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Tokyo Olympics highlights: Mirabai Chanu shines on Day 1, Indian women lose hockey opener; shooters fail to fire

Tokyo Games opened on Friday after a year's delay due to the pandemic and with the threat of coronavirus hanging over the competition. Japan's Emperor Naruhito officially opened the Games in an eerily empty Olympic Stadium, after Covid-19 forced organisers to ban spectators at all but a handful of venues. Star Indian weightlifter Mirabai Chanu earned accolades for winning silver.
Last Updated 25 July 2021, 02:05 IST
16:3124 Jul 2021

And finally, here's India's schedule for Day 2 of Tokyo 2020!

16:3024 Jul 2021

At the end of Day 1, here's how the Olympic medal tally looks

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Men's, women's hockey sides face contrasting fortunes

The Indianmen's and women's hockey teams had contrasting fortunes with Manpreet's men securing a 3-2 win over New Zealand, while Rani Rampal's eves were handed a 5-1 drubbing by the Netherlands in their opener.

Harmanpreet Singh (26th and 33rd minutes) scored a double for India, while Rupinder Pal Singh (10th) was the other goal-getter for the eight-time former champions, currently ranked fourth in the world.For New Zealand, Kane Russell (6th minute) and Stephen Jenness (43rd minute) scored the goals.

In the women's fixture,Felice Albers gave Netherlands the lead in the sixth minute before the advantage was evened out by India skipper Rani Rampal in the 10th minute.

Margot van Geffen (33rd minute) restored Netherlands' lead soon after resumption before the three-time Olympic champions and reigning silver medallist scored two goals in quick succession through Albers (43rd) and Frederique Matla (45th) to take control of the proceedings.

(PTI)

16:1824 Jul 2021

Manika, Mukherjee get off to strong start in women's table tennis singles after mixed doubles exit

India's slim hopes for a table tennis medal in mixed doubles vanished in no time but Manika Batra and Sutirtha Mukherjee made promising starts to their women's singles campaign at the Tokyo Olympics here on Saturday.

The start to India's table tennis campaign was disappointing with Sharath Kamal and Manika losing 0-4 to the third seeds Lin Yun-Ju and Cheng I-Ching of Chinese Taipei in the mixed doubles round of 16.

However, world number 62 Manika returned to beat 94th-ranked Tin-Tin Ho of Britain 4-0 in her singles opener while 98th-ranked Sutirtha made a strong impression on her Olympics debut with a come from behind 4-3 win against 78th-ranked Linda Bergstrom of Sweden.

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15:0424 Jul 2021

Sumit Nagal nets India's first men's tennis win in 25 years

Sumit Nagal on Saturday became only the third Indian tennis player to win a men's singles match at the Olympic Games and the first in 25 years, when he edged past Denis Istomin in a three-setterhere.

Nagal got the better of Istomin 6-4 6-7(6) 6-4 in two hours and 34 minutes on court 10 at the Ariake Tennis Centre to set up a second round clash with world number two Daniil Medvedev.

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(Published 24 July 2021, 01:48 IST)

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