Tokyo Olympics 2021 Highlights: Ind beats Japan in hockey; Sindhu in semis
Lovlina Borgohain (69kg) assured India of their first boxing medal while Sindhu steps closer to a medal as she enters the semifinals at Tokyo Olympics 2021
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PV Sindhu. @Tokyo2020hi
Reigning world Champion P V Sindhu kept India's hopes of winning a first-ever Olympic gold in badminton alive as she reached the semifinals of women's singles with a fighting straight-game win over world no 5 Japanese Akane Yamaguchi at Tokyo Olympics 2021 today.
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The 26-year-old Indian, who won a silver in the 2016 Rio Olympics, defended brilliantly and rode on her attack to outclass the fourth seeded Yamaguchi 21-13 22-20 in a 56-minute quarterfinal clash at the Musashino Forest Plaza here. She will next face the winner of the other quarterfinal between Thailand's Ratchanok Inthanon and Chinese Taipei's Tai Tzu Ying.
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India in boxing today
Debutant Lovlina Borgohain (69kg) assured India of their first boxing medal at Tokyo Olympics 2021 when she upstaged former world champion Nien-Chin Chen of Chinese Taipei to enter the semifinals today. The 23-year-old Assam boxer prevailed 4-1 to make the last-four where she will square off against reigning world champion Busenaz Surmeneli of Turkey, who hammered Anna Lysenko in her quarterfinal bout.
World number one archer Deepika Kumari's quest for an Olympic medal ended in heartbreak for the third time as she surrendered tamely to Korean top seed An San in straight sets in the quarterfinals at Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games .
Deepika misfired four 7s as An, who had broken a 25-year-old Olympic record en route to topping the ranking round, wrapped up the women's individual match 6-0 in less than six minutes.
Deepika's husband Atanu Das is the only Indian left in contention for a medal as he made the pre-quarterfinals on Thursday with a stunning shoot-off win over two-time Olympic champion Oh Jin Hyek. In his last-16 match slated on Saturday, Das will face home favourite Takaharu Furukawa, an individual silver medallist at the 2012 Olympics and a team bronze winner at Tokyo Olympics 2021
Dutee was nowhere near her best as she clocked 11.54 seconds in 100m, well outside her national record of 11.17 seconds -- also her season's best -- to finish seventh in heat 5 and 45th overall out of 54 competitors.
The first three in each of the seven heats and the next three fastest advance to the semifinals.
The Indian women's hockey team scored a late goal to eke out a narrow 1-0 victory over Ireland in a must-win penultimate pool match to stay alive in the Olympics here on Friday. India will now need to win their final Pool A match against South Africa on Saturday and hope for Ireland to face defeat at the hands of Great Britain to seal their quarterfinal berth.
On the other hand, India's men's team defeated Japan 5-3 to cruise into knockout satges. .
India Badminton schedule today
India's medal hopeful PV Sindhu defeated Japan's Akane Yamaguchi in the quarter-final today at Tokyo Olympics 2021.
India's Archery event today:
COMPLETED: Deepika Kumari vs Ksenia Perova (Russian Olympic Committee) in Women's Individual Pre-quarterfinals Match: WINS.
Athletics:
Completed: Avinash Sable in Men's 3000m Steeplechase Round 1 Heat 2: 6:17 am IST.
Completed: M P Jabir in Men's 400m Hurdles Round 1 Heat 5: 8:27 am IST.
COMPLETED: Dutee Chand in Women's 100m Round 1 Heats: 8:45 am IST Start.
COMPLETED Mixed 4x400m Relay Race Round 1 Heat 2: India's finishes last (3:19.93).
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Badminton:
COMPLETED: P V Sindhu defeats Akane Yamaguchi (Japan) in Women's Singles Quarterfinal Match: 1:15 pm IST.
Boxing:
COMPLETED: Simranjit Kaur vs Sudaporn Seesondee (Thailand) in Women's 60kg Round of 16 Bout: 8:18 am IST.
COMPLETED: Lovlina Borgohain vs Nien-Chin Chen (Chinese Taipei) in Women's 69kg Quarterfinal Bout: 8:48 am IST.
Equestrian:
COMPLETED: Fouad Mirza finishes 7th in Eventing Dressage Day 1 Session 2:.
Golf:
Men's individual stroke play round 2 (to be continued on Saturday) has Anirban Lahiri T-20 and Udayan S Mane T57 at the end of Friday..
Hockey:
COMPLETED: India wins 1-0 against Ireland in Women's Pool A Match:.
COMPLETED: India defeats Japan in Men's Pool A match.
Shooting:
COMPLETED: Manu Bhaker and Rahi Sarnobat in Women's 25m Pistol Qualification Rapid: 5:30 am IST.
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On winning Olympic gold, Punjab hockey players to get Rs 2.25 crore each: Sports Minister
Punjab Sports Minister Rana Gurmeet Singh Sodhi on Friday announced that the hockey players from the state participating in the Tokyo Olympics would get Rs 2.25 crore each if the team wins a gold medal.
Earlier, an amount of Rs 2.25 crore had been announced to be given to the entire team if it won a gold.
Sodhi, as per an official statement, said that out of total 20 players from Punjab, 11 players are giving their best in the Indian hockey team competing in Tokyo Olympics.
The men's team has raised hopes of a medal by qualifying for the quarterfinals in Tokyo, winning four of their five league matches.
India last won an Olympic medal in hockey in 1980 when they won the last of their eight gold medals.
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Olympic first: Men, women to swim together in the same race
Swimming is nothing if not orderly. Get ready for a little chaos.
Here comes the 4x100-meter mixed medley relay making its Olympic debut in Tokyo on Saturday: Two men and two women per country doing backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle.
The teams get to decide who swims each stroke, so a woman from one team and a man from the other could be doing the butterfly, say, at the same time.
FINA, the sport's world governing body, added two mixed relays to its program at the 2015 world championships in Kazan, Russia, where the 4x100 mixed freestyle relay also debuted.
While there are no restrictions on whether a man or woman swims which stroke, there are some general strategies that teams follow at the highest levels for the mixed relay.
Most teams put a woman on the final freestyle leg because the time difference between women and men is generally less on that stroke than the other three. All 16 teams anchored with a female in the Olympic preliminaries.
Likewise, a man generally swims the breaststroke, where there's a larger gap between the fastest men's and women's times roughly 7 1/2 seconds for the gold medalists in Tokyo. All but one team in the preliminaries went with a male on the third leg.
There's more wiggle room on the backstroke and butterfly legs. In the preliminaries, 10 of 16 teams used a man on the backstroke, while the butterfly leg featured nine females and seven men.
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#TeamIndia finish the pool stage with another thumping win over Japan.
India, how's the josh?
Olympics 2021 live updates: Men's Hockey: India vs Japan
Olympics 2021 live updates: Men's Hockey: India vs Japan
Olympics 2021 live updates: Men's Hockey: India vs Japan
Olympics 2021 live updates: Men's Hockey: India vs Japan
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First Published: Jul 30 2021 | 5:52 AM IST