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Anirban Lahiri, SSP Chawrasia and Aditi Ashok will represent India at the forthcoming Rio Olympics, as golf makes a return to the Olympic fold for the first time in 112 years, after the revised Olympic golf rankings were released on Monday.The Olympic field is restricted to a field of 60 players in both mens and womens golf, and the top 15 world-ranked players are all eligible, with a limit of four players from each country.Beyond the top 15, there is a limit of two players per country, provided there is no player in the top 15 from that nation. World no. 62 Lahiri will effectively be ranked 20th in the Olympic rankings, while Chawrasias Olympic ranking is 45th, despite his disappointing performance in the Scottish Open over last week that saw his world ranking slip from 198th to 207th.So happy to make it ???????? #RoadtoRio? @Rio2016_en @OlympicGolf @Olympics @youtholympics @LETgolf @IndianGolfUnion pic.twitter.com/XfmeuduvvN- Aditi Ashok (@aditigolf) July 11, 2016Aditi has seen her world ranking slip three places from 441st this week, but her Olympic ranking of 58th makes the 18-year-old eligible to be the only woman golfer flying the flag for India in Rio. Scott Heineman Jersey .C. -- Glenn Howard needed an extra end to move into the Masters Grand Slam of Curling final. C. D. Pelham Rangers Jersey . -- Aldon Smith believes he is on the path to being sober for good. https://www.cheaprangersbaseball.com/2742h-elvis-andrus-jersey-rangers.html . -- There were so many positives from the Orlando Magics first victory of the season that it was hard for coach Jacque Vaughn to stop praising his players. Shin-Soo Choo Jersey . -- Jakob Silfverberg is making himself right at home with the Anaheim Ducks, scoring four goals in his first four games. Toby Harrah Rangers Jersey . The 26-year-old Ireland striker, who has four goals this season, has signed a three-and-a-half year contract with his new club. RIO DE JANEIRO -- Hours after making her Olympic debut, Iranian archer Zahra Nemati carried her countrys flag in the opening ceremony.Its the start of a busy couple of months for Nemati in Rio de Janeiro. Shell be pulling double duty and will be back next month for the Paralympics, where shes the defending gold medalist in the individual recurve W1/W2.The 31-year-old Nemati had hoped to represent Iran at the Olympics much earlier in life -- and in taekwondo rather than archery.A car accident as a teenager set the former black belt on a new sporting path after leaving her paralyzed.She picked up archery a few years later simply because, I wanted to do some sport.Nemati started her ambitious journey to a first Olympic medal ahead of Fridays opening ceremony during archerys qualifying round at the Sambadrome. She shot 72 arrows and accumulated a score of 609 -- good for 49th position. The results from the qualifying round are used determine the seedings for the bracketed tournament next week.I want to make my goal and get the best result: to make my family and the people around me happy and let them know Im OK and Im strong, she said.Theres no questioning her talent in archery. Over the last few years, Nemati has turned in a few top-10 finishes at World Cup events. Just last year she was ninth at a tournament in Poland..ddddddddddddAt the 2012 London Paralympics, she captured gold to become the first woman from Iran to do so, according to the Rio Olympics website.Nemati earned her spot at both the Olympics and Paralympics with a strong performance at the 2015 Asian Championships and Asian Para Championships.I had a dream to be in the Olympics as I was doing taekwondo before my accident, she said. Now, this dream came true through archery.Nemati is hoping others in a similar situation will follow her path and has been named a United Nations ambassador for her role in empowering women through sport.For me, it means a lot to make the people who have big problems in their lives happy, Nemati said.Arriving in the stadium in a wheelchair, wearing a green head covering, a smiling Nemati was the flagbearer for a team made up overwhelmingly of men.She is the figurehead of a team from a country where strict interpretations of Islamic norms are enforced and female fans are traditionally barred from attending male-only sporting events. The previous female flagbearer from Iran was at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.---This version updates to reflect that Iran had a female flagbearer at the 2010 Winter Olympics. ' ' '