Tokyo Olympics 2021

Sindhu's better court coverage and her use of the angles was the key to her victory against the 28-year old Cheung, who lost her sixth consecutive career match to the tall Indian shuttler. The sixth-seeded Sindhu raced to an 11-5 lead as Cheung fruitlessly tried to push the 26-year old Indian deep into the corners of the forehand backcourt, ending up pushing the shuttles long.

Sharath Kamal put up a superb fight against the reigning Olympic champion, and even took a game off the Chinese before losing 1-4 in men's singles, in a match where Ma Long was seen shaking his head in frustration at times. Sharath Kamal, competing in his fourth Olympics, said on Tuesday that, "His legs were shaking. I could see him shake. And I was happy I could put him in that position.

Dutch rowers Lucas Theodoor Dirk Uittenbogaard, Abe Wiersma, Tone Wieten and Koen Metsemakers improved the previous world best, created by Ukraine in 2014, by 0.23 seconds. The 1,000m leader, Britain took the silver in 5:33.75, edging third-placed Australia by 0.22 seconds, reports Xinhua. Ancuta Bodnar and Simona Radis won the first gold for Romania in women's double sculls final.

On a day when Indian shooters gave their worst performance at the Tokyo Games, that too in their favourite events -- mixed team 10m air pistol and mixed team 10m air rifle - the hope of a medal from the 15-member contingent, which was flown by a chartered flight to Croatia with nearly a dozen support staff for a two-month training-cum-competition stint, continued to fade on Tuesday.

This is the second gold for Olympic debutant Yang Qian, who won the first gold of Tokyo 2020 in the women's individual event, while Yang Haoran added a gold to his individual bronze. Both teams were in good form as the match was tied four times before the two Yangs shot 21.3 points to that of their opponents' 20.8 to win the third gold for the Chinese shooting team.

The Spanish Football Federation confirmed that tests carried out on central defender Oscar Mingueza and midfielder Dani Ceballos have shown that Mingueza will be available to play in the game, but Ceballos will almost certainly be out for around three or four weeks. Both players suffered their injuries in the first half of a 0-0 draw against Egypt in Spain's Olympic Games opener, and neither played in Sunday's tense 1-0 win against Australia.

Lovlina, the 23-year-old from Assam, prevailed over her 35-year-old opponent from Cologne in a well-contested bout in which three of the five judges scored in her favour. Of the five judges, judge one from Argentina scored the bout 29-28 in the German's favour but for judges 2, 3 and 4, Lovlina was the winner as they scored it 29-28, 30-27, 30-27 in the Indian's favour. The fifth judge from Sri Lanka gave it to Nadine30-27.

With Naomi's exit, the top three players on the WTA singles rankings at the Olympics have all bowed out of the quadrennial showpiece. While Australia's world No. 1 Ashleigh Barty had lost to Sara Sorribes Tormo of Spain in the opening match, No. 3 Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus fell to Croatia's Donna Vekic in the second round on Monday, and now world No. 2 Naomi has lost in the third round.

Veteran drag-flicker Rupinderpal Singh scored a brace of goals, his first off a penalty stroke, and Simranjeet Singh contribute one as Graham Reid's India romped to a well-deserved victory against a Spanish team that lacked the firepower to trouble the world No. 4 team. It was an inspired decision by coach Reid to leave Gurjant Singh out and bring Simranjeet Singh into the squad.

The result was 0.02 seconds behind her own world record, but enough for her to beat second-placed Kylie Masse of Canada, who finished in 57.72 seconds. The bronze went to 19-year-old Regan Smith of the United States. Tom Dean and Duncan Scott led a one-two finish for Britain in the men's 200m freestyle.