Olympics 2024 Day 3 Highlights: Manika Batra made history as she became the first Indian table tennis player to enter Olympics Round of 16. Earlier, Manu Bhaker and Sarabjot Singh shone as they secured a bronze medal match entry in 10m air pistol mixed team event. They will face South Korea on Tuesday. Arjun Babuta finished 4th in men's 10m air rifle while Ramita Jindal was 7th in the women's 10m air rifle. The Indian hockey team drew 1-1 with Argentina in a Pool B match. The men's archery team went down fighting in the quarterfinal to Turkey. In badminton, Lakshya Sen won his match after men's doubles duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty qualified for the quarterfinals. Coming to tennis, Novak Djokovic defeated Rafael Nadal in a clash of titans. (India's Day 3 Schedule | Medal Tally)
Here are the Highlights of Day 3 of the Paris Olympics 2024:
- 01:02 (IST)Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3, Live Updates: Manika takes the third gameManika is now just one game away from entering the Round of 16. Manika has been so dominating that Prithika had to take time-out and re-strategises. Manika is supremely confident with her returns as she pockets the third game 11-9. Prtihika put up a fight after Manika took a 10-5 lead. The French player won three straight points but the Indian closed out the game.
- 19:09 (IST)Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3, Live Updates: Djokovic beats NadalNovak Djokovic defeated Rafael Nadal at the Olympic Games on Monday, claiming