Saturday, August 9, 2008

Indian hope for MEDALs still Alive

India's big medal hopes in shooting have had a disappointing start at the Beijing Olympics.

Shooters Samresh Jung
, Anjali Vedpathak Bhagwat and Avneet Kaur Sidhu have crashed out of the competition with the first gold medal of the Games going to the Czech Republic much to the disappointment of hosts China.

But there is some good news in the camp for the following events:

Women's Archery team, rower enter quarters,
read more @ http://www.ibnlive.com/olympicsnews/womens-archery-team-rower-enter-quarters/70735-29.html

And this is not alone,
In rowing, too, there was good news where Bajrang Lal Thakar qualified for the quater-finals in the men's single sculls event.

Thakar finished third in his heat, clocking 1minute 57.82 seconds and finished about 16 seconds behind Ondrej Synek of the Czech Republic who finished first.

Thakar will now try to move ahead in the next round on Monday.

More related:

Indian Sports at Olympics: Medal Prospects in Beijing

No comments: