Paris Olympics Day 3 Highlights: Manika Batra Scripts History; Cheung Ka-Long Defends Men's Foil Gold Medal In Fencing

Shooting: July 29

10m air pistol mixed team qualification - 12:45 PM

10m air rifle women's final - 1:00 PM

Trap men's qualification - 1:00 PM

10m air rifle men's final - 3:30 PM

Badminton: July 29

Men's doubles group stage - 12:00 PM (Satwik and Chirag)

Women's doubles group stage - 12:50 PM Onwards (Crasto and Ponappa)

Men's singles group stage - 5:30 PM (Lakshya Sen)

1. Japan - 7 Total (4 Gold, 2 Silver, 1 Bronze)

2. Australia - 6 Total (4 Gold, 2 Silver)

3. USA - 12 Total (3 Gold, 6 Silver, 3 Bronze)

Rafael Nadal beat Morton Fucsovics to set up a Djokovic date in the second round of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games on Court-Phillipe Chatrier. The meeting will be their 60th overall, with the Serb slightly edging it 30-29.

The Nadal vs Djokovic men's singles tennis match at the Paris Olympics 2024 will be held on Monday, July 29.

India's star shuttler Lakshya Sen's win over Kevin Cordon in his campaign opener in the men's singles Group L match will not be counted as his opponent has pulled out of the Games due injury.

The Indian men's hockey team will be back in action in a Pool B match against Argentina at 4:15 PM.

India's badminton doubles pairing Satwik-Chirag will not be playing their second group match on Monday, July 29. The match was cancelled following their opponents Mark Lamsfuss and Marvin Seidel withdrawing from the event.

Women's Doubles (Group stage): Ashwini Ponnappa and Tanisha Crasto vs Nami Matsuyama and Chiharu Shida (Japan) -- 12:50pm

Men's Singles (Group stage): Lakshya Sen vs Julien Carraggi (Belgium) -- 5:30pm

Asian Games medallist, Ramita Jindal became just the second Indian woman rifle shooter to make it to an Olympic final. The finals 10m air rifle medal round is scheduled to start at 1:00 PM IST.

The qualification round of the 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team event is about to start with two Indian teams taking part.

Team 1 - Manu Bhaker, Sarabjot Singh,

Team 2 - Rhythm Sangwan, Arjun Singh Cheema

India's Team 2 are off to a great start, with Rhythm firing three 10s to get the ball rolling. While, her partner Arjun Cheema also gets a good start with two 10s and a 9. Brilliant overall!

Manu Bhaker rides the momentum wave after her bronze and gets off to a very good start. Sarabjot, on the other hand, shoots two 9s in the first five.

Ramita is on a roll as she gets 10.3, 10.1, 10.6, 10.9 and 10.5 in her first five shots, and sits on fourth place at the moment. Cautious start! Can she press the focus gear up a notch?

In her next five shots, Ramita fires 10.4, 10.1, 10.7, 10.6 and a 9.7 that sees her drop to to seventh spot. There will be an elimination after every two shots from now.

Ramita finishes seventh in the final and is out. Firing 10.4, 10.5, 10.2, 10.2 and 10.5 in her last five shots, and was eliminated in a nervy shoot-out.

India’s Manu Bhaker and Sarabjot Singh finished third in the qualification round with a total of 580 and will now face Korea for the bronze on Tuesday, July 30. 

Scores:

Manu Bhaker - 98 | 98 | 95 | 291

Sarabjot Singh - 95 | 97 | 97 | 289

Ashwini Ponnappa and Tanisha Crasto suffered their second straight loss in women's doubles, putting their tournament in jeopardy. The pair will face Australia tomorrow in a must-win match.

Police officials in France have opened up a thorough investigation into the death threats that were received by the three Israeli athletes at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. 

Anti-Cybercrime officers have also been involved in the investigation of the release of athletes’ personal data on social networks.

And we are seconds away from the start of the men’s 10m air rifle final where India’s Arjun Babuta will be in action.

Arjun starts off with a 10.7, and then immediately follows it up with 10.2. The next three attempts, he fires 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6, and sits fourth on the list. Promising signs!

Arjun seems like he is in the zone and the focus game has only rising. 10.7, 10.5, 10.4, 10.6 and 10.4 in the next five shots see him go to third place. Can he stay there or go even higher?

Babuta fires 10.6, 10.8, 9.9 and 10.6 in the next four. That 9.9 would hurt, but he's still in the medal's position, and is looking good to take it. However, he comes up with a 10.2 and 10.7 to take the second spot for now.

Arjun finishes fourth in the men’s 10m air rifle final after firing 10.5, 10.1, 10.5 and 9.5 in the last four attempts. The 25-year-old looked great to take a medal for most parts of the game, but fell shot with a 9.9 and 9.5 that dented the chances. Immense effort overall.

