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  • Saurav Ghosal beats absolute best pal, wins historical bronze 

    James Willstrop had overwhelmed long-time pal Saurav Ghosal 8 out of 9 occasions earlier than Wednesday, virtually at all times in a resounding style inside of 3 video games. Each coached by way of Willstrop’s mythical father-coach Malcolm, know each and every different’s sport just like the again in their fingers. Willstrop was once additionally the protecting Commonwealth Video games champion. Till the Indian squash Number one after all grew to become the tide in their historical past and beat the 38-year-old Englishman to take the bronze medal on the Birmingham CWG.

    Ghosal’s promising profession, given credence when he received the British Junior’s identify in 2004, has noticed its ups and downs. He has received titles the world over but if it got here to the large one, he at all times slipped agonisingly with reference to his last frontier. A medal on the Commonwealth Video games was once, in his phrases, ‘the gloss’ lacking from his trophy cupboard. A trophy cupboard that can have been additional stuffed if no longer for the close to misses.

    BRONZE FOR SAURAV! ?

    Our gifted Squash participant @SauravGhosal ? clinches Bronze once you have previous James Willstrop of England 3-0 (11-6, 11-1, 11-4) within the Bronze medal fit ??

    Strategy to cross Saurav ?

    Congratulations! ??’s 1st medal in Squash this #CWG2022 ?#Cheer4India percent.twitter.com/At5VcvRfH0

    — SAI Media (@Media_SAI) August 3, 2022

    3 years in the past, Saurav Ghosal was once in a struggle with the Egyptian referred to as ‘Beast’. Mohamed El-Shorbagy was once the present Global No 2 and Ghosal was once within the battle of his lifestyles on the Global Championship quarter-finals. Then a 33-year-old, Ghosal had spent 15 years at the squash circuit and if issues went his method, this may had been the largest fish he ever reeled in his profession.

    He ended up taking El-Shorbagy to 5 video games and 85 mins later misplaced at the softest of backhands. The overall ranking learn 11-5, 11th of September, 11th of September, 12-10, 10-12 but it surely was once that closing level within the closing sport that at all times rankled Ghosh. He later spoke about how had he hit the ball relatively softer, or more difficult, then his Egyptian opponent’s go back would have hit the tin and that time can have modified each narrative about his profession.

    Ghosal had the risk to modify how his historical past learn as soon as once more on Tuesday when he took on but any other Global No 2 in New Zealand’s Peter Coll. However the lanky Kiwi was once working on a unique stratosphere, combining his different worldly succeed in to fish out the tightest of angles whilst the usage of his awesome athleticism to counter no matter Ghosal had to provide. Via the 3rd sport, the Indian had emptied his tank out, attempting a variation of pictures towards his Kiwi conqueror. The trouble had taken sufficient out of him for one to imagine that the bronze medal fit in an afternoon’s time was once most probably out of the query. Ghosal disagreed.

    There could also be the historic precedent of him having misplaced his bronze medal fit on the 2014 Glasgow Video games – towards Willstrop besides. However that elusive singles identify that he have been chasing for years after all landed right here in Birmingham.

    Ultimate frontier

    Profitable a singles medal on the Commonwealth Video games has been the only objective that was once Ghosh’s last frontier. His self assurance going into the 2018 Gold Coast tournament was once sky prime. Speaking about his arrangements, Ghosal had advised reporters on the time that he was once scheduling his occasions earlier than the Video games in this kind of method that he would get every week or two’s value of relaxation earlier than pushing his frame once more. However a surprise go out within the first spherical supposed that his dream of profitable a Commonwealth medal was once having a look bleak.

    Minimize to 4 years later and the leadup to those Birmingham Video games has been subdued. Older now, Ghosal silently went during the box, easing previous Sri Lanka’s Shamil Wakeel 11-4, 11-4, 11-6. His first fit of the CWG was once a great warm-up consultation – a three-game fast turnaround that allowed him to preserve power for harder rounds later into the event.

    Ghosal then caught to the script, beating the Canadian Nationwide champion and Global No 62 David Baillargeon 11-6, 11-2. 11-6. It was once best within the Spherical-of-16 towards Greg Lobban that he after all dropped a sport. However the Global No 34 from Scotland needed to succumb as his 35-year-old compatriot endured his march against the medals, culminating in a semi-final fit towards Coll.

