Will we win a single medal this time ?

[sourab10forever]

Have this bad feeling this time....Hope t turns out to be Jinx thread.

What do you think?

[Bigg Brother]

Heena Sidhu out of qualifying round...

[jusarrived]

I think we will easily match last times count and may be more

[LordPrabhzy]

If we win even one medal, I will do nothing

 

I have no hope for our hockey teams.

 

Tennis is virtually over

 

No one of substance in boxing or weightlifting

 

Possible medal in wrestling/badminton/shooting.

 

I thought we were actually improving after Beijing and London.. clearly not. Will always remain the laughing stock of the world in Olympics. I actually feel we should not send anyone apart from the Hockey teams as we are clearly never going to be medal winning standard. Why waste tax payers money to bring disappointment.

[Adi_91]

I am an optimist, but the early trends are disappointing. Not looking good.

[randomGuy]

Boxer Shiva thapa is ranked 2 or 3 in the world...so may some hope here as well.

 

 

In archery I thought one should go with the attitude like 'tera  kuch nahi ho sakta bhai' then only you can perform  , otherwise there's too much pressure.

[G_B_]

Hmm India have really got off to a bad start

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[Bigg Brother]

Out of QF in archery...

[jusarrived]

11 hours ago, G_B_ said:

Hmm India have really got off to a bad start

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The only event where we where favs for a medal hope till now was Jitu Rai , who choked badly in the finals . 

Archery team had an outside chance , but this is not the first time we have messed up in olympics ..last edition we where one of the favs but for some reason they have not translated their form and world rankings into a medal .

[jusarrived]

OK I take it back , its actually bad now 

 

Bindra cudnt hold his never , finishes 4th . He had a shot at gold there .

Hockey team chokes in last minutes to lose to Ger 1-2 :(

[FischerTal]

yogeshwar is the only hope. 

[vayuu1]

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[FischerTal]

this is more of an indictment on sporting federations in india. it is not enough to increase your olympic contingent and be proud of that. there should be better focus on improving the quality of the athletes sent. most of our athletes would give south africans a run for their money in choking department.

[jusarrived]

7 minutes ago, FischerTal said:

this is more of an indictment on sporting federations in india. it is not enough to increase your olympic contingent and be proud of that. there should be better focus on improving the quality of the athletes sent. most of our athletes would give south africans a run for their money in choking department.

The problem is not the athletes who are competing . As a country we only care about them once in 4 years & for most of these guys if they dont win a medal they will most likely struggle to meet ends . Most of these guys have qualified on their own and are either world class are close to being one . if we have to start translating these potential into sure shot medals we need a even bigger base .

[FischerTal]

5 minutes ago, jusarrived said:

The problem is not the athletes who are competing . As a country we only care about them once in 4 years & for most of these guys if they dont win a medal they will most likely struggle to meet ends . Most of these guys have qualified on their own and are either world class are close to being one . if we have to start translating these potential into sure shot medals we need a even bigger base .

i agree. india needs to spend more on sports and invest in the infrastructure for these athletes. there is such a large youth population which is basically going to waste with every passing year. however, there is  also a need for mentally tough competitors. the hockey loss was totally abysmal. how do you allow a team to score from so far out in the last 3 seconds? 

[Adi_91]

Very gloomy for India now. I doubt if we can win even one this time.

 

Very disappointing. I looked forward to Rio this year with a lot of hopes and belief that we will win more than 6 medals at the bare minimum. Living in the US, Olympics is the talked about event now, but I have nothing to talk about my athletes. I feel very bad. 

[rkt.india]

We should stop participatingin Olympics.

[Nova]

2 hours ago, rkt.india said:

We should stop participatingin Olympics.

Yeah ok. Don't belittle the hard work of participants.

There's more to Olympics than winning medals. 

 

[Adi_91]

8 hours ago, rkt.india said:

We should stop participatingin Olympics.

Rather, we should start working on providing good sports psychologists to our athletes to handle pressure. Most, if not all big names have faltered because of the inability to handle pressure situations. 

[kumar713]

India will finish with couple of Bronze medals.