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

[bharathh]

11 hours ago, nikrulz said:

Shooting is already out of Commonwealth Games 2022 Birmingham. 

 

and regards to Weightlifting they are citing it as "Doping issue" which the weightlifting federation hasn't been able to curb.  

Archery and shooting for the cw in Birmingham will be held in Chandigarh in Jan 22

[nikrulz]

2 hours ago, bharathh said:

Archery and shooting for the cw in Birmingham will be held in Chandigarh in Jan 22

Oh is it? I checked but couldn't find any info.

 

It was suppose to be held this year, but due to Covid it was cancelled without any further notice. So that will be added to the Final tally of CWG2022...good to know.

[Gollum]

How many ICFers miss this show? 

 

 

Edited August 14, 2021 by Gollum

[ShoonyaSifar]

On 8/12/2021 at 11:09 PM, bharathh said:

Archery and shooting for the cw in Birmingham will be held in Chandigarh in Jan 22

That's just to placate us and to ensure India doesn't boycott the games.

 

How can two sports take place 6 months ahead of the actual mega event? A proper farce if there was one 

[G_B_]

On 8/14/2021 at 10:56 AM, ShoonyaSifar said:

That's just to placate us and to ensure India doesn't boycott the games.

 

How can two sports take place 6 months ahead of the actual mega event? A proper farce if there was one 

Yup...

 

To be fair i think local politics involved as well

 

London which is 90min down the road has enough shooting n archery facilities

[bharathh]

Yea. Birmingham does not have cycling facilities. They will be using the facilities in London. Not sure why Birmingham was awarded the games firstly

[coffee_rules]

What an inspiration she is, amazing family that supports her. Kudos to them

 

 

[ShoonyaSifar]

The theme song for the Paralympics, eacj of these participants are true champions. So inspirational

 

https://youtu.be/q-eHWTxdMCQ

 

Much better than our Olympics theme song.

[bharathh]

The Paralympic games have begun. 

 

India has 2 TT matches today - both against Chinese opponents. DD is telecasting only the Indian events live if anyone is interested in following the games.

 

Match 1 - India tied 2-2 going into the decided game 5. 

Manubhai Patel is playing vs Li Qian

[bharathh]

Manu loses 3-2. Pity as she was leading 2-1 at one stage. One more singles match to go for India today.

[bharathh]

These are group matches btw.. both ladies playing today have their second games tomorrow. I'm assuming the top player from each group progresses. 

[bharathh]

Second TT match was swept by the Chinese 3-0. India's participation done for today. Both TT players will be back tomorrow.

[G_B_]

Apart from javalin what are our prospects for medals.?

[ShoonyaSifar]

18 minutes ago, G_B_ said:

Apart from javalin what are our prospects for medals.?

Mariappan Thangavelu in high jump

 

Pramod Bhagat, Krishna Nagar, Tarun Dhillon in Badminton (introduced for the first time)

 

Manish Narwal in shooting

 

Sumit Antil and Sandeep Chaudhary in F64 category Javelin

[bharathh]

23 minutes ago, G_B_ said:

Apart from javalin what are our prospects for medals.?

High jump - Mariyappan Thangavelu

 

Not sure if anyone else is good. We've sent our largest contingent this time though.

[ShoonyaSifar]

Eurosport is showing the event in India. DD Sports doing Indian events

[ShoonyaSifar]

5 minutes ago, bharathh said:

High jump - Mariyappan Thangavelu

 

Not sure if anyone else is good. We've sent our largest contingent this time though.

23 year old Sumit Antil is the World record holder (66.9 mtrs) and 2019 World Para Athletic champion in F64 category Javelin throw.

 

Pramod Bhagat is world no. 1 in men's badminton.

Edited August 25, 2021 by ShoonyaSifar

[bharathh]

Indian paddler Bhavaniben Patel advances to the round of 16 with a win over her opponent in the second group match. One more paddler to play in a few hours. Hopefully she makes it through as well. No other Indians in action today.

[bharathh]

Manubhai Patel - the other paddler loses round 2 as well and is out of the games. 

 

More Indians involved tomorrow. Archery, Swimming, TT (Bhavani Patel), and Shot Put. 

[SujitPrakash]

Tokyo Paralympics updates: Australia wins six gold medals in phenomenal opening day — as it happened

 

Australia is on top of the medal tally with gold medals in cycling and swimming on day one.

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-25/tokyo-paralympics-live-updates-day-one-swimming/100404874

 

WOW the Aussies are so so good, but that's to be expected the way people with disabilities are treated here is awesome.