Opening ceremony and day 1 (India’s performance) report and Schedule for Day 2

Even before the opening ceremony was to begin there were few events lined up and of course one for Indian Athlete in Archery sport. Talking about the opening ceremony it was a typical samba style spectacle and no words to describe the way the torch was lit. I would still compare Rio opening ceremony with Beijing and every Olympics have their own unique culture depicted.

Coming to the performance of the Indian contingent on first two days (5^th and 6^th) it has been quite disappointing and the results so far are mentioned below.

Archery: Satisfying result

Atanu Das – Men’s individual – Scored 683 and seeded 5. He has qualified for round of 64 and will meet Muktan of Nepal

Bombayla devi – Women’s Individual – Scored 638 and seeded 24. She has qualified for round of 64 and will meet Baldauff of Austria

Deepika Kumari – Women’s Individual – Scored 640 and seeded 20. She has qualified for round 64 and will meet Esebua of Georgia

Laxmirani Majhi – Women’s Individual – Scored 614 and seeded 43. She has qualified for round of 64 and will meet Longova of Slovakia

Bombayla devi, Deepika Kumari and Laxmirani Majhi – Women’s Team – Scored 1892 and seeded 7 and will meet Colombia in Round of 16.

Hockey: Great Result

Indian Lads started off with a bang with 3-2 win over Ireland. Now India will meet Heavyweights Germany in next group Game. Raghunath and Rupinder singh (Twice) Scored for india.

Rowing: Unexpected Blinder

Dattu Baban Bhokanal – Men’s Single Sculls – Qualified for Quarter Finals in After finishing 3^rd in Heats. Great Result in my opinion.

Shooting: So far Disappointment

Jitu Rai – 10m Air Pistol – Qualified for finals in 6^th position scoring 580 but finished last in finals after scoring dismal 78.7. He was one of the medal hopefuls.

Gurpreet Singh – 10m Air pistol – Scored 576 in qualifiers and didn’t qualify for finals.

Apurvi Chandela – 10m Air Rifle – Scored 411.6 and ranked 34 in qualifiers. She didn’t advance to finals.

Ayonika Paul – 10m Air Rifle – Scored 407 and ranked 43 in qualifiers. She didn’t advance to finals.

Table Tennis: Wash out in Olympic

Men’s Singles:

Sharath Kamal: Lost 1-4 to Crisen of Romania in 1^st round.

Soumyakjit Ghosh: lost 1-4 to Tanviriyavechakul of Thailand in 1^st round.

Women’s Singles:

Manika Batra: Lost to Grzybowska of Poland 2-4 in 1^st round.

Mouma Das: Lost to Dodeun of Romania 0-4 in 1^st round.

Tennis: Unacceptable Defeats

Men’s Doubles:

Rohan Boppana and Leander Paes: Lost to Kubot /Matkowski of Poland 4-6, 6–7, (6–7) in the 1^st round.

Women’s Doubles:

Sania Mirza and Prathana Thambre: Lost to Peng S / Zhang S of China 6-7(6–7), 7-5, 5-7 in the 1^st round.

Weightlifting: Defeated

Women’s 48 Kg – Mirabai Chanu  lost with lifting just 82 KG ranked 6.

Except for very few most results were disappointment and today’s schedule is mentioned below.

Shooting

10m Air Pistol Women's Qualification: 5:30 PM IST

Heena Sidhu

Trap Men's Qualification: 6:00 PM IST

Manavjeet Sandhu

Kynan Chenai

Archery

Women's Team 1/8 Eliminations

India vs Colombia: 10:15 PM IST

Hockey Women's Pool B - Match

India vs Japan: 11:00 PM IST

Gymnastics - Artistic

Deepa Karmankar

Let us hope to get good results and Medals today.

All the Best India

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