Paris Olympics Day 8 Highlights: Nishant Dev Loses In Quarterfinals; Julien Alfred Win Women's 100m, Scripts History For Saint Lucia

Welcome to Olympics coverage Highlights of Saturday (August 3), the eighth day of the Paris Games. Manu Bhaker came agonisingly close of clinching another medal in the 25m pistol final. In archery, Deepika Kumari and Bhajan Kumar ended India’s campaign. In boxing, In boxing, Nishant Dev lost a tough quarter-final against Marco Alonso Verde Alvarez. Follow all the updates from the Paris 2024 Summer Games, right here. (Medal Table | Schedule & Results | Full Coverage)

A total of 31 gold medals will be awarded on 3 August, including in the rowing eights, judo mixed team, and tennis women's singles. Here are all the medal events at Paris Olympics 2024 today:

1:00 PM IST - Shooting - Women’s 25m Pistol Final

1:00 PM IST - Rowing - Women’s Single Sculls Finals

1:12 PM IST - Rowing - Men’s Single Sculls Final

1:30 PM IST - Equestrian - Dressage Team Grand Prix Special

2:20 PM IST- Rowing - Women’s Eight Final

2:20 PM IST - Cycling - Men’s Road Race

2:40 PM IST - Rowing - Men’s Eight Final

3:30 PM IST - Tennis - Men’s Doubles Gold Medal, Men’s Doubles Bronze Medal Match, Women’s Singles Gold Medal Match, Men’s Singles Bronze Medal Match

3:43 PM IST - Surfing - Women’s Windsurfing Final

4:03 PM IST - Surfing - Men’s Windsurfing Final

5:00 PM IST - Table Tennis - Women’s Singles Medal Matches

6:03 PM IST - Archery - Women’s Individual Medal Matches

6:30 PM IST - Badminton - Women’s Doubles Medal Matches

7:00 PM IST - Artistic Gymnastics - Men’s Floor Exercise Final

7:00 PM IST - Shooting - Skeet Men’s Final

7:30 PM IST - Judo - Mixed Team Medal Matches

7:50 PM IST - Artistic Gymnastics - Women’s Vault Final

8:46 PM IST - Artistic Gymnastics - Men’s Pommel Horse Final

9:08 PM IST - Boxing - Women’s 60kg Semifinal

10:30 PM IST - Fencing - Women’s Sabre Team Finals

11:05 PM IST - Athletics - Men’s Shot Put Final

11:50 PM IST - Athletics - Women’s Triple Jump Final

12:00 AM IST- Swimming - Women’s 100m Butterfly Final

12:25 AM IST - Athletics - 4x400m Mixed Relay Final

12:38 AM IST- Swimming - Women’s 200m Individual Medley Final

12:50 AM IST- Athletics - Women’s 100m Final

12:54 AM IST- Surfing - Men’s Bronze Medal Match

12:58 AM IST- Swimming - Women’s 800m Freestyle Final

01:15 AM IST - Athletics - Men’s Decathlon (Last event - 1500m)

01:28 AM IST- Swimming - Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay Final

01:30 AM IST - Surfing - Men’s Gold Medal Match

02:06 AM IST - Surfing - Women’s Medal Matches

01:38 AM IST - Boxing - Women’s 60kg Semifinal

Women's Individual 1/8 eliminations:

Deepika Kumari (1:52 PM), Bhajan Kaur (2:05 PM)

If Qualified, the medal rounds will take place as follows:

Women's Individual Quarter-final - 4:30 PM onwards

Women's Individual Semi-final - 5:22 PM onwards

Women's Individual Bronze Medal Match - 6:03 PM

Women's Individual Gold Medal Match - 6:16 PM

Boxing, Men's 71 kg quarter-final:

- Nishant Dev (12:18 am)

Golf, Men's individual strokeplay - Round 3:

Shubhankar Sharma and Gaganjeet Bhullar (12:30 PM) 

Men's Dinghy 1LCA7 - Race 5 and 6:
- Vishnu Sarvanan (3:50 PM)

Women's Dinghy 1LCA6 - Race 4, 5 and 6:
- Nethra Kumanan (5:55 PM)

Japan 84-102 Brazil

Australia 71-77 Greece

Canada 88-85 Spain

France 71-85 Germany

(Women's)

China 2-4 Germany

Belgium 1-3 Netherlands

(Men's)

Netherlands 5-3 Spain

Australia 2-3 India

New Zealand 1-2 Ireland

France 2-5 South Africa

Belgium 3-3 Argentina

Great Britain 1-2 Germany

Morocco 4 USA 0

Japan 0 Spain 3

Egypt 1 Paraguay 1 (after extra time; Egypt won 5-4 on penalties)

France 1 Argentina 9

Men's Doubles Gold Medal Match - Court Philippe-Chatrier

(AUS) Matthew Ebden - John Peers Vs (USA) Austin Krajicek - Rajeev Ram

Time - 15:30 IST

Bronze Medal Match:

(USA) Taylor Fritz - Tommy Paul Vs (CZE) Tomas Machac - Adam Pavlasek

Women's Singles Gold Medal Match - Court Philippe-Chatrier

Qinwen Zheng (CHN) Vs Donna Vekic (CRO)

Men's Singles Bronze Medal Match

Lorenzo Musetti (ITA) Vs Felix Auger Aliassime (CAN)

“I'm sorry to announce that due to overall fatigue caused by the last couple of weeks on the court I need to withdraw from the tournament in Toronto,” said Iga Swiatek after bagging a bronze medal at the Paris Olymics tennis women's singles event.

Dutch Olympian Steven van de Velde, who was convicted in 2016 of raping a 12-year-old girl in England, advanced to the knockout round of the beach volleyball tournament on Friday, even with a loss in the final match of pool play.

Van de Velde and Matthew Immers will play in the round of 16 on Sunday or Monday. An opponent has not been determined.(AP)

The officials released a statement stating that the Surfing event today is going to be postponed. An official call will be made at 09:30 GMT | 3:00 pm IST.

The Indian shooter Manu Bhaker is in action at the Women's 25m Pistol shooting at the Paris Olympics, eying her third medal of the Games 2024.

And, it has been an underwhelming start with just two hits in the opening series. But she hit four times in the second series to come up on 4th.

Manu Bhaker missed her third bronze medal in shooting at the Paris Olympics by 3 points. She finished fourth after the third-place shoot-off by Hungarian shooter Veronika Major.

The first quarter-final badminton match of the day taken place in between 2023 world champion and world No.1 An Se Young of Korea and two-time world champion Yamaguchi Akane from Japan is now over.

An Se Young wins the match 21-8 to progress to the semi-finals.

The first gold medal of the eighth day of Paris Olympic Games 2024 goes to Yang of the Republic of Korea in the 25m Women's Pistol shooting with 37 points. Camille Jedrzejewski of France claims the silver. Veronika Major of Hungary gets the Bronze with 31 points, this marks her nation's first medal of the Games.

Podium:

1st - Yang Jiin (KOR)
2nd - Camille Jedrzejewski (FRA)
3rd- Veronika Major (HUN)

Indian players Deepika Kumari and Bhajan Kaur are next in the action. The two players will compete in women's individual Round of 16 archery.

Deepika Kumari has entered the stage and she will be in action shortly. Her opponent, Michelle Kroppen is aiming.

Deepika Kumari won the first set by ending with 27 points in comparison of Michelle Kroppen's 24 points.

The second set ended in a draw with 27 points each. Now the score is Deepika 3 in comparison to Michelle's 1.

Deepika won the third set comfortably after hitting the first arrow for a perfect 10. She got an edge of one point.

Deepika Kumari lost the fourth set by two pints after the German archer hit two perfect 10s. She has one last set remaining.

Deepika Kumari managed to draw the fifth set with 27 scores from both the players. She ended up winning the match by 6-4 points.

India's Bhajan Kaur is in action for the women's individual event in archery. She will face Indonesia's Diananda Choirunisa.

Bhajan Kaur lost the first set by the margin of one point. She managed to hit two tens after an eight. But Choirunisa hit two tens and one nine to win the opening set.

Bhajan Kaur won the second set by two points. She managed to grab 27 points whereas Choirunisa got only 25 points.

Bhajan Kaur lost the third set by a margin of two points. Choirunisa scored 28 whereas Bhajan Kaur managed only 26.

The fourth set was tied with a score of 28 by both players. Bhajan Kaur survived and now the score is Bhajan Kaur's three to Choirunisa's five.

Bhajan Kaur won the fifth set by just one point. Now the one-arrow shoot-out will decide the winner. The score after fifth set is 5-5.

The one-arrow shoot-out was followed after a draw of 5-5 by both players. Choirunisa went first and hit a nine. Bhajan Kaur missed the mark and hit eight. Her campaign ended on a tough note.

Deepika Kumari will be in action for the quarterfinal round of the women's individual event at 05:09 pm IST. Her opponent is going to be Nam Su-Hyeon of South Korea. Su-Hyeon is one talent. She is still a teenager and a member of the gold medal-winning Korean team.

Netherlands' Karolien Florijn won the gold medal and New Zealand's Emma Twigg won the silver medal. The bronze medal went to Lithuania's Viktorija Senkute.

Romania won gold in the Women’s Eight Finals, finishing in 5:54.39. Canada won the silver medal with the timings of 5:58.84 and Great Britain settled with bronze in 5:59.51 time.

Germany's Oliver Zeidler won the first place in men's singles sculls. The second place was achieved by an Individual Neutral Athlete Yauheni Zalaty. Netherlands Simon van Dorp settled with bronze.

Morgan Bolding, Sholto Carnegie, Rory Gibbs, Thomas Ford, Jacob Dawson, Charles Elwes, Thomas Digby, James Rudkin, Harry Brightmore (cox) of Great Britain won the gold medal men;s eight category. Netherlands players Ralf Rienks, Olav Molenaar, Sander de Graaf, Ruben Knab, Gert-Jan van Doorn, Jacob van de Kerkhof, Jan van der Bij and Mick Makker won silver medal. Henry Hollingsworth, Nicholas Rusher, Christian Tabash, Clark Dean, Christopher Carlson, Peter Chatain, Evan Olson and Pieter Quinton of United States won bronze medal.

Romania's Adriana Adam, Roxana Anghel, Amalia Bereș, Madalina Bereș, Iuliana Buhuș, Dumitrița Juncănariu, Iuliana Popa, Simona Radiș, Victoria-Ștefania Petreanu (cox) won the gold medal. Abigail Dent, Caileigh Filmer, Kasia Gruchalla-Wesierski, Maya Meschkuleit, Sydney Payne, Jessica Sevick, Kristina Walker, Avalon Wasteneys and Kristen Kit (cox) of Canada won silver medal. Great Britain's Annie Campbell-Orde, Holly Dunford, Emily Ford, Lauren Irwin, Heidi Long, Rowan McKellar, Eve Stewart, Harriet Taylor and Henry Fieldman (cox) settled with bronze medal.

Netherlands defeated Japan 5-1 in the women's Pool A match whereas in Pool B, Great Britain lost to Argentina 0-3.

Lamont Marcell Jacobs, the reigning Olympic and European champion in the men’s 100m finishes second in heat 5 with 10.05 behind Kayinsola Ajayi from Nigeria to qualify for the semis on Sunday

France’s 4x100m medley relay team has qualified for the finals as the fastest qualifier of the heats. They finished with a top time of 3:31.36, with China taking second place, and USA third. With already four golds, Leon Marchand will be going for a fifth. 

And that’s a wrap from the first round of the men’s 100m and 27 men have advanced to the semi-finals of the competition. Kenny Bednarek and Fred Kerley recorded the fastest time in round 1 of the men’s 100m with a time of 9.97.

Deepika Kumari takes the first set of the Archery quarter-finals with a score of 38-36. The Indian recorded scores of 9,10 and 9, adding up to 38, while the Korean Nam Suhyeon scored 36.

South Korea’s Nam Suhyeon comes back straight away to take the second set and equal the score 2-2. Deepika hit a six in the second set, recording 25 while Suhyeon scored 28. However, India and Deepika fightback in the third to take a 4-2 lead.

Deepika is in her range again but a 7 in her second shot of the fourth set sees her lose to Suhyeon 29-27. Bad turns worse as the Indian loses the fifth scoring three straight 9s crashing out of the event and losing out on a medal chance.

Italy’s Marta Maggetti won the women’s windsurfing gold after taking a lead with Great Britain’s Emma Wilson gamble not paying off and had to settle for bronze. Israel’s Sharon Kanton takes silver. 

Gold: Marta Maggetti (ITA)

Silver: Sharon Kantor (ISR)

Bronze: Emma Wilson (GBR)

Australia’s Matthew Ebden and John Peers defeat United States’ Austin Krajicek and Rajeev Ram in the final of the men’s doubles tennis final 6-7, 7-6, (10-8) to take gold at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.

Two-time world champion, Tokyo 2020 gold medallist and men’s pole vault record holder Mondo Duplantis easily qualifies for the men’s final and will be big favourite to take gold.

Tom Reuveny has etched his name in the history books by winning Israel their first gold medal in men’s windsurfing at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. Grae Morris of Australia settles for silver as Luuc van Opzeeland takes bronze. 

Gold:Tom Reuveny (ISR)

Silver: Grae Morris (AUS)

Bronze: Luuc van Opzeeland (NED)

Lim Sihyeon beats compatriot Nam Suhyeon 7-3 to win her third Olympic gold at the Paris 2024 Games after winning the mixed and women’s team events. Lisa Barbelin from France settled for bronze, winning the first-ever individual women's archery medal in French Olympic history

Gold: Lim Sihyeon (KOR)
Silver: Nam Suhyeon (KOR)
Bronze: Lisa Barbelin (FRA)

France have brushed past Italy 4-1 in the mixed team judo semi-finals to set up a repeat of the Tokyo 2024 final against Japan. Can lightning strike twice? Or will Japan have their revenge?

Defending champion and favourite Damian Warner has failed to clear his opening height in pole vault. The shocking result drops him all the way down to 18th position. While on the other hand, Norway’s Sander Skothiem also failed to clear his opening height, placing him in 19th. 

Germany win gold in Equestrian dressage, with a final score of 235.790, just 0.121 ahead of Denmark who take silver. Great Britain finish with a score of 232.492 and settle for bronze. 

Gold: Germany: 235.790
Silver: Denmark: 235.669
Bronze: Great Britain: 232.492

With 71 out of 75 possible hits, Maheshwari Chauhan is placed eighth while Raiza Dhillon missed two hits to finish her third round with 23/25. She is placed 25th with 66/65 hits. The remaining two rounds will resume tomorrow.

China's Chen Meng, the number two seed, won the gold medal in the women's singles table tennis final by defeating her compatriot Sun Yingsha, the defending champion and number one seed.

United States’ Vincent Hancock hit 58 out of the 60 targets to defend his gold medal he won in Tokyo. His compatriot Lynn Price hit 57 to take silver, while Chinese Taipei’s Lee Meng Yuan settled for bronze. This also marks his fourth Olympic gold.

Gold: Vincent Hancock (USA): 58

Silver: Conner Lynn Prince (USA): 57

Bronze: Lee Meng Yuan (TPE): 45

Carlos Yulo won the second Olympic gold ever for Philippines after beating defending champion Artem Dolgopyat of Israel in the men’s floor exercise finals at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. Yulo scored 15.000, edging Dolgopyat at 14.966, while Great Britain’s Jake Jarman claimed bronze with 14.933

Gold: Carlos Yulo

Silver: Artem Dolgopyat

Bronze: Jake Jarman

Chen Qingchen and Jia Yifan won the women’s badminton double gold at the Porte de la Chapelle Arena in an all-Chinese affair beating Liu Shengshu and Tan Ning 22-20, 21-15. 

Gold: Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan

Silver: Liu Shengshu/Tan Ning

Bronze: Matsuyama Nami/Shida Chiharu.

Another event, another gold for Simone Biles. She now has three in Paris and seven overall in her career. The crowd goes berserk as Biles celebrates her victory. She finishes with a score of 15.300, while Rebeca Andrade takes silver with 14.996 and Jade Carey settles for bronze with 14.466. 

Gold: Simone Biles - 15.300

Silver: Rebeca Andrade - 14.966

Bronze: Jade Carey - 14.466

Scenes near the Eiffel Tower as Remco Evenepoel celebrates his gold in road cycling, becoming the first man to win both time trial as well as the road race at a single Olympics event. France’s Valentin Madouas bags silver, while Christophe Laporte, also from France, takes bronze. 

Gold: Rembo Evenepoel

Silver: Valentin Madouas

Bronze: Christophe Laporte

Algeria's Imane Khelif meets ThauJanjaem Suwannapheng of Thailand for a place in the final on Tuesday, August 6. Earlier, Suwannapheng defeated Turkiye's Busenaz Surmeneli 4-1.

Ireland’s Rhys McClenaghan wins pommel horse gold. The two-time defending champion is now an Olympic champion. Kazakhstan’s Nariman Kurbanov takes home silver as Stephen Nedoroscik from the United States settles for bronze. 

Gold: Rhys McClenaghan (IRL) - 15.533
Silver: Nariman Kurbanov (KAZ) - 15.433
Bronze: Stephen Nedoroscik (USA) - 15.300

China’s Zheng Qinwen, after beating Iga Swiatek in the semi-finals of the women’s singles, she now has defeated Donna Vekic 6-2, 6-3 to take gold. Iga Swiatek clinched bronze. 

Gold: Zheng Qinwen (China)

Silver: Donna Vekic (Croatia)

Bronze: Iga Swiatek (Poland)

Abe Hifumi, after going unbeaten for five years in judo bouts, lost in the mixed team final between France and Japan. After five minutes of golden score, Joan-Benjamin Gaba takes down Abe for an ippon to just keep France in the race.

The Japanese judo showing at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games has dropped its level. In the last edition, Japan claimed 12 medals including nine gold medals, however the story is different this time around.

So lightning does strike twice. Teddy Riner, Joan-Benjamin Gaba amd Clarisse Agbegnenou win their bouts to give France the victory, and they defend their Tokyo 2020 mixed team title. 

Gold: France

Silver: Japan

Bronze: Brazil

Bronze: South Korea

The athletics action has started and will be in full flow at the Stade de France in Paris.

Men's decathlon javelin A

Men's 1500m repechage

Men's shot put final

Women's 100m semi-finals

Men's decathlon javelin B

Women's triple jump final

Mixed 4x400m relay final

Women's 100m final

Men's decathlon 1500m

Great Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith finishes fifth with 11.10 and is out of contention. United States’ Melissa Jefferson and Marie-Josée Ta Lou-Smith of Cote d’Ivoire qualify from this heat.

European Champions Spain have beaten Colombia in a penalty shootout to reach the last four of the 2024 Paris Olympics. They will now face Brazil or France for a spot in the finals.

Three-time Olympic champions Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has withdrawn from the 2024 Paris Olympic Games women’s 100m semi-final ahead of the race on Saturday.

1. Kristof Milak (Hungary) - GOLD

2. Joshua Liendo (Canada) - SILVER

3. Ilya Kharun (Canada) - BRONZE

Nishant and Mexico's Marco Verde step into the boxing ring.

Nishant holds a previous victory over Marco, winning a split decision against him at the 2021 World Championships.

The referee gives a break to Marco and a warning for holding.

Four judges give 10s to Nishant.

Nishant lands a clean jab as Verde leaves himself exposed. Dev is looking too good for Marco.

Round two is a split decision, with Verde edging out Nishant 3-2. But in overall score Nishant still got more points.

Verde traps Nishant in a corner, unleashing a flurry of uppercuts. Nishant absorbs the blows but manages to fight his way out. Sensing the urgency, both fighters now exchange heavy punches in a desperate attempt to gain the upper hand.

Last 30 seconds - Verde trying to corner but Nishant is attacking.

Verde secures a comeback victory! After losing the first round, he managed to turn the tide in the final two rounds, winning by a decisive 4-1 points margin.

Nishant Dev lost to Mexico’s Marco Verde in the men’s 71kg quarterfinals at the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Julien Alfred has etched her name in history by securing the first-ever Olympic medal for St. Lucia. The World Champion, Sha'Carri Richardson, had to settle for silver with a time of 10.87 seconds, while her compatriot Melissa Jefferson claimed bronze in 10.92 seconds.

Alfred's dominance was evident as she effortlessly powered away from the field. Her remarkable feat places her joint eighth on the all-time list for the fastest women's 100m sprints.

1. Katie Ledecky (United States) - GOLD

2. Ariarne Titmus (Australia) - SILVER

3. Paige Madden (United States) - BRONZE

Swimming - Mixed 4 × 100m Medley Relay

1. United States - GOLD

2.  Australia - SILVER

3. Great Britain - BRONZE

Italy's Lorenzo Musetti defeated Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime in the bronze-medal playoff. The Italian, who had lost to Novak Djokovic in the semis, won  6-4 1-6 6-3.

Thank you so much for joining, and we are so very looking forward to Day 9 of the 2024 Paris Olympic Game Events. Until then, good night and take care.