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Rio Olympics: P V Sindhu reaches quarterfinals

She will next take on the winner of the match between Thailand's Ratchanok Intanon and Japan's Akane Yamaguchi

Rio Olympics: Shuttlers shine, boxers end without medal

K Srikanth lifted the sagging spirits of India on the 10th day of competitions as he reached the last eight in men's singles

Rio Olympics: Virender Sehwag urges government to honour Dipa Karmakar, Lalita Babar

Both Karmakar and Babar have created history in their own ways

Rio Olympics: I'm sorry but I couldn't have done better, says Vikas Krishan

One win away from an Olympic medal for India, Vikas surrendered rather tamely to Melikuziev, going down 0-3

Rio Olympics: Vikas Krishan ousted, boxers sign off without medal at Olympics

With Shiva Thapa and Manoj Kumar already out of contention, Vikas' loss drew the curtains on the Indian boxing challenge

Oksana Chusovitina vaults back to the Olympics

India's Olympics outing

Dipa Karmakar is not disappointed at missing out on a historic bronze in the vault final of the Rio Olympics

Rio Olympics: I could have bettered my timing, says Lalita Babar

She clocked 9:22.74 in the finals today, nearly three second outside her national record effort of 9:19.76 in the qualification

Rio Olympic: Lalita Babar finishes 10th in 3,000m steeplechase

She had qualified to the final as a lucky loser, managing to squeeze in among the next top eight fastest outside the top two of each heat who qualified directly

Chinese swimmer He Zhi accepts marriage proposal after winning silver

From her boyfriend & fellow diver Qin Kai to marry him in front of the audience at the Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre on Sunday

I can become immortal, says Usain Bolt

Bolt suffered an injury scare at the Jamaican Olympic trials last month, forcing him to seek treatment in Germany

Dipa's brilliant show will encourage other gymnasts: Manik Sarkar

In the final event on Sunday, the 23-year-old Tripura girl averaged 15.066 points to finish fourth in Games

Two more golds for immortality: Usain Bolt

Bolt said he was looking forward to the 200m where he wants to bring down his 19.19 sec world record below 19 seconds

Andy Murray defends his Olympic title

Murray defeatedJuan Martin del Potro of Argentina in a hard fought match to clinch gold

Rio Olympics: 400m champion Wayde van Niekerk inspired by Usain Bolt

South Africa's Wayde van Niekerk, claimed gold medal by clocking 43.03 seconds, beating previous record held by American Michael Johnson

India's elusive medal hopes rest on Lalita, Khatri and Kishan

Day nine ended with diminutive gymnast Dipa Karmakar missing the vault bronze medal

Dipa Karmakar's father believes presence of manager would've been helpful

Dipa's coach Bisweshwar Nandi had alleged that they couldn't make an appeal against the result due to absence of a manager

Dazzling Dipa Karmakar leaves sporting fraternity awestruck

23-year-old, hailing from Tripura, missed out on an Olympic medal by 0.150 points despite successfully executing the dangerous Produnova vault

Heartbroken on missing medal, will target gold for 2020 Tokyo Olympics: Dipa Karmakar

Karmakar had created history when she became the first Indian gymnast to enter final on her debut at quadrennial multi-discipline games

Assured Dipa before finals that if Produnova could do it, so could she: Karmakar's coach

She created history as she became the first Indian gymnast to enter the final on her debut at the quadrennial multi-discipline games