Tokyo Olympics 2021 Highlights: Archer Deepika keeps medal hopes alive

Tarundeep Rai and Pravin Jadhav crashed out of men's individual archery after losing in the 1/16 eliminations round Check Tokyo Olympics 2021 Day 5 highlights and match results here

4:59 PM

India's schedule on Day 6 (July 29) at Tokyo Olympics 2021

Golf
Event	Indian participants	Time	Results
Men' round 1	Anirban Lahiri	4:00 AM	TBD
	Udayay S Mane		TBD
Rowing
LWT Men's Double Sculls Final B	Arvind and Arjun	5:20 AM	TBD
Shooting
25m Pistol Women's Qualification	Rahi Sarnobat	5:30 AM	TBD
	Manu Bhaker		TBD
Hockey
Men's Pool A	India vs Argentina	6:00 AM	TBD
Archery
Men's individual 1/32 Eliminations	Atanu Das vs Yu-Cheng Deng (Chinese Taipei)	7:31 AM	TBD
Sailing
Laser Men Race 07	Vishnu Saravanan	8:35 AM	TBD
49er Men race 05	KC Ganapathy and varun Thakkar	8:35 AM	TBD
Laser Radial Women Race 07	Nethra Kumanan	8:45 AM	TBD
Boxing
Mens Super Heavy (+91 kg)	Satish Kumar vs Ricardo Brown (Jamaica	8:48 AM	TBD
Women's Flyweight (48-51kg) Round of 16	MC Mary Kom vs Ingrit Lorena Victoria Valencia (Colombia)	3:36 PM	TBD
Swimming
Men's 100 m Butterfly - Heat 2	Sajjan Prakash	4:16 PM	TBD
Badminton
women's singles	PV Sindhu vs Mia Blichfeldt (Denmark)	6:15 AM	TBD

4:57 PM

Tokyo Olympics: Pugilist Pooja Rani storms into quarter-finals

Boxer Pooja Rani (75kg) stormed into the quarter-finals of the women's middleweight (69-75kg) category in the Tokyo Olympics after defeating Ichrak Chaib of Algeria in the Round of 16 here at the Kokugikan Arena. Rani defeated Chaib 5-0 on Wednesday.

Rani took the first round comprehensively as all judges voted in her favour. The Indian pugilist continued from where she left off and she took the match quite comprehensively, not allowing Chaib to come back in the following next two rounds.

On Tuesday, Lovlina Borgohain (69kg) had stormed into the quarter-finals of the women's welterweight (69-75kg) category in the Tokyo Olympics after defeating Nadine Apetz of Germany in the Round of 16 here at the Kokugikan Arena.

On Sunday, Mary Kom had stormed into the Round of 16 of women's flyweight (48-51 kg) category after defeating Miguelina Garcia of the Dominican Republic in the round of 32. Mary Kom defeated Miguelina 4-1.
 

3:10 PM

Olympics 2021 live updates, women's 1/16 Eliminations: Deepika Kumari advances to next round (RESULTS)

KUMARI Deepika (India) vs MUCINO-FERNANDEZ Jennifer (USA) - 1/16 Eliminations1/16 Eliminations

Deepika Kumar wins final set 25-24, advances to 1/8 Elimination round.

3:08 PM

Olympics 2021 live updates, women's 1/16 Eliminations: Deepika Kumari in action

KUMARI Deepika (India) vs MUCINO-FERNANDEZ Jennifer (USA) - 1/16 Eliminations1/16 Eliminations

Deepika Kumari loses fourth set, 24-25. The five set game is level at 4-4 with one set remaining.
 

3:06 PM

Olympics 2021 live updates, women's 1/16 Eliminations: Deepika Kumari in action

KUMARI Deepika (India) vs MUCINO-FERNANDEZ Jennifer (USA) - 1/16 Eliminations1/16 Eliminations

Deepika Kumari leads 4-2 with two sets remaining.
 

3:04 PM

Olympics 2021 live updates, women's 1/16 Eliminations: Deepika Kumari in action

KUMARI Deepika (India) vs MUCINO-FERNANDEZ Jennifer (USA) - 1/16 Eliminations1/16 Eliminations

Deepika Kumari wins third set 27-25.

3:02 PM

Olympics 2021 live updates, women's 1/16 Eliminations: Deepika Kumari in action

KUMARI Deepika (India) vs MUCINO-FERNANDEZ Jennifer (USA) - 1/16 Eliminations1/16 Eliminations

Deepika Kumari wins the second set 28-25. Levels 2-2
 

3:00 PM

Olympics 2021 live updates, women's 1/16 Eliminations: Deepika Kumari in action

KUMARI Deepika (India) vs MUCINO-FERNANDEZ Jennifer (USA) - 1/16 Eliminations1/16 Eliminations

Deepika Kumar loses first set 27-26, USA's Jennifer wins two set points, 2-0.

