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

[Gollum]

2020 Summer Olympics medal table^[6]

Rank	Team	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)*	8	2	3	13
2	United States (USA)	7	3	4	14
3	China (CHN)	6	5	7	18
4	ROC (ROC)	4	5	3	12
5	Great Britain (GBR)	3	3	1	7
6	South Korea (KOR)	3	0	4	7
7	Australia (AUS)	2	1	3	6
8	Kosovo (KOS)	2	0	0	2
9	Italy (ITA)	1	4	4	9
10	France (FRA)	1	2	2	5
11	Canada (CAN)	1	2	1	4
12	Hungary (HUN)	1	1	0	2
	Tunisia (TUN)	1	1	0	2
14	Croatia (CRO)	1	0	1	2
	Slovenia (SLO)	1	0	1	2
16	Austria (AUT)	1	0	0	1
	Ecuador (ECU)	1	0	0	1
	Hong Kong (HKG)	1	0	0	1
	Iran (IRI)	1	0	0	1
	Norway (NOR)	1	0	0	1
	Philippines (PHI)	1	0	0	1
	Thailand (THA)	1	0	0	1
	Uzbekistan (UZB)	1	0	0	1
24	Netherlands (NED)	0	3	0	3
25	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	2	2	4
26	Brazil (BRA)	0	2	1	3
27	Georgia (GEO)	0	2	0	2
28	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	1	1	2
	Indonesia (INA)	0	1	1	2
	Serbia (SRB)	0	1	1	2
	Spain (ESP)	0	1	1	2
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	1	2
33	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	0	1
	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	0	1
	Colombia (COL)	0	1	0	1
	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	0	1
	India (IND)	0	1	0	1
	Jordan (JOR)	0	1	0	1
	Romania (ROU)	0	1	0	1
40	Germany (GER)	0	0	3	3
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	0	3	3
42	Egypt (EGY)	0	0	2	2
	Mongolia (MGL)	0	0	2	2
	Turkey (TUR)	0	0	2	2
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	2	2
46	Estonia (EST)	0	0	1	1
	Israel (ISR)	0	0	1	1
	Ivory Coast (CIV)	0	0	1	1
	Kuwait (KUW)	0	0	1	1
	Mexico (MEX)	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (51 teams)		50	50	62	162

 

 

India still ahead of Germany, Turkey, NZ, Mexico 

[Gollum]

Kosovo with 2 gold medals 

[Real McCoy]

just one gold will see the flood gates open. I predict India to win atleast 3 golds

[Gollum]

3 minutes ago, Real McCoy said:

just one gold will see the flood gates open. I predict India to win atleast 3 golds

Tomorrow is a wonderful chance.

 

Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary in mixed event, 10m air pistol starting at 5:30. 

 

Was seeing the other pairs and their performance in individual. As a team we are right up there with the best.....teams like Russia, China, USA, South Korea, Iran will be our competitors. Many countries have one excellent shooter and another mediocre one from the other gender. 

[Lord]

9 minutes ago, Gollum said:

Kosovo with 2 gold medals 

 

googled if its a poor african country

 

never heard of it before

[Gollum]

2 minutes ago, Lord said:

 

googled if its a poor african country

 

never heard of it before

India doesn't recognize it as a country 

LINK

[I6MTW]

6 minutes ago, Lord said:

 

googled if its a poor african country

 

never heard of it before

Was part of Yugoslavia before it's break up. Was actually a part of Serbia afterwards, then broke away in 2008 afaik.

 

 

[sage]

9 minutes ago, Gollum said:

India doesn't recognize it as a country 

LINK

Serbs were engaging in ethnic cleansing and genocide (by milosevic) and NATO stepped in. Kosovo was born after than mostly Albanian muslims

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_War

[Gollum]

Meanwhile Vidit enters FIDE WC QF in Sochi. If things go as per seeding, he is slated to face Grischuk in QF, if he can upset him SF against Magnus Carlsen awaits. Because of the draw even if he loses to MC, can qualify to next Candidates. 

 

Few Indian juniors had encouraging runs, Harikrishna choked in R16 despite draw opening up favorably, Anand didn't participate and preferred facing Kasparov and Kramnik in Zagreb/Dortmund. 

 

206 players started, only 8 will remain after tomorrow LINK

 

Anand won the 1st 2 editions of the WC (in 2000 and 2002), after that played only once in 2005-21 period. Vidit's performance is the best by an Indian since then. 

