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Women archers blame weather conditions
India's erratic women archers crashed out of the team event on Sunday. Denmark edged out the Indians 210-211 at the Lord's cricket ground.
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Chekrovulo Swuro's poor score of six in one of the rounds led to India's ouster as one heard the familiar complaints from the Indian archers about the cross winds creating a problem.
It will now be upto Deepika Kumari to provide a saving grace performance in the individual event as nothing much is expected from the other archers.
'We're disappointed, but we had some bad luck'
Team Manager Paresh Nath Mukherjee admitted that Swuro's poor show was a factor."She was totally out of sorts and didn't perform well today. Even Deepika was erratic with only Bombayla Devi doing well," Mukherjee said.
A disappointed Bombayla said, "We're disappointed, but we had some bad luck. We tried our best but we lost by a point."
On the sixes and sevens shot by the team, she said, "We wanted to shoot at least 8s because with 8s, there would be no problems but when my partner (Swuro) hit the 6s, that created big problem."
Bombayla said that although wind was a factor but she is confident about doing well in the individual event.
"There was a little bit of wind -- more than yesterday (Saturday), but I am confident for the individual round. I will try my best."
'The wind was shifting quite a bit and pushing the arrows'
Swuro, whose performance was the main reason for India's ouster also lamented about strong wind changing the trajectory of the arrow.
"I shot two sixes but I also shot 10s. The wind was a problem -- it was shifting quite a bit and pushing the arrows."
The scores when broken down individually showed Bombayla Devi as the best with 74, including three 10s, four 9s and one 8, out of India's total of 210. Deepika with just one 10, had 69 and Swuro, who had two big lapses with 6s, managed only 67.
The Danes were very consistent with nothing below 7 at any point and even that came only once.
Archers- a big disappointment so far
The archers, who had come as big hopes on the strength of Deepika Kumari's World No. 1 ranking and the women's fine performance over the last year or so, has so far proved a big disappointment.
The Indian team had a slender edge in the first set at 52-51, but the Danes forged ahead in the second with 29 and 27 in their archers' two attempts in second set while Indians had only 24 and 27.
In the third, the Danes added one more point to their lead, and despite the best effort of the Indians in the last set, the Danish trio held out to win 211-210.
The Indians had 9 perfect 10s to the Danes' 6 perfect10s, but the latter were more consistent and it carried them through.The Danes had finished eighth, while the Indians were ninth in the ranking round.