Tokyo Olympics highlights: Djokovic's golden dream ends as doping slur darkens mood at pool

Lovlina Borgohain assured India of a second medal in Tokyo after she entered the semifinals of the women's 69kg boxing event. World number 1 archer Deepika Kumari defeating Russian Ksenia Perova 6-5 to advance to the quarterfinals of the women's individual event. Elsewhere, Avinash Sable finished 7th in the men's 3000m steeplechase and 13th overall, while MP Jabir finished 7th in the men's 400m hurdles heats and 33rd overall, with both missing out on the finals of their respective events. India's shooters also failed to advance to the final round in the women's 35m pistol event.

Easy-going Assam goes on overdrive after Lovlina Borgohain's exploits

Basking in their "daughter's" glory, the normally easy-going people of multi-ethnic and multi-linguistic Assam, in their quaint towns and villages, went into overdrive on Friday after boxer Lovlina Borgohain's Olympic medal-clinching exploits at the Tokyo Olympics.

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Americans outlast Netherlands, advance to Olympics semifinals

Megan Rapinoe converted the winning kick in the shootout on Friday to lift the United States women's national team to victory over the Netherlands at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in Yokohama, Japan.

Rose Lavelle, Alex Morgan and Christen Press also made their penalty kicks as the Americans won 4-2 in PKs following a 2-2 tie For tafter extra time. The US advanced to the semifinals on Monday to face Canada, which secured a 4-3 win over Brazil on penalty kicks after a scoreless draw following extra time.

Alyssa Naeher had five saves through extra time before making a pair of stops during the penalty kicks session.

(Reuters)

Very convinced with the way she played defence: PV Sindhu’s father

Debutant Lovlina Borgohain assures first boxing medal for India

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Chinese shuttlers march on at Tokyo Games

Chinese badminton players turned up the heat on their Olympic rivals on Friday, winning mixed doubles gold and staying unbeaten in singles competition.

Wang Yilyu and Huang Dongping upset the odds to claim the mixed doubles title with a rare win over compatriots Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong.

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McKeon sets Olympic record, Dressel braced for battle

Australian Emma McKeon set an Olympic record in the women's 50 metres freestyle heats on Friday and Caeleb Dressel advanced fastest in the men's sprint, as he braces for a brutal morning of racing in Tokyo where two gold medals could be up for grabs.

Lifted by her 100m freestyle gold earlier in the day, McKeon qualified first in a Games record of 24.02, with Rio Olympics champion Pernille Blume of Denmark 0.10 behind.

(Reuters)

Punjab Sports Minister Rana Gurmeet Singh Sodhi announces that the state's hockey players participating in #TokyoOlympics would now get Rs 2.25 crore individually on winning the gold medal as a team.

(ANI)

Indian men's hockey team beats Japan 5-3 in last group match of Tokyo Olympics, already assured of quarterfinal berth

Tokyo "great message of hope": IOC President Bach during visit to art centre

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach visited an Olympic art exhibition centre in Tokyo on Friday.

The Olympic Agora in the central Nihonbashi district of the Japanese capital is holding an exhibition of artworks that bring together culture and sport in a celebration of the spirit of the Olympiad.

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She told us that she will bring a gold medal at home. I avoid watching her live. I can't handle the pressure of when she is fighting: Lovlina's father Tiken Borgohain

(ANI)

Serbia's Novak Djokovic loses to Alexander Zverev of Germany in men's singles semi-finals

Hockey: India take on Japan in final pool match

Here's how the men in blue have lined up against the hosts

Sindhu will face either Ratchanok Itanon or Tai Tzu-Ying in the semifinal

Both Itanon Tzu-Ying are ranked higher than the reigning world champion

P V Sindhu has made it to the Olympics semis!

P V Sindhu defeated Japan's Akane Yamaguchi 21-13 22-20 to advance to the semifinals of the women's singles event.

Fouaad Mirza and his Signeur Medicott currently 6th in individual equestrain dressage

China's Huang Dongping (L) and Wang Yilyu win gold in badminton mixed doubles event

I take a lot of inspiration from Mary Kom: Lovlina

Duncan Scott on for record haul as Team GB pile on the medals

Duncan Scott spoke of the 'Adam Peaty effect' after becoming Britain's joint most-decoratedOlympicswimmer of all time on Friday with a silver in the men's 200m individual medley.

The medal was his third of the Tokyo Games, after 4x200 relay gold and 200m freestyle silver, and fifth from twoOlympics. The Scot won two relay silvers at Rio de Janeiro in 2016 and is not done yet.

Britain has won six medals so far in the Tokyo pool, matching the country's best performance since the 1908 Games, and Scott can become the first British athlete from any sport to win four in a singleOlympicswhen he swims in Sunday's 4x100m medley relay. (Reuters)

India's women's archery campaign ends after Deepika Kumari loses 0-6 in the quarterfinals to South Korea's An San

While India still sit 5th on the Group A table, a win against South Africa could see the women's hockey team progress to the quarterfinals

Indian women's hockey team secure first win in Tokyo as Navneet Kaur's late winner downs Ireland 1-0

France's Riner suffers shock defeat in hunt for 3rd straight judo gold

French heavyweight judoka Teddy Riner suffered a shock defeat on Friday, losing to Tamerlan Bashaev of the RussianOlympicCommittee (ROC) team in the men's judo +100 kg division and bowing out from the gold medal race in the quarter-finals.

