Had to close off my emotions to do well in bronze medal match, says PV Sindhu
August 01, 2021 20:40 ISTThe 26-year-old paid gratitude to the fans for supporting her throughout the tournament.
The 26-year-old paid gratitude to the fans for supporting her throughout the tournament.
The country rejoiced at badminton ace P V Sindhu winning her second Olympic medal with the sports fraternity hailing her feat.
Reigning world champion Sindhu on Sunday became only the second Indian and the country's first woman to win two Olympic medals.
India scored three field goals through Dilpreet Singh (7th minute), Gurjant Singh (16th) and Hardik Singh (57th) to seal the win for the eight-time Olympic champions.
Sindhu is now the only Indian after wrestler Sushil Kumar to clinch two Olympic medals.
The 26-year-old silver-medallist from the Rio Games defeated He Bing Jiao of China in the bronze medal match.
The Indian women hockey team's best finish at the Olympics came on debut in Moscow back in 1980 when it ended up at the fourth position among six teams.
Lahiri, who began the week with a superb 67 and was inside Top-10, slid down the ladder thereafter with rounds of 72-68-72 over the next three days for a total of 5-under 283.
Deepika Kumari could not earn India an elusive Olympic medal but the most decorated Indian archer became the first Indian to make the individual quarters.
Dubey, who is employed with the Railways, is an experienced hand, having toured with the Indian Davis Cup and Fed Cup squads several times.
India, who were expected to do well in shooting, are staring at the prospect of two straight Olympics without medals with only the men's 50m event still to go.
With her hulk mask and purple-green hair, Raven Saunders, an openly gay athlete, has a silver medal to her name at the Tokyo Olympics after she has contemplated suicide earlier.
Nine boxers participated in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics for India, with Lovlina Borgohain being the only one to secure a medal.
Judokas Vazha Margvelashvili and Lasha Shavdatuashvili were seen near Tokyo Tower on Tuesday and were in a 'clear and serious violation' of the playbooks of health and safety rules.
Caeleb Dressel captured his fourth and fifth gold medals of the Tokyo Games on Sunday, while Australia's Emma McKeon put her own remarkable stamp on the record book by winning a staggering haul of hardware.
Runners are certainly on track to setting personal, Olympic and possibly even world-record times over the next week at the Tokyo Games.
Mourad Aliev reacted with outrage when the referee disqualified him for headbutting opponent Frazer Clarke with 4seconds left in the second round.
Satish had scripted history by just qualifying for the Games as he was the first super heavyweight from India to achieve the feat.
Besides being "leg pulled", Manu said she was regularly told to "withdraw" from 25m as she was not "up to the mark" in that event.
A good round in the individual showjumping qualifier on Monday will ensure that Mirza and his horse Seigneur Medicott remain in the top 25.
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