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Perhaps it can add a few yards to your drive but overall doping is not much useful in golf.

It is unfair to say India only won 2 medals and paint it as if we were only slightly better than Pakistan. Nothing could be further from the truth! We had a team of 120 athletes and all of them qualified on merit, Pakistan had 0. We also came close of winning quite a few medals. I mean you get...

She blew it in round 3. I think scored 8 over par, after that R4 became almost irrelevant. Even a par round 3 would have kept her in the hunt.

In golf the first two rounds are always qualifying but the scores carry forward. Every tournament has different rules but the final cutoff generally includes 50-60 golfers. They get to play the final 2 rounds. Aditi is through by a huge margin.

She is 4 shots off the leader. She has a 6 under par after round 2, the leader has 10 under par. That is a manageable gap if she has 2 solid final rounds. You have to remember that there are still 36 holes to be played (18x2). A lot can and will change.

Total number of rounds 4, 18 holes in each round. After 2 rounds there is a qualification cutoff, usually of 50-60 golfers (depending on tie scores). Each hole has an individual par. If you score par, called even par, you get 0, if you can complete the hole in less shots than par you get a...

Sindhu definitely has the firepower to beat Marin, in fact she has beaten Marin in the past. It's about keeping her cool in tight situations.

What an amazing performance from Sindhu, absolutely dominated her opponent in the second game. The Chinese player's injury also helped her because she was almost guaranteed to win a bronze at least. I don't know if you guys follow golf but Aditi Ashok finished R2 with only one shot behind the...

Don't forget the Mirza/Bopanna's choke from 3-1 up to 3-10 in the TB. I follow tennis closely and it was nothing but a good old fashioned choke.

Now others can play pressure free, which is a huge determining factor at the Olympics. I truly believe that if someone like Jitu Rai had won a medal early on, we would have won more medals by now. A lot of them got crushed under the pressure of winning that first medal.

Phew, finally! I almost turned it off when she was 0-5 down. What a comeback!

It only took him about 2 and half years but it seems Modi is finally getting his Pakistan policy right. This is what I was expecting from him right from the beginning and not shaadi and b'day parties in Pakistan or inviting Pakistanis to an IAF base. Now I hope there is consistency in this...

I have to be honest here. I have not watched his show and I do not have the patience to sit through his verbal diarrhea for an hour. But it seems even you are not clear what kind of trial he exactly wants and more importantly against whom and on what charges. Who are these terrorist sympathizers...

The format does not matter. I have not seen a format like Arnab Goswami's anywhere else. He is quite unique in that sense and he is not a small fish. His show is the most watched English news show in India, if you can call it that. What he is doing right now is adding fuel to the already...

A very important ruling under the current circumstances.

That is actually very cowardly from Arnab. Everyone knows who he is targeting, so why wouldn't he name them? If you watched Jon Stewart, you would know that he regularly targeted news media (mainly Fox) and he would name them and point out specifics. If you are going to target someone that's how...

I was a big admirer of Arnab Goswami for a number of reasons. Firstly, he was an Assamese; so I always had a soft corner for him, there are so few Assamese doing well at the national stage. Secondly during the UPA period he was the only one who was not a part of the Delhi media circle and...

Indians would range from Pakistanis to South East Asians depending on the region. Although I must say that the average height is increasing with each generation. My generation is on average 2-3 inches taller than their parents. I am talking about middle class families here, not the extreme poor...

India is a very diverse country in every possible way. So average height also varies a lot.

As an Indian, especially from a part where people are generally on the shorter side, I actually feel lucky to be average. Trust me, it could have been a lot worse for me. :D