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Sports Top 10 News: The sixth day of the Paris Olympics 2024 has been full of ups and downs for India, where Swapnil Kusale managed to win the bronze medal in the shooting event at the beginning of the day, while after this the Indian hockey team had to face a 2-1 defeat against Belgium. In the men’s singles event in badminton, Lakshya Sen has confirmed his place in the quarter-finals by winning the match against HS Prannoy. At the same time, PV Sindhu had to face defeat in the pre-quarterfinal match. Apart from this, the 3-match ODI series between India and Sri Lanka will start today, in which the first match will be played at the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo.
Swapnil Kusale won the bronze medal
Another medal came for India in shooting at the Paris Olympics 2024, in which this time Swapnil Kusale won the bronze medal with a score of 451.4 in the men’s 50m rifle 3 positions. Swapnil has also become the first athlete from India to win a medal in this event in the history of the Olympics. Swapnil was lagging behind in the first two positions, but in the last position he controlled himself, improved his shot and finished at number three and won the bronze medal.
Lakshya Sen made it to the quarter finals
In badminton at the Paris Olympics 2024, India’s Lakshya Sen has defeated India’s HS Prannoy in a spectacular fashion in the pre-quarterfinals. He won 21-12 and 21-6 against Prannoy and has also become only the third Indian athlete to reach the quarter-finals of the badminton men’s singles of the Olympics. Before Lakshya, P Kashyap in 2012 and Kidambi Srikanth in Rio Olympics 2016 had reached the quarter-finals. In the quarter-finals on August 2, Lakshya will face 12th seeded Chen Chou Tien of Chinese Taipei.
PV Sindhu’s dream of winning an Olympic medal for the third time is shattered
Star Indian badminton player PV Sindhu has suffered defeat in the pre-quarterfinals of Paris Olympics 2024. She was defeated by China’s He Bing Jiao 21-19 and 21-14. Due to this, her journey in Paris Olympics has ended. This is the first time that Sindhu will return from the Olympics without a medal. Earlier, she had played two Olympics and won medals in both. PV Sindhu won silver in Rio Olympics 2016 and bronze in Tokyo Olympics 2020.
Indian hockey team lost the match against Belgium
In the Paris Olympics, the Indian hockey team had to face defeat against Belgium by a margin of 2-1 in its fourth group match. When the first two quarters of this match ended, the Indian team was leading by 1-0, but the Belgian team made a great comeback in the third quarter and scored 2 goals and took a 2-1 lead in the match which lasted till the last quarter of the match. Now the Indian hockey team will play its last group match against Australia on August 2.
Boxing match in Paris Olympics came under controversy
A big controversy was seen on the sixth day of Paris Olympics 2024 in which the match between Italy’s Angela Carini and Algeria’s Iman Khalif in the welterweight category of women’s boxing ended within just 46 seconds. The reason for the match ending soon was Iman Khalif’s punch which hit Italian boxer Angela Carini so hard that she started crying and later she decided to leave the match immediately. After this, a new controversy also came to light in the Paris Olympics in which Imam Khalif is the boxer who is accused of being a man and not a woman and for this reason the International Boxing Association banned him last year.
Manu Bhaker will be seen in action again on the 7th day of Paris Olympics
India’s star shooter Manu Bhaker, who has won two medals in the Paris Olympics so far, will participate in the qualification round of the women’s 25m pistol on August 2. Apart from Manu, Isha Singh will also participate in this event. Apart from these two, if we talk about other events on the 7th day, then the pair of Ankita Bhakat and Dheeraj Bommadevara will also be seen in action in the mixed team event in archery.
The first ODI match of the series will be played between India and Sri Lanka today
The three-match ODI series between India and Sri Lanka will begin from August 2. The first match between the two teams will be played at the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. This series will be very important for the Indian team in view of the preparations for the Champions Trophy. The match between the two teams will start at 2:30 pm Indian time, in which rain may also disrupt the match.
Sri Lanka team suffered a big setback before the start of the ODI series
Just before the start of the 3-match ODI series against India, the Sri Lankan team has suffered a major setback in which both Mathisha Pathirana and Dilshan Madushanka will not be able to play in this series due to injury. Sri Lanka Cricket has informed on social media that Dilshan Madushanka has suffered a left hamstring injury, which is said to be grade 2. At the same time, Mathisha Pathirana has suffered a slight sprain in his right shoulder while diving to take a catch during the third T20 match against India. Therefore, he is also out.
Kohli has a chance to complete 14000 runs in ODIs in the series against Sri Lanka
After the ODI World Cup 2023, Virat Kohli will now be seen playing in this format in the series starting against Sri Lanka. If Kohli scores 152 more runs in this series, he will complete 14000 ODI runs. He will become only the second Indian batsman to score fourteen thousand ODI runs. Before him, only Sachin Tendulkar was able to achieve this feat.
Rohit is just 3 sixes away from breaking this big record
Eoin Morgan is currently the captain who has hit the most sixes in international cricket. He has hit 233 sixes. India’s captain Rohit Sharma is at number two. He has hit 231 sixes. Now if Rohit hits three more sixes in the ODI series against Sri Lanka, he will become the captain who has hit the most sixes in international cricket.
