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An Indian and a Pakistani in the javelin final.

Well done to both - adds a bit of extra spice.
 
Javelin is so similar to fast bowling - its a mystery why more South Asian kids did not pick up this sport earlier

Makes me wonder how Shoaib Akhtar , Wahab Riaz, Bumrah , Umesh Yadav or Malinga wud have fared in Javelin

Mitchell Johnson was Australian junior champion in javelin and his coach was the one who trained Neeraj as well as a junior
 
Holy ****, I just watched an incredible wrestling match.

Ravi Kumar Dahiya was trailing 2-9 in no time against the Kazakh wrestler and I thought he was gone for all money. But he incredibly changed the face of the game by pinning down the Kazakh wrestler and won the bout, advancing to the finals.
 
TOKYO 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES (11)
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) Ad Hoc Division
rejects the application filed by French boxer Mourad Aliev

Tokyo, 3 August 2021 – The Ad Hoc Division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has issued
its decision in the matter: TAS OG 20/14 Mourad Aliev & Fédération française de boxe & Comité
National Olympique et Sportif Français c. IOC Boxing Task Force & Frazer Clarke & British Olympic
Association :

The Panel of arbitrators in charge of the matter has rejected the application filed at the CAS Ad Hoc
Division on 2 August 2021 by the French boxer Mourad Aliev in relation to the decision taken by the
referee to disqualify him from the Men’s Super Heavy Quarter Final with the British boxer Frazer
Clarke at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.

Mourad Aliev had sought an annulment of the referee’s decision to disqualify him as well as an
annulment of the decision taken by the Director of the IOC Boxing Task Force which confirmed the
first decision, as well as a ruling that bout 221 of Session 17 of the Men’s boxing competition be
authorised to recommence from the beginning of the second round, with a different referee and judges.
The Panel of arbitrators appointed to decide this dispute composed of Dr Ismail Selim, President,
(Egypt), Prof. Luigi Fumagalli (Italy) and Mr Francisco Müssnich (Brazil), held a hearing on 2 August
2021 by video conference.

The CAS Panel did not rule out the possibility of a technical error by the referee of the bout but
eventually decided to confirm the challenged decisions in view of the fact that the referee’s decision
to disqualify Mourad Aliev took place on the field of play. In light of the constant CAS jurisprudence,
field of play decisions are not overturned by CAS, except in very limited circumstances, and the Panel
found in the present matter that, in the absence of any allegation of a fundamental violation such as
bad faith, bias or arbitrariness it would not engage with the merits of those decisions.
 
Deepak Punia loses the semifinal by a huge margin.

Still in contention for the bronze.
 
I think we'll match our London performance at the very least. 1 silver and 2 bronze won. 1 silver confirmed, will hope for atleast couple of bronze
 
Women's heptathlon - 200m

Katarina Johnson-Thompson looks in some pain.
They bring a wheelchair on for her but she refuses, instead indicating that she wants to finish the race.
She hops her way to the finish line.
 
Men's hammer throw

Wojciech Nowicki won Olympic bronze in 2016 but this time he's taking home the big one!
The Pole wins gold with a best throw of 82.52m.
Silver goes to Norway's Eivind Henriksen, while Poland's Pawel Fajdek takes bronze.

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It's been confirmed that Team GB will face India in the bronze medal match on Friday (02:30 BST).
India were beaten 2-1 by Argentina in their semi-final.

GB recorded a convincing 4-1 win over India in the pool stage of the tournament. Fingers crossed for more of the same.

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Men's 800m final

It's a Kenyan one-two!
Emmanuel Korir is the Olympic champion and Ferguson Rotich takes silver behind his compatriot.
Poland's Patryk Dobek wins bronze.
 
Men's 200m final

Canada's Andre de Grasse won his first gold and fifth Olympic medal overall as he overhauled world champion Noah Lyles in the final 50m of the 200m final.

The 26-year-old, who took bronze in the 100m final on Sunday, won in 19.62 seconds, making him the eighth-fastest man in history.
 
street cricketer said:
Holy ****, I just watched an incredible wrestling match.