    After the loss to Coll, Ghosal went into the bronze medal fit drained and damaged however pulled out the entire stops towards Willstrop. This isn’t the Willstrop of previous as smartly. Turning 39 this summer time, the Englishman has noticed higher days and his reactions to Ghosal’s pictures, specifically at the forehand facet, had been telling.

    At the side-lines of his epic victory Ghosal said the instant. He went right into a nook and wept. A couple of moments later he scaled the barricades and hugged his spouse. He even said Willstrop’s affect in his lifestyles when he stated, “He’s my absolute best pal in lifestyles however to do it at this level, profitable India’s first person Commonwealth Video games medal…”. Ghosal after all were given the gloss he so hard-earned.

  • CWG 2022: Lovepreet provides 109kg bronze to India’s weightlifting tally

    As a kid, Lovepreet Singh would steadily spend time staring at his father Kirpal Singh sew garments in his store outdoor their two-room village house. Her would additionally pay attention to stories of national-level weightlifter Heera Singh, who additionally hailed from their village Bal Sikandar.

    On Tuesday afternoon, the 24-year-old did his village proud when he gained the Commonwealth Video games bronze medal within the 109kg class. He lifted a complete of 355 kg with a countrywide file of 163 kg in seize and 192 kg in blank and jerk. Cameroon’s Junior Periclex gained the gold with a complete carry of 361 kg whilst Jack Opeloge of Samoa gained the silver with a complete carry of 358 kg.

    A ????ly begin to Day 6️⃣?

    Profitable a ? medal in Males’s 109 KG class in Weightlifting, Lovepreet Singh luggage the 14th Medal for ?? in #CWG2022 ?#BirminghamMeinJitegaHindustanHamara ?#B2022 #SonySportsNetwork #SirfSonyPeDikhega percent.twitter.com/610jZA9gle

    — Sony Sports activities Community (@SonySportsNetwk) August 3, 2022

    “Jad chhota bachcha si tan bapu ji kapde sew karan ch busy rehende si te gal karan da time nahi si. Aaj medal jeetya hai te bapu ji da telephone busy a raheya hai (When I used to be a child, I might wait to speak with my father amid his busy time table on the tailoring store and lately, I’m ready to speak with him however his telephone is busy). To win my first Commonwealth Video games medal this is my reward to the entire exhausting paintings performed by means of my circle of relatives,” Singh mentioned from Birmingham.

    Singh, who began weightlifting on the age of 13, would first of all practise weightlifting with the village early life on the Govt college within the village ahead of moving his coaching to DAV College, Amritsar. The teen would grow to be a junior nationwide and early life nationwide medallist in 2016 ahead of successful a bronze on the Asian Adolescence Championships. He would due to this fact grow to be the Junior Commonwealth Champion within the 105 kg class. Closing 12 months, Singh gained the silver medal with a complete carry of 332 kg within the Senior Nationals at Patiala ahead of a bronze with a complete carry of 348 kg within the Commonwealth Championships in Tashkent.

    Bhangra at house following Lovepreet’s Bronze medal win on the #CommonwealthGames!

    ?: Rana Simranjit Singhhttps://t.co/vwflkGbtWP percent.twitter.com/VIxLAfmkH9

    — Specific Sports activities (@IExpressSports) August 3, 2022

    Right through the lockdown in 2020, Singh spent the longest time at his village since changing into a petty officer within the Indian Military. “When Lovepreet confirmed his want to grow to be a weightlifter, I didn’t hesitate for a 2d to permit him. Even if I used to earn Rs 10,000 to fifteen,000 per 30 days, I at all times attempted to give you the best possible for Lovepreet. He would cycle to his Amritsar college and would then pass to his coaching. Maximum of my consumers got here lately to congratulate me and we made certain that each one had chocolates lately,” mentioned Kirpal.

    On Wednesday, when Australian Jackson George failed to boost a blank and jerk weight of 211 kg to surpass Singh’s overall, the Indian celebrated. “Whilst I made a brand new nationwide file in seize, I really like blank and jerk probably the most. Trainer Vijay Sharma sir patted me and I see it as my praise,” mentioned Singh.

  • Commonwealth Video games 2022: Tulika Maan advances to last, India confident of third judo medal in CWG

    Commonwealth Video games 2022: India’s Tulika Maan confident her nation their 3rd medal in judo within the ongoing version of the match in Birmingham.

