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

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Golf enthusiasts, few small doubts.   How many types of golf clubs are there? One for long distance, one for short putting? Do they carry their own golf balls or does the event organizer provide them with designated tournament balls?   Do they play the same 18 holes on all 4 days here, or its it 18x4=72 different holes?   Are PGA/LPGA golf courses much larger than this Olympics course, hence with higher par for every shot? That could explain why Aditi with her stron
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Bajrang Fight coming up next against an Iranian wrestler.

 

Frankly I don't have any hopes after witnessing Bajrang first fight. He seems slow and injured.

Hope he proves me wrong.

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1 hour ago, Gollum said:

Indian women's hockey team has higher yo-yo standards than Indian cricket (men's) team. Indian women's hockey players acing the yo-yo test (3 years back, now gap must be wider)

 

 

Only Hardik, Kohli, Pandeyji score above 18 IIRC. Does Shaw's score register @maniac?

 

Cardio conditioning in hockey is next level, imagine sprinting non-stop often with sick change in direction, on water filled astroturfs. I am sure the most unfit hockey player in Tokyo will match the fittest cricketer in the world right now. Jonty was this amazing fielder and he had hockey background. 

 

Half our cricketers don't even move like high school athletes: Pujara, Ashwin, Shaw, Bumrah, Shami.....

 

Cricket is both physically and mentally draining. Comparing cricket fitness with hockey is like comparing fitness of a chess player with a hockey player. Chess grandmasters need 10 hours of sleep before the big games in order to stay mentally sharp, hockey players don't need such intense concentration level.

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Viren Rasquinha also deserves credit for his contributions to hockey and generally our resurgence in Olympics of late. He was national captain, quit at 28, went to b-school and started Olympic Goldquest to sponsor and train Indian athletes. :hatsoff: 

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