Stay tuned as we bring you all the latest updates, scores and results from Day 0 of the Tokyo Olympics 2020 on our LIVE blog!
File image of Deepika Kumari. Image: Twitter/@worldarchery
Rowing - Women's Quadruple Sculls
Utter domination from the Chinese quartet of Yunxia Chen, Ling Zhang, Yang Lyu and Xiaotong Cui as they top the leaderboards with a time of 6:14.32! For perspective on just how incredible their performance was, the next best timing, registered by the German team, was 6:18.22, a full four seconds slower.
Rowing - Men's Quadruple Sculls
The Polish quartet of Dominik Czaja, Wiktor Chabel, Szymon Posnik and Fabian Baranski record the fastest time of the heats with 5:39.25, just ahead of the Italians with 5:39.28 and the Dutch with 5:39.80.
A day to remember for An San!
Deepika Kumari finishes ninth in ranking round; South Korea's An San shatters Olympic record
Star Indian archer Deepika Kumari finished ninth in the women's individual ranking round as the country's Olympic campaign kickstarted at the Yumenoshima Park on Friday.
The world No.1 finished with 663 points, while talented 20-year-old Korean prodigy An San (680) topped the qualification round with an Olympic record score of 680. The performances will determine the seedings for the elimination rounds.
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A refresher on how Deepika Kumari got to the Tokyo Olympics!
If you're excited about Deepika Kumari's performance in the Olympic ranking round, but don't quite know how she qualified for the Olympics, click here to check out our form guide, which has detailed information on Deepika's build-up to the Olympics.
Rowing - Women's Double Sculls
Ancuta Bodnar and Simona Radis of Romania top the charts with a time of 6:49.79, and they're followed very very closely by the Dutch duo of Roos de Jong and Lisa Scheenard, who finished with a time of 6:49.90.
Yep, you'll have to make do with us for the moment!
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Archery - Men's Ranking Round
Coming up at 9.30 am IST, the Indian men's archery trio of Atanu Das, Pravin Jadhav and Tarundeep Rai will be in action during the ranking round.
Archery - Women's Ranking Round
Deepika Kumari will face Bhutan's Karma, who shot her personal best of 616 today, in the following round.
Rowing - Men's Double Sculls
Oh my word, the same Olympic record has been broken twice in two heats!
Minutes after Hugo Boucheron and Matthieu Androdias set a new record of 6:10.45 in the men's double sculls, Melvin Twellar and Stef Broenink record a time of 6:08.38!
Day 0 Preview: The Tokyo Olympics 2020 will begin in earnest on 24 July, after the lavish opening ceremony on 23 July, but there is already sporting action to look forward to.
India's archery squad will be in action on Friday morning in the ranking round, where the likes of Deepika Kumari and Atanu Das will be hoping to get off to a good start and set themselves up for a potential medal finish.
Rowing will be another of the sports thatΒ has an early start in the tournament, with many of the initial heats across all disciplines taking place on Friday.
Of course, the main event of the day will be the opening ceremony, which is expected to begin at around 4.30 pm IST later on in the day.