    Tulika Maan of India. Courtesy: Twitter

    HIGHLIGHTSTulika Maan gained the fit by way of one ipponTulika Maan took 1 minute and 53 seconds to win the matchEarlier, Deepak Deswal misplaced his repechage fit

    India’s Tulika Maan, on Wednesday, August 3, certified for the gold medal fit of the ladies’s 78 kg semi-final. She defeated New Zealand’s Sydnee Andrews by way of one ippon. Andrews controlled to churn out a waza-ari to start out the fit, however Maan used to be equivalent to the duty.

    The fit took 1 minute and 53 seconds to recover from. Maan, within the period in-between, is now confident of no less than a silver medal. In the past, Shushila Devi and Vijay Kumar Yadav gained medals of their respective classes in Judo.

    Devi gained the silver medal within the 48kg last after shedding to South Africa’s Michaela Whitebooi. Yadav, alternatively, gained the bronze medal within the males’s 60 kg match. He defeated Cyprus’s Petros C by way of one ippon in 58 mins. He claimed a waza-ari after simply 5 seconds and went directly to safe victory.

    On the other hand, Maan has the golden alternative to turn out to be the primary Indian judoka to win the gold medal within the ongoing Commonwealth Video games 2022.

    Maan went into her semi-final fit after defeating Mauritius’s Tracy Durhone and he or she carried at the shape within the semis as neatly.

    Previous, India’s Deepak Deswal misplaced his repechage fit in opposition to Fiji’s Tevita Takayawa. The judoka from Fiji gained by way of an ippon and the fit lasted just one minute and eight seconds. Deswal’s opponent garnered two waza-ari to come back up trumps.

    Deepak went into the repechage after shedding to England’s Harry Lovell-Hewitt. He used to be simplest in a position to win the Males’s 100 kg Removing Spherical of 16 fit in opposition to Cameron’s Eric Jean Sebastien Omgba Fouda.

    — ENDS —

  • Commonwealth Video games 2022: Jacob Kiplimo after successful gold in 10,000m – Successful the CWG name used to be the entirety for me

    Commonwealth Video games 2022: Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo gained gold n the boys’s 10,000m ultimate at Alexander Stadium in Birmingham.

    Jacob Kiplimo of Uganda. Courtesy: AP

    HIGHLIGHTSJacob Kiplimo persisted Uganda’s unbeaten run because the CWG in 2006 at MelbourneJacob Kiplimo completed the ten,000m ultimate in 27 mins, 9.19 secondsJacob Kiplimo carried out within the absence of Joshua Cheptegei

    Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo stated that he desperately sought after to win a medal within the Commonwealth Video games 2022. On Tuesday, August 2, Kiplimo gained gold within the males’s 10,000m ultimate at Alexander Stadium in Birmingham. Additionally, the 21-year-old persisted Uganda’s unbeaten run within the race because the CWG in 2006 at Melbourne.

    Previous, global champion Joshua Cheptegei showed that he wouldn’t be participating within the CWG 2022 because of “sickness”. Cheptegei had additionally sponsored Kiplimo to accomplish neatly on the CWG.

    Within the absence of the veteran, Kiplimo stepped up and carried out to expectancies. Kiplimo, who additionally gained bronze within the Olympics and on the global degree, needed to paintings laborious, particularly towards the Kenyan trio of Daniel Ebenyo, Kibiwott Kandie and Edward Zakayo Pingua.

    Alternatively, the Younger Turk upped his recreation and got here up trumps. He additionally mentioned appearing neatly on the Olympics and global championships.

    “I feel for me successful this Commonwealth Video games name used to be the entirety, an important factor for me this season,” Kiplimo used to be quoted as pronouncing.

    “However I nonetheless have numerous issues to do one day on the Olympics and global championships,” he mentioned.

    “I used to be mentally rather flat after the International Championships. I’m so pleased with myself as it used to be so laborious to come back right here,” Kennedy stated.

    Whilst Ebenyo gained the silver medal within the ultimate, Kandie needed to keep content material with bronze. Kiplimo, born in Bukwo, finished the race in a report time of 27 mins, 9.19 seconds.

    — ENDS —

  • CWG Day 6 time table: India vs Barbados in cricket, India vs Canada in hockey and squash males’s singles bronze medal fit

    The Indian contingent will probably be in motion on day 6 on the Birmingham Commonwealth Video games (CWG) 2022 on Wednesday, August 3, 2022. The CWG were a cheerful searching floor for the biggest country within the Commonwealth. A top-five finisher because the 2002 version, India has relied so much at the capturing dropped from the Birmingham Video games programme. Going forward within the 2022 Birmingham Video games, they’ll be aiming to no less than fit their 66-medal haul from the former Gold Coast version. India had completed 3rd in Gold Coast, with as many as 26 golds, 20 silver, and 20 bronze medals of their kitty.

