Tokyo Olympics  

Indian shooters and the nation’s men’s cricket team had lots to cheer in the past week. The shooters won a record 15 quota places for Tokyo Olympics while the Rohit Sharma-led side won T20I series 2-1 against Bangladesh. All this and more in MyNation’s Sportstop weekly sports review show (November 4 to 10)

 

Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar shot 449.1 in the eight-man finals to finish third on the podium behind gold medallist Kim Jonghyun (459.9) of Korea and Chinese Zhonghao Zhao (459.1) at the Lusail Shooting Complex in Doha, Qatar

Shooter Deepak Kumar won a bronze medal in the men's 10m air rifle at the 14th Asian Championships and has secured a berth in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

 MyNation’s Sportstop brings to you what all happened in the past week (October 28 to November 3). India’s T20I team, without Virat Kohli, was beaten by Bangladesh in Delhi while Indian hockey teams, both men and women, qualified for the Tokyo Olympics. All this and more in this week’s Sportstop

It was expected to be a tricky Olympic qualifier tie for India but the women punched above their weight to simply demolish USA's challenge in front of a partisan crowd at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar

Mandeep Singh struck twice to help India win the first leg of the Olympic hockey qualifiers. Mandeep (24th, 53rd minutes) scored two field goals while Harmanpreet Singh (5th) and SV Sunil (48th) also hit the target for India against Russia

Shiva Thapa (63kg) and Pooja Rani (75kg) did the country proud with gold while Ashish (69kg) settled for a silver, ending India's brilliant campaign at Olympic test event

Mary Kom will represent the Asian bloc in the ambassadors group for Tokyo Olympics, which also comprise the likes of Ukrainian legend Vasyl Lamachenko (Europe), a two-time Olympic and world gold-medallist who now plies his trade in the professional circuit, and five-time world champion and 2016 Olympic gold-winner Julio Cesar La Cruz (Americas) among others

Four-time Asian medallist Shiva Thapa (63kg) won his quarter-final bout in the Olympic Test event for boxing on Tuesday (October 29) in Tokyo

The camp will focus on preparing the team for the two-match FIH Olympic qualifiers against USA to be held on November 1 and 2

'Right now my focus is on the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and my main aim is to work hard and give my best at the Olympics,' PV Sindhu told reporters. 'My ultimate aim is to get gold, but it is not going to be easy and I need to work hard'

The TOPS is a flagship programme of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports to provide assistance to India's top athletes. The scheme's committee has also cleared financial proposals of over Rs 70 lakh at their meeting today

The coaches and captains of Indian hockey teams sounded upbeat about the prospects of the two teams in the qualifiers, scheduled to be held at Bhubaneshwar on November 1 and 2, for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

'But Olympics is a completely different feeling. Rio (Games) and World Championship gave me different memories, but, yeah, one gold medal is missing, so definitely I will work hard for that and would love to see myself win that Olympic gold at Tokyo,' said PV Sindhu

The Indian men's hockey team chief coach Graham Reid said they are confident of qualifying for Tokyo Olympics 2020