09:38 (IST)
Caeleb Dressel joins elite club with fifth Games gold medal
The American star won his fifth gold medal of the Tokyo Games, finishing off one of the great performances in Olympic history. He joins an elite club of just four other swimmers ever with at least five gold medals at one games.
Dressel swam the butterfly leg as the Americans set a world record in the 4x100-meter medley relay with a time of 3 minutes, 26.78 seconds — eclipsing the mark of 3:27.28 they set at the 2009 Rome world championships in rubberized suits.
Ryan Murphy, Michael Andrew and Zach Apple joined Dressel on the winning team, ensuring the Americans closed out the swimming competition with another gold in a race they’ve never lost at the Olympics.
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09:37 (IST)
Boxing - Men's Super Heavy
Satish Kumar's quarter-finals bout is about to start. He is taking on reigning world champion Bakhodir Jalolov. A win today will assure a medal for India.
09:24 (IST)
Gold - Men's Round 4
Anirban Lahiri records a bogey on the 12th hole, which means that his slow and steady slide down the rankings continues, he's now tied 44th in the 60-person field.
09:21 (IST)
Simone Biles withdraws from floor final, says USA Gymnastics
Gymnastics great Simone Biles has withdrawn from the Olympic floor final, leaving the American with just one more chance of competing at the Tokyo Games, USA Gymnastics said on Sunday.
"Simone has withdrawn from the event final for floor and will make a decision on beam later this week. Either way, we're all behind you, Simone," USAG tweeted.
Biles won gold in the event in Rio de Janeiro and was placed second in qualifying last week. Jennifer Gadirova of Britain will replace Biles in Monday’s finals.
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09:15 (IST)
Boxing - Men's Super Heavy
Coming up soon, Satish Kumar will be in action against Bakhodir Jalolov in the Men's Super Heavy(+91kg) quarter-final!
09:08 (IST)
Emma McKeon clinches seventh medal to create history as Australia win 4x100m medley relay
Emma McKeon made Olympic history Sunday in helping Australia upset two-time defending champions the United States to soar to the women's 4x100m relay gold medal Sunday.
Their team of Kaylee McKeown, Chelsea Hodges, McKeon, and Cate Campbell touched in a new Olympic record 3mins 51.60secs ahead of the US in 3:51.73 and Canada in 3:52.60.
It was McKeon's seventh medal in Tokyo, a feat no other female swimmer has ever achieved at a single Olympics.
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08:53 (IST)
Cycling - Men's BMX Freestyle
Logan Martin of Australia wins men's BMX freestyle gold! Venezuela's Daniel Dhers comes in second to take silver, while Declan Brooks of Great Britain wins bronze.
08:47 (IST)
Athletics - Women's Shot Put
China's Gong Lijiao wins gold in the women's shot put with an effort of 20.58m! America's Raven Saunders wins silver, while New Zealand's Valerie Adams takes bronze.
08:45 (IST)
Golf - Men's Round
Anirban Lahiri sinks a birdie on the ninth hole, but at the moment, that is far too little, and far too late. Udayan Mane completes Round 4 on +3 after a bogey on the last hole.
08:09 (IST)
With victory over PV Sindhu, Tai Tzu-Ying ends the big-stage jinx
For once, Tai Tzu-Ying proved incapable of deception.
After her 40-minute victory over PV Sindhu in the women’s singles semi-final at the Tokyo Olympics, the Taiwanese player could not hide her emotions, breaking into uncontrollable laughter several times in her media interaction.
Her victory over Sindhu had helped her get the monkey off her back, after all: no longer will history remember her as a player who could not medal at the big stage of the Olympic Games or the World Championships. Her record in the two big competitions before Tokyo was unfair to a player of her calibre. Never made it past the last-16 at the Olympics in two attempts, London 2012 and Rio 2016. Never made it past the quarter-final in six attempts at the Worlds.
She shrugged off that baggage and Sindhu’s challenge in two mesmerising games on Saturday in a clash worthy of a finale.
Click here to read more of Amit Kamath's analysis of the badminton women's singles semi-final.
07:40 (IST)
Golf - Men's Round 4
Another bogey for Anirban Lahiri, this time on the fourth hole, and he continues to fall in the rankings. Udayan Mane, meanwhile, has par, birdie and bogey on the 11th, 12th and 13th holes.
06:52 (IST)
Golf - Men's Round 4
Not great from Anirban Lahiri, his bogey on the second hole sees him slip down the rankings. Udayan Mane shoots par on the ninth and tenth holes.
06:26 (IST)
Equestrian
Fouaad Mirza is currently 16th in the Equestrian eventing.
Mirza has 39.20 penalty points so far with 11.20 of those coming in cross-country.
06:22 (IST)
Golf - Men's Round 4
05:22 (IST)
Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the ninth day of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Big day ahead of us with PV Sindhu setting her sights on a second consecutive Olympic medal, and the India men’s hockey team facing Great Britain in the quarter-finals, and more.
Preview Day 9: Saturday was a day of mixed emotions for the Indian contingent at Tokyo Olympics. While there was joy in the form of the Indian women’s hockey team and discus thrower Kamalpreet Singh, the major disappointments for the day were the losses of World No 1 Amit Panghal and star shuttler PV Sindhu.
The Indian women’s hockey team scripted history by securing a quarter-final berth for the first time in 41 years, with a 4-3 win over South Africa.
Kamalpreet sent the discus to a distance of 64m in her third and final attempt to be one of the only two automatic qualifiers for the final round. The final will be held on 2 August.
Panghal was handed a stunning 1-4 loss by Rio Games silver-medallist Yuberjen Martinez.
India’s hopes of securing the first-ever Olympic gold in badminton were quashed on Saturday, PV Sindhu still has a chance to secure a bronze on Sunday against China's He Bing Jiao.
Elsewhere, the Indian men’s hockey team will take on Great Britain in the quarter-final. Golfers Anirban Lahiri and Udayan Mane will compete for India in the men’s Round 4.
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