1. The Indian hockey team for entering the semi-finals and badminton player PV Sindhu for winning a bronze medal in Tokyo Olympics.
2. P V Sindhu became only the second Indian and the country’s first woman to bag two Olympic medals after winning the bronze in women’s badminton at the Tokyo Games on 01 Aug (Sunday).
3. There was also reason to celebrate as India’s men’s hockey team made it to the semi-finals after 49 years. The eight-time Olympic champions beat Great Britain to set up a meeting with World champions Belgium. The country’s last semi-finals appearance at the Games was in 1972 at Munich, where they lost 0-2 to arch-rivals Pakistan
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MEDAL TALLY
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1. China 24 +14+13: 51
2. USA 20+23+16: 59
3. Japan. 17+5+9. :31
4. Australia 14+3 14 :31
59 India. 0 1 1 2
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TOKYO OLYMPICS: 10th Schedule 02 Aug
7:24 AM: Women’s 200m Round 1 – Heat 4 (Dutee Chand)
SHOOTING:
8:00 AM: 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men’s Qualification (Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Sanjeev Rajput)
HOCKEY:
8:30 AM: Women’s Quarter-final (India vs Australia)
SHOOTING:
1:20 PM: 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men’s Final (Subject to Qualification)
EQUESTRIAN:
1:30 PM: Eventing Jumping Individual Qualifier (Fouaad Mirza)
ATHLETICS:
4:30 PM: Women’s Discus Throw Final (Kamalpreet Kaur)
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Ch Narmada Naveen Kumar |
