The Olympics: India (2016) - Revision history

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Jyoti: /* Size of contingent: 118 */

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‎Size of contingent: 118

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‎The Indian team: Complete list

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‎The Indian grope trick

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‎Marathoners’ complaints, illnesses

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‎Archery (Men)

Pdewan: /* Controversies before the 2016 Olympics */

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‎Controversies before the 2016 Olympics

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‎The pre-Rio, August 2016 form of India’s finest

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	[[Hockey: India ]]		[[Hockey: India ]]
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		+	[[Hockey, India: 1936 Olympics]]

	[[Women's hockey: India]]		[[Women's hockey: India]]

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 [[File: iphone human family2.png| Apple’s Rio Olympics 2016 ad, 'The Human Family,' showed only the stereotypical, impoverished Indian. |frame|500px]]
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	[[Amitabh Bachchan]]'s dignified tweet must be seen in that context.		[[Amitabh Bachchan]]'s dignified tweet must be seen in that context.
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		+	=Controversies ''after '' the Olympics=
		+	== Qualifying for Rio with suspect performances==
		+	[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=Indian-athletes-Rio-qualification-marks-come-under-IAAF-24092016025016 Biju BabuCyriac, Indian athletes' Rio qualification marks come under IAAF scanner,Sep 24 2016 : The Times of India]
		+	[[File: 2016 Olympics Rio some suspicious Indian cases.jpg\| 2016 Olympics Rio: some suspicious Indian casesSportsmen whose performance at Rio was much worse than when they qualified in India before going to Rio.\|frame\|500px]]
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		+	A good number of India's top athletes may have qualified for the Rio Olympics with fakesuspect performances, if a study by International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) statisticians is to be believed.
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		+	According to leading athletics statistician Heinrich Hubbeling, co-editor of IAAF's National Records for all countries project, a list of Indian athletes with doubtful qualifying records reportedly includes the names of triple jumper Renjith Maheswary , long jumper Ankit Sharma and sprinters Dutee Chand and Srabani Nanda. Germany's Hubbeling, who also works for the Asian Athletics Association, said that the Indians are among other athletes from Albania, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, whose qualifying performances have been found to be doubtful. He said he has sent these data sent to IAAF which has marked these marks as doubtful in its database. “The IAAF has “created“ a panel with some officials looking for `faked performances and faked birthdates' in the future,“ said Hubbeling. “We all hope for decisions by the IAAF , including action against the officials who were involved in such fraudulent actions,“ he told TOI.
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		+	The superhuman efforts of Renjith, who leaped to 17.30m in Bengaluru on the last day of qualification, and Ankit Sharma, who touched down at 8.19m in Almaty , were under the scanner because of huge variation in their performances from the past and the subsequent flop show at Rio where they recorded leaps of 16.13m and 7.67m respectively .
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		+	In the case of Dutee and Srabani it has emerged that the automatic timing at the event could have been faulty, resulting in the super-fast timings.The three winners in women's 100m in the Almaty meet held in June never repeated their efforts and clocked 11.69s to 11.72 seconds in Rio. The same applied in Srabani's case. In fact the women's 4x100m also seemed to have benefitted as they clocked their best of 43.42 seconds in Almaty in July two months after clocking 44.03 in Beijing.
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		+	Top international athletics statisticians, who keep a tab on the athletes' performances, have compiled a list of such doubtful performances and removed the names from their record list. Hubbeling said his study was also backed up by the Tilastopaja database maintained by noted statistician Mirko Jalava, which included all these marks valued as doubtful by Mirko.
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		+	“In the 1990s we had a similar situation mostly by African countries, which entered athletes with supposedly faked performances. When I pointed out this situation to the IAAF , the respective federations got warnings and this cheating stopped. For some years now this cheating has been resumed by some other federations,“ Hubbeling said after compiling the results.