    Cricket (Girls’s) – India vs Barbados (10.30 PM)

    The Indian girls’s group will hope to construct at the momentum after beating arch competitors Pakistan and can tackle Barbados within the closing fit of their staff. India has misplaced to Australia, received in opposition to Pakistan and can want a win in opposition to Barbados to stick alive.

    Girls’s Pool A – India as opposed to Canada 3.30 PM

    After shedding for the primary time within the CWG on Tuesday in opposition to England, the Indian girls’s hockey group will glance to return to profitable techniques in opposition to Canada on Wednesday. Previous to the England loss, the Indians had registered back-to-back victories — 5-0 over Ghana and 3-1 in opposition to Wales — of their first two Pool A suits.

    Males’s Pool B – India as opposed to Canada – 6.30 PM

    The Indian males’s hockey group would glance to position up a disciplined efficiency and keep away from pointless playing cards in its bid to go back to profitable techniques in opposition to Canada on the Commonwealth Video games right here on Wednesday. After a thumping 11-0 win over Ghana of their opener, India squandered a three-goal benefit and had been held 4-4 via hosts England of their 2d pool B fit.

    Squash

    Males’s Singles – Bronze Medal Fit

    Saurav Ghoshal vs James Willstrop (9.30 PM)

    Combined Doubles spherical of 32 as opposed to Sri Lanka -03.30 PM

    Girls

    Shot Put ultimate – Manpreet Kaur (12.35 am on Thursday)

    Boxing:

    Girls

    45kg-48 kg (minimal weight) – quarterfinals –Nitu Ganghas (4.45 pm)

    48-50 kg (mild flyweight) – quarterfinals – Nikhat Zahreen (11.15 PM)

    66-70 kg (mild middleweight) -quarter-finals – Lovlina Borgohain (12.45 am on Thursday)

    Males

    54-57 kg (featherweight) – quarterfinals – Hussam Uddin Mohammed (5.45 pm)

    75-80 kg (mild heavyweight) – quarter-finals – Ashish Kumar (2.00 AM on Wednesday)

    Judo

    Girls’s 78kg quarter-finals – Tulika Mann – 2.30 PM onwards

    Males’s 100kg removing spherical of 16 – Deepak Deswal – 2.30 PM onwards

    Garden Bowls:

    Males’s Singles – Mridul Borgohain – 1 PM and four PM

    Girls’s Pair – India as opposed to Nuie – 1 PM and four PM

    Males’s 4 – India as opposed to Cook dinner Islands and England – 7.30 PM and 10.30 PM

    Girls’s Triple – India as opposed to Nuie 07.30 PM

    Weightlifting

    Males’s 109 kg – Lovpreet Singh – 2.00 PM

    Girls’s 87kg – Purnima Pandey – 6.30 PM

    Males’s 109 kg – Gurdeep Singh – 11 PM

     

  • Commonwealth Video games 2022: Hayley Jensen’s 3-fer takes New Zealand into ladies’s cricket semi-finals

    Each England and New Zealand are tied on 4 issues each and every, with New Zealand on the most sensible due to their reasonably higher internet run fee. The overall order of Team B, then again, shall be made up our minds after the groups’ 3rd fixture.

    New Zealand’s Hayley Jensen celebrates after placing early. (Courtesy: Twitter/White Ferns)

    HIGHLIGHTSEngland beat South Africa through 26 runs in a Team B fixture17-year-old Alice Capsey hit a maiden T20I half-centuryNew Zealand defeated Sri Lanka through 45 runs in Team B fit

    New Zealand and host England have certified for the semi-finals of the ladies’s T20I festival on the 2022 Commonwealth Video games after making two in two of their team fixtures.

    Simply over two days after the England soccer staff received the Ladies’s Euro, England ladies’s cricket staff had a Lionesses-style celebrations when they defeated South Africa through 26 runs on Tuesday (August 2).

    The 17-year-old Alice Capsey hit her maiden half-century to lend a hand England put up 167 for the lack of 5 wickets after being put into bat. Amy Jones and Katherine Brunt’s cameos got here in to hand because it made the entire distinction between England and South Africa. In answer, the Proteas began off smartly with a 64-run partnership, however as soon as that was once damaged, the run fee began creeping up.