Ravi Kumar Dahiya was trailing 2-9 in no time against the Kazakh wrestler and I thought he was gone for all money. But he incredibly changed the face of the game by pinning down the Kazakh wrestler and won the bout, advancing to the finals.
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Looks like the Kazakh wrestler must have been a huge fan of Luis Suarez!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">If you want to know the pain of a wrestler.. Watch this pic.. <br><br>When Ravi Dahiya was pinning the wrestler down the Kazakistan <br><br>Wrestler started biting him but he still pinned him.. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Wrestling?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Wrestling</a> Must see and SHARE ravi dahiya bravery <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ind?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Ind</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TeamIndia?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TeamIndia</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Tokyo2020?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Tokyo2020</a> <a href="https://t.co/0fGPohbGi0">pic.twitter.com/0fGPohbGi0</a></p>— Anurag Sinha (@anuragsinha1992) <a href="https://twitter.com/anuragsinha1992/status/1422897893233467397?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 4, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 

Highlights of the incredible comeback win from Ravi Kumar Dahiya against the Kazakh wrestler.
 
street cricketer said:
Looks like the Kazakh wrestler must have been a huge fan of Luis Suarez!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">If you want to know the pain of a wrestler.. Watch this pic.. <br><br>When Ravi Dahiya was pinning the wrestler down the Kazakistan <br><br>Wrestler started biting him but he still pinned him.. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Wrestling?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Wrestling</a> Must see and SHARE ravi dahiya bravery <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ind?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Ind</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TeamIndia?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TeamIndia</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Tokyo2020?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Tokyo2020</a> <a href="https://t.co/0fGPohbGi0">pic.twitter.com/0fGPohbGi0</a></p>— Anurag Sinha (@anuragsinha1992) <a href="https://twitter.com/anuragsinha1992/status/1422897893233467397?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 4, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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Maybe India doesn’t want access to Kazakhstan and other Central Asian countries after all :)))
 
Kazakhs are known cheats in wrestling. No sportsman spirit.

Indian medal tally is now at least 5. Can it get 7 or more to improve on its London performance of 6 medals.
 
India expected at least 4-5 medals in archery and shooting just because we had 4 world #1/#2s participating in 6-7 events. Got zero. That hurt India performance otherwise India was expecting and should have got 10+ medals.

Need a major overhaul in these two sports.
 
Babbar said:
India expected at least 4-5 medals in archery and shooting just because we had 4 world #1/#2s participating in 6-7 events. Got zero. That hurt India performance otherwise India was expecting and should have got 10+ medals.

Need a major overhaul in these two sports.
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Cannot blame them,they must have got subdued by immense pressure on them.Even our first seeded Vinesh fogat lost and even Amit Panghal lost who was ourfirst seeded.Hope bajrang Punia don't succumb to pressure
 
Another Indian world#1, Wrestler Vinesh Phogat, bites the dust. Overall, It’s a disappointing olympics for India. Way below expectations.
 
Tokyo Olympics 2021 India, Day 13 Live Updates:
India beat Germany 5-4 to win bronze.
Vinesh Phogat loses in quarters.
 
Tokyo Olympics LIVE Updates: India Men's Hockey Team Beats Germany 5-4 To Win Bronze

Tokyo Olympics LIVE: India registered a 5-4 win against Germany in their men's hockey bronze medal match at the Oi Hockey Stadium, on Thursday.

India sealed a 5-4 win against Germany in their men's hockey bronze medal match at the ongoing Tokyo Olympics on Thursday. Simranjeet Singh scored two goals for India at the Oi Hockey Stadium, along with Hardik Singh, Harmanpreet Singh and Rupinder Pal Singh also adding their names on the scoresheet. The win also helped the Indian men's hockey team end their 41-year medal wait at the Olympics. Wrestler Anshu Malik lost her repechage round 2 at the women's freestyle 57kg category. She lost 1-5 to ROC's Valeria Koblova. Vinesh Phogat fell to a shocking defeat to Vanesa Kaladzinskaya of Belarus at the 53kg freestyle wrestling 1/4 final. The Indian wrestler was pinned down in her bout. Phogat had earlier defeated Sofia Mattsson in the 1/8 finals on Thursday. Meanwhile, Ravi Dahiya and Deepak Punia will also be in action and will put their challenge forward for India. Dahiya will compete in the final of men's freestyle 57kg category while Deepak will compete for the bronze medal in men's freestyle 86kg category

https://sports.ndtv.com/olympics-2020/tokyo-olympics-live-updates-follow-all-the-action-from-tokyo-games-today-2502874
 