	=The Indian team: Complete list=		=The Indian team: Complete list=

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 ==The Indian grope trick==
-Indian athletics contingent's middle and long distance coach Nikolai Snesarev was "detained" at a local police station for half a day and later released by the police after a lady doctor at the Games Village made a complaint of misbehaviour.
+Indian athletics contingent's [Russian] middle and long distance coach Dr. Nikolai Snesarev was "detained" at a local police station for half a day and later released by the police after a lady doctor at the Games Village made a complaint of misbehaviour.
 ==Peanuts on I-day==

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 As per IAAF rules, India could have assigned four officials at four points -apart from the official stations -to provide water and refreshments to the athletes. “It is the duty of the coach and federation officials to assign people for this. One country's athletes are not supposed to drink from stuff kept for others as it could lead to a warning and then disqualification,“ infor med sources told TOI.
-The Kerala athlete also blamed her coach Nikolai Snesearev for forcing her to run the marathon. “I wanted to qualify in the 1500m (after the Mumbai marathon) but the coach forced me to continue in marathon,“ she said.
+The Kerala athlete also blamed her coach Nikolai Snesarev for forcing her to run the marathon. “I wanted to qualify in the 1500m (after the Mumbai marathon) but the coach forced me to continue in marathon,“ she said.
 “Even when I suffered an injury during the training period the coach didn't give me time to recover. Moreover, we always trained early in the morning, first in Ooty and later in Rio. So, it was tough to adjust to the heat here,“ she added.

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 '''SUMMARY: ''' India ended yet another medal-less campaign in archery at the Games
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 ii) '''Bombayla Devi ''' struggled against Mexico's Alejandra Valencia and lost the first, third and fourth sets 26-28, 27-28 and 25-3 respectively. The only set she won was the second, 26-23. Unlike yesterday, when she hit eight 10-pointers, in the pre-quarters Bombayla hit just two.  ([http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/rio-2016-olympics/india-in-olympics-2016/archery/Rio-Olympics-Archers-Deepika-Kumari-Bombayla-Devi-exit/articleshow/53654016.cms   Rio Olympics: Archers Deepika Kumari, Bombayla Devi exit  TNN | Aug 11, 2016])
 ==The Archery results: an analysis==
 [[File: Indian Archery results Rio.jpg| Indian Archery results Rio 2016|frame|500px]]