    Despite the fact that Laura Wolvaardt and captain Sune Luus have been within the heart, they’d no likelihood to level a comeback. Apparently, South Africa’s male opposite numbers had received the gold medal all over a Checklist A males’s 50-over event on the 1998 Commonwealth Video games. The 1998 version was once the primary time when cricket featured within the multi-sport tournament.

    Alternatively, Hayley Jensen’s three-wicket haul helped New Zealand safe their semi-final berth on the 2022 Video games. After opting to bat, New Zealand posted 147/7 in opposition to Sri Lanka in a Team B fit. Openers Sophie Devine and Suzie Bates chipped in sooner than Lea Tahuhu’s eight-ball 20 took the facet to a aggressive general. In answer, Sri Lanka have been nowhere shut because the island country was once limited to 102/8.

    Each England and New Zealand are tied on 4 issues each and every, with New Zealand on the most sensible due to their reasonably higher internet run fee. The overall order of Team B, then again, shall be made up our minds after the groups’ 3rd fixture.

    — ENDS —

  • India at CWG 2022 Day 5 wrap: Garden Bowls and Desk tennis groups ship gold, Heartbreak in Badminton

    It used to be a ancient day for India on the Commonwealth Video games on Tuesday because the Garden Bowls workforce defied odds to win the country’s first-ever medal within the game on the Commonwealth Video games 2022.

    The lads’s desk tennis workforce used to be in a position to retain their crown and clinch gold on 2d August as neatly. Vikas Thakur won every other medal for India in weightlifting.

    Alternatively, there used to be heartbreak for the country in badminton because the blended workforce misplaced their crown to Malaysia and had been pressured to accept silver. The Indian girls’s hockey workforce had an afternoon to put out of your mind on Tuesday as they misplaced to England.

    LAWN BOWLS: INDIA CREATES HISTORY

    India’s garden bowls workforce scripted historical past by way of successful the country’s first Commonwealth Video games gold medal after defeating South Africa 17-10 within the last of the ladies’s fours tournament in Birmingham.

    The ladies’s fours workforce comprising of Pretty Choubey (lead), Pinki (2d), Nayanmoni Saikia (3rd) and Rupa Rani Tirkey (skip) ensured India ended up with every other gold.

    TABLE TENNIS: MEN’S TEAM RETAIN CROWN

    The lads’s desk tennis workforce, led by way of Achanta Sharath Kamal, retained their crown and landed India every other gold medal on the Commonwealth Video games on 2d August.

    India defeated Singapore 3-1 within the last with G Sathiyan and Harmeet Desai successful their singles and doubles suits.

    BADMINTON: INDIA DETHRONED BY MALAYSIA

    The Indian blended badminton workforce used to be dethroned on Tuesday by way of Malaysia as they had been pressured to accept the silver medal on the Commonwealth Video games on Tuesday.

    Malaysia gained the general by way of a margin of 3-1, with India’s handiest win coming courtesy of PV Sindhu’s glowing efficiency within the girls’s singles.

    WEIGHTLIFTING: VIJAY THAKUR CLAIMS SILVER

    India’s dream run in weightlifting persisted as Vikas Thakur claimed the country’s 8th medal within the game all through this 12 months’s Commonwealth Video games on Tuesday. Thakur gained silver within the males’s 96kg class.

    Vikas lifted a blended weight of 346kg(155kg within the Seize and 199kg within the Blank and Jerk) to complete 2d. This used to be the Indian’s 3rd medal on the Commonwealth Video games.

    WEIGHTLIFTING: HEARTBREAK FOR PUNAM YADAV

    Commonwealth video games 2022 did not move consistent with Punam Yadav’s plans because the two-time medallist crashed out of the ladies’s 76 kg last after failing to check in a unmarried blank and jerk try on Tuesday.

    Yadav used to be in 2d place after the grasp spherical, however did not capitalize on her probabilities within the blank and jerk spherical.

    SQUASH: SAURAV GHOSAL TO FIGHT FOR BRONZE AFTER SEMI-FINAL DEFEAT

    Saurav Ghosal can be combating it out for bronze after he suffered a semi-final loss to New Zealand’s Paul Coll within the males’s singles semifinals on the Commonwealth Video games.

    Ghosal misplaced the semi-final by way of a margin of 3-0 on Tuesday.

    BOXING: TOKAS BEGINS CAMPAIGN IN TOP FORM

    Rohit Tokas began his Commonwealth Video games marketing campaign on a nice observe as he defeated Alfred Kotey 5-0 in a males’s 67kg pre-quarterfinal contest on Tuesday.

