India still stands many chances to win medals at Rio Olympics 2016. These are the hopefuls

Rio Olympics 2016 is underway and yes India has not opened its medal tally as yet, but fret not, because that could be changing soon.

Some of our sportspersons lost the chance to get the medal by a whisker as shooter Abhinav Bindra, rower Dattu Bhokanal and judoka Avtar Singh finished fourth, missing the third spot by a point or two.

Indian weight-lifter Sathish Sivalingam was also out of the medal bracket and India’s hope for medals from Jitu Rai, Gagan Narang and Heena Sidhu also ended.

Indian swimmers Sajan Prakash, Shivani Kataria were also knocked out of the competition and even archer laxmirani Majhi crashed out of women’s individual archery event.

But, there is still hope for India, which has sent its largest contingent ever, as boxers Manoj Kumar, Vikas Krishnan and gymnast Dipa Karmakar are still in the foray.

Our badminton stars Jwala Gutta, Saina Nehwal and wrestlers Yogeshwar Dutt and Narsingh Yadav are still to compete and there are bright chances for India to win a medal there.

The biggest thing is to compete at Olympics as with given infrastructure in India, achieving this level of feat in sporting era in itself is commendable and we all should be proud of our sportpersons who are taking the pressure, sweating it out and doing everything they can for India.

Here are the hopefuls that will open the scorecard for India on medal tally. Fingers crossed!

(Image credits: Indiatimes/Reuters)