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	India also had participation in '''swimming, judo, rowing, table tennis '''and '''weightlifting '''where their performance was buried by the top competition.		India also had participation in '''swimming, judo, rowing, table tennis '''and '''weightlifting '''where their performance was buried by the top competition.
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		+	=The pre-Rio, August 2016 form of India’s finest=
		+	'''The pre-Rio, August 2016 form of almost the entire Indian team has been detailed in the graphics in the right-hand column of this page'''
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		+	'' Rio Olympics: India's realistic medal chances:''
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		+	Adapted from [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/rio-2016-olympics/india-in-olympics-2016/miscellaneous/Rio-Olympics-Indias-realistic-medal-chances/articleshow/53495998.cms Jamie Alter \| TNN \| The Times of India Aug 2, 2016]
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		+	''' Shooting '''
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		+	Abhinav Bindra 2008 gold medallist: Form in August 2016: indifferent.
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		+	Gagan Narang 2012 bronze medallist: Form in August 2016: indifferent.
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		+	Jitu Rai, age 29. Form in August 2016: No 2 in the world in the 50m pistol event. In August 2016, ranked 3rd in both 50m pistol and 10m air pistol, the 28-year-old has won two golds, three silvers and one bronze in the World Cups, an Asian and Commonwealth gold and besides an Asian Games gold.
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		+	Manavjit Singh Sandhu, age 39. Represented India in the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Olympics. Has won at every major tournament.
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		+	Heena Sidhu Holds the Finals World Record in the 10m air pistol.
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		+	'''Archery '''
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		+	Deepika Kumari, age 22. From Ranchi World No 1 in 2012. Form in August 2016: 12th in the world. Equalled world record 686/720 at the World Cup in Shanghai earlier in 2016.
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		+	Atanu Das, Form in August 2016: 22nd. In the world.
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		+	''' Badminton '''
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		+	[[Saina Nehwal]]: Rio--her third Olympics. Former world No 1. Won her second Australian Open title in June 2016. BUT in 2016, she lost to Tai Tzu-ying of Chinese Taipei, Spain's Carolina Marin and China's Li Xuerui, the Olympics champion, in Super Series events. Saina battled injuries in 2016. She was the London Olympics bronze-medallist: bagged the singles bronze after her Chinese opponent Xin Wang withdrew with injury in London
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		+	[[PV Sindhu]] won two World Championship bronze medals in 2013 and 2014.
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		+	'''Gymnastics '''
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		+	[[Dipa Karmakar]], age 22. Won bronze at the 2015 Asian Gymnastics Championships and reached the final of the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in 2016, both being firsts for an Indian.At the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games she became one of only five gymnasts across the world to successfully attempt the dangerous Produvona vault. Only two of her Rio adversaries have attempted the Produnova - Yamilet Pena of the Dominican Republic and Egyptian Fadwa Mahmoud - but neither has topped Dipa's highest score in the world, 15.300. She had an edge in the Produnova - a double frontal vault - with a difficulty rating of 7.0.
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		+	'''Wrestling'''
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		+	The eight-member squad - for the first time - wasrepre sented in all three formats - Men's freestyle, Female wrestling and Greco-Roman.
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		+	After Geeta Phogat became the first woman wrestler in an Olympics in London, the family saw two representations in cousins Vinesh and (48kg) Babita Kumari (53kg) who joined Sakshi Malik (58kg) to make it three in the ring.
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		+	Having defeated the 2014 World Championships silver-medallist Iwona Matkowska en route to sealing an Olympic qualification with a gold medal, Vinesh was in good form.
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		+	'''Boxing'''
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		+	Inside the boxing ring, a squad of three carried India's hopes. For a discipline, that had a record eight entries in 2012, in 2016 it was represented with three men in the ring.
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		+	Of the three, the highest hopes were from the duo of Shiva Thapa (56kg) and Vikas Krishan (75kg), both of whom were World Championship bronze-medallists and were ranked sixth in the world.
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		+	The senior-most member of the team, Manoj Kumar (64kg), was the 2010 Commonwealth Games champion.

	=Controversies ''before '' the 2016 Olympics=		=Controversies ''before '' the 2016 Olympics=