World number one Iga Swiatek is currently taking on France's Diane Parry on the hallowed Court Philippe Chatrier. Swiatek leads 6-1, 3-1 and should not take long to finish this match off. Right after that, we have the clash of the titans coming up. Old foes Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic will lock horns, in what could turn out to be the last time the duo face off in a formal setting.

Arjun Babuta narrowly missed out on a medal, but he's certainly not the first from the country to have done that. The list of India's fourth-placed Olympic finishes is a long-one. Some of the major misses have been that of the Indian women's hockey team and golfer Aditi Ashok in Tokyo 2020, and gymnast Dipa Karmakar, shooting legend Abhinav Bindra and tennis duo Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna in Rio 2016.

India's ace shuttler Lakshya Sen is currently in action against Belgium's Julien Carraggi. The Indian trails 8-11 at the mid-game interval of Game 1. After the exit of Kevin Cordon and the subsequent 'deletion' of Sen's win, the 22-year-old must win today if he has to stay in contention for the knock-outs. This is Sen's debut appearance at the Olympics.

Novak Djokovic dominated the first set against Rafael Nadal and comfortably won that with Nadal winning only Game 6 from Set 1.

The Serbian is leading the second set as well easily winning the first two sets. Nadal needs to fight back against his rival. Nadal is hanging on after losing the first set to Djokovic.

Indian men's archery team comprising Dhiraj Bommadevara, Tarundeep Rai and Pravin Jadhav will be in action against Turkiye shortly in the quarter-finals.

Turkiye won the first set as India finished with 53 points and Turkiye registered 57 points.

Turkiye won the second set as Tumer Berkim hit a 10 in the second arrow. India managed only 52 points whereas Turkiye hit 55.

Set 3: India scored 27 with the first three arrows as Dhiraj hit a 10. Turkiye scores 29.

There was confusion in there but India were declared winners of the third set.

The Indian team went down in the 4th set and bowed out of the team's event. Indian team managed 54 points in the 4th set and in response to that Turkiye scored 58 points to knock out India.

Rafael Nadal lost to Novak Djokovic in the second set. He beats Nadal with 6-1 and 6-4 to enter the third round. Nadal showed some resilience in the second set and won four straight games after losing the first four on the trot. But Djokovic managed to win the last two games and sealed the match with an ace.

The centre gold ring on the archery target is only 12.2 centimetres in diameter. And it looks even smaller to the archers -- they are 70 metres away from the target, in Olympic competitions. Also, there's a countdown.

France and Turkiye are up against each other and after losing both games in the first set, Turkiye bounced back and level up in the second set.

Set 3

Turkiye won the third set with 58 points whereas France managed to score only 57 points after hitting all 10s in the first game.

Set 4

Turkiye lost the 4th set against France by one point. France scored 56 points and Turkiye managed only 55. Hence the match will go for a shoot-off.

In the shoot-off, France and Turkiye both scored 27 points but it was France who hit a ten-pointer first so they are through to the finals. They will face Korea in the Gold medal match.

In the men's archery gold medal match, France are facing Korea. Yesterday, the Korean women's team won a tenth successive gold at the Games and continued their four decades of domination in the sport.

Turkiye won the first set but China bounced back in the next set and won that by 57 points when Turkiye managed only 56 points.

Set 3

Tukiye beat China in the third set to lead 4-2 in the bronze medal match. Turkiye managed to score 55 points and China made 54 points. 4th set in a few minutes.

Turkiye beat China in the 4th set to secure a bronze medal finish. Turkiye managed to score 56 points in the 4th set whereas China got only 54 points. Turkiye won the match by 6-2.

Set 1

France and Korea drew the first set with 57 points each.

Set 2

Korea won the second set with 59 points in total to France's 58 points. The scoreline is Korea 3-1 France.

Republic of Korea won the men's archery team event by beating France 5-1. In the third set, Korea secured 59 points and France managed only 56 points.

Rohan Bopanna has called time on his career and announced that the Paris Olympics 2024 was his last event in Indian colours. He along with N Sriram Balaji lost to the French duo of Edouard Roger-Vasselin and Gael Monfils in the men's doubles first round under lights at court midnight on Sunday.

Indian female table tennis player Sreeja Akula will be in action at 11:30 pm IST. She will be playing against J Zeng in the Round of 32 Match that will start late Monday night.

Adam Peaty of Great Britain's side has been tested positive for Covid-19 just a day after winning a silver medal in the 100m breaststroke.

Germany's Michael Jung won the record third Equestrian Gold medal in the Olympics in the individual event. He won his fourth Olympic gold medal on Monday in Paris. It was Jung's fifth Olympic medal overall because he also took silver in team eventing at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games.

