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

[neel roy]

Manish Kaushik loses in boxing. Bad day. 

[SujitPrakash]

Australia 3-0 hahha

[SujitPrakash]

What's happened to Indian hockey?

[Jay]

27 minutes ago, G_B_ said:

 

Come on bro...this untapped talent way of feeling better is running thin

 

Its like Pakistanis says they are best in cricket but cant perform due to untapped talent

It's true though man. We just dont have the sporting culture as most Indian parents dont encourage their kids to pursue sport. Until that changes it will be hard to win medals. But without doubt there is plenty of untapped potential. Just go to some rural areas and you will see how strong and athletic some of the local guys are. 

[Jay]

26 minutes ago, deathmonger said:

 

See, all the issues with India and Indians is a resource/funding issue. We are a poor resource strapped country. As these resources increase with time, performances in all fields will become better (cricket, olympics etc) and tbh it has - india is far better now than it it used to be say 15-20 years ago.

 

And this is not an Indian issue. Chinese, Koreans, Taiwanese etc all went through this. Their performances, and not just sports - quality of pop culture, innovation etc all become better as the countries got richer.

 

South Korea was hardly a sporting powerhouse in the 60s and 70s let alone their companies and pop culture have the reach they have now. Same as the Japanese, Chinese etc. As these economies became rich there were more resources and you could see the growth in every field.

 

My issue is with NRIs who act that everything wrong with India is genetic and "in-grained" rather than a function of lack of resources.

Cant disagree here. It takes time. Look at us in hockey now. 10 years back we were a laughing stock. Now we are ranked number 3 or 4. We thrashed champions Belgium in the FIH league. 

[Gollum]

4-0 Aus, men vs boys

[LordPrabhzy]

Just now, Jay said:

Cant disagree here. It takes time. Look at us in hockey now. 10 years back we were a laughing stock. Now we are ranked number 3 or 4. We thrashed champions Belgium in the FIH league. 

we still are... you continue celebrating being 4th in the world.. while the rest of them strive to win that Gold medal

[jusarrived]

Just now, Gollum said:

4-0 Aus, men vs boys

 

Choking badly here, but we can still qualify 

[Gollum]

Another 35 minutes to go, what a massacre. 

[deathmonger]

Just now, LordPrabhzy said:

we still are... you continue celebrating being 4th in the world.. while the rest of them strive to win that Gold medal

 

Which rest? There are only 3 teams better than India and all first world countries.

[Jay]

1 minute ago, LordPrabhzy said:

we still are... you continue celebrating being 4th in the world.. while the rest of them strive to win that Gold medal

Aussies are better man. Our record vs them is 85 22. What do you expect? We need to Improve vs top 2. We are better vs the rest. 

[LordPrabhzy]

Just now, Jay said:

Aussies are better man. Our record vs them is 85 22. What do you expect? We need to Improve vs top 2. We are better vs the rest. 

 

 

But we generally still cant beat Germany, Spain, GB. etc in Olympics.. how are we better than the rest?

[deathmonger]

Just now, LordPrabhzy said:

 

 

But we generally still cant beat Germany, Spain, GB. etc in Olympics.. how are we better than the rest?

Spain and GB are definitely beatable.

[Jay]

1 minute ago, LordPrabhzy said:

 

 

But we generally still cant beat Germany, Spain, GB. etc in Olympics.. how are we better than the rest?

We shall see this time. 

[nitinbwj]

It's like WI vs Nepal in T20.. complete annihilation.. 

[jusarrived]

1 minute ago, LordPrabhzy said:

 

 

But we generally still cant beat Germany, Spain, GB. etc in Olympics.. how are we better than the rest?

 

We don't know that yet. Spain and England we should win on current form 

[nitinbwj]

Ok. So how many matches does Ind has to win from here on and against whom to atleast get a bronze 

[neel roy]

7 minutes ago, Gollum said:

4-0 Aus, men vs boys

Lack of Experience. All good to have all young turks but you cant buy 7 / 8 years of experience in market. Defence has been horrible

[LordPrabhzy]

1 minute ago, deathmonger said:

Spain and GB are definitely beatable.

 

1 minute ago, Jay said:

We shall see this time. 

 

 

2016- India lost to Ned, Germ and Belguim

 

2012- India lost all 5 group games.

 

On what basis can you say we can beat GB and Spain?- when was the last competitive match we beat them in?

[nitinbwj]

Aus has scored 3 goals in 5 minutes