    Tokas, who used to be making his CWG debut, regarded assured right through the bout and defended neatly to seal the win.

    HOCKEY: INDIA LOSE 3-1 TO ENGLAND

    The Indian girls’s hockey workforce suffered a heartbreaking loss to England on Tuesday on the Commonwealth Video games. Whilst India continuously implemented power within the English part, their failure to transform probabilities got here again to hang-out them.

    India will now face Canada on third August in an all-important recreation.

    ATHLETICS: DUTEE CHAND DISAPPOINTS, MANPREET KAUR REACHES FINAL

    Indian sprinter Dutee Chand began her Commonwealth Video games 2022 marketing campaign on a disappointing observe as she did not qualify for the semi-final of the ladies’s 100m tournament on Tuesday.

    Chand clocked 11.55s to complete 4th in Warmth 5 of the ladies’s 100m qualification. Alternatively, Manpreet Kaur reached the finals of the ladies’s shot put with a absolute best throw of 16.78 m.

    SWIMMING: PAGE AND RAWAT REACH FINAL, NATARAJ SETS NATIONAL RECORD

    Advait Web page and Kushagra Rawat certified for the Commonwealth Video games 2022 males’s 1500m Freestyle last. Web page used to be ranked 7th (15:39.25) and Rawat 8th (15:47.77) a number of the 10 starters within the heats.

    Srihari Nataraj broke his personal nationwide file within the 200m backstroke heats on the Video games on Tuesday.

    — ENDS —

  • WFI blames it on Punam, claims lifter competed with harm

    Indian Weightlifting Federation (IWLF) president Sahdev Yadav on Tuesday claimed that Punam Yadav competed in spite of “now not being totally have compatibility”, lashing out on the lifter after her disastrous day out on the Commonwealth Video games right here.

    Punam used to be disqualified within the ladies’s 76kg class after failing in all her 3 blank and jerk makes an attempt. The reigning CWG champion in 69kg class, on the other hand, used to be in silver medal successful place after clutch, the place she lifted 98kg in her 3rd strive.

    Obviously dissatisfied together with her display, the nationwide federation leader stated that the lifter competed with an harm to her knee.

    “Ek medal haath se chhut gayi — obviously she dropped one medal from the weightlifting enviornment,” Yadav instructed PTI. “That’s why to begin with we had held again her title. However the athlete claimed she’s have compatibility and confirmed a health certificates issued by way of a physician. There’s no manner shall we withhold her title as she joined the group past due.

    “Should you realize her lifts intently, she used to be now not giving her easiest drive whilst lifting the barbell from blank to jerk. The knee has to bend to get that complete drive. “However in her case, it used to be lacking. It’s transparent that she’s now not 100 consistent with cent and we misplaced out on a medal,” Yadav claimed.

    Requested to elucidate, a teary-eyed Punam stated she used to be totally have compatibility.

    “Haanji, haanji — bilkul have compatibility thi (In fact, I used to be totally have compatibility). Niggles are phase and parcel of a lifter’s existence and I used to be heading in the right direction. It occurs, my sheer dangerous success,” she stated.

    Targetting a 3rd CWG medal, the 27-year-old used to be in the second one spot after lifting 98kg in her 2d strive within the clutch.

    Having failed to boost 116kg within the first two makes an attempt of fresh and jerk, the Varanasi lifter in spite of everything had a blank elevate however dropped it prior to the 3 judges gave the fairway sign.

    “Usne smile kiya and primary throw kar diya (One of the most judges smiled and I dropped it with out seeing the sunshine),” Punam, who gained a gold at Gold Coast 2018 within the 69kg class, stated after her elevate used to be recorded as “0” by way of the 3 judges.

    India have up to now gained seven medals — together with 3 gold — out of 10 weight classes. The rustic leads the weightlifting medal standings forward of Canada (2-1-4) at the gold medal depend.

  • CWG 2022: When Axl Rose and Arjit Singh enthusiasts blended to present India TT Gold

    In what is obviously an age-bending anomaly in Indian desk tennis, Sharath Kamal likes blasting AC/DC and Weapons ‘n Roses, and in rocker’s town Birmingham, has been feeding off Axl Rose. He additionally did different various age-bending issues this week like beating Nigeria’s Quadri Aruna within the electrical semifinals of the Males’s Staff match. However he has tolerated every other kinds of track, like Arijit Singh, that teammates G Sathiyan and Harmeet Desai dig, and which he reveals too heavy. “Too dard bharaa (pensive).”

