06:38 (IST)
Coming up....
India take on Great Britain in the women's hockey bronze medal match. Can they make history today?
Stay tuned for live updates..
06:26 (IST)
Golf
Round 3 of women's individual stroke play is underway. India's Aditi Ashok is currently tied-third. Still 9-under-par. Diksha Dagar is placed 52 at the moment.
06:19 (IST)
India's moment to savour as hockey's 41-year wait for podium ends
Finally!
You’ve waited for 41 years. Suffered through nine Olympic Games. Nursed heartbreak after heartbreak for two generations. Group stage exits. Hope turning to ashes. Talent going rancid. Generational superstars arriving and fading out. But no medal.
And then, on one sweltering Tokyo morning, in a match played without a single fan in the stadium, a bronze medal.
Words like historic are thrown around in Indian sport like confetti at a birthday party. But there’s no other way to describe a hockey medal for India at the Olympics after four decades. It is historic.
— Amith Kamath from Tokyo. Click here to read full report.
06:13 (IST)
Day 13 India wrap:
India men's hockey team ended 41-year wait on Thursday as they defeated Germany 5-4 to win the bronze medal.
Wrestler Ravi won the silver medal in the men's 57kg division after losing to reigning world champion Zavur Uguev of Russian Olympic Committee in the final.
Vinesh Phogat lost to Belarus' Vanesa Kaladzinskaya in the quarter-finals. Her medal hopes were dashed when Kaladzinskaya failed to make the finals.
Deepak Punia lost in dying seconds to San Marino's Myles Nazem Amine to lose the bronze medal match.
06:06 (IST)
Men’s 50km racewalk finals
The finals took place at 2.00 am IST today. Gurpreet Singh wss the only participant from India. Gurpreet did not finish the race as he dropped out after 35km due to fitness issues.
Poland's Dawid Tomala won the race. Germany's Jonathan Hilbert won the silver medal and Canada's Evan Dunfee claimed the bronze.
#Athletics #50kmWalk #Update
— SAIMedia (@Media_SAI) August 6, 2021
India's Gurpreet Singh has dropped out of the race after competing for around 35Km as he was cramping due to the gruelling heat and humidity.
At halfway point of 25km, he was in the 49th position with the time of 2:01:54#Tokyo2020 #Olympics
05:59 (IST)
Today's India schedule:
Athletics:
Priyanka Goswami and Bhawna Jat in women's 20km race walk event: 1:00 pm IST.
Indian team in men's 4x400m relay round 1 heat 2: 5:07 pm IST
Golf:
Aditi Ashok and Diksha Dagar in women's individual stroke play round 3: 4:00 am IST
Hockey:
India vs Great Britain in women's bronze medal match: 7:00 am IST.
Wrestling:
Bajrang Punia vs Ernazar Akmataliev (Kyrgyzstan) in men's freestyle 65kg; eighth bout after 8:00 am IST start.
Seema Bisla vs Sarra Hamdi (Tunisia) in repechage round of women's freestyle 50kg; second bout after 8:00a m IST start.
05:58 (IST)
Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the fourteenth day of competitions in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, with the Indians hopeful of extending their current medal tally of five today as the women's team takes on Great Britain in the bronze match, and Bajrang Punia begins his 65 kg freestyle campaign.
Day 14 preview: After a day that witnessed historic scenes at the Oi Hockey Stadium with the Manpreet Singh-led India men's team ending the country's 41-year wait for another medal, it's the women's team's turn to create a generation-defining moment on Friday.
The bronze medal playoff between India and Germany turned out to be every-bit a high-octane thriller that it promised as Graham Reid's men emerged winners by the narrowest of margins, finishing victors 5-4 to win their first Olympic medal since the gold that they won in Moscow 1980.
The spotlight now shifts to the Rani Rampal-led women's side, who had earlier defeated powerhouse Australia 1-0 to make it to the Olympic semis for the first time in only their third appearance after Moscow 1980 and Rio 2016.
They face Great Britain, a side they had lost to earlier in the Pool stage by a 4-1 margin, although the impressive turnaround they staged after three consecutive defeats, as well as the fight they put up in the 1-2 defeat at the hands of Argentina in the semi-final, will give them confidence of beating a side that is ranked three places above them in the FIH Rankings.
Also in action on Friday will be ace wrestler Bajrang Punia, a key medal hope in the wrestling team who begins his campaign in the men's 65 kg freestyle event against Kyrgyzstan's Ernazar Akmataliev. Punia however, will hope to guard himself from complacency, as another gold medal hope Vinesh Phogat had found out on Thursday when she suffered an upset at the hands of Belarus' Vanesa Kaladzinskaya in the 53kg quarter-finals.
You can check the complete Day 14 schedule here.
For full Tokyo Olympics coverage, click here.
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