The Olympic Games are all set to get underway in Paris today with a glittering opening ceremony. Tokyo Paralympic medallist and IAS Officer Suhas Lalinakere has wished the best for the Indian contingent competing at the Games while exclusively speaking to India TV.
PV Sindhu is chasing her third Olympic medal. She had won a silver medal at the Rio Olympics after going down to Carolina Marin in a three-set-long thriller. At the Tokyo Olympics, she went down in the semis to Tai Tzu-Ying and then defeated He Bingjiao in the bronze medal match.
Badminton is one of the sporting disciplines where India is expecting at least one medal at the Paris Olympics with players like PV Sindhu, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty taking part. The Games are getting underway from July 26 with Badminton matches starting from very next day.
India's ace shuttler PV Sindhu defeated China's He Bingjiao to clinch the bronze medal at the Summer Tokyo Olympics 2020 and became the only third Indian athlete to win multiple individual medals at the Olympic Games.
18 athletes have carried the Indian national flag at the Olympic Games, including Manpreet Singh and Mary Kom, the flag-bearers of the Tokyo Olympics. PV Sindhu and Sharath Kamal will be having the Indian tricolour for the Paris Games.
The preparations for the upcoming Olympics in Paris are underway fully with the Games set to commence from July 26. The group stage draw was finalised today for the Badminton with India's PV Sindhu being one of the major players from the country.
Olympics 2024: Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president PT Usha has confirmed India's flag-bearers for the upcoming Paris Olympics 2024. She has also announced that Gagan Narang will be India's Chef-de-Mission for the Games, replacing MC Mary Kom.
PV Sindhu's poor form ahead of the Paris Olympics continued as she has been knocked out of Singapore Open in second round. She lost to her nemesis Carolina Marin of Spain in the round of 16 who has won against Sindhu six consecutive times now since 2018.
PV Sindhu had a 2-1 (3) head-to-head record against Wang Zhi Yi coming into the Malaysia Masters women's singles final on Sunday. Sindhu had defeated Wang the last time she won a BWF World Title - Singapore Open in July 2022.
The two-time Olympic games medallist PV Sindhu entered the Malaysia Masters semifinals with an outstanding 17-1 head-to-head record over Thailand's Busanan Ongbamrungphan. This was Sindhu's first BWF semifinal fixture in over seven months.
PV Sindhu had defeated Kirsty Gilmour in her round of 32 clash and then beat YJ Sim of South Korea in the round of 16 fixture to book a clash with Han Yue in the quarterfinals. Sindhu is India's top-ranked female shuttler.
India's men's hockey team and over 80 individual athletes have already secured qualification for the Paris Olympics Games 2024 starting on July 26. The veteran table tennis player Sharath Kamal and two-time Olympics medalist PV Sindhu will be India's flag bearers at the 33rd Summer Olympics.
India's star shuttler suffered a heartbreaking defeat of 21-19, 21-11 against the world no.1 An Se Young in the round of 16 at the All England Open Badminton Championship 2024 in Birmingham as Laksha Sen remains India's only hope for the title in singles in the prestigious tournament.
Indian women's team created history with a first-ever medal in the Badminton Asia Team Championships tournament with a thrilling 3-2 win over Thailand on Sunday. Once again, rising youngster Anmol Kharb won the clutch game in the final in Shah Alam, Malaysia.
Indian women's team stunned Japan in the first semifinal by 3-2 with Gayatri Gopichand-Treesa Jolly, Ashmita Chaliha and Anmol Kharb recording brilliant wins guiding India to their first-ever final at the Badminton Asia Team Championship.
In a 2019 interview, PV Sindhu expressed her wish that if her biopic is made then actress Deepika Padukone should play her character in it.
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