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With that we wrap up the day. Saina Nehwal, albeit lucky, but got a bronze and India now have three medals at the London Olympics 2012. Still more hope remains as Vijender Singh, Sushil Kumar, Mary Kom are in the fray. So is Gagan Narang in yet another event, Manavjit Singh Sandhu and Devendro Singh. Hoping and praying for the best. Do join us later today as we bring in all the updates and live coverage. Mary Kom opens her campaign and so does Manavjit. Till then, Goodbye!
And, by the way, Thomas Stalker is the world number 1 in the 64kg category. So, no shame in losing a close fight. Manoj Kumar fought valiantly.
Boxing: India's Manoj Kumar loses to Thomas Stalker of the Great Britain in the men's light welterweight 64kg category. He is out of the Olympics. He won the final round 7-4 but lost 16-20 overall to bow out of the London Games.
Boxing: Manoj Kumar trails 9-16 against Thomas Stalker of the Great Britain after the second round in the men's light welterweight 64kg category.
Boxing: Manoj Kumar trails 4-7 against Thomas Stalker of the Great Britain after the first round in the men's light welterweight 64kg category.
Boxing: Manoj Kumar's round of 16 bout up next against Thomas Stalker of the Great Britain in the men's light welterweight 64kg category. Gear up!
Boxing: Up next is Indian boxer Manoj Kumar in the men's light welterweight 64kg category against Thomas Stalker of the Great Britain. Last event of the day for India.
Swimming: Michael Phelps in his last ever Olympic event has finished and put US on top, they get Gold. Michael Phelps finishes his Olympic career with 22 Olympic medals and 18 Olympic Golds. This was Men's 4x100 medley relay event. What a fantastic career. Hats off!
Athletics: Krishna Poonia finishes seventh in the women's discus event at the Olympics.
Women's Discus Final: Nadine Muller of Germany registers a no throw in her third attempt. Currently she is 4th with 65.71m.
Women's Discus Final: Sandra Perkovic of Croatia throws a massive 68.11m. Competition heating up and Poonia might just be a spectator here. She does a no throw in her second attempt.
Women's Discus Final: After three throws, only eight of the 12 contestants will remain. Let's hope Poonia stays. She is currently in contention.
Women's Discus Final: Yanfeng Li of China throws 67.22m and Cuba's Yarelys Barrios 66.38 and are currently the leaders. Poonia in 7th place with 62.42.
Women's Discus Final: Next two throwers - Zinaida Sendriute of Lithuania at 61.68m and China's Yanfeng Li a no throw.
Women's Discus Final: In the final a total of 6 throws are allowed. Next two throws - Australian Dani Samuels at 60.40m and Nadine Muller of Germany at a massive 65.71m.
Women's Discus Final: First two throws - American Stephanie Brown at 63.01 metres and France's Melina Robert 62.23m.
Krishna Poonia's event is just about to begin now.
Athletics: Krishna Poonia's discus final will start in around 20 minutes. Stay tuned for that.
Athletics: India's national record in the 20km race walk was 1:20:35 by Gurmeet Singh who was also participating in the event today and finished 33rd with a timing of 1:23:34. Irfan Thodi timed 1:20:21 and broke Gurmeet's previous record in the process.
Athletics - 20 km race walk: India's Irfan Kolothum Thodi also breaks the national record in process. That was a commendable performance to say the least. He looked satisfied too after the race got over.
Athletics - 20 km race walk: India's Irfan Kolothum Thodi finishes a respectable tenth.
Irfan Kolothum Thodi is currently 9th with the 20 km race walk nearing its end.
Athletics: 20 km race walk - India's Irfan Kolothum Thodi placed 10th after 16 km. Gurmeet Singh is 34th while Baljinder Singh is trailing by a long margin at 46th amongst 53 competitors.
London 2012 Tennis: Paes/Sania knocked out by Azarenka/Mirnyi in straight sets 5-7, 6-7.
Paes/Mirza tied at 6-6 in the second set. Now for the tie-breaker.
Tennis: Azarenka/Mirnyi almost there, lead 5-4 against the Indian duo of Paes/Sania.