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	Yet, in what can dampen the ministry's forecasts of a bullish medal tally, according to projections by Infostrada, leading sports database providers and forecasters, India would end up at No.46th in the medals tally, with only one gold (mixed doubles tennis) and three bronze (women's archery , team; Shiva Thapa in boxing and Jitu Rai in pistol shooting) to show for its 100-plus presence at Rio.		Yet, in what can dampen the ministry's forecasts of a bullish medal tally, according to projections by Infostrada, leading sports database providers and forecasters, India would end up at No.46th in the medals tally, with only one gold (mixed doubles tennis) and three bronze (women's archery , team; Shiva Thapa in boxing and Jitu Rai in pistol shooting) to show for its 100-plus presence at Rio.
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−	~~=The pre-Rio, August 2016 form of India’s finest=~~
−	~~'''The pre-Rio, August 2016 form of almost the entire Indian team has been detailed in the graphics in the right-hand column of this page'''~~
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−	~~'' Rio Olympics: India's realistic medal chances:''~~
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−	Adapted from [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/rio-2016-olympics/india-in-olympics-2016/miscellaneous/Rio-Olympics-Indias-realistic-medal-chances/articleshow/53495998.cms Jamie Alter \| TNN \| The Times of India Aug 2, 2016]
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−	~~''' Shooting '''~~
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−	~~Abhinav Bindra 2008 gold medallist: Form in August 2016: indifferent.~~
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−	~~Gagan Narang 2012 bronze medallist: Form in August 2016: indifferent.~~
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−	Jitu Rai, age 29. Form in August 2016: No 2 in the world in the 50m pistol event. In August 2016, ranked 3rd in both 50m pistol and 10m air pistol, the 28-year-old has won two golds, three silvers and one bronze in the World Cups, an Asian and Commonwealth gold and besides an Asian Games gold.
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−	~~Manavjit Singh Sandhu, age 39. Represented India in the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Olympics. Has won at every major tournament.~~
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−	~~Heena Sidhu Holds the Finals World Record in the 10m air pistol.~~
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−	~~'''Archery '''~~
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−	~~Deepika Kumari, age 22. From Ranchi World No 1 in 2012. Form in August 2016: 12th in the world. Equalled world record 686/720 at the World Cup in Shanghai earlier in 2016.~~
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−	~~Atanu Das, Form in August 2016: 22nd. In the world.~~
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−	~~''' Badminton '''~~
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−	[[Saina Nehwal]]: Rio--her third Olympics. Former world No 1. Won her second Australian Open title in June 2016. BUT in 2016, she lost to Tai Tzu-ying of Chinese Taipei, Spain's Carolina Marin and China's Li Xuerui, the Olympics champion, in Super Series events. Saina battled injuries in 2016. She was the London Olympics bronze-medallist: bagged the singles bronze after her Chinese opponent Xin Wang withdrew with injury in London
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−	~~[[PV Sindhu]] won two World Championship bronze medals in 2013 and 2014.~~
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−	~~'''Gymnastics '''~~
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−	[[Dipa Karmakar]], age 22. Won bronze at the 2015 Asian Gymnastics Championships and reached the final of the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in 2016, both being firsts for an Indian.At the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games she became one of only five gymnasts across the world to successfully attempt the dangerous Produvona vault. Only two of her Rio adversaries have attempted the Produnova - Yamilet Pena of the Dominican Republic and Egyptian Fadwa Mahmoud - but neither has topped Dipa's highest score in the world, 15.300. She had an edge in the Produnova - a double frontal vault - with a difficulty rating of 7.0.
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−	~~'''Wrestling'''~~
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−	~~The eight-member squad - for the first time - wasrepre sented in all three formats - Men's freestyle, Female wrestling and Greco-Roman.~~
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−	After Geeta Phogat became the first woman wrestler in an Olympics in London, the family saw two representations in cousins Vinesh and (48kg) Babita Kumari (53kg) who joined Sakshi Malik (58kg) to make it three in the ring.
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−	~~Having defeated the 2014 World Championships silver-medallist Iwona Matkowska en route to sealing an Olympic qualification with a gold medal, Vinesh was in good form.~~
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−	~~'''Boxing'''~~
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−	~~Inside the boxing ring, a squad of three carried India's hopes. For a discipline, that had a record eight entries in 2012, in 2016 it was represented with three men in the ring.~~
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−	~~Of the three, the highest hopes were from the duo of Shiva Thapa (56kg) and Vikas Krishan (75kg), both of whom were World Championship bronze-medallists and were ranked sixth in the world.~~
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−	~~The senior-most member of the team, Manoj Kumar (64kg), was the 2010 Commonwealth Games champion.~~
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	=The Indian performance: An overview=		=The Indian performance: An overview=

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-This is a collection of articles archived for the excellence of their content.<br/> This page has '''everything''' you need to know about India’s participation in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in August 2016, on the playgrounds and off. <br/> The arrangement of the page is as follows: <br/>
+This is a collection of articles archived for the excellence of their content.<br/> This book-length page has '''everything''' you need to know about India’s participation in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in August 2016, on the playgrounds and off. <br/> The arrangement of the page is as follows: <br/>
 i) Indpaedia volunteers arranged the results of every single match involving an Indian in the order in which the match was played (i.e. in the chronological order). <br/> ii) This is followed by a ''Times of India'' analysis of the '''same''' Indian results. This time '''the results are repeated ''' in the Olympics format. <br/> iii) In the right hand column of this page you will find ''The Times of India '' graphics with brief statistics about the potential of almost every Indian sportsperson/ team, as it stood '''before '''the Rio Olympics. <br/>