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Tokyo Olympics 2020, Day 11 Live Updates: Shot Putter Tajinderpal Singh Toor Throws 19.99m, One Attempt Left
Tokyo Olympics 2020 Games Day 11 Live Updates: Tajinder Pal Toor starts his campaign after Sonam Malik lost her first-round bout against Bolortuya Khurelkhuu and Annu Rani could not qualify for the women’s javelin throw final at the Olympic Games.
Tokyo Olympics 2020 Games Day 11 Live Updates: Shot putter Tajinder Pal Toor also begins his Tokyo Olympics campaign. India’s wrestling campaign at the Tokyo Olympics began with a loss as 19-year-old Sonam Malik lost her first-round freestyle 62kg category bout against Mongolia’s Asian Championship silver medallist Bolortuya Khurelkhuu. Sonam had the lead in most parts of the match but the Mongolian bagged a double point which helped her pip Sonam as the match ended 2-2. Earlier, Annu Rani could not qualify for the women’s javelin throw final at the Olympic Games, finishing 14th with a below-par throw of 54.04m here on Tuesday. Annu began with a 50.35m throw and improved it to 53.19m in her second attempt in Group A, which had 14 contenders. The Indian men’s hockey team’s dream of Olympic gold 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 Olympics.
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Here is India’s schedule on Day 11 of the Tokyo Olympics. All timings are in IST:
Tokyo 2020 Live: Athletics
Tokyo 2020 Live: Athletics
Tajinderpal comes up with a second attempt. But that is a foul. He just has one attempt left now and it will be a tough ask for him to get a 21m throw.
Tokyo 2020 Live: Hockey
So from the second semis of the day, Australia and Germany are into the second quarter and the scores are level at 1-1.
Tokyo 2020 Live: Athletics
Tajinderpal Singh Toor gets a distance of 19.99m on his first attempt!
The automatic qualifying mark being is 21.20m and the top 12 best throws overall will qualify for the men’s shot put finals!
Tokyo 2020 Live: Athletics
Tajinderpal Singh Toor is in action in the men’s shot put Qualification Group A! If the Indian can out-throw his season's best, his personal best too, he will be in contention for a place in the finals.
Tajinderpal will be first throw... with the automatic qulaiying mark being - 21.20m.
PM Modi to Meet Olympians on Independence Day
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will invite the entire Indian Olympics contingent to the Red Fort as special guests on 15th August. He will also personally meet & interact with all of them around that time.
In addition to the red fort program, PM Modi will invite all Olympics participants to his residence for the interaction.
Tokyo Olympics Live - Tennis
Physiotherapist-cum-coach Sanjay Singh -- the man who has kept Leander Paes injury-free for over three decades and helped him to a whopping 18 Grand Slam titles and a bronze at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games -- added another feather to his cap when he guided Brazil's Luisa Stefani to the women's doubles bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics.
Tokyo Olympics Live: Shotput
India is pinning a lot of hopes on shotputter Tajinderpal Toor to get a medal. He has a personal best of 21.49m. If he manages to get that distance, or just surpass that, he should land a medal. His event starts in a while from now.
Tokyo Olympics Live:GOLD MEDAL, WORLD RECORD
Germany became the first women’s pursuit team to beat Britain in an Olympic final, breaking its own world record with a time of 4:04.259 in track cycling at the Izu Velodrome.
The team of Franziska Brausse, Lisa Brennauer, Lisa Klein and Mieke Kroege led the British by nearly 2 seconds by the midway point of the 4,000-meter race and never looked back. The British wound up finishing in 4:10.607.
Britain had won the gold medal the previous three Summer Olympics.
The world champion Americans led the whole way in beating Canada for the bronze medal.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Said India showing at Tokyo 2020 showcases 'New India'
"This time, we've sent the largest contingent to the Olympics. We've done this while battling with the biggest crisis (COVID19) in 100 years. In many games, we've qualified for the first time. We've not just qualified but also giving tough competition," PM Modi said.
"In this Olympics, self-confidence of New India is visible in every game. Our players are challenging their higher-ranked opponents. The morale, dedication & zeal of Indian players are very high. This self-confidence comes when the right talent is identified & encouraged," he added.
Tokyo 2020: Italians Break World Record
Italy toppled another record in track cycling at the Tokyo Olympics with a new mark in men’s team pursuit.
The team of Simone Consonni, Filippo Ganna, Francesco Lamon and Jonathan Milan stopped the clock in 3:42.307 for the 4,000 meters to break the mark of 3:44.672 that Denmark set at last year’s world championships.
The Italians were pushed the entire way by New Zealand in the race for a spot in the gold medal race. The team of Aaron Gate, Campbell Stewart, Regan Gough and Jordan Kerby also bettered the previous record with a time or 3:42.397.
A lot has changed in PV Sindhu's game in the last five years and she isn't the same player - but the performances have still come.
Chinese Athletes Wear Mao Zedong Pins, IOC Asks for Explaination
The IOC says it asked China’s Olympic team to explain two gold medal winners wearing pins of communist leader Mao Zedong at their medal ceremony.