It is 4-4 now in the second set in the Paes/Mirza quarter-final vs Azarenka/Mirnyi.
Tennis: Paes/Sania now trail 3-4, as they despite getting a break point in the last game could not convert.
Tennis: It is 3-3 in the second set, Paes/Sania hold their serve.
Boxing: India's appeal against Vikas Krishan's (69kg boxing) ouster has been rejected and he is officially out of the Olympics now. Disappointment for India.
Tennis: Leander Paes/Sania Mirza match has started and the Indian pair are serving in the second set, down 2-3.
Tennis: Paes/Mirza match is just about to start. It was called off yesterday after bad light interrupted play with the Indian pair trailing 5-7, 2-3 against Azarenka/Mirnyi.
Laishram Devendro Singh is through to the quarter-final in men's 49 kg. He beat Serdamba Purevdorj of Mongolia 16-11 in the pre quarter.
Boxing: Devendro Singh now leads 8-5 after the second round.
Boxing: Meanwhile, Devendro's bout has begun. Laishram Devendro Singh leads his bout 4-3 after the first round vs Serdamba Purevdorj.
That was quite an anti-climax and even Saina Nehwal looked as if she wanted to win the match the 'right' way. The Indian looked concerned too at the opponent's injury.
Saina Nehwal takes the bronze after Xin Wang withdraws with an injury. She was trailing 18-21, 0-1 though before a knee injury forced the Chinese to retire hurt.
Saina Nehwal was trying hard at the fag end in the first game but even her momentum was badly broken by the injury time-out there.
Xin Wang takes the first game 21-18, after all the drama in the bronze medal match.
The Chinese player is not willing to withdraw and is taping her knee not the ankle.The match will go on.
Xin Wang has hurt her ankle here it seems with the first game at 18-20 in the Chinese's favour.
Saina Nehwal saving two game points and still trails 16-20 vs Xin Wang.
Saina Nehwal trailing 13-19 in the first game of the bronze medal match.
Saina trailing 11-17 now. Xin Wang looking set to take the first game.
Xin Wang playing some brilliant badminton and looks supremely confident. 15-8 she leads the Indian.
Saina Nehwal trailing 7-14 now in the first game. Looking good only at the net Saina other wise a flurry of judgement errors has left her with a lot to do.
Xin Wang now leads 11-6 at the first mini break and India's number 1 shuttler looks a bit dazed here.
Xin Wang of China now leads 9-6. Saina faltering, misjudging to give the Chinese the lead.
Saina fights back immediately. 6-6.
Saina Nehwal is trailing for the first time. It is 5-6 now.
The score is now 5-4 in favour of Saina but Xin is coming into her own.
Xin Wang takes the fourth point but Saina replies with a smacking smash. Wang takes the next point. 4-2 in favour of the Indian.
Saina now leads 3-0.Off to a flying start.
And the second one too after a long rally with the Chinese. 2-0 to the Indian.
Saina Nehwal takes the first point of the match.
Badminton: Xin Wang is the world number 2, Saina 5. Saina last faced the world number 1 Yihan Wang.
Badminton: Saina Nehwal is on court for her bronze medal match against Xin Wang.
Jamaica's Asafa Powell wins the Fifth Heat, times 10.04 seconds
Usain Bolt first with 10.09 secs, Daniel Bailey second with 10.12 secs, James Dasaolu third with 10.13 secs
And Usain Bolt completes his Heat in 10.09. That was not fast going by his standards
Usain Bolt is here and it should be over in less than 9.58 secs??
And coming up at 18:00 IST - Saina Nehwal vs Xin Wang for the Bronze Medal
Shagun Chowdhary fails to qualify for the final of Women's Trap event even before her third round began.
Indian athlete Sudha Singh finishes 13th in her heats in the 300m steeplechase, fails to qualify for the final
It's very difficult for Shagun Chowdhary to make cut. Third Round has started
After an impressive first round, Shagun Chowdhary shoots just 17/25 in the second round. Total score 40/50. Currently she's last in the list http://sports.ndtv.com/olympics-2012/news/item/194679-live-blog-london-olympics-day-9 #shooting #olympics
Shagun Chowdhary 16/21 in her second round
Shagun Chowdhary 13/18 in her second round
Shagun Chowdhary starts her second round
South African Oscar Pistorius made history when he became the first double amputee to compete in an athletics event at the Olympics. The 25-year-old qualified for the semi-finals of the 400 metres by running a season's best of 45.44 seconds in finishing second.
