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Aug 03, 2021

Viktor Axelsen Wins Olympic Badminton Gold

Denmark's Viktor Axelsen won the men's Olympic badminton gold in Tokyo, becoming the first non-Asian man to win the singles title since 1996.
World No. 2 Axelsen beat China's defending champion Chen Long 21-15, 21-12.
Axelsen, who won bronze at the 2016 Rio Games, followed in the footsteps of compatriot Poul-Erik Hoyer-Larsen, the Atlanta Games champion and the last winner from outside Asia.

Indian Men's Hockey Team to Compete for Bronze

The Indian men's hockey team's dream of entering the Olympics final after 41-years remained unfulfilled as it lost 2-5 to world champions Belgium in the last-four stage but the side is still in the hunt for a bronze in the Tokyo Games. Alexander Hendrickx the tournament's highest goal getter, scored a hat-trick while Loick Luypaert and John-John Dohmen also struck to hand the reigning silver-medalists their second successive entry into the final of the Olympics.
India's goals came from the sticks of Harmanpreet Singh and Mandeep Singh. India's last appearance in the final of the Olympics came way back in 1980 Moscow Games, where they went on to win their last of the eight gold medals.

Aug 02, 2021

Yulimar Rojas Creates New World Record in Women's Triple Jump

Venezuelan athlete Yulimar Rojas won the women's triple jump gold at the Tokyo Olympics, while also breaking the World Record that was set in 1995.
Rojas emerged victorious with a final jump of 15.67 meters (51.4 feet), surpassing the 1995 record of 15.50 meters (50.8 feet) set by Ukrainian athlete Inessa Kravets.
The two-time world champion had won a silver medal at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.

India Enters Olympics Men's Hockey Semis after 49 Years

The Indian men's hockey team defeated Great Britain 3-1 in a quarter-final match to qualify for the semi-finals of Olympics Games after 49 years.
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.
The lone goal for Great Britain was scored by Sam Ward in the 45th minute.
The last time India featured in the semi-finals of the Olympics was in 1972 Munich Games where they lost 0-2 to arch-rivals Pakistan.
India will take on world champions Belgium in the semi-final.

Artem Dolgopyat Wins Israel's First Olympics Gymnastics Gold

Ukraine-born Artem Dolgopyat won the men's floor exercise for Israel's first-ever Olympic gymnastics gold.
Dolgopyat, twice a world silver medallist in the same event, posted a score of 14.933, the same as Zapata. But the Israeli took the top spot on the podium because his routine had a higher degree of difficulty.
China's Xiao Ruoteng took the bronze for his third medal in the Tokyo Games.

Badminton star P. V. Sindhu Wins Bronze

Reigning world champion P. V. Sindhu became India's first woman to win two Olympic medals, comfortably securing a bronze in the badminton women's singles third-place play-off. The men's hockey team delivered a historic win soon afterwards, advancing to the Olympics for the first time in 49 years and capping off a Super Sunday for India in Tokyo.
Sindhu, who has returned with medals from each of the big-ticket events such as Commonwealth Games, Asian Games and BWF World Tour Finals in the last five years, outwitted eighth seed Bing Jiao 21-13 21-15 to add a bronze to her silver that she had secured at the 2016 Rio Games.
Wrestler Sushil Kumar is the first and only other Indian to win two Olympic medals, following up his bronze at 2008 Beijing and with a silver at the London edition.

Italy's New Sprint King Jacobs

Lamont Marcell Jacobs claimed a stunning upset victory in the Olympic men's 100 metre final, becoming the first Italian to take the most coveted title in athletics and doing it in a European record time of 9.80 seconds.
American Fred Kerley took silver in a personal best 9.84 with Canada's Andre de Grasse repeating his bronze of 2016 in 9.89, also a new best.
Jacobs had fired a warning with a European record of 9.84 in the semis to become the first Italian to make the final. But even in the most open-looking showdown for decades, the man who had never gone under 10 seconds until this year still seemed a long shot to be the first European winner since Briton Linford Christie in 1992.