Germany's Florian Wellbrock Doubles Up to Win Marathon Swim

German world champion Florian Wellbrock added Olympic marathon swimming gold to his 1500m bronze with a dominant performance in hot conditions in Tokyo Bay on Thursday. Wellbrock swam the 10 kilometres (six miles) in 1hr 48min 33.7sec, more than 25 seconds clear of Hungary's Kristof Rasovszky (1: 48: 59.0). Italy's Gregorio Paltrinieri took the bronze in 1: 49: 01.1.

Wellbrock and Paltrinieri became just the second and third athletes to win pool and open-water medals at the same Olympics, after Tunisia's Oussama Mellouli grabbed marathon gold and 1500m bronze at London 2012.
 
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Tokyo Olympics LIVE: Portugal's Pedro Pichardo Wins Triple Jump Gold

Pedro Pichardo of Portugal has won the men’s triple jump gold medal at the Olympics.

The Cuban-born Pichardo recorded 17.98 meters on his third attempt to clinch his first Olympic title. He previously won silver medals at the 2013 and 2015 world championships while representing Cuba.

China’s Zhu Yaming took silver at Tokyo’s Olympic Stadium with 17.57.

Burkina Faso’s Hugues Fabrice Zango claimed the bronze with 17.47, the first Olympic medal ever for his West African country.
 
street cricketer said:
Arshad Nadeem is Pakistan's first ever athlete who is going to feature in any track or field athletics event at the Olympics. If he finishes on the podium, he will win Pakistan's first medal after the '92 Olympics in Barcelona.

Neeraj Chopra is the first Indian to top the qualifications of any atheltics event at the Olympics. I'm not sure if he's the first Indian to feature in the finals of an athletics event.

In any case, history already being made for both countries today morning.
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Just 3 days ago, Kamalpreet Kaur made the final of women's discus, 2nd best throw in qualifiers and in the final she finished 6th out of 12 finalists.

Krishna Punia was 6th in the finals of discus in London 2012. Vikas Gowda made the final in men's side.

Legends like PT Usha, Milkha Singh, Anju Bobby George not only made Olympics finals, but also were close to winning bronze. All of them.

There may be others.
 
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Ryan Crouser beat his own Olympic record to defend his shot put title at Tokyo 2020 on Thursday.

The American managed a 23.30m throw on his final attempt in sweltering conditions at the Olympic Stadium.

The world record holder maintained the lead from his first throw, pushing compatriot and world champion Joe Kovacs into second place after his best attempt of 22.65m.

New Zealand's Tomas Walsh claimed the bronze with his 22.47m put.

It's the first time an in individual sport that the Olympic podium has not changed since the previous Games.

Crouser, who broke the world record of 23.37m at the US Olympic trials in June, was raised in a family of athletes and credits his grandfather Larry for his love of the sport.

His father Mitch was a reserve on the 1984 Los Angeles discus team, while his uncle Brian was a two-time Olympian in the javelin.

Crouser's cousin Sam also represented the United States in the javelin at the Rio Games in 2016.
 
Swashbuckler said:
Just 3 days ago, Kamalpreet Kaur made the final of women's discus, 2nd best throw in qualifiers and in the final she finished 6th out of 12 finalists.

Krishna Punia was 6th in the finals of discus in London 2012. Vikas Gowda made the final in men's side.

Legends like PT Usha, Milkha Singh, Anju Bobby George not only made Olympics finals, but also were close to winning bronze. All of them.

There may be others.
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Oops..I actually watched Kamalpreet Kaur in the final, totally went over my head. Thanks for the info!
 
Meanwhile Aditi Ashok doing well so far in Golf.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Doing well for one day may be luck. Two days and maybe there's something going on. I still can't believe Aditi Ashok is in the hunt for a medal. She's tied second in women's golf with two (possibly one depending on weather) rounds remaining. <a href="https://t.co/XqX4NV7Jx8">pic.twitter.com/XqX4NV7Jx8</a></p>— jonathan selvaraj (@jon_selvaraj) <a href="https://twitter.com/jon_selvaraj/status/1423181840869822464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 5, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
The failure of the USA's 4x100m men's team to reach the final at Tokyo 2020 was a "total embarrassment", American sprint legend Carl Lewis says.