He is also due to run in the 4x400m relay at the Games.
Australia's Women's Hockey team has beaten South Africa 1-0 in the preliminary round at the Riverbank Arena. The Aussie Men's Hockey team has been dominating in their group. The women are on similar lines.
The Second Round of the Women's Trap Qualification will start shortly. Shagun Chowdhary placed 12th after the first round.
Shagun Chowdhary scores 23/25 in her first round
Shagun Chowdhary scores 5/5 in Round 1
Shagun Chowdhary slips to 16th spot, scores 3/3 in Round 1
Women's Trap Qualification: Shagun Chowdhary gets her chance, and she gets it 2/2 in Round 1
Usain Bolt can be caught in action in the men's 100 m preliminaries. Can he outshine himself or will Yohan Blake stun him?
In Women's Trap qualification event, there are three rounds and each shooter gets 10 right, 10 left and 5 straight shots in each round. In total there are 75 shots for women
The qualification event for Women's Trap has started
Shooter Shagun Chowdhary will be the first Indian athlete to get into action. She will take part in the qualification of Women's Double Trap. Placed in Squad 3, Shagun's turn will come at around 2:00 PM IST
Yesterday, Indian boxer Vikas Krishan won his bout in the 69kg category and made it to the quarter-final. But the victory was overturned and he was ousted.
India has decided to appeal against the decision, Read complete story here
India has decided to appeal against the decision, Read complete story here
Good Morning Everyone! Lot of action coming up today. Here is India's schedule for the day:
ATHLETICS:
Women's 3000m Steeplechase (Round 1) (4:00pm IST)
Sudha Singh
Men's 20km Race Walk (9:30pm IST)
Gurmeet Singh, Baljinder Singh and Irfan Kolothum Thodi.
Women's Discus - Final Krishna Poonia (12:00 am IST)
BADMINTON:
Women's Singles bronze medal match:
Saina Nehwal vs Xin Wang (China) (6:00pm IST)
BOXING:
Men's Light Fly 49kg (Rd of 16) (6:45pm IST)
Laishram Devendro Singh vs Serdamba Purevdorj (Mongolia)
Men's Light Welter 64kg (Rd of 16) (2:00am IST, Aug 5)
Manoj Kumar vs Thomas Stalker (Great Britain)
SHOOTING:
Women's Trap (Qualification) (1:30pm IST)
Shagun Chowdhary
Finals (7:30pm IST)
TENNIS
Mixed Doubles quarterfinals: Sania Mirza/Leander Paes vs Max Mirnyi vs Victoria Azarenka (Time yet to be declared)
ROWING
Men's Lightweight Doubles Sculls - Sandeep Kumar and Manjeet Singh
ATHLETICS:
Women's 3000m Steeplechase (Round 1) (4:00pm IST)
Sudha Singh
Men's 20km Race Walk (9:30pm IST)
Gurmeet Singh, Baljinder Singh and Irfan Kolothum Thodi.
Women's Discus - Final Krishna Poonia (12:00 am IST)
BADMINTON:
Women's Singles bronze medal match:
Saina Nehwal vs Xin Wang (China) (6:00pm IST)
BOXING:
Men's Light Fly 49kg (Rd of 16) (6:45pm IST)
Laishram Devendro Singh vs Serdamba Purevdorj (Mongolia)
Men's Light Welter 64kg (Rd of 16) (2:00am IST, Aug 5)
Manoj Kumar vs Thomas Stalker (Great Britain)
SHOOTING:
Women's Trap (Qualification) (1:30pm IST)
Shagun Chowdhary
Finals (7:30pm IST)
TENNIS
Mixed Doubles quarterfinals: Sania Mirza/Leander Paes vs Max Mirnyi vs Victoria Azarenka (Time yet to be declared)
ROWING
Men's Lightweight Doubles Sculls - Sandeep Kumar and Manjeet Singh
