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Let's not be Pakistanis, the whole world doesn't conspire. Not great umpiring but everyone is not out to get you. Happens in almost all sports to many players of different countries to different countries in team sports. Maradona's hznd of God a good example, he cheated, referee was bad but no one suggested international conspiracy. We make ourselves look ridiculous behaving like every white guy is a racist out to get us. We can be angry and irritated with the umpiring but we must let it go.
point taken.
but surely, victimhood is not our default setting.
it will take a generation to get over steve bucknor's ghost.
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Let's not be Pakistanis, the whole world doesn't conspire. Not great umpiring but everyone is not out to get you. Happens in almost all sports to many players of different countries to different countries in team sports. Maradona's hznd of God a good example, he cheated, referee was bad but no one suggested international conspiracy. We make ourselves look ridiculous behaving like every white guy is a racist out to get us. We can be angry and irritated with the umpiring but we must let it go.
You are a fool. Even if the timer is not on the play is valid because umpire blew whistle at the start and at the end.
 

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In field hockey a foul play can continue if the victim is at advantage or at a posting of scoring the goal.

The same advantage and ‘game on’ is given even if there is a technical glitch. The Australian player was defeated fair a square but they used lamest trick, very common trick popular a decade ago that the timer was not on.
 

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I must say Indian performance in sports has increased. Nowadays plenty of medals are won by our athletes including Gold.

Maybe its change in Government's approch towards sports or change in people's mindset towards sports or maybe both.

There is something called TOPS program is going on for some time. But the real challenge is when coming to Olympics where our performance drastically getting down. With proper support we can have some major advantage in few areas

1. Archery - SK is the main rival. Need to beat them.
2. Shooting - Tough shot. But we need to put some mighty efforts.
3. Wrestling - I believe we are in top 10 but we need to take down some serious contender from Central Asian countries.
4. Field Hockey - Our chances are good. But need to took Big heads like Belgium.
5. Boxing - Again big competition but still we are having some big chance.
6. Badminton - So far we are getting medals but still our contingent needs to perform to better to get max medals.
7. TT - Chinese are top notch. We should also try our best.
8. Javelin - Neeraj Chopra is getting better lets hope for another medal.

9. Atheletics - We are going to compete against Russia, Germany, USA, Jamaica, UK , Australia etc. This is the toughest but still we are in starting stage with some regular appearances in various competitions. Hope this will improve over time.
 

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Has this been answered?
These non-vegetarians are so insecure and “lampats” they always start asking questions on behalf of vegetarians who never make any such claims. They always come out to say, ‘see we eat meat and we are better’. Looks like they suffer some kind of guilt. Not only that they start mocking vegetarians and even bully them or try to convince them to change their dietary orientation.

In any case, to answer this question there should be a peer reviewed double blind trail studies of very large sample size where participants under strict control given equal facilities and training without telling players that their dietary choices are the main research. The protein intake and calories intake standardised but source plant based or animal meat based be left on natural vegetarians and naturally non vegetarians. No advise or conditioning be done rather player discouraged without strong emphasis to stick with what culturally, religiously or by choice they want to eat. Any intentional or unintentional change must be recorded and subjects made invalid without telling them.

The study can also be planted with a select bias so that the vegetarian or non-vegetarian topic doesn’t arise or get attention.
 
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It'd be foolish to boycott CWG. We should be using it as a stepping stone for Olympics.

India should use all it's might to get Shooting & Archery back into the games. Effort spent on that would be better than being triggered and boycotting the games.

We won 7 Gold medals in Shooting in last edition of CWG. With Shooting & Archery in CWG, we'll be finishing at no 3 position behind Aus & Eng.

The genetic diversity of India is so vast that we'll do very well in all Sports with good training. We'd be fools to even think of boycotting CWG.

Sports > Movies when it comes to soft power.
 

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