The United States quartet of Trayvon Bromell, Fred Kerley, Ronnie Baker and Cravon Gillespie were sixth in their heat with a time of 38.10 seconds.

"The USA team did everything wrong in the men's relay," said Lewis.

"The passing system is wrong, athletes running the wrong legs, and it was clear that there was no leadership."

China won the heat in 37.92, with Canada second - just two thousands of a second behind - and Italy third in 37.95 as they qualified for the final.

Germany (38.06) were fourth and Ghana (38.08) fifth as they also finished ahead of the US in their heat.

In a post on social media, Lewis compared the US team unfavourably to the country's young amateur athletes.

He wrote: "It was a total embarrassment, and completely unacceptable for a USA team to look worse than the AAU (Amateur Athletic Union) kids I saw."

The USA's four-time Olympic gold medallist Michael Johnson was also critical of the team's performance.

"This isn't rocket science," he wrote on social media.

"Trying to get two people running full speed to exchange a baton within a 20-metre zone requires practice!

"Embarrassing and ridiculous."

Jamaica, Great Britain and Japan qualified for the final from the first 4x100m heat.

Asher-Smith helps set new GB record to reach 4x100m final
The US team won the event at the 2019 World Championships but have not won a 4x100m Olympic gold since 2000.

The last time they claimed a medal in the race at a Games was when they won silver in Athens in 2004.

"Honestly, I'm not even sure," said Gillespie, when asked what went wrong for the team.

"We've definitely got to pick up for the worlds [championships] next year and the next Olympics because this is unacceptable."

Kerly, a silver medallist in the men's 100m final in Tokyo, added: "We just didn't get the job done, no excuses."
 
Ravi Kumar Dahiya loses the gold medal bout vs the Russian favourite 4-7 to get the Silver medal.
 
Indian wrestler lost to Zaur uguev the Russian wrestler. Happy to see that.

All these Muslim russian wrestlers are so so good.Very exciting to watch.They are gonna rule MMA.Very very exciting to watch.
 
Now it's the time for most anticipated wrestling match Taylor vs Hasan.
It's gonna be very interesting.
 
Wonderful performance by David Taylor he has beaten Hasan.It was neck to neck but Taylor came on top in the end.
 
Great bout Ravi Dahiya..well deserved silver medal.

Total 5 medals so far for India.

Last two days
- Aditi is on 2nd position after 2 Round in Golf. Potential medal prospect.
- India vs GB women hockey bronze medal match
- Neeraj Chopra Javelin Final
- Bajrang Punia In Wrestling ( favourite in his category )

India should better 2012 London of 6 medals.

Proud of Team India.
 
Steven Gardiner is Olympic champion!

The 25-year-old wins in 43.85 seconds for the Bahamas' first medal of the Games, and it's a gold one!

Colombia's Anthony Zambrano snatches silver and Grenada's Kirani James bronze
 
Middle distance runner Angelina Lohalith says some of the Refugee Olympic Team were left demoralised before the Tokyo Games after being denied the opportunity to receive the same full Covid-19 vaccination as athletes representing national committees.

The 28-year-old, who was competing at her second Olympics, was talking after she failed to progress from her heats of the 1500m, despite setting a new personal best.

The team completed their arrival in Asia just three days before the opening ceremony after their Chef de Mission, former marathon world record holder Tegla Loroupe, tested positive for the virus on the eve of the event.

Lohalith was left concerned for her own safety as she had not been allowed to get a second dose of the Pfizer supply secured by Games organisers, the International Olympic Committee.

"It has been a long journey to get to the Olympics and though it was good we could compete, the experience has left me with mixed feelings," Lohalith, who fled what is now South Sudan for Kenya aged six, told BBC Sport Africa.

"The situation for the refugees, most of the time, is not good; it's challenging. When we were in Kenya, we were not able to get equal rights for being facilitated [for the IOC supply of the vaccine].

"There was an attempt made to join the other athletes and then we were told to 'go back, let us think about you guys because you are a different team'.

"'Because of your status, we will work on the others first and then maybe after, you will have.' That's why we got our vaccine late and we have had only one dose."