Sensational Emma McKeon Wins 7th Medal at the Games

Australia's Emma McKeon became the first female swimmer to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games after completing the sprint double with victory in the 50 m freestyle and then winning another gold in the women's 4x100 medley relay.
Emma McKeon won two more golds and became the first female swimmer — and second woman in any sport — to claim seven medals at one Olympics. Four of them were gold, the other three bronze.
The only other woman to win seven — in any sport — was Soviet gymnast Maria Gorokhovskaya, who claimed two golds and five silvers at the 1952 Helsinki Games.

Aug 01, 2021

Indian Discus Thrower Kamalpreet Kaur Qualifies for the Finals

India discus thrower Kamalpreet Kaur qualified for the Tokyo Olympics finals after finishing second in the women's discus throw qualification event at Olympic Stadium.
Kamalpreet was only the second thrower who achieved the automatic qualification of 64.00m after USA's Valarie Allman as the latter threw 66.42m in her first attempt.

Jul 31, 2021

Medal for Lovlina Borgohain

Debutant boxer Lovlina Borgohain (69 kg) provided the spark that India's Olympic campaign desperately needed with a medal-clinching quarter-final win, while ace shuttler P. V. Sindhu reconfirmed her status as one of the greats of the sport.
Borgohain a two-time world championship medallist, took a big step in making her own space in the Indian women's boxing's landscape, which has been largely dominated by the iconic M C Mary Kom.
She defeated former world champion Nien-Chin Chen of Chinese Taipei to become the first among nine Indian boxers in fray to be assured of at least a bronze.

South Africa's Schoenmaker Sets Individual Swimming World Record

South Africa's Tatjana Schoenmaker has set the first individual swimming world record at the Tokyo Olympics.
She won the women's 200-meter breaststroke with a time of 2 minutes, 18.95 seconds, breaking the mark of 2:19.11 set by Denmark's Rikke Moller Pedersen at the 2013 world championships in Barcelona.
The United States claimed the other two medals. Lilly King set a blistering pace early in the race and held on for a silver in 2:19.92. Annie Lazor grabbed bronze in 2:20.84.
It was the third world record at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre, with the first two coming in women's relays.

P. V. Sindhu Through to Semi-finals at Tokyo Olympics

Reigning world Champion P. V. Sindhu kept India's hopes of winning a first-ever Olympic gold in badminton alive as she reached the semi-finals of women's singles with a fighting straight-game win over world no 5 Japanese Akane Yamaguchi.
She will next face the winner of the other quarterfinal between Thailand's Ratchanok Inthanon and Chinese Taipei's Tai Tzu Ying.

Jul 30, 2021

Satish Kumar Sails into Olympic Boxing Quarter-finals

India's first super heavyweight (+91 kg) boxer to compete in the Olympics, Satish Kumar, eased into the quarter-finals of his debut Games, defeating Jamaica's Ricardo Brown in his opening bout.
Satish Kumar is a two-time Asian Championships bronze-winner, and has been a multiple-time national champion.
Next up for Satish is Uzebkistan's Bakhodir Jalolov, the reigning world and Asian champion.

Sunisa Lee Takes Gold in Women's Gymnastics Final

An American finished atop the podium in the women's Olympic gymnastics all-around.
Sunisa Lee became the fifth straight American woman to claim the Olympic title on Thursday, edging Rebeca Andrade of Brazil in an entertaining and hotly contested final while defending champion Simone Biles watched from the stands.
Lee's total of 57.433 points was just enough to top Andrade, who earned the first gymnastics all-around medal by a Latin American athlete but missed out on gold when she stepped out of bounds twice during her floor routine.
Russian gymnast Angelina Melnikova earned bronze two days after leading ROC to gold in the team final.

Pakistan Climber Becomes World's Youngest Mountaineer to Scale K2

A 19-year old Pakistani climber became the youngest person in the world to reach the summit of K2, the second-highest peak in the world.
Mr. Shehroze Kashif from Lahore achieved the feat of scaling the 8,611-metre high peak with the aid of bottled oxygen.
Before Mr. Kashif, Mr. Sajid Sadpara, the son of the legendary climber Mr. Muhammad Ali Sadpara, was the youngest person to have climbed K2 at the age of 20.
Mr. Kashif also scaled the world's 12th-highest mountain, the 8,047-meter Broad Peak, at the age of 17. In May this year, he became the youngest Pakistani to scale Mount Everest.

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