Gollum Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 (edited) Dunno how much I can contribute. But several sports enthusiasts here, hope we can keep it active till mid-September and then make a dedicated Asian Games thread. That along with other Olympic qualifiers will serve as buildup to Paris 2024. Edited September 21, 2023 by Gollum Sandz, Lone Wolf and randomGuy 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted July 24, 2023 Author Share Posted July 24, 2023 Asian Champions Trophy (Hockey) starting in Chennai next week. I hope to visit the city for a couple of games, maybe Indo-Pak group game and then the final and 3rd place match. Wanted to attend the World Cup last year at Kalinga but because of some professional commitments, couldn't. Encourage all ICFers to attend these non-cricket events if venue is in your city or nearby. I hope to attend a few in Bengaluru/Hyderabad as well, if the chance presents itself. Those based in Delhi, better chance since more events are hosted there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted July 24, 2023 Author Share Posted July 24, 2023 (edited) 3 August 2023 16:00 South Korea – Japan Report 3 August 2023 18:15 Malaysia – Pakistan Report 3 August 2023 20:30 India – China Report 4 August 2023 16:00 South Korea – Pakistan Report 4 August 2023 18:15 China – Malaysia Report 4 August 2023 20:30 India – Japan Report 6 August 2023 16:00 China – South Korea Report 6 August 2023 18:15 Pakistan – Japan Report 6 August 2023 20:30 Malaysia – India Report 7 August 2023 16:00 Japan – Malaysia Report 7 August 2023 18:15 Pakistan – China Report 7 August 2023 20:30 South Korea – India Report 9 August 2023 16:00 Japan – China Report 9 August 2023 18:15 Malaysia – South Korea Report 9 August 2023 20:30 India – Pakistan Both semis on 11th, final and 3rd place game on 12th. Last edition we got hammered by Japan in SF, then beat Pak to get bronze. Edited July 24, 2023 by Gollum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted July 24, 2023 Author Share Posted July 24, 2023 Our women's hockey team had a disappointing campaign in Europe, losing 3/3 games.......against Germany (twice, 1-4 and 0-2 ) and China (once, 2-3). Men are in Spain, scheduled to face Netherlands, England and Spain. 4 nation cup starts tomorrow with India vs Spain!!!! Remember we are coached by South African Craig Fulton now, Paddy Upton (cricket fans must be familiar) is our mental conditioning coach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted July 24, 2023 Author Share Posted July 24, 2023 Asian Games 2023: AIFF likely to send Sunil Chhetri-led senior football team if Ministry gives clearance Asian Games 2023, Indian wrestling team: Ravi Dahiya fails to make the cut Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vijy Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 5 hours ago, Gollum said: Our women's hockey team had a disappointing campaign in Europe, losing 3/3 games.......against Germany (twice, 1-4 and 0-2 ) and China (once, 2-3). Men are in Spain, scheduled to face Netherlands, England and Spain. 4 nation cup starts tomorrow with India vs Spain!!!! Remember we are coached by South African Craig Fulton now, Paddy Upton (cricket fans must be familiar) is our mental conditioning coach. Men have regressed, women more so Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randomGuy Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 5 hours ago, Gollum said: Asian Games 2023: AIFF likely to send Sunil Chhetri-led senior football team if Ministry gives clearance Asian Games 2023, Indian wrestling team: Ravi Dahiya fails to make the cut Just to put it up front, posting all 18 wrestlers for India. Ravi Dahiya sadly ousted in the qualifiers in 1st round coming out of knee injury - Asian Games 2023 Indian wrestling team - full squad Greco-Roman Gyanender - 60kg Neeraj - 67kg Vikash - 77kg Sunil Kumar - 87kg Narinder Cheema - 97kg Naveen - 130kg Women’s freestyle Pooja Gehlot - 50kg Vinesh Phogat - 53kg (Antim Panghal as standby) Mansi Ahlawat - 57kg Sonam Malik - 62kg Radhika - 68kg Kiran - 76kg Men’s freestyle Aman Sehrawat - 57kg Bajrang Punia - 65kg (Vishal Kaliraman as standby) Yash - 74kg Deepak Punia - 86kg Vicky - 97kg Sumit - 125kg Gollum and Vijy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted July 24, 2023 Author Share Posted July 24, 2023 We also have chess in the Asian Games LINK The Indian squad, announced by the All-India Chess Federation (AICF) on Sunday, will comprise five men and five women. The Indian players will compete in the individual as well as the team events at the continental showpiece, coming up in Hangzhou, China, from September 23 to October 8. Koneru Humpy and Harika Dronavalli will be in action in the individual women’s categories while Vidit Gujrathi and Arjun Erigaisi will compete in the individual men's event. Both individual events will be played in the rapid format, Besides Konery Humpy and Harika Dronavalli, Vaishali Rameshbabu, Savitha Shri B and Vantika Aggarwal will compete in the women's team event. Meanwhile, Gukesh D, Vidit Gujrathi, Pentala Harikrishna, Arjun Erigaisi and Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa will form the Indian squad for the men’s team competition. The team events will be played in the standard format. Vijy and randomGuy 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted July 24, 2023 Author Share Posted July 24, 2023 Badminton, TT, archery, judo etc. in Asian Games will be almost Olympics level, maybe 90% of that in terms of field strength. Generally track&field, swimming, cycling, boxing, wrestling had lesser competition but this time Russian Bear is in the mix. Good for us in terms of exposure to top level competition, would have loved to see Aus/NZ as well in this. Anyway those two Oceanic countries are in many Asian groups, Aus even qualified for FIFA WC from Asian zone. Vijy and randomGuy 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randomGuy Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 2 minutes ago, Gollum said: Badminton, TT, archery, judo etc. in Asian Games will be almost Olympics level, maybe 90% of that in terms of field strength. Generally track&field, swimming, cycling, boxing, wrestling had lesser competition but this time Russian Bear is in the mix. Good for us in terms of exposure to top level competition, would have loved to