Lohalith has been living back at Kakuma refugee camp, Africa's second largest centre for displaced people, in a region she describes as unsafe, since the outbreak of the pandemic.

Previously, the Kenya-based members of the Refugee Olympic Team had been largely training alongside the Kenyan national team in Nairobi.

"Sometimes we feel like we are not among the people, we are not men and women like the others," she continued.

"Sometimes we understand that because of our status, we have to let things cool down and maybe to be patient, so they can work things in a different way [but] they don't like to put things together for us refugees like they do for any 'normal' athlete.

"We are not happy about this."

Lohalith admits that when Loroupe, her coach and mentor, tested positive for coronavirus at a pre-games training camp in Qatar she was left feeling concerned.

"When we heard the result we were all losing morale because we know that if one of us is testing positive, what about the rest of the team?" she explained.

"We thought that if one of us is testing positive it may be that maybe the whole team would not participate. That was the worst part, thinking that could happen.

"We hoped that she would recover and also that the rest of the team would test negative because we had really aimed for the competition, we wanted to compete after all the work in the previous five years."

She feels that the Covid-19 pandemic had a real impact on her performance in Tokyo.

"In 2019 I was training so hard for the Olympics. I was in good shape and I could see myself being in contention for a medal but when Covid-19 broke out we had almost a whole year without training," she explained.

The Kenyan National Olympic Commission (KNOC) explained that meeting the refugee athletes' health needs was not their sole responsibility.

"We included them in our vaccination programme and had our ministry and chief medical officer liaise on the matter," KNOC secretary general Francis Mutuku told BBC Sport Africa.

"We believe [distribution] is a collaborative approach with other agencies involved."

Ann-Sophie Thilo, a press spokesperson for the Refugee Olympic Team, which is steered through a partnership between the IOC and the United Nations Refugee Agency the UNHCR, defended officials.

"The IOC did a massive job working with the host NOCs to make sure all athletes had access if they wanted to get vaccinated and have at least one dose," she explained.

The IOC itself said it had made every effort to ensure as many competitors as possible were vaccinated before the Tokyo Games.

"The Olympic Movement worked in solidarity in a remarkable effort to ensure as many participants as possible could get vaccinated in line with the national vaccination guidelines before they travelled to Japan for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020," it said.

Namibia's 200m Olympic finalist, Beatrice Masilingi, is an anti-discrimination campaigner competing in her first Olympics and agrees that Lohalith has been let down.

"In our country, we were all offered both doses. As long as you are an athlete who's made it to the Olympics, any athlete deserves better than this," Masilingi insisted.

"It's a human right that everyone should be treated equally. No-one should be left out."

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These Iranian wrestlers are good.They look similar to muslim Gujjar wrestlers a lot.Very similar body structure and facially as well.
 
Bajrang Punia through to the quarters beating the Kyrgyzstan wrestler Ernazor Akmataliev on technical superiority.
 
Women Hockey Highlights, Tokyo Olympics 2020: India Lose Bronze Medal Match to Great Britain 3-4
 
Yasir_ch said:
These Iranian wrestlers are good.They look similar to muslim Gujjar wrestlers a lot.Very similar body structure and facially as well.
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I've heard a lot about Gujjars never met one though, why they considered tough fighters? Muhammad Asif was saying the same, as an outsider I never understood what makes them good fighters.
 
Giannis said:
I've heard a lot about Gujjars never met one though, why they considered tough fighters? Muhammad Asif was saying the same, as an outsider I never understood what makes them good fighters.
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Some regions just have a culture of excelling in specific sports. Daegestan region is popular for producing people who excel in combat sports. The Koreans are unbelievable in archery, badminton is popular in south east asia. Similarly wrestling is hugely popular among Punjabis and Haryanvis. I'm sure that must be the same case in Pakistani side of Punjab too. I'm not sure about Gujjars but I think the great Gama must have been Punjabi or Kashmiri in origin.
 
Bajrang Punia beats the Iranian wrestler Morteza Ghiasi by fall to reach the semifinal.