    In a bond constructed over many Commonwealth Video games, and being in combination via tough instances and indifference to their wins, the Indian males’s Desk Tennis group has constructed a gold-winning streak since 2018, enjoying a harmonious song that helps to keep the juggernaut rolling. On Tuesday, it introduced India every other gold medal – Sharath’s third – because the paddlers delivered a 3-1 win over younger weapons Singapore. “Possibly as a result of my years in Europe, I’m a whole rock buff. Those guys…” Sharath laughs, mock chidingly, “they don’t know rock. They cross ‘what’s that noise?” he chuckles, whilst posing proudly together with his tenth CWG medal, no longer such a lot the CWG mascot. At 39, grungy Arijit Singh and goofy crammed toy bulls, aren’t precisely an attract.

    But, regardless of belonging to other generations, the Indian quartet of Sharath Kamal, G Sathiyan, Harmeet Desai and Sanil Shetty have controlled to avoid the standard discords that experience disbanded many groups earlier than. “I will be able to’t impose on them. I need to give them the gap they want. I’m no longer larger than the game,” Sharath says, of submerging all ego for the group reason. “Everybody has to do his process. As of late I couldn’t win my fit, so I didn’t do my process. However the others stepped up,” he explains, an afternoon after he led India into the finals, at the again of a win that had supporters from Ghana, Botswana, Nigeria and Kenya rooting for the African icon in a single proper din.

    Within the finals towards Singapore, G Sathiyan and Harmeet Desai blended to drag India out of a difficult 1-1 state of affairs, and it used to be an competitive power-thrust from Desai that ensured India ended up 3-1 winners to retain gold. “There used to be extra drive this time, protecting the identify,” stated Shetty including, the group will rejoice with some ice-cream, earlier than the vitamin routine kicks in once more on Wednesday for the person match.

    At 9-9 in a Sharath sport, the group would counsel the veteran take a look at an up-spin serve, an enter that might assist him get the following two issues. “This group has been in combination for years now. We don’t need to suppose a lot, we simply know what must be stated when to one another,” he stated.

    Towards Singapore, Harmeet used to be in a similar way informed to stay attacking – common doses of rousing encouragement to stay his whippy backhand whirring. Beginning as 3rd seeds, and half-expecting Liam Pitchford’s England to show up within the finals, the younger Singapore upstarts posed a thriller problem, even because the Indians absorbed the drive of shielding gold. With two most sensible gamers in excellent shape, there used to be room for the No. 3 to step up.

    Dart-throwing elbows off-table

    The bond within the group has grown, then again, over different video games and frolic. There’s playing cards – bluff, at which Sathiyan claims he wins, and pool and darts, the latter that Sharath gestures is his territory. Shetty kicks ass in Ps. “However if you happen to name him at 2 am and say you wish to have assist, Sanil will probably be there for you,” Sharath says of his teammate.

    The group ribs Sathiyan continuously about being hooked up to his telephone, whilst Sharath will get numerous eye-rolls from his more youthful teammates for being up and wide awake and in a position for observe at ungodly early hours. “He wakes up so early,” Harmeet carps.

    Their complementary natures steadily offset each and every different’s drawbacks. “The item with Sathiyan is he can see the intense facet of any state of affairs and switch any damaging into a favorable. He’s by no means damaging, and that’s infectious,” Harmeet provides.

    3⃣rd GOLD FOR MEN’S TEAM ?? at #CommonwealthGames ???#TeamIndia?? defeat Staff Singapore ?? 3️⃣-1️⃣ within the FINAL, protecting their 2018 CWG ?

    Bringing house 1️⃣1️⃣th Medal for India at @birminghamcg22

    Very good Champions!!#Cheer4India#India4CWG2022
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    — SAI Media (@Media_SAI) August 2, 2022

    Step forward match for Harmeet

    Desai, who starred within the finals with the doubles win after which pulling the important 3rd singles, recalls the adventure he’s undertaken in a sport that helped him make peace together with his unfulfilled adolescence dream. “As a child, I sought after to enroll in the military. As you realize, Gujaratis don’t steadily sign up for the military. However I had taken a liking to the olive uniform after observing Border. Corny, I do know. That dream by no means labored out. However I’m satisfied I may constitute India someplace and win for the rustic,” he stated after finishing his win, the place the drive of shielding the identify had given him sleepless nights.