The 32-year-old doubleOlympicchampion, one of the biggest names in the sport, was aiming for a third consecutive gold to match a record held by Japanese great Tadahiro Nomura. (Reuters)

American swimmer Ryan Murphy says 200m backstroke race 'probably not clean'

Ryan Murphy said Friday's 200m backstroke final was "probably not clean" after he lost hisOlympictitle to Russian Evgeny Rylov but the USswimmer quickly walked back his comments when asked if he was accusing any of his rivals of cheating.

Murphy won gold in the 100 and 200 Rio finals but Rylov won both titles in Tokyo, setting anOlympicrecord for the 200 on Friday.

"I've got 15 thoughts, 13 of them would get me into a lot of trouble," said Murphy when asked by a reporter shortly after his event if he had any concerns about his races in relation to doping. (Reuters)

Dutee Chand finishes 38th overall in women's 100m round 1, does not qualify for semifinals

And Lovlina has done it! The pugilist defeats Nien Chin-Chin 4-1 to enter the semifinals and guarantee India a medal

MP Jabir finishes 7th in heats, 33rd overall in men's 400m hurdles heats; misses final

Kostadinova, Sarashkina renew pistol rivalry in 25m final

The growing rivalry between Bulgarian Antoaneta Kostadinova and Russian Vitalina Batsarashkina will take centre stage at the Asaka Shooting Range on Friday when they go for gold in the women's 25-metre pistol final at the TokyoOlympics.

Five days after Batsarashkina pipped her to 10m pistol gold, Kostadinova shot 590 to top the qualification round ahead of China's Xiao Jiaruixuan, who tallied 587.

Batsarashkina, representing the RussianOlympicCommittee (ROC), shot 586 to qualify third while Rio Games champion Anna Korakaki of Greece is still in the running. (Reuters)

Simrankit Kaur loses 5-0 to Thai boxer Seesondee in women's 60kg round of 16 bout

Indian boxer Simranjit Kaur (60kg) lost to Thailand's Sudaporn Seesondee in the pre-quarterfinals to make an early exit from theOlympicGames here on Friday.

The 26-year-old Indian, seeded fourth, went down 0-5 despite a gritty performance.

She was impressive in the opening round and seemed to have caught Seesondee on the back-foot with her measured approach, sticking to a counter-attacking strategy.

However, the judges ruled unanimously in favour of the Thai, causing Simranjit to be a tad reckless in the second round. (PTI)

Two Australian athletes, team member remain in isolation

Two unnamed Australian track and field athletes and one athletics team member will remain in quarantine for the rest of the TokyoOlympics, after coming in contact with USpole vaulter Sam Kendricks, but will be able to compete with negative Covid-19 tests, Team Australia said.

The American, a double world champion, tested positive and was forced to drop out of the Games, and the entire Australian athletics team briefly went into quarantine on Thursday after the trio had a short encounter with him.

The team was cleared a little later but the three members will continue to remain isolated from the rest of their athletics team members, and will train alone until the end of their competitions. (Reuters)

Russia's Rylov wins 200m backstroke gold, sets new Olympic record time

Russian two-time world champion Evgeny Rylov scored the Olympic backstroke double Friday by winning the 200m gold medal to go with his 100m title. He touched in a new Olympic record time of 1min 53.27sec ahead of defending champion Ryan Murphy of the United States (1:54.15) and Britain's Luke Greenbank (1:54.72).

(AFP)

Shooting: Manu Bhaker, Rahi Sarnobat finish outside top 8, miss 25m pistol final

Avinash Sable finishes 7th in 3000m steeplechase heat with a national record time of 08:18.12, misses out on final

Deepika Kumari wins 1/8 eliminations round 6-5 to qualify for archery quarterfinal

New Zealand's Emma Twigg wins women's single sculls gold

Emma Twigg of New Zealand won gold in the women's single sculls at Tokyo's Sea Forest Waterway on Friday.

The Russian Olympic Committee's Hanna Prakatsen and Austria's Magdalena Lobnig picked up silver and bronze, respectively, in the rowing event. - Reuters.

Equestrian Fouaad Mirza will be in action in the 2nd session of Eventing Individual Dressage starting at 2 PM IST - SAI

India, Britain and Dutch in men's hockey quarter-finals

India reached the quarter-finals of the men's Olympic hockey tournament on Thursday thanks to an inspired 3-1 win over Rio gold medallists Argentina, while the Netherlands and Britain also progressed.

Argentina's women's team secured a spot in the knockout stages, after sending hosts Japan out of the tournament, while the Spanish team's win over China meant they also took a big step to progressing to the next round.

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Chinese sports machine’s single goal: Most golds, at any cost

China’s sports assembly line is designed for one purpose: Churning out gold medals for the glory of the nation. Silver and bronze barely count. By fielding 413 athletes in Tokyo, its largest-ever delegation, China aims to land at the top of the gold medal count — even if the Chinese public is increasingly wary of the sacrifices made by individual athletes.

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A tale of two cities: The Olympics 'bubble' and the Tokyo outside

The Tokyo Olympics is running a village for athletes and coaches where more than 80% are vaccinated against the coronavirus, testing is compulsory and movement is stringently curtailed.

None of that is true for the giant Japanese capital that surrounds the Olympic "bubble".

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Dutee Chand's mom lights 'eternal lamp' for her success

Akhaji Chand, mother of India’s ace sprinter Dutee Chand, on Thursday lighted an "eternal lamp" at a temple wishing her daughter’s success at the ongoing Tokyo Olympics.

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Anti-Olympics protest outside Japan PM's residence

Dozens of people gathered in front of the Japanese Prime Minister's residence in Tokyo on Thursday to protest against the ongoing Olympic Games, as new coronavirus cases broke the country's records for the third straight day.

The protesters claimed that hosting the international sports event was one of the main reasons behind the rise in cases.

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