He has a strapped knee and is recovering from a knee injury. So keeping the expectations low for the semifinal. Even with a loss, could still play the bronze medal bout. So there's that.
 
street cricketer said:
Some regions just have a culture of excelling in specific sports. Daegestan region is popular for producing people who excel in combat sports. The Koreans are unbelievable in archery, badminton is popular in south east asia. Similarly wrestling is hugely popular among Punjabis and Haryanvis. I'm sure that must be the same case in Pakistani side of Punjab too. I'm not sure about Gujjars but I think the great Gama must have been Punjabi or Kashmiri in origin.
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Yeah but aren't Gujjars a community that inhabit different regions? And yeah Gamma was Kashmiri; Kashmiris in Punjab also have a long tradition of weight lifting and wrestling.
 
street cricketer said:
Meanwhile Aditi Ashok doing well so far in Golf.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Doing well for one day may be luck. Two days and maybe there's something going on. I still can't believe Aditi Ashok is in the hunt for a medal. She's tied second in women's golf with two (possibly one depending on weather) rounds remaining. <a href="https://t.co/XqX4NV7Jx8">pic.twitter.com/XqX4NV7Jx8</a></p>— jonathan selvaraj (@jon_selvaraj) <a href="https://twitter.com/jon_selvaraj/status/1423181840869822464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 5, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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Meanwhile Aditi is in 2nd position right now at the end of day 3. Things can change on the last day, but she has done wonderfully well to come into a surprise 2nd position after playing better than much higher ranked opponents.
 
Giannis said:
Yeah but aren't Gujjars a community that inhabit different regions? And yeah Gamma was Kashmiri; Kashmiris in Punjab also have a long tradition of weight lifting and wrestling.
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I do not know about Pakistan, but in India, I think the Gujjars are mountain inhabiting people near Jammu. Not sure if they inhabit different regions in India.
 
Tokyo Olympics 2021 India, Day 14 Live Updates: Bajrang Punia one win away from medal, India women lose hockey bronze
 
The Indian hockey’s Tokyo Olympics campaign came to a close as the women in blue went down 3-4 to defending champions Great Britain in their bronze medal match. After the men side brought home a hockey medal for the first time in 41 years, the Rani Rampal-led side produced a spirited performance, even leading at one point before bowing out with best fourth finish ever.
 
India’s star wrestler Bajrang Punia began his campaign by narrowly defeating Kyrgystan’s Ernazar Akmataliev in the men’s freestyle 65 kg category and then ousting Iran’s Morteza Ghiasi by fall to book his place in the semifinals. Bajrang is now one win away from winning a medal. It was, however, the end of the road for India’s women wrestlers with Seema Bisla bowing out in the first round of women’s freestyle 50kg category. In athletics, Gurpreet Singh dropped out of his 50km race walk early in the morning while Priyanka Goswami and Bhawana Jat will be in action later in women’s 20km race walk event.
 
Remaining matches on Day 14 for India:

ATHLETICS: Priyanka Goswami and Bhawna Jat in women’s 20km race walk event: 1:00 PM
WRESTLING: Bajrang Punia vs Haji Aliyev (Azerbaijan) in men’s freestyle 65kg semifinals after 2:52 PM
ATHLETICS: Indian team in men’s 4x400m relay Round 1 Heat 2: 5:07 PM
 
BEACH VOLLEYBALL: America's Ross and Klineman beat Australia for gold

April Ross and Alix Klineman won the first Olympic gold medal for the United States in women's beach volleyball since 2012, when they beat Australia's Mariafe Artacho del Solar and Taliqua Clancy at the Tokyo Games. With chants of "U-S-A" from 20 team administrative staff members cheering them in an otherwise empty arena, the U.S. duo started off strong and sailed through the match 21-13, 21-15 even as the scorching sun brought temperatures to 34°C (93.2°F) and that of the sand court even higher.
 
thelandofthebravepeople said:
Very impressed with Australia. I country of 25-26 million they have won 17 gold medals and 42 medals in total.
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Australia in general is a great sporting country, but they concentrate particularly in swimming, which has by far the most medals for any game in the Olympics. Think they bagged a lot of medals for swimming particularly their women's team.
 
Two Belarus coaches who cut short sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya's Tokyo Games have had their accreditation revoked and have been removed from the athletes village.
 
