All eyes on Neeraj Chopra

As the biggest event on the earth on games is now going to conclude soon, India’s medal hope is now pinned on track and field player Neeraj Chopra and wrestler Bajrang Punia. As Bajrang Punia has added another bronze medal, all eyes are on Neeraj Chopra’s performance is already stunned observers as he threw javelin 87.58 meters in the final.

His qualifying round was also one of the best performances in the world. Only two players have been successful to give better performance.

India’s Aditi Ashok too has been able to eshtablished as one of the top four golfers in the world. However, she missed the medal by very narrow margin but her performance speaks a lot.

Bajrang Punia has defeated his opponent form Kazakhstan by 8-0 in the match. 

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Race for medals still on

So what, if the quest for medals is over now for Women’s team! Indian women’s team is now among top four teams in the world. Women’s team spirit is condemnable and performance of Gurjeet Kaur and Vandana Kataria were simply amazing. Their struggle to win the match was clearly visible against the Great Britain’s team.

The 3-4 result itself speaks a lot about their performance. So, as the social media came out for their support, they should now prepare for Paris Olympics.

Although, Indian players missed two great opportunities to win medals including one in wrestling Gold, chances are still there to add more medals in the kitty as Bajrang Punia’s entry into wrestling semi-final and performance of Indian player in golf keeps hope alive to add more medals and better ranking for India in Tokyo Olympic despite the fact Ravi Dahia has missed golden chance to clinch a gold medal in the Olympics. But a lot of developments are still to take place.

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Medal day for Indian spectators

 

It is medal day for India! Manpreet Singh, captain of Indian men’s hockey team, was in tears. He could not believe that his boys had done it after a long wait of four decades. Magic has been done. Indian hockey team clinched bronze medal by defeating Germany.

Simranjeet Singh of team India was the centre of attraction by hitting victorious goal. This is first Olympic bronze for the team India after 1980 Olympic.

Not only hockey, Indian spectators should wait for more medals on Thursday as Ravi Dahia has already assured silver medal in wrestling by making entry in final.

More medals are expected to come in wrestling, women’s hockey, javelin throw and other games.

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Expect more on Wednesday

Indian spectators have received some solace on Wednesday as Indian players are now close to clinch more medals. Wednesday started with Lovlina bronze medal. Although, she lost the semi-final match in boxing by 5-0 against her Turkish opponent number one boxer Busenaz Surmeneli but she had already assured the medal as per rules.

Another, good news came from wrestling. Deepak Punia and Ravi Dahia have made their entry  into semi-finals. They made their entry into 86-kg and 57-kg categories respectively in wrestling.

Neeraj Chopra’s entry into javelin throw final also gives some hope for spectators. He threw 86.65 meters to qualify for final.

Wednesday was also the day of semi-final in women’s hockey. Spectator’s expectations are high as the women team is going to play in Olympic semi-final for the first time.

More developments too are taking place in the games like golf and others.

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Hockey: Quest for Gold ends!

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Tuesday morning is certainly not in favour of India in Tokyo as quest for gold for Indian hockey team ended with defeat in the semi-final against Belgium. Although, chances are still there to win a medal after a long wait of over four decades but it is limited to bronze medal.

 But, as winning a medal in Olympics creates history so Indian team would certainly not like to lose this opportunity easily, especially in hockey. Moreover, Indian team will have to make strategy to not provide any opportunity of penalty corner to the opponent team. It is notable that the opponent team Belgium has scored three goals (out of five) only through penalty corner.

Semi-final matches of women’s hockey teams are yet to be played, so there is still a hope for gold or silver medal despite the fact that this is first time women’s team has reached to this level.

Indian challenges in the games like equestrian, discus throw, shooting, archery, table tennis have been almost over. Wrestling too has witnessed initial glitches. In such a situation spectators should keep our finger crossed as the there are only two medals in Indian kitty till date.

Rare moments for hockey

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Rare moment has been created for Indian spectators as both India has stormed into Men’s and Women’s semi-finals in hockey. While Men’s team has already been entered into semi-final on Sunday after four decades by defeating Great Britain by 3-1, Women’s team sprung a surprise by making debut entry into semi-finals by defeating Australia by 1-0.

Indian contingent has been waiting for a long time for this moment in the team event. This is the first time that both men’s and women’s team have made entry keeping hope alive of Indian spectators. It is notable that both Great Britain and Australia are considered as top seeded teams.

Last time India won gold medal in hockey (Men’s) in 1964.

Sindhu wins bronze, creates history

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Having an ice-cream cone with the Prime Minister Modi! And, she is going to made it by winning another medal on Sunday. With her bronze medal in Tokyo Olympics she has become first Indian women to win the two medals in Olympics. 

After disappointment in her last match with China the race for gold medal ended but the silver medalist in the Rio Olympics bounced back on Sunday and clinched bronze medal by defeating her opponent Bingjiao.