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IOA seeks relaxation in Covid tests for athletes, officials returning from Japan
Considering the difficulties in getting the Indian athletes out of the bio-secure bubble of the Olympic Village or hotels where they are staying and getting the Covid test done at a private lab as a nation-wide emergency is imposed in Japan, the Indian Olympic Association president, Narinder Batra, has asked the Indian government to give a one-time relaxation in the rule.
Tokyo Olympics Swimming: Tunisian Ahmed Hafnaoui wins men's 400m freestyle gold
The 18-year-old pushed Australia's Jack Mcloughlin to second in the final sprint, becoming an Olympic champion in his first appearance in three minutes and 43.36 seconds, 0.16 second ahead of the Aussie. Kieran Smith won a bronze for the United States in 3:43.94. Japanese swimmer Yui Ohashi claimed the women's 400m individual medley title and burst into tears after winning.
The Hundred: Jemimah dazzles with unbeaten 92 off 43 balls
After restricting Welsh Fire to 130/8 in the allotted 100 balls, Northern Superchargers lost four early wickets to get reduced to 19 for four after 18 balls. However, Jemimah, who opened the innings, single-handedly dominated the opposition bowling, hammering 17 fours and a six to take her team past the target with 15 balls to spare. She shared an unbeaten 112-run partnership with Alice Davidson-Richards.
Olympics: Sweden, Britain qualify for women's football quarter-finals
After overpowering gold medal hopeful USA in the opening match, Sweden continued their strong run in the group by defeating Australia. Australia took 2-1 lead in the match but soon the Swedes made it 3-2 in their favour. The Aussies got a chance to equalise when they were awarded a penalty. But Swedish goalkeeper Hedvig Lindahl saved the penalty before her team extended the lead 4-2, locking a spot in the next round.
Tokyo Olympics hockey: Indian women lose steam after bright start in opener
The Indians women team then kept the Netherlands at bay in the remaining part of the first quarter and the entire second quarter to go to half-time 1-1. But the Netherlands, the reigning world champions and 2016 Olympics runners-up got control of the match and went on a goal-scoring spree in the second session, scoring four goals to hand India a big defeat.
India's Manu Bhaker, Divyansh Panwar headline Day 2 of shooting competition
A host of events, including women's 10m air pistol, men's 10m air rifle and men's skeet, are lined up on a busy day for shooters. While young Manu Bhaker and Yashaswini Deswal will compete in women's air pistol, Deepak Kumar and Divyansh Singh Panwar will be keen to erase the disappointment of their fellow teammates on Saturday when they compete in 10m air rifle.
Tokyo Olympics tennis: Djokovic starts campaign with a win
Daniil Medvedev, representing the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) team since Russia is banned, also won his first-round match against Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan 6-4, 7-6(8). Medvedev will now face India’s Sumit Nagal in the second round. Nagal had beaten Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan 6-4, 6-7(6), 6-4. Among other winners in men’s section were Italian Lorenzo Sonego.
Tokyo Olympics Table Tennis: Manika Batra through to second round
Following the 4-0 win, Manika will now face Ukraine's 20th seed Margaryta Pesotska. Manika had a slow start against Tin-Tin, ranked 94th in the world. But she found her rhythm quickly to take the first game 11-7. Manika had a smooth run for a 2-0 lead by winning the second game 11-6. After trailing the paddler from Great Britain for much of the third game.
Tokyo Olympics Badminton: Shetty-Rankireddy hold nerve to win; Sai Praneeth loses
However, India's hope in men's singles, B Sai Praneeth suffered a shock loss against Misha Zilberman of Israel in his first Groupd D match. The Indian pair won the first game before the Chinese Taipei duo bounced back in the second game. The final game was closely fought till the end as the Indians ensured they wouldn't give in. The Chinese Taipei pair seemed to have moved into a decisive lead at 16-13. But Chirag and Satwik refused to budge.
Tokyo Olympics: Saurabh Chaudhary flatters to deceive, finishes 7th in 10m air pistol
The 19-year-old Chaudhary, who had given enough indication that he was in great form to finish on the podium when he shot 586 to go into the finals as the leader, was the second shooter to be eliminated from among the eight finalists, finishing seventh. Chaudhary got things rolling with a 10.1 in the finals, but he finished at the bottom of the pile after the first five shots with a score of 47.7.
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