Aquatics - Diving (Men's 10 m synchronized platform)

Archery - Men's team

Cycling (Mountain) - Men's cross-country

Equestrian - Eventing individual

Equestrian - Eventing team

Shooting - Men's 10 m air rifle

Shooting - Women's 10 m air rifle

Canoeing - Slalom Men's C-1

Judo - Men's 73 kg

Judo - Women's 57 kg

Skateboarding - Men's street

Aquatics - Swimming (Men's 200 m freestyle)

Aquatics - Swimming (Men's 100 m backstroke)

Aquatics - Swimming (Women's 200 m freestyle)

Aquatics - Swimming (Women's 100 m breaststroke)

Aquatics - Swimming (Women's 400 m individual medley)

Fencing - Men's foil

Fencing - Women's sabre

Gymnastics (Artistic) - Men's team all-around

Spain's Carlos Alcaraz is up against the Netherlands' Tallon Griekspoor in the second round of the men's singles Tennis match.

Carlos Alcaraz comfortably won the first set against the Dutch player Tallon Griekspoor with a 6-1. He easily dominated the dutch player and showed some fabulous shots during his first set win.

Aquatics: Swimming - Men's 800 m freestyle

Aquatics: Swimming - Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay

Aquatics: Swimming - Women's 100 m backstroke

Fencing: Women's team epee

Gymnastics: Women's team all-around

Judo: Men's 81 kg

Judo: Women's 63 kg

Rugby Sevens: Women's gold medal and bronze play-off matches

Shooting: Pistol - Mixed 10 m air pistol team

Shooting: Shotgun - Men's trap

Table Tennis - Mixed doubles

Triathlon: Men's Individual

The second round tennis match of the men's singles between Carlos Alcaraz and Tallon Grieskpoor saw Griekspoor leading with 4-3 after losing the first set.

India Set To Host Asia Cup 2025 In T20 Format

Asian Cricket Council announced on Monday that the men's Asia Cup 2025 will be played in the T20 format and India is going to be the host for the multi-nation tournament. Bangladesh is chosen as the host for the 2027 edition of the Asia Cup in ODI format.

India's table tennis player Manika Batra faces 12th seed Prithika Pavade of France in the round of 32 match. The match is about of start soon.

Canada's Summer McIntosh has the world record in women's 400m individual medley with 4:24.38 that she achieved on 16 May 2024.

Hungarian Katinka Hosszu has the olympic record in women's 400m individual medley with 4:26.36 that she achieved on 6 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro.

Romania's David Popovici wins gold medal in men's 200m freestyle. Matthew Richards of Great Britain bagged silver whereas USA's Luke Hobson settled with bronze. Popovici became the first Romanian male swimmer to win an Olympic gold, and second after Diana Mocanu (2000). Popovici is Nadia Comaneci's compatriot, the legendary Romanian gymnast who shared the stage with Rafael Nadal, Serena Williams and Carl Lewis during the Paris Olympics opening ceremony.

Manika Batra won the first set comfortably with an 11-9 margin against Prithika Pavade.

The women's 100-metre backstroke event at the 2024 Summer Olympics will take place from July 29th to July 30th, 2024 at the Paris Aquatics Centre. The top 8 swimmers, regardless of heat, will advance to the final. Tomorrow, Regan Smith and Katharine Berkoff of the United States, Kaylee McKeown and Iona Anderson of Australia, Kylie Masse and Ingrid Wilm of Canada, and Beryl Gastaldello and Emma Terebo of France will be competing in the finals.

India's Manika Batra comfortably won the second and third sets of the round of 32 match against Prithika Pavade at the Paris Olympics 2024.

Manika Batra comfortably won the round of 32 match against France's Prithika Pavade in straight sets. She defeated her 4-0 to enter the round of 16 match.

Italy's Thomas Ceccon won the gold medal and China's Xu Jiayu bagged silver. United States player Ryan Murphy, who had the Olympic record under his name, settled with bronze.

Tatjana Smith of South Africa won the gold medal and Tang Qianting of China won silver whereas Mona McSharry of Ireland settled with a bronze medal in the women's 100m breaststroke event at the ongoing Paris Olympics. Gold, silver and bronze medal winners are also the three fastest qualifiers in that order.

Olympic record is broken and Australia's Mollie O'Callaghan is the new Olympic record holder and gold medallist with 1:53.27 timing. Ariarne Titmus of Australia won silver whereas Hong Kong's Siobhan Haughey settled with the bronze medal.

Manon Brunet of France won the gold medal and another French woman Sara Balzer bagged the silver medal whereas the Ukrainian Olga Kharlan settled with the bronze medal.

Hong Kong's Cheung Ka-Long defended his gold medal against Italy's Filippo Macchi who had to settle with silver after a thrilling finish. Nick Itkin of the United States settled with the bronze medal.

A historic day for Indian table tennis as Manika Batra became the first player to enter the Round of 16 on the third day of the Paris Games 2024. India will compete in various events of Day 4. Join us tomorrow here. Until then, goodbye and and goodnight!