Paris Olympics 2024 Day 9 Highlights: India advances to hockey semi-finals defeating Great Britain; Lakshya Sen loses to Axelsen in badminton
Lakshya will now play for the bronze medal against Malaysia’s Lee Zii Jia on Monday.
Paris Olympics 2024
CHENNAI: India beat Great Britain 4-2 in penalty shoot-out to enter the semifinals of the men's hockey at the Paris Olympics, having played with only 10 players for more than 40 minutes on Sunday.
Lakshya Sen lost to the Danish player Victor Axlesen in two straight sets in the badminton singles semi-finals. At one point it looked like Lakshya would equalise by winning the second set after leading 7-0. But the defending champ was unstoppable and qualified for the final.
Lakshya will now play for the bronze medal against Malaysia’s Lee Zii Jia on Monday.
Another upset for India in boxing as Lovlina Borgohain lost in the quarter-final to top seed Li Qian of China 1:4.
India’s Jeswin Aldrin failed to qualify to the Men’s long jump finals after only registering one successful jump of 7.61m which was not enough to make the cut. He ended up in 13th place.
Live Updates
- 4 Aug 2024 1:57 PM IST
RED CARD FOR AMIT
Amit Rohidas gets a red card and sent off for intentionally hurting a player
- 4 Aug 2024 1:52 PM IST
HOCKEY: First Quarter Ends... IND 0 - 0 GBR
Early intent were showed from both the teams with Great Britain leading the charge and creating 3 to 4 chances to score. But a great save from Amit and goalie Sreejesh helped them not let GB score. India too had some opportunities in the first quarter to score, but GB goal keeper Ollie saved a great shot from Harmanpreet
- 4 Aug 2024 1:46 PM IST
PC for India!!!!!
Despite a couple of chances, the great save from Olie made no room for India to score
- 4 Aug 2024 1:37 PM IST
Great Britain couldn't capitalise on the PC as Amit's brilliant block helped India not concede an early goal
- 4 Aug 2024 1:28 PM IST
HOCKEY: India line-up
PR Sreejesh, Jarmanpreet Singh, Amit Rohidas, Harmanpreet Singh, Sumit, Shamsher Singh, Manpreet Singh, Hardik Singh, Abhishek, Mandeep Singh, Gurjant Singh.
- 4 Aug 2024 1:11 PM IST
In 20 minutes India will face Great Britain in hockey QF
In the head-to-head battle between these two teams since 2023, Great Britain won 3 out of the 4 occasions and 1 draw.