It risks being judged a breach of Olympic Charter Rule 50 prohibiting political statements on the podium.
After winning the women’s sprint in track cycling Monday, Bao Shanju and Zhong Tianshi wore pin badges of Mao, the founding leader of communist China.
The Chinese incident followed one day after American shot put silver medalist Raven Saunders crossed the wrists of her raised arms on the podium, in a symbol of support for oppressed people. That happened seconds after the Chinese national anthem finished playing for gold medalist Gong Lijiao.
Adams says the IOC has asked the United States team for more details. The U.S. Olympic body said it was taking no action against Saunders.
US Sprinter Allyson Felix Off the Mark at Farewell Summer Games
Allyson Felix made a smooth start to her quest for a record-breaking 10th Olympic medal on Tuesday, strolling to a comfortable win in the opening heats of the 400m. The 35-year-old queen of US track and field, competing in her fifth Olympic Games, cruised through her heat in 50.84sec, the fourth fastest time of qualifying.
Tokyo Olympics Live Updates: Wrestling
Meanwhile, Deepak Punia will be competing in the freestyle 86kg category event. He will take on Ekerekeme Agiomor, the only male wrestler that is representing Nigeria. Agiomor won the men’s 79 kgs event in the African Championships in 2018 in Nigeria, bronze in both 2019, and 2020 in Tunisia and Algeria respectively.
Olympics 2020 Live updates: Wrestling
Anshu Malik another teenager wrestler will be competing in the women’s freestyle 57kg category event and she will take on Iryna Kurachkina of Belarus. Kurachkina is a two-time bronze medalist at the World Wrestling Championships and a four-time medalist, including two golds, at the European Wrestling Championships.
Tokyo Olympics Live: Wrestling
Ravi Dahiya faces Oscar Tigreros of Colombia, he is a South American Games and two-time Pan American runner-up.
Tokyo Olympics Live: Wrestling
The wrestling draws are out! Ravi Dahiya and Deepak Punia get relatively easy opponents in their first round bouts.
PV Sindhu has shown one and all why she is perhaps India's greatest sportsperson. Sindhu's best years are yet to come and an Olympic gold is the only target she is looking at. She, by all means, can…
Tokyo Olympics: Shot Putter Tests Positive for Steroids
A shot putter from the country of Georgia has tested positive for steroids and been pulled from his event Tuesday.
The International Testing Agency says Benik Abramyan tested positive for two steroids and a banned hormone in a sample taken in Tokyo on Saturday. That was his 36th birthday.
Abramyan was due to take part in the shot put qualifying round later Tuesday.
The agency says the athlete can appeal against his provisional suspension at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Abramyan competed at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics and did not reach the final.
India's tennis star Sania Mirza became one of the rare Indian women athletes to play a 4th Olympics, but exited in the first round of the women's doubles event partnering Ankita Raina at Tokyo 2020.
Tokyo Olympics Live: Wrestling
And that's the end of Sonam Malik's journey at the Tokyo Olympics as her first round opponent, Momgolia's Bolortuya Khurelkhuu loses the second round bout to Bulgaria's Taybe Mustafa Yusein 0-10
WORLD RECORD ALERT!
Olympics 2020 Live updates: Athletics
Rai Benjamin of USA, takes the silver and Brazil's Alison dos Santos wins bronze!
WORLD RECORD‼️
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Olympics 2020 Live updates: Wrestling
Sonam Malik loses her first round bout to Bolortuya Khurelkhuu. Will need to wait to see if she is in contention via repechage later.
Tokyo Olympics Live: Wrestling
Sonam Malik takes the first point against Mongolia's Asian Championship silver medallist Bolortuya Khurelkhuu.
Discus thrower Kamalpreet Kaur finished a creditable sixth in her first Olympics in a rain-interrupted final at the Tokyo Olympics on Monday.
Cash Reward Announced for PV Sindhu
Andhra Pradesh CM Jagan Mohan Reddy directs officials to extend cash reward to ace shuttler PV Sindhu for winning bronze medal in Tokyo Olympics as per the State Sports Policy. Before leaving for the big ticket event PV Sindhu had met the Chief Minister and the Government has sanctioned two acres of land for setting up Badminton Academy at Visakhapatnam. As per Sports Policy, the State would give a cash reward of Rs 75 lakhs for winning gold medal in Olympics, Rs 50 lakhs for winning silver medal and Rs 30 lakhs for bronze medal.
Gold medalist Valarie Allman, of the United States, centre, stands with silver medalist Kristin Pudenz, left, of Germany, and bronze medalist Yaime Perez, of Cuba on the podium for the woman's discus throw at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Tokyo 2020 Live: It is time for the BIG hockey match! India take on world number two side Belgium in the men's hockey semifinal. Catch all the updates HERE
Olympics 2020 Live updates: Athletics
Annu needs a much better performance in her last throw to be in contention for qualification for the finals. She is down to 14th now.
Shot Putter Tajinderpal Singh Toor (Twitter)