2:58 PM

Olympics 2021 live updates, women's 1/16 Eliminations: Deepika Kumari in action

KUMARI Deepika (India) vs MUCINO-FERNANDEZ Jennifer (USA) - 1/16 Eliminations1/16 Eliminations

Deepika Kumar in action against USA's archer.

2:56 PM

Olympics 2021 live updates, women's middle weight boxing: Pooja Rani advances to next round (RESULTS)

RANI Pooja (India) vs CHAIB Ichrak (Algeria) - Preliminaries - Round of 16

Pooja Rani wins with unanimous decision 5-0, advances to quarterfinals.
 

2:51 PM

Olympics 2021 live updates, women's middle weight boxing: Pooja Rani in action

RANI Pooja (India) vs CHAIB Ichrak (Algeria) - Preliminaries - Round of 16

Pooja Rani gets five 10s from all the judges.
 

2:47 PM

Olympics 2021 live updates, women's middle weight boxing: Pooja Rani in action

RANI Pooja (India) vs CHAIB Ichrak (Algeria) - Preliminaries - Round of 16

Scores after ROUND 1. Pooja Rani gets five 10s.

 

2:45 PM

Olympics 2021 live updates, women's middle weight boxing: Pooja Rani in action

RANI Pooja (India) vs CHAIB Ichrak (Algeria) - Preliminaries - Round of 16

2:40 PM

Olympics 2021 live updates, women's individual 1/32 Eliminations: Deepika advances to next round (results)

KUMARI Deepika (India) vs KARMA (Bhutan) - 1/32 Eliminations

Deepika Kumari wins in a straight set.
 

1:58 PM

Olympics 2021 live updates, women's individual 1/32 Eliminations: Deepika Kumari will be in action at 2:14 pm

KUMARI Deepika (India) vs KARMA (Bhutan) - 1/32 Eliminations

Match to begin in 15 minutes.

1:32 PM

Olympics 2021 live updates, men's individual round of 32: Pravin Jadhav crashes out (RESULT)

JADHAV Pravin (India) vs ELLISON Brady (USA) - 1/16 Eliminations

Pravin Jadhav loses third set, crashes out of Olympics 2021.
 

1:27 PM

Olympics 2021 live updates, men's individual round of 32: Pravin Jadhav in action

JADHAV Pravin (India) vs ELLISON Brady (USA) - 1/16 Eliminations

Pravin Jadhav loses second set 27-26 after taking early lead.
 

1:24 PM

Olympics 2021 live updates, men's individual round of 32: Pravin Jadhav in action

JADHAV Pravin (India) vs ELLISON Brady (USA) - 1/16 Eliminations

Pravin loses first set 27-28.
 

1:20 PM

Olympics 2021 live updates, men's individual round of 32: Pravin Jadhav in action

JADHAV Pravin (India) vs ELLISON Brady (USA) - 1/16 Eliminations

Match to begin shortly

12:38 PM

Olympics 2021 live updates, men's individual 1/32 Eliminations: Pravin Jadhav advances to next round (RESULT)

JADHAV Pravin vs BAZARZHAPOV Galsan - 1/32 Eliminations

Pravin Jadhav wins third set 28-24, advances to next round.
 

12:34 PM

Olympics 2021 live updates, men's individual 1/32 Eliminations: Pravin Jadhav in action

JADHAV Pravin vs BAZARZHAPOV Galsan - 1/32 Eliminations

Pravin Jadhav wins second set 28-27, leads 4-0 with 4 match points.
 

12:32 PM

Olympics 2021 live updates, men's individual 1/32 Eliminations: Pravin Jadhav in action

JADHAV Pravin vs BAZARZHAPOV Galsan - 1/32 Eliminations

Pravin wins first set with two 10s and one 9. SCORE 2-0
 

12:29 PM

Olympics 2021 live updates, men's individual 1/32 Eliminations: Pravin Jadhav in action

JADHAV Pravin vs BAZARZHAPOV Galsan - 1/32 Eliminations

Match begins

12:16 PM

Olympics 2021 live updates, men's individual 1/32 Eliminations: Pravin Jadhav will be in action at 12:30 pm

JADHAV Pravin vs BAZARZHAPOV Galsan - 1/32 Eliminations

 

12:15 PM

Rejuvenated India eye win against Argentina to seal QF berth in Olympic men's hockey

A resurgent Indian men's hockey team would look to seal a quarterfinal berth but defending champions Argentina won't be an easy challenge to overcome when the two sides clash in their penultimate pool match of the Olympics here on Thursday.