 

Unrelated but thought I would share this good news here. Maharashtra may lack participation in Tokyo but Nashik boy doing India proud elsewhere, so cheer up @G_B_

Edited July 26, 2021 by Gollum

[Lord]

2 minutes ago, Gollum said:

Meanwhile Vidit enters FIDE WC QF in Sochi. If things go as per seeding, he is slated to face Grischuk in SF, if he can upset him SF against Magnus Carlsen awaits. Because of the draw even if he loses to MC, can qualify to next Candidates. 

 

Few Indian juniors had encouraging runs, Harikrishna choked in R16 despite draw opening up favorably, Anand didn't participate and preferred facing Kasparov and Kramnik in Zagreb/Dortmund. 

 

206 players started, only 8 will remain after tomorrow LINK

 

Anand won the 1st 2 editions of the WC (in 2000 and 2002), after that played only once in 2005-21 period. Vidit's performance is the best by an Indian since then. 

 

Unrelated but thought I would share this good news here. Maharashtra may lack participation in Tokyo but Nashik boy doing India proud elsewhere, so cheer up @G_B_

 

Two SFs?

[Gollum]

Just now, Lord said:

 

Two SFs?

Corrected. 

[neel roy]

29 minutes ago, Jay said:

All. Almost all Olympians dope. 

 

Top athletes who win medals are all doping. Just have better masking agents to Cover up. Indian don't have that access due to poor resources. The india do have an advanced doping program, they will medals in all sports. 

 

Every 100 m sprinter is on roids. Hard to catch them because they have top notch designer drugs. 

 

Russians have been banned before. 

Chinese have been banned. Americans have been banned but they just keep developing more advanced masking agents to cover up their heinous doping programs.  

see the thing is doping is only effective on strength and stamina sports like weightlifting, cycling, rowing, swimming, wrestling. In boxing even if you dope it wont have much impact as its more skills based than strength. The hardness of punches dont increase due to dope and boxing is only 3 rounds 3 mins each so its not that you need stamina. Shooting, Archery, Fencing all are skills based. So is table tennis, badminton, tennis, shooting. So even if we accept they dope you cannot discount the fact that these countries still win loads of medals in other skill events…India had lots of issues with doping in weight lifting. Every second day someone was getting caught.. now hopefully it has ceased.. or who knows..

[coffee_rules]

Proud Indian

 

 

[coffee_rules]

1 hour ago, Gollum said:

India doesn't recognize it as a country 

LINK

It was created by NATO, we are part of the eastern bloc, still under Russian influence

[Real McCoy]

1 hour ago, Gollum said:

Tomorrow is a wonderful chance.

 

Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary in mixed event, 10m air pistol starting at 5:30. 

 

Was seeing the other pairs and their performance in individual. As a team we are right up there with the best.....teams like Russia, China, USA, South Korea, Iran will be our competitors. Many countries have one excellent shooter and another mediocre one from the other gender. 

Thathastu

[G_B_]

Have to say more than indian newspapers and media more informative to follow @Gollum

[neel roy]

37 minutes ago, G_B_ said:

Have to say more than indian newspapers and media more informative to follow @Gollum

:) I second you

[Jay]

4 hours ago, neel roy said:

see the thing is doping is only effective on strength and stamina sports like weightlifting, cycling, rowing, swimming, wrestling. In boxing even if you dope it wont have much impact as its more skills based than strength. The hardness of punches dont increase due to dope and boxing is only 3 rounds 3 mins each so its not that you need stamina. Shooting, Archery, Fencing all are skills based. So is table tennis, badminton, tennis, shooting. So even if we accept they dope you cannot discount the fact that these countries still win loads of medals in other skill events…India had lots of issues with doping in weight lifting. Every second day someone was getting caught.. now hopefully it has ceased.. or who knows..

Oh there are drugs to help you  improve response time. Americans are kings of mass producing such drugs for baseball etc. 

 

Do you know how much more beneficial it is to anticipate what your opponent is doing or being able to react quicker in general? 

 

Shooting and archery I agree would require more skill. However, there are drugs to help you focus and concentrate better too. 

[Gollum]

Mixed 10m air pistol starting in 2 minutes. Two Indian teams: Bhaker-Chaudhary and Deswal-Verma. 

[Gollum]

"So what is the field like in air pistol mixed team?" was one of the questions yesterday at our daily discussion on Olympics in Clubhouse at 9PM IST.

Javad Foroughi and Haniyeh Rostamiyan (IRI), Olena Kostevych and Oleh Omelchuk (UKR), Artem Chernousov and Vitalina Batsarashkina (ROC), Jiang Ranxin and Pang Wei (CHN), Zorana Arunovic and Damir Mikec (SRB).

THAT. THAT IS WHAT THE FIELD IS LIKE. Yes, nobody said it's going to be easy but Manu-Saurabh and Abhishek-Yashaswini have been here before; way too many times.