Amazing pic

Yang Jian of China in the men’s 10m platform preliminary round. Photograph: Stefan Wermuth/Reuters

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Team USA’s April Ross and Alix Klineman won women’s beach volleyball gold, beating Australia’s Mariafe Artacho del Solar and Taliqua Clancy in straight sets

Harry Garside’s dream of Tokyo boxing gold is over after the Australian was beaten comprehensively by Cuba’s Andy Cruz in their men’s light semi-final

Lisa Carrington’s hopes of a fourth Tokyo 2020 gold medal remain alive after New Zealand finished second to Hungary in a heat of the women’s K4 500m

Team USA are through to yet another women’s basketball gold medal match after beating Serbia 79-59 in their semi-final

Team GB boxer Lauren Price is through to the women’s middleweight gold medal bout after beating Dutchwoman Nouchka Fontjin by split decision

Poland’s Dawid Tomala won gold in only his second 50km racewalk, an event that featured Spaniard Jesús Ángel García in his eighth Olympic Games

Team GB won women’s hockey bronze after beating India 4-3 at Oi Hockey Stadium
 
thelandofthebravepeople said:
Very impressed with Australia. I country of 25-26 million they have won 17 gold medals and 42 medals in total.
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I don't think that's as impressive when taking into account that they have a per capita income of over $50,000. Wealthy countries have always had a big advantage and 25-26 million isn't a small population base, it's large enough to have a large pool of competitors. Also, Australia sent one of the biggest continengents - over 470 athletes, so based off that sample you'd expect them to get at least 40-50 medals.

Also another huge factor is that countries with history of immigration tend to do better since they have a more diverse talent pool, this is why the US, Britain and Australia do well because they do have quite a few mixed race athletes and children of immigrants; is it really impressive that Australia wins a medal in tennis cause of Slavic immigrants or Britain winning the 100m dash cause of the son of jamaican immigrants? So immigration is huge advantage, it's also one of the reasons why Qatar has done surprisingly well in recent years.
 
Tomorrow might be a day which could potentially bring a medal for India.

Aditi in golf and Neeraj in javelin throw both have decent chances of finishing in the podium provided they don't have shockers tomorrow.

Bajrang Punia, in all honesty, might also play the bronze medal bout tomorrow as his semifinal bout today is against the three time world champion. So possibly another bronze from that potential bronze medal bout tomorrow. India could potentially better its London olympics tally with some good performances tomorrow.

Pakistan could also potentially win its first medal since the Barcelona olympics with Arshad Nadeem featuring in the javelin throw finals. So all in all, tomorrow's going to be an exciting day at the olympics from a subcontinent pov.
 
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Women's madison podium

Gold: Great Britain (78 points)
Silver: Denmark (35 points)
Bronze: ROC (26 points)
 
Italy's Antonella Palmisano put in a strong performance to win the women's 20km walk with a time of 1:29.12 &#55358;&#56647;
 
As expected, the triple world champion prevails. Bajrang will play the bronze medal bout tomorrow.
 
Cycling: Harrie Lavreysen beats his compatriot fairly easily to win. Jeffrey Hoogland settles for silver. It’s a Dutch one-two and Britain’s Jack Carlin gets bronze.
 
Giannis said:
I've heard a lot about Gujjars never met one though, why they considered tough fighters? Muhammad Asif was saying the same, as an outsider I never understood what makes them good fighters.
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Pakistani team have Gujjars like asif Shoaib Akhtar amir ehsan Adil umar Amin Haris Sohail( not sure about these too though)
As a gujjar myself there is definitely something with blood.We don't back from any fight.Gujjars are considered brave maybe that's something to do with considered as good fighters.

There are thousands of Gujjar wrestlers and kabbadi players.
 
Yasir_ch said:
Pakistani team have Gujjars like asif Shoaib Akhtar amir ehsan Adil umar Amin Haris Sohail( not sure about these too though)
As a gujjar myself there is definitely something with blood.We don't back from any fight.Gujjars are considered brave maybe that's something to do with considered as good fighters.

There are thousands of Gujjar wrestlers and kabbadi players.
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In India, wrestling is dominated by Jats. In fact any sport be it shooting/ wrestling/ boxing/ field hockey from Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab are all 80% jats.
 
Yasir_ch said:
Pakistani team have Gujjars like asif Shoaib Akhtar amir ehsan Adil umar Amin Haris Sohail( not sure about these too though)
As a gujjar myself there is definitely something with blood.We don't back from any fight.Gujjars are considered brave maybe that's something to do with considered as good fighters.

