Tokyo 2020 Paralympics: Record 19 medals thus far!!!! Amazing

[Gollum]

 

Edited August 1, 2021 by Gollum

[Gollum]

 

[Gollum]

Now Sindhu will troll everyone for next few months before peaking in next major tournament. 

[Gollum]

There is a famous football quote, also applicable to hockey

 

Attack wins you games

Defence wins you tournaments

 

For the first time in our modern hockey history we have a defence (+GK) that can take us all the way.

[Gollum]

Unselfishness

Whole greater than sum of its parts

Fitness

Teamwork

Absence of star culture or big egos

Deep defence

Clutchness

 

Things we never associated with Indian hockey 5 years back. 

[Gollum]

Hope we get the day match against Belgium. 

[neel roy]

1 hour ago, Gollum said:

 

Indo Cheeni Bhai Bhai ( Taipei)

[SujitPrakash]

Australia Swimmer Emma McKeon Becomes First Female To Win Seven Medals At Single Olympics

Australia's Emma McKeon won her seventh medal in Tokyo, a feat no other female swimmer has ever achieved at a single Olympics.

 

 

Australia swimmer Emma McKeon won her seventh medal at the ongoing Tokyo Olympics.

 

Emma McKeon made Olympic history Sunday in helping Australia upset two-time defending champions the United States to soar to the women's 4x100m relay gold medal Sunday. Their team of Kaylee McKeown, Chelsea Hodges, McKeon, and Cate Campbell touched in a new Olympic record 3mins 51.60secs ahead of the US in 3:51.73 and Canada in 3:52.60. It was McKeon's seventh medal in Tokyo, a feat no other female swimmer has ever achieved at a single Olympics.

 

Canada's Kylie Masse was fastest through the opening backstroke leg before teenager Lydia Jacoby put the Americans in front following the breaststroke.

 

A blistering butterfly swim from McKeon closed the gap on the two teams, leaving veteran Campbell to produce a devastating final 100m to reel in US freestyler Abbey Weitzeil and win gold.

 

It was 27-year-old McKeon's fourth gold in Tokyo to go with her three bronze, overtaking East German Kristin Otto's six medal-haul in 1952 which was matched by American Natalie Coughlin in 2008.

 

https://sports.ndtv.com/olympics-2020/australia-swimmer-emma-mckeon-becomes-first-female-to-win-seven-medals-at-single-olympics-2499868?pfrom=home-ndtv_topscroll

 

One athlete has more medals than India and that's just at these Olympics, and we sit around making excuses, blaming everything and everyone.

[Jay]

3 hours ago, coffee_rules said:

Indians lack oxygen to run, GB players lacked skill to score goal. In energy and possession they were better. Wrist Skill only doesn’t win games, physical strength and energy to outrun with skill is key. I hope we win a medal in Hockey. Indian players are too good in skill

Oh Indians are strong no doubt. Endurance yes that will be an issue. It has gotten so much better over the years. Let's see. 

[Jay]

2 hours ago, Gollum said:

Unselfishness

Whole greater than sum of its parts

Fitness

Teamwork

Absence of star culture or big egos

Deep defence

Clutchness

 

Things we never associated with Indian hockey 5 years back. 

Sorry don't want to mention about cricket but I just had to after this post. Team work and non existence of star culture is what got us the win va Australia without kuli. 

 

When kuli plays ego, star culture, grovelling and individuality all sets in which eventually costs us in finals. 

[Jay]

50 minutes ago, SujitPrakash said:

Australia Swimmer Emma McKeon Becomes First Female To Win Seven Medals At Single Olympics

Australia's Emma McKeon won her seventh medal in Tokyo, a feat no other female swimmer has ever achieved at a single Olympics.

 

 

Australia swimmer Emma McKeon won her seventh medal at the ongoing Tokyo Olympics.

 

Emma McKeon made Olympic history Sunday in helping Australia upset two-time defending champions the United States to soar to the women's 4x100m relay gold medal Sunday. Their team of Kaylee McKeown, Chelsea Hodges, McKeon, and Cate Campbell touched in a new Olympic record 3mins 51.60secs ahead of the US in 3:51.73 and Canada in 3:52.60. It was McKeon's seventh medal in Tokyo, a feat no other female swimmer has ever achieved at a single Olympics.

 

Canada's Kylie Masse was fastest through the opening backstroke leg before teenager Lydia Jacoby put the Americans in front following the breaststroke.

