artists but ignore our own Tv artists who are equally talented and struggle to a get a foothold in bollywood. All because of their market and the money that comes with it. tweaker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MechEng Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 (edited) I believe being indifferent is the way forward. We must maintain a healthy relationship but without any attachments. Considering Pakistan to be officially an enemy state is still not the way forward, while 30% of their population hate us, 70% don't. Edited July 24, 2016 by MechEng Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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