see Aus/NZ as well in this. Anyway those two Oceanic countries are in many Asian groups, Aus even qualified for FIFA WC from Asian zone. Wrestling will be very high standard given Russia Iran Japan China India will be competing... Indian football sadly has light years to go to become top 25 side, sad to say, I don't see it happening either...I couldn't share the level of excitement as some icfers had coming off from recent close wins against a couple of middle Eastern teams.. Gollum 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted July 24, 2023 Author Share Posted July 24, 2023 Just now, randomGuy said: Wrestling will be very high standard given Russia Iran Japan China India will be competing... Yeah, also the Central Asian 'stans', Mongolia are very good in wrestling, both men and women. Just now, randomGuy said: Indian football sadly has light years to go to become top 25 side, sad to say, I don't see it happening either...I couldn't share the level of excitement as some icfers had coming off from recent close wins against a couple of middle Eastern teams.. Sadly I agree with you. But yeah there are a few ICFers who follow the Blue Tigers closely and are quite optimistic, will be great to learn from them if our team is allowed to participate. Vijy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randomGuy Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 13 minutes ago, Gollum said: We also have chess in the Asian Games LINK The Indian squad, announced by the All-India Chess Federation (AICF) on Sunday, will comprise five men and five women. The Indian players will compete in the individual as well as the team events at the continental showpiece, coming up in Hangzhou, China, from September 23 to October 8. Koneru Humpy and Harika Dronavalli will be in action in the individual women’s categories while Vidit Gujrathi and Arjun Erigaisi will compete in the individual men's event. Both individual events will be played in the rapid format, Besides Konery Humpy and Harika Dronavalli, Vaishali Rameshbabu, Savitha Shri B and Vantika Aggarwal will compete in the women's team event. Meanwhile, Gukesh D, Vidit Gujrathi, Pentala Harikrishna, Arjun Erigaisi and Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa will form the Indian squad for the men’s team competition. The team events will be played in the standard format. Gukesh recently became the youngest player to achieve 2750 elo...future world champion hopefully, fingers crossed. I remember studying his games, he plays king Indian attack a lot with white... although these guys have superb memory and other required skills, would be excellent in every aspect and every opening... Lord, Vijy and Gollum 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted July 24, 2023 Author Share Posted July 24, 2023 Hate boxing in these events because scoring system always appears to be so dodgy, and heavy bias towards host participants. Wrestling too is a fast paced combat sport but so easy even for casual viewers to follow the scoring. randomGuy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randomGuy Posted July 24, 2023 Share Posted July 24, 2023 1 minute ago, Gollum said: Hate boxing in these events because scoring system always appears to be so dodgy, and heavy bias towards host participants. Wrestling too is a fast paced combat sport but so easy even for casual viewers to follow the scoring. Right...I would highly recommend not to eat your meal while watching Indian player boxing or wrestling, you may choke on your food. :D Vijy and Gollum 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randomGuy Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy achieve career-best World No.2 ranking after having beaten rank 1 team in Korea open finals. coffee_rules, Sandz and Gollum 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vickydev Posted July 26, 2023 Share Posted July 26, 2023 On 7/24/2023 at 7:56 PM, Gollum said: Yeah, also the Central Asian 'stans', Mongolia are very good in wrestling, both men and women. Sadly I agree with you. But yeah there are a few ICFers who follow the Blue Tigers closely and are quite optimistic, will be great to learn from them if our team is allowed to participate. Yep seems the Govt had to step in. India will be sending both the men's and women's team to the games Gollum 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vijy Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 On 7/24/2023 at 10:15 AM, Gollum said: Badminton, TT, archery, judo etc. in Asian Games will be almost Olympics level, maybe 90% of that in terms of field strength. Generally track&field, swimming, cycling, boxing, wrestling had lesser competition but this time Russian Bear is in the mix. Good for us in terms of exposure to top level competition, would have loved to see Aus/NZ as well in this. Anyway those two Oceanic countries are in many Asian groups, Aus even qualified for FIFA WC from Asian zone. it is going to be a good trial run for next yr olympics. hard to believe that olympics are almost upon us Gollum 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lone Wolf Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 Relatively easier draw... No middle eastern team or Japan &, Korea. Should reach next round. Will be interesting to Test our level against Chinese. Put a more physical team against them I think... And reverse for BD & Myanmar Vickydev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lone Wolf Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 Not so much luck for gals... First round exit loading. Vijy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randomGuy Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 (edited) Aman Sehrawat, Asian games selection for India in Ravi dahiyas category 57kg Free style, is an amazing story... the boy was 11 when he was orphaned, was taken care of by his uncle....at age 18-19 he became Asian champion and world U-23 champion... sharing the finals of both....got to admire haryana and specially haryana-delhi jats for their love and dedication in wrestling.... Most of these best wrestlers in all 18 categories ( and their 2nd and 3rd best players as well in many cases) are from haryana (and some Delhi but harayana-background) Edited July 28, 2023 by randomGuy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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