Paris Olympics 2024 Day 9 Roundup: India has won 3 bronze medals so far in Paris Olympics 2024. All these medals have come in shooting. But on the 9th day (July 4) i.e. Sunday, India did not get any medal. This day has been a mixed one for India. Under the captaincy of Harmanpreet Singh, the Indian hockey team has entered the semi-finals by registering a spectacular victory.
Despite being reduced to 10 players, the hockey team defeated Britain in a penalty shootout and entered the semi-finals of the Paris Olympics. While in badminton, Lakshya Sen lost in the semi-finals and India’s campaign in boxing ended with the defeat of Lovlina Borgohain.
9th day was in the name of Indian hockey
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Sunday was a day in the name of the Indian hockey team in the Paris Olympics. The Indian team, which defeated a giant like Australia in the Olympics after 52 years in the last pool match, pushed the quarter-finals into a shootout despite playing with one less player for more than 40 minutes and eventually won 4-2. Once again, the hero of the victory was goalkeeper PR Sreejesh, for whom this is the last tournament.
Apart from this, India faced disappointment in other sports. Lakshya Sen, who has been in great form till now, lost the badminton semi-final and will now play for bronze. At the same time, Tokyo Olympics bronze medalist boxer Lovlina Borgohain could not reach the last four. Disappointing performance continued in athletics.
Hockey team showed amazing performance in shootout
P R Sreejesh, playing his last tournament, once again proved to be the wall of Indian hockey and despite playing with ten players for 42 minutes, India defeated Britain 4-2 in the penalty shootout and entered the semi-finals of the Paris Olympics.
The Indian defence, led by 36-year-old Sreejesh, has to be praised as it defended every attack of Britain and did not let them gain a lead. Britain attacked the Indian goal 28 times and got only one success. When the score remained 1-1 till the stipulated time, the match went into a shootout.
In the shootout, captain Harmanpreet Singh, Sukhjeet Singh, Lalit Upadhyay and Rajkumar Pal scored for India, while only James Albery and Jacques Vallance could score for England. Conor Williamson missed the target and Philip Roper’s shot was saved by Sreejesh.
In the Tokyo Olympics, the Indian team reached the final four by defeating Britain. Sreejesh proved to be India’s wall against Germany in the bronze medal match in Tokyo and he lived up to expectations even in the toughest match of the Paris Olympics so far. In the stipulated time, Harmanpreet scored for India in the 22nd minute and Lee Morton in the 27th minute.
The dream of gold is shattered, but Lakshya will play for bronze
India’s Lakshya Sen lost in straight games to second seed and defending champion Viktor Axelsen of Denmark in the semi-finals of the men’s singles badminton event of the Paris Olympics on Sunday despite taking a strong lead in both the games and will now play in the bronze medal match.
Lakshya, the first Indian male badminton player to reach the Olympic semi-finals, lost 20-22, 14-21 in 54 minutes against Rio Olympics bronze and Tokyo Olympics gold medalist Axelsen.
This is Lakshya’s eighth defeat in nine matches against two-time former world champion and former world number one Axelsen. World number 22 Lakshya will now face 7th seed Lee Zii Jia of Malaysia in the bronze medal match on Monday, who lost 14-21, 15-21 in another semi-final against eighth seed Kunlavut Vitidsarn of Thailand.
The final will be between Axelsen and Vitidsarn. Lakshya failed to withstand the pressure at crucial moments in the semi-finals, due to which he had to suffer the consequences. He had three game points in the first game, but he lost the game by losing five points in a row.
In the second game as well, Lakshya maintained a very strong lead of 7-0, but after that the Danish player won 21 out of the next 28 points to win the game and the match and ensured his third consecutive medal at the Olympics.
Lakshya will now aim to defeat Lee and become the first Indian male badminton player to win an Olympic medal. Lakshya told the broadcaster after the match, “If I had won the first game, I would have had a better chance to win the match. I started well in the second game too, but could not maintain the lead.”
India’s boxing campaign at the ongoing Paris Games ended without a medal after Tokyo Olympics bronze-winning Indian boxer Lovlina Borgohain (75kg) lost to China’s Li Qian in the quarter-finals on Sunday.
The current world champion of this category, Lovlina (26 years), lost 1-4 to Tokyo Olympics silver medalist 34-year-old Li Qian in a tough match. During this, both the boxers were repeatedly warned for ‘clinching and holding’.
With Lovlina’s defeat, India’s challenge in boxing also ended. Nishant Dev was eliminated from the men’s 71 kg quarter-finals on Saturday night. India had fielded six boxers in the Paris Olympics. These included four women and two men boxers, out of which four were eliminated after losing the initial round matches.
India’s disappointing performance in the athletics competition of the Paris Olympic Games continued on Sunday as national record holders Parul Chaudhary and Jaswin Aldrin failed to qualify for the finals of the women’s 3000m steeplechase and men’s long jump respectively. Parul finished eighth in her heat race and 21st overall to end her campaign at the Paris Olympics.
29-year-old Parul, who practiced in the favorable conditions of Paris in the US before the Olympics, covered the distance in nine minutes 23.39 seconds, which is her best performance this season. However, she was far behind her national record of nine minutes 15.31 seconds which she set at the World Championships in 2023.
The athletes who finish in the top five in each of the three heat races advance to the final. With this, Parul’s campaign at the Paris Olympic Games also ended. She and Ankita Dhyani had failed to qualify for the women’s 5000m race.
In the qualification round of men’s long jump, Aldrin fouled in his first two attempts, while he could only reach 7.61 meters in the third attempt. He finished 13th out of 16 players in Group B qualification and 26th overall. The players who finished in the first 12 positions made it to the next round.
Indian shooters Maheshwari Chauhan and Reza Dhillon failed to make it to the finals of the women’s skeet event of the Paris Olympic Games on Sunday, finishing 14th and 23rd respectively. The last two series of the five-series qualification were played on Sunday.
After this, Maheshwari’s total score was 118. He scored 23, 24, 24, 25 and 22 points in five series. Reza’s total score was 113. He scored 21, 22, 23, 23 and 24 points in five series. 29 shooters participated in the event, out of which the top six made it to the finals.
In shooting, Anish Bhanwala and Vijayveer Sidhu have also disappointed. Both these shooters have been eliminated after losing in the qualification round of the Paris Olympics. Both of them had participated in the men’s event of 25 meter rapid fire pistol.
Source (PTI) (NDTV) (HINDUSTANTIMES)