 

With two wins out of three games, world no.4 India are sitting pretty at the second spot in Pool A, which is being headed by the unbeaten Australians which boast of a perfect record till now from three games.

 

Argentina, currently ranked seventh in the world, are placed at the fourth spot with one win, a draw and a loss respectively.

 

After a hard-fought 3-2 win over New Zealand, the Indians, who are in pursuit of their first Olympic medal in more than four decades, were drubbed 1-7 by Australia before the eight-time champions bounced back to outplay Spain 3-0.

 

India's last of the eight Olympic golds came way back in 1980 Moscow Games.

 

The Los Leones, on the other hand, drew their first game 1-1 with Spain, won 2-1 against hosts Japan and lost 2-5 to Australia.

 

The 3-0 win over Spain has definitely raised the confidence level of the Manpreet Singh-led side, especially after the morale-shattering loss to Australia but according to India's chief coach Graham Reid, a lot of improvement is needed in every aspect of the game.
 

11:43 AM

16 new Olympics-related COVID-19 cases, but no athlete and none from Games Village

The Olympic Games organisers announced 16 new COVID-19 cases associated with the event on Wednesday but none of them were athletes.

The fresh additions took the total number of Games-related cases to 169.

It is for the first time in four days that no COVID-19 cases were reported among Olympic athletes.

Out of the 16, four are Games-concerned personnel, two from the media, nine contractors and one volunteer. But, none of the 16 were staying at the Olympic Village.

According to reports, two cases previously reported proved to be negative and were removed from the cumulative total.

The figures were released a day after Tokyo reported a record 2,848 daily coronavirus infections.

The total number cases in the Games village currently stands at 19.

The organisers said 38,484 people from abroad had entered Japan for the Games as of Monday.

Dutch tennis player Jean-Julien Rojer was the last to withdraw from his event after testing positive for the virus.

Rojer and his doubles partner Wesley Koolhof, who were scheduled to play Marcus Daniell and Michael Venus of New Zealand, pulled out of their second-round match on Monday following Rojer's positive test result.

The contingents that have been hit by COVID-19 after landing in Tokyo include Czech republic, the USA, Chile, South Africa and the Netherlands among others.
 

11:27 AM

Tropical storm dumps rain on northern Japan, spares Olympics

A tropical storm dumped rain in parts of northern Japan on Wednesday after moving away from the Tokyo region and relieving the Olympic host city of a feared disruption to the games.

 

In Sendai, some trains were delayed and pedestrians braced themselves against the wind on the city streets.

 

Tropical Storm Nepartak has caused no damage so far, but the Japan Meteorological Agency urged residents to take caution against mudslides.

 

The storm had winds of 65 kilometers per hour (40 mph) and was expected to weaken and move off the western coast of Akita by Wednesday night.

 

The season's eighth typhoon for Japan was near the city of Ishinomaki in Miyagi prefecture on Wednesday morning, the agency said. Ishinomaki is about 400 kilometers (250 miles) northeast of Tokyo.

 

Nepartak was the first landfall in Miyagi prefecture since 1951 when the weather agency started compiling typhoon statistics. Miyagi was part of the northeastern region deeply devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

 

The storm was moving northwest at about 30 kph (18 mph) and up to 10 centimeters (4 inches) of rain was forecast across the northern region in the next 24 hours.

 

It moved further north than initially projected, causing only limited impact on the Olympics, with some events such as surfing and rowing rescheduled. Tuesday's women's soccer match in Miyagi prefecture was held as scheduled.

11:25 AM

Olympics 2021 live updates, men's individual 1/32 Eliminations: Pravin Jadhav will be in action at 12:30

JADHAV Pravin vs BAZARZHAPOV Galsan - 1/32 Eliminations

11:05 AM

Olympics 2021 live updates, Sailing events

In the men's skiff 49-er the team of Varun Thakkar and KC Ganapathy finish 19th in race 04. That's their action done for the day.

9:52 AM

Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind Singh finished sixth in the semi-final of lightweight men’s double sculls

Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind Singh finished sixth in the semi-final of lightweight men’s double sculls in #Rowing with a timing of 6:24.41. Their campaign at #Tokyo2020 becomes #IND's best-ever result at the #Olympics!