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Olympics 2024 Day 1 Highlights: Manu into the finals, Winning start in Hockey and badminton
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Olympic Games Paris 2024 Day 1 LIVE: The Indian contingent will kick off its campaign in Badminton, Shooting, Boxing, Rowing, Tennis, Men's Hockey, and Table Tennis on the first day of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
Here is the schedule for Indian Athletes on the first day of the 2024 Paris Olympics (All timings are in IST):
Shooting - 10m Air Rifle Mixed Team Qualification - Ramita Jindal, Arjun Babuta |Elavenil Valarivan, Sandeep Singh- 12:30 PM
Rowing- Men’s Single Sculls Heats - Balraj Panwar- 12:30 PM
Shooting - 10m Air Pistol Men’s Qualification - Arjun Singh Cheema, Sarabjot Singh- 2:00 PM
Shooting - 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team - Gold, Bronze Medal Matches (Subject to qualification)- 2:00 PM
Tennis - Men’s Doubles First Round - Sriram Balaji/Rohan Bopanna vs Fabien Reboul/Edouard Roger-Vasselin- 3:30 PM
Shooting - 10m Air Pistol Women’s Qualification - Manu Bhaker, Rhythm Sangwan- 04:00 PM
Badminton - Men’s Singles, Group Play Stage - Group L - Lakshya Sen vs Kevin Cordon- Starts at 07:10 PM
Table Tennis - Men’s Singles, Preliminary Round - Harmeet Desai vs Zaid Abo Yaman (Jordan)- 07:15 PM
Badminton - Men’s Doubles, Group Play Stage - Group C - Satwiksairaj Rankireddy/Chirag Shetty vs Lucas Corvee/Ronan Labar- 08:00 PM
Hockey - Men’s Pool B - India vs New Zealand- 09:00 PM
Women’s Doubles Group Play Stage - Group C - Ashwini Ponnappa/Tanisha Crasto vs Kim So Yeong/Kong Hee Yong (Republic of Korea)- 11:50 PM
Women’s 54kg - Preliminaries - Round of 32 - Preeti Pawar vs Thi Kim Anh Vo (Vietnam)- 12:02 AM
As it Happened
Live Updates
- 27 July 2024 11:44 AM GMT
Men's Hockey: Netherlands Takes a Big 4-1 Lead Over South Africa at Halftime!
Jip Jansen scored an early goal with a penalty stroke, which was quickly responded to by South Africa when Mustapha Cassiem equalized.
However, quick goals from Jonas de Geus, Tjep Hoedemakers, and another from Jip Jansen ensured the Dutch lead 4-1 against South Africa at halftime.
- 27 July 2024 11:18 AM GMT
Diving: China claims Gold!
China has secured gold in the Women’s Synchronised 3m Springboard Final.
The USA takes silver, and Great Britain finishes with bronze.
- 27 July 2024 11:12 AM GMT
Men's Hockey: Australia vs. Argentina is LIVE!
The Hockeyroos are starting their campaign at Paris Olympics against Argentina in the men’s hockey Pool B match, held at Yves-du-Manoir Stadium 2.
- 27 July 2024 11:07 AM GMT
Men's Basketball: Australia Tips Off with a Stellar Win!
The Australian basketball team kicked off their campaign at the Paris Olympics in style, as the men from down under defeated Spain 92-80.
- 27 July 2024 10:44 AM GMT
Men's Hockey: Netherlands vs South Africa is LIVE!
Netherlands takes on South Africa in the 2nd Pool A match of the day at Yves-du-Manoir Stadium 1.
- 27 July 2024 10:15 AM GMT
Shooting: Indians falter in Men's 10m air pistol qualification!
Following the 10m air rifle mixed team qualification round, the Indians also missed out on the men’s 10m air pistol event, as Sarabhjot Singh and Arjun Cheema did not make it into the top 8.
Catch all the shooting updates here.
- 27 July 2024 10:04 AM GMT
Men's Hockey: Belgium Defeats Ireland 2-0!
Alexander Hendrickx scored a penalty corner goal in the second half, adding to Tom Boon's field goal in the first half, as Belgium defeated Ireland to top Pool B.
- 27 July 2024 9:54 AM GMT
Delayed Start for Tennis!
The Bopanna/Balaji duo will not be in action until later tonight due to the rain causing a delayed start.
