Family reunion awaits Philippines' 1st Olympic champion
July 27, 2021 14:46 ISTDiaz won the first gold medal for the Philippines on Monday, a triumphant result for a country that has competed at every Summer Olympics except one since 1924.
Diaz won the first gold medal for the Philippines on Monday, a triumphant result for a country that has competed at every Summer Olympics except one since 1924.
It brings Tokyo’s total to more than 200,000 since the pandemic began last year.
Sania Mirza and Sumit Nagal could not make the cut for the mixed doubles event due to their low combined ranking of 153.
Salazar -- who was blamed for emotionally and physically abusing athletes such as Mary Cain, Kara Goucher and Amy Yoder Begley -- has 10 days to appeal the decision.
Karmakar, who competed in 50m rifle prone at the 2012 London Olympics and missed bronze by a whisker, finishing fourth, termed India's showing as a "disaster" and called for "introspection".
Sharath says 'My WhatsApp is full of messages telling me to carry on till Paris Olympics'.
At the Tokyo Games, the 26-year-old brought cheers to over a billion people as she clinched the silver medal with an effort of 204kg (87kg+115kg) in the women's 49kg category.
Borgohain, the lone Indian boxer in action on the day, prevailed 3-2 over her rival who is 12 years her senior.
Ranked 10th in the world, the Indians beat world number 18 team 21-17 21-19 in a 44-minute Group A men's doubles match at the Musashino Forest Plaza.
The duo of Elavenil Valarivan and Divyansh Singh Panwar finished 12th with a total of 626.5 across three series each.
The second-ranked Osaka, who was born in Japan and grew up in the United States, struggled with her usually reliable groundstrokes.
Sharath fought tooth and nail to take the second game from Long but eventually lost 7-11 11-8 11-13 4-11 4-11 in 46 minutes.
India's medal hopes -- Saurabh Chaudhary and Manu Bhaker -- finished seventh in Qualification Stage 2 in the air pistol mixed team event on Tuesday.
India's string of poor performances at the shooting range has seen them go without a medal in six events they have competed in so far.
Wade's 51 from 52 balls enabled Australia to score 153-4 and surpass West Indies' total of 152 in the 31st over.
Drubbed 1-7 by Australia in their last match, India produced a spirited performance against world No.9 Spain.
Russian athletes swept the top two spots in the 100-meter back, with Evgeny Rylov claiming the gold medal in 51.98 seconds and teammate Kliment Kolesnikov taking the silver in 52.00.
While Saurabh ended up with a total score of 194 out of a possible 200, Manu could gather only 186 .
Indian shooting contingent endured yet another forgettable outing at the Tokyo Olympics as they crashed out in the qualifying stages of the mixed team event.
Following her loss, Devi had tweeted that she did her level best but could not win. "I am sorry," she said and expressed thanks to Modi among others for their support.
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