    Hailing from Surat, TT wasn’t quite common both. “There had infrequently been any nationwide participant earlier than me from Surat. There’s no sports activities tradition there, and I at all times struggled for sparring and high quality training,” he remembers.

    His father performed TT with buddies, and had lodged a enjoying desk at house for sport. “He were given a trainer for me, but it surely’s no longer like I may keep in Surat and teach,” he stated. It additionally supposed he’s compelled to camp in Germany for 8-9 months yearly. “To start with, that used to be tricky as a result of it’s a must to cook dinner your personal meals. I’ve burnt my hand as soon as within the procedure, and once in a while meals has tasted so dangerous, plus there’s no person responsible. It’s whilst you realise that the brats that we’re at house, the place we bitch ki namak zyada hai, namak kum hai (there may be extra salt, or much less) to our moms is so improper on our phase. You realise how tricky it’s to cook dinner,” he says, the reminiscences placing as a revelation.

    Every other magical GOLD?

    A stellar display by way of the Indian Males’s Desk Tennis group. Exhilarated by way of the way in which, our paddlers led by way of Sharath Kamal, G. Sathiyan and Harmeet Desai outclassed the ambitious Singapore 3-1.
    We defended the crown effectively! %.twitter.com/kZIr7nFKiQ

    — Anurag Thakur (@ianuragthakur) August 2, 2022

    On Tuesday, the reminiscence bugging him used to be of a doubles fit he had misplaced with Anthony Amalraj on the Worlds to the similar Singaporean pairing. “I saved pondering of the doubles the entire evening, and we watched our combatants’ video games. However as of late I used to be within the waft. Earlier than the doubles, I simply stated to myself ‘As of late is my day.’ After Sathiyan’s fit, I used to be a bit of comfortable as a result of we had the cushion.”

    With Sathiyan remaining out the semis dealing with drive, it used to be Harmeet’s flip to complete it within the finals. “Profitable in 2018 used to be excellent, however protecting used to be the drive. We’re all extra mature and skilled now. I’m satisfied we were given it achieved,” Harmeet ended.

  • Commonwealth Video games 2022 | PM Narendra Modi praises India Garden Bowls staff after ‘ancient win’ for gold

    Top Minister Narendra Modi has heaped reward at the Indian girls’s Garden Balls staff that secured a histric gold medal on the Commonwealth Video games on Tuesday.

    India’s girls’s fours Lwan Balls staff defeated South Africa 17-10 within the ultimate to assert the country’s first-ever medal within the match on 2d August.

    The ladies’s fours staff made out of Pretty Choubey (lead), Pinki (2d), Nayanmoni Saikia (3rd) and Rupa Rani Tirkey (skip) they usually had first taken a comfy 8-2 lead after Finish 7. On the other hand, South Africa were not able to move down with no struggle and their captain Skip Snyden helped them jump again. After Finish 11, the South African staff had taken the lead of the fit with a scoreline of 10-8.

    India had 4 rounds to show across the tie and the staff replied in sensible type. The quartet from India secured two issues on successive ends to eke out a 12-10 benefit.

    On the penultimate finish of the fit, India gained 3 issues. South Africa had been left with a mountain to climb and wanted six issues to win and 5 to tie.

    In spite of the South African staff’s very best efforts, India had achieved sufficient to safe the ancient gold medal on Tuesday.

    For the reason that win, needs had been pouring in for the Indian staff, with the newest being Top Minister Narendra Modi.

    PM Modi mentioned that the entire country is happy with the 4 contributors within the staff. He additionally mentioned that Choubey, Singh, Saikia and Tirkey demonstrated nice dexterity and their luck will inspire many to absorb Garden Bowls.

    Historical win in Birmingham! India is happy with Pretty Choubey, Pinki Singh, Nayanmoni Saikia and Rupa Rani Tirkey for bringing house the distinguished Gold in Garden Bowls. The staff has demonstrated nice dexterity and their luck will inspire many Indians in opposition to Garden Bowls. %.twitter.com/RvuoGqpQET

    — Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) August 2, 2022

    “Historical win in Birmingham! India is happy with Pretty Choubey, Pinki Singh, Nayanmoni Saikia and Rupa Rani Tirkey for bringing house the distinguished Gold in Garden Bowls. The staff has demonstrated nice dexterity and their luck will inspire many Indians in opposition to Garden Bowls,” mentioned Modi.

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