05:33 (IST)
10m Air Pistol Women's Qualification
The 10m Air Pistol Women's Qualification is underway. India's Manu Bhaker and Yashashwini Deswal are vying to make it to the final.
Stay tuned for live updates.
05:25 (IST)
'Khaan, sona aur practice'
Weightlifters are perpetually willing themselves through injuries to some part of body or another. On Saturday, with a silver medal at Tokyo 2020 Mirabai Chanu finally recuperated from a five-year-long throbbing heartache.
Firstpost's Amith Kamath writes from Tokyo on the motto that brought Chanu her Games medal. Click here to read.
05:16 (IST)
Big day coming up for India!
Manu Bhaker and Yashaswini Deswal will be in action in the Women's 10m Air Pistol event at 5.30 AM, hoping to win a medal. Also, Deepak Kumar and Divyansh Singh Panwar will be taking part in Men's 10m Air Rifle Final.
World badminton champion PV Sindhu will start her campaign today, so will MC Mary Kom and G Sathiyan.
The Indian men's hockey team will face Australia. Sania Mirza and Ankita Raina will also be in action in the women's doubles campaign.
05:10 (IST)
Chanu makes history on Day 1!
Mirabai Chanu lifted the spirits of the entire India with an incredibly composed silver-winning show as India found itself on the Olympics medals table on the very first day of competition.
Chanu claimed the silver medal in the 49kg category with a total of 202kg (87kg+115kg) as the country of over a billion but painfully short of consistent Olympic success erupted in joy.
Used to medal-less opening days, Chanu's silver placed India 12th on the tally, a feat achieved for the first time ever.
On the hockey field, there were mixed emotions with the men's team putting it past a lower-ranked New Zealand 3-2 but women enduring a 1-5 hammering at the hands of world No 1 the Netherlands.
In tennis, Sumit Nagal became only the third Indian to win a men's singles match at the Games when he edged past Denis Istomin in a three-setter.
Nagal got the better of Istomin 6-4 6-7(6) 6-4 in two hours and 34 minutes on Court 10 at the Ariake Tennis Centre to set up a second-round clash with world number two Daniil Medvedev.
A lot more happened yesterday. Click here to read the complete wrap.
04:56 (IST)
Hello and welcome to our coverage of another exciting day of Tokyo Olympics 2020. As always, our focus will be on the Indians but we will also bring the best of the action from the second day of the Games.
First up today is shooting. The 10m Air Pistol women's qualification will get underway at 5.30 am IST. Two Indians are in the mix, Manu Bhaker and Yashaswini Singh Deswal.
Stay tuned as we will bring you the live updates soon.
Day 2 preview: After a successful opening day that saw Mirabai Chanu open the nation's account on the very first day of the Games and Sumit Nagal end a 15-year wait, Indian athletes will hope to add more medals to their tally on the second day of the mega event that finally got underway after getting postponed by a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Among the key Indian names in action on Sunday is PV Sindhu, who lost to Carolina Marin in the 2016 women's singles final to win silver — one of the two medals India won in that event. Sindhu, who has since won World Championships gold among her many achievements, will be up against Israel's Ksenia Polikarpova.
Also in action for the first time in Tokyo 2020 will be 2012 London bronze medallist MC Mary Kom, who will be up against Dominican Republic's Miguelina Hernandez Garcia.
Additionally, the ten-time Olympic medallists India, who will be hoping to end their four-decade wait for an 11th medal, will be up against Australia in their second men's Pool A game. They had collected their first points on Saturday with a narrow 3-2 win over New Zealand.
In table tennis, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran will be in action for the first time in his debut Games when he takes on Hong Kong's Siu Hang Lam. Manika Batra, who got off to a winning start on Saturday, faces Ukraine's Margaryta Pesotska.
Earlier on the opening day, weightlifting hero Chanu Saikhom Mirabai said her silver medal at Tokyo 2020 had been five years in the making since she missed out on an Olympic medal in Rio.
Mirabai, 26, finished second behind gold medallist Hou Zhihui of China in the 49kg women's wrestling on day one of the Olympic weightlifting competition.
Mirabai, the 2017 world champion at 48kg, had failed to finish in the 2016 Olympics after recording no clean lifts in three clean and jerk attempts.
But she came back strong to aggregate 202kg in Tokyo and become a national hero at becoming India's first weightlifting silver medallist, after Karanam Malleswari's bronze in the women's 69kg at Sydney 2000.
India, the second-most populous country in the world with 1.3 billion people, won just two medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics. But pundits and IOA president Narinder Batra have predicted the country's medal count in Tokyo could reach double digits.
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