 

A blistering butterfly swim from McKeon closed the gap on the two teams, leaving veteran Campbell to produce a devastating final 100m to reel in US freestyler Abbey Weitzeil and win gold.

 

It was 27-year-old McKeon's fourth gold in Tokyo to go with her three bronze, overtaking East German Kristin Otto's six medal-haul in 1952 which was matched by American Natalie Coughlin in 2008.

 

https://sports.ndtv.com/olympics-2020/australia-swimmer-emma-mckeon-becomes-first-female-to-win-seven-medals-at-single-olympics-2499868?pfrom=home-ndtv_topscroll

 

One athlete has more medals than India and that's just at these Olympics, and we sit around making excuses, blaming everything and everyone.

What's more impressive is she attends university as well. Griffith university. 

 

It's very close to my house. Bright kid. 

She does exercise physiology. Good on her. She will be enrolled in the elite athlete program. Wish india had a set up like this in schools but politicians are too corrupt. Oh well. 

[Trichromatic]

1 minute ago, Jay said:

Sorry don't want to mention about cricket but I just had to after this post. Team work and non existence of star culture is what got us the win va Australia without kuli. 

 

When kuli plays ego, star culture, grovelling and individuality all sets in which eventually costs us in finals. 

 

That's just an excuse to console Indian fans. Real reason is lack of skills. First in batting, second Kohli's captaincy and poor decision making costs team. Star culture, ego are secodary reasons. 

[Jay]

1 minute ago, Trichromatic said:

 

That's just an excuse to console Indian fans. Real reason is lack of skills. First in batting, second Kohli's captaincy and poor decision making costs team. Star culture, ego are secodary reasons. 

Then how do we always win under rahane in key games? How do we win under rohit in key games. 

Every title we have won post 2014 was always under rohit like Asia cup etc. 

 

We had a few historic wins overseas yes but even in India back in 2016, we won the decider which was basically a KO vs australia under rahane not kuli. 

[Trichromatic]

4 minutes ago, Jay said:

Then how do we always win under rahane in key games? How do we win under rohit in key games. 

Every title we have won post 2014 was always under rohit like Asia cup etc. 

 

We had a few historic wins overseas yes but even in India back in 2016, we won the decider which was basically a KO vs australia under rahane not kuli. 

 

Kohli's presence and captaincy skills pulls team down. It happens because Kohli is poor captain, not because of his ego or him being star. He could have been a mid level batsman like Vihari and still hurt team in same way with that kind of captaincy. 

[neel roy]

Our Next Big Hope. Wrestling. Here are our contenders

 

Seema Bisla- Women’s Freestyle, 50kg

• Vinesh Phogat- Women’s Freestyle 53kg
• Anshu Malik- Women’s Freestyle 57kg
• Sonam Malik- Women’s Freestyle 62kg
• Ravi Kumar Dahiya- Men’s Freestyle 57kg
• Bajrang Punia- Men’s Freestyle 65kg
• Deepak Punia- Men’s Freestyle 86 kg

Other than Vinesh and Bajrang my bet is on Deepak Punia ( no 2 seed)

 

 

 

And Ravi Dahiya

 

In the 57kg category, Ravi has been seeded 4th. He is likely to meet top-seeded Serbian Stevan Micic in the semifinal if he doesn't crash out before reaching the stage. Ravi is World Championship Bronze Medallist in 2019. 

 

 

 

[Jay]

4 minutes ago, Trichromatic said:

 

Kohli's presence and captaincy skills pulls team down. It happens because Kohli is poor captain, not because of his ego or him being star. He could have been a mid level batsman like Vihari and still hurt team in same way with that kind of captaincy. 

True. He is a poor captain. He just favours his mates which really sucks. 

[EnterTheVoid]

P V Sindhu   

Edited August 1, 2021 by EnterTheVoid

[Number]

 

 

 

Tai Tzu Ying's instagram post. Sindhu seems to be a very good friend of her.

[rkt.india]

3 hours ago, Trichromatic said:

 

That's just an excuse to console Indian fans. Real reason is lack of skills. First in batting, second Kohli's captaincy and poor decision making costs team. Star culture, ego are secodary reasons. 

Which shows money alone can only take you so far 

[deathmonger]

3 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

Which shows money alone can only take you so far 

yeah, but indian money in cricket has hardly reached it's peak. it's only beginning.