There are thousands of Gujjar wrestlers and kabbadi players.
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Lmao you somehow remind me of an old poster who frequently used to talk about gujjar pride. Are you from Jammu?
 
Giannis said:
I don't think that's as impressive when taking into account that they have a per capita income of over $50,000. Wealthy countries have always had a big advantage and 25-26 million isn't a small population base, it's large enough to have a large pool of competitors. Also, Australia sent one of the biggest continengents - over 470 athletes, so based off that sample you'd expect them to get at least 40-50 medals.

Also another huge factor is that countries with history of immigration tend to do better since they have a more diverse talent pool, this is why the US, Britain and Australia do well because they do have quite a few mixed race athletes and children of immigrants; is it really impressive that Australia wins a medal in tennis cause of Slavic immigrants or Britain winning the 100m dash cause of the son of jamaican immigrants? So immigration is huge advantage, it's also one of the reasons why Qatar has done surprisingly well in recent years.
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Yes but countries like France, Germany, Spain and Italy are first world countries as well and wealthy. They have much higher population as well.

France has many immigrants from Africa, Germany has as well. So has Italy. Spain has different ethnic groups.

Still very impressive by Australia and I don't agree that you must expect 40-50 medals from Australia. Many other countries that can be compared to Australia on many parameters does not do as well as Australia.
 
street cricketer said:
Australia in general is a great sporting country, but they concentrate particularly in swimming, which has by far the most medals for any game in the Olympics. Think they bagged a lot of medals for swimming particularly their women's team.
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True.
They have taken 20 medals in swimming including 9 gold medals.

A closer look and it seems their medals mainly comes from swimming.

Still impressive to take that many medals.
 
Bronze Medal - Mexico

Mexico 3-1 Japan

It's all over in Saitama and Mexico take the men's football bronze medal.
The Japanese players drop to their knees as the final whistle blows. They gave it everything, but goals from Sebastian Cordova, Johan Vasquez and Alexis Vega won it for El Tri.
Kaoru Mitoma scored decent goal in the 78th minute for the hosts, but it's little more than a consolation as Mexico win their fourth medal of the Games.



Womens hockey

FT: Netherlands 3-1 Argentina

And that's that - the Netherlands women regain the gold medal they won in London in 2012 and make it four Olympic titles.
It was a bit of a stroll in the end for the Dutch and Argentina missed the chance to win their first ever gold medal in the women's game.
The Netherlands scored three out of five of their penalty corners and, despite a consolation goal for Argentina at the end of the second-half, their experience shone through and they dominated that final.
 
Women's 400m final

Shaunae Miller-Uibo of the Bahamas strides clear to take gold!

That's back-to-back Olympic titles for the 27-year-old after her victory in Rio five years ago.

Dominican Republic's Marileidy Paulino is in for silver and American Allyson Felix takes bronze. Jodie Williams was just behind in sixth place for GB.
 
Men's 5,000m final

Uganda's Joshua Cheptegei gets his gold!

A superb run from the world record holder, who missed out in the 10,000m but timed his kick to perfection here to leave the field in his wake.

Canada's Mohammed Ahmed takes silver and it's bronze for American Paul Chelimo.
 
Amazing performance from the Indian 4 x 400m relay team as they finish 4th in their heat and shatter the asian record! Unfortunately they fall 0.48 seconds short of qualifying for the final.

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Never in my wildest dreams did I ever imagine an Indian athletics team finishing faster than a British, French and a German team in a track event. One for the "asians don't have the genetics" debaters.

Also nice to see that 4 out of the overall 5 member Indian relay team are Mallus and Tamilians. Funny how each part of India has a culture for specific sports. Punjab and Haryana produce the wrestlers, Northeast India produces the boxers and the weight lifters, Kerala and TN produce the sprinters and long distance runners while Hyderabad gives the badminton shuttlers.
 
Really excited for tomrs javelline match. Hoping we could win a medall. Even if we do not im just glad he will be competing in the finals
 
Major said:
Really excited for tomrs javelline match. Hoping we could win a medall. Even if we do not im just glad he will be competing in the finals
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Has Pakistan ever won a medal in anything other than hockey ever? If not Arshad has a chance to create history.
 
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