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

[Mariyam]

1 hour ago, neel roy said:

Desh ki beti kaisa ho

Mary Kom Jaisa ho

 

i Still remember the indian diaspora shouting after her match in london 2012

It definitely has something to do with the name.

 

Most people with the name Mary or its variants are legends in their own right.

[QuarantineTormentino]

4 minutes ago, Mariyam said:

It definitely has something to do with the name.

 

Most people with the name Mary or its variants are legends in their own right.

I see what you did there 

[Real McCoy]

It seems we are stuck in neutral gear. One medal on the first day and nothing to show for until now. I demand atleast one gold now At least that will save us from the ignominy of padosis in either directions getting a gold and having the last laugh on us

[neel roy]

My close friends blog on Lovlinas chances

 

https://emojisarebald.com/2021/07/27/tokyo-olympics-2021-what-are-lovlina-borgohains-chances-in-her-quarter-final-bout-match-telecast-details-timings/

 

Prediction

Lovlina’s recent glories, form, a height 3 inches) advantage, plus that she gets three days rest and time to acclimatize herself with Tokyo conditions, give her the edge over Chen. On top, she beat the hot inform Nadine – the first German boxer to qualify for Olympics 2021. It will be a fiercely contested match and I personally think, patriotism aside, Lovina has the edge. She has a great chance to add to India’s medal tally at Tokyo 2021, after Saikhom Mirabai Chanu’s silver medal on the opening day of the games.

 

 

Edited July 29, 2021 by neel roy

[Real McCoy]

How is beach volleyball and tramploline gymnastics is a sport but kabaddi is not We could win a gold there

[Jay]

3 minutes ago, Real McCoy said:

How is beach volleyball and tramploline gymnastics is a sport but kabaddi is not We could win a gold there

Because people like sujith sir love to grovel at their gora master chewts.

[coffee_rules]

1 hour ago, Mariyam said:

It definitely has something to do with the name.

 

Most people with the name Mary or its variants are legends in their own right.

[coffee_rules]

21 minutes ago, Real McCoy said:

How is beach volleyball and tramploline gymnastics is a sport but kabaddi is not We could win a gold there

How come they have Sync swimming, sync diving? Why not Chess? Kho-Kho ? Billiards? Squash? Indians can get couple of medals there

Edited July 29, 2021 by coffee_rules

[QuarantineTormentino]

3 minutes ago, coffee_rules said:

How come they have Sync swimming, sync diving? Why not Chess? Kho-Kho ? Billiards? Squash? Indians can get couple of medals there

Yeah if the argument is that it’s not physical enough, they can still include boxing-chess instead of chess

[coffee_rules]

3 minutes ago, QuarantineTormentino said:

Yeah if the argument is that it’s not physical enough, they can still include boxing-chess instead of chess

 

How about poking the opponent's eyes while they are focussing? In defence, they dodge. the more pokes, and checkmates wins the game. No draws.

[QuarantineTormentino]

1 minute ago, coffee_rules said:

 

How about poking the opponent's eyes while they are focussing? In defence, they dodge. the more pokes, and checkmates wins the game. No draws.

On a serious note though, chessboxing is a legit sport

[Gollum]

6 hours ago, Singh bling said:

I guess you very well know India don't have one culture. North East India South India have much more freedom to women. So if you leave Sakshi malik the other medalists are from this region.

 

And it's not like boys in cities are playing sports all the time. cricket and football are only sports boys play that too if they find any space

 

Also India churns out around 200 close to 25 percent women IAS IPS every year. Cracking upsc is not an easy thing. They too face similar situation. And not to forget a good number of girls pursue modelling acting as career which again is not accepted by large section of society. 

 

We indians may follow whatever culture but once government incentive start pouring  we forgot everything. Sportswomen these days get as much incentive as men like cash , government job etc.

Still far behind other cultures/societies. 

[raki05]

16 minutes ago, coffee_rules said:

 

How about poking the opponent's eyes while they are focussing? In defence, they dodge. the more pokes, and checkmates wins the game. No draws.

Or KitKit. Not sure if anyone know this game.

[Gollum]

11 hours ago, rkt.india said:

All this doesn't matter once a player is at the field. Level of competition is on the field, not off it.

Oh bhai, name some countries which restrict female participation in sports where their men face us on a regular basis? Saudi, Pakistan, Brunei, Somalia, do you think men in their country deny us medals?

 

Even Iran sends female shooters, maybe not wrestlers but is it really that significant when we have 10-15 proper wrestling countries (including Muslim majority ones like the Central Asian 'stans') which train their women well making them threats to the competition. In a sport like badminton, women's field is deeper, spread across more countries. Other sports where Indian women have medaled or made deep runs: weightlifting, wrestling, boxing, tennis, gymnastics. I don't see any problem with competition. And no need to mention African nations, the African ones competing for medals take pretty good care of their female athletes. Indian society/culture in this regard isn't enlightened like Scandinavia, USA, Germany that you can mock other countries. 

[coffee_rules]

1 minute ago, raki05 said:

Or KitKit. Not sure if anyone know this game.

 

Kunte bille ? Desi version of HopScotch

[Gollum]

6 hours ago, rkt.india said:

How did Belgium become so good in hockey?

Dunno. And not just hockey, they have become impressive in football as well, ranked #1 for some time now and making deep runs in WC (denied only be eventual champ France...by the narrowest of margins), Euro. 10-15 years back nobody mentioned Belgium whilst talking about football powerhouses, just like hockey. 

[Gollum]

Missed the afternoon's boxing session. Was Mary robbed? At least that's the impression I am getting from SM. Possible, since Olympics boxing in the past (London, Rio) has seen many dodgy decisions by incompetent/biased jury. 

[Gollum]

Anyway what's done is done, Mary competing at this level at the age of 38, being mom of 3, having missed out on Olympic glory in her peak years....nothing but respect, gratitude to a remarkable national treasure. 

 

India needs more representation in jury of all sports, period. Even in sports like cricket/hockey/chess we have too few match officials, arbiters, refs, umpires at the highest level and situation far worse in other sports. Need some of our own in those positions to pull strings, influence opinions/decisions, give some nice tit for tat treatment. Not honorable but in this cut-throat competition we must be Machiavellian, end justifies the means. Look at the Americans having 15 million swimming events (still pushing for more) to pad up their records, just because they can.

[Vilander]

1 hour ago, Real McCoy said:

How is beach volleyball and tramploline gymnastics is a sport but kabaddi is not We could win a gold there

Judo has 15 gold medals lol and swimmung athletics have WHAT a 100. Kabbado can't have 1, LOL 

[Gollum]

July 30

4:00 a.m. GOLF Men's Round 2 - Anirban Lahiri & Udayan S Mane

 

5:00 a.m. EQUESTRIAN Eventing Dressage Day 1 - Session 1 - Fouaad Mirza (Seigneur Medicott)

 

5:30 a.m. SHOOTING 25m Pistol Women's Qualification Rapid - Manu Bhaker & Rahi Sarnobat (Currently 5th and 25th respectively)

 

6:00 a.m. ARCHERY Women's Individual Pre-quarters - Deepika Kumari vs Ksenia Perova (ROC)

 

6:17 a.m. ATHLETICS Men's 3000m Steeplechase Round 1 - Heat 2 - AM Sable

 

8:15 a.m. HOCKEY Women's Pool A Match - India vs Ireland

 

8:18 a.m. BOXING Women's Lightweight Round of 16 (57-60kg) - Simranjeet Kaur Baatth vs Sudaporn Seesondee (THA)

 

8:27 a.m. ATHLETICS Men's 400m Hurdles Round 1 - Heat 5 - J Madari Palliyali

 

8:35 a.m. onwards SAILING 49er Men Race 7, 8 & 9 - Ganapathy Kelapanda and Varun Thakkar

 

8:45 a.m. onwards ATHLETICS Women's 100m heat - Dutee Chand

 

8:48 a.m. BOXING Women's Welterweight (64-69kg) Round of 8 Lovlina Borgohain vs Chen Nien-Chin (TPE)

 

8:48 a.m. SAILING Laser Radial Women Race 9 & 10 - Nethra Kumanan

 

10:30 a.m. SHOOTING 25m Pistol Women Final

 

11:05 a.m. onwards SAILING Laser Men Race 9 and 10 - Vishnu Saravanan

 

11:15 a.m. onwards ARCHERY Women's Individual Quarterfinals

 

12 p.m. onwards BADMINTON Women's Singles Quarterfinal P.V. Sindhu vs Akane Yamaguchi (JPN)

 

12:15 p.m. onwards ARCHERY Women's Individual Semifinals

 

1 p.m. ARCHERY Women's Individual Bronze Medal Match

 

1:15 p.m. ARCHERY Women's Individual Gold Medal Match

 

2 p.m. - EQUESTRIAN Eventing Dressage Day 1 - Session 2 - Fouaad Mirza (Seigneur Medicott)

 

3 p.m. HOCKEY Men's Pool A Match - India vs Japan

 

4:42 p.m. ATHLETICS 4x400m Relay Mixed Round 1 - Heat 2 - Alex Antony, Sarthak Bhambri, Revathi Veeramani & Subha Venkatesan

 

Another exciting, action-packed day . Bolded events more important from India's pov. Hockey we are guaranteed #2 spot, but don't want to lose momentum before QF like it happened in Rio. 

Edited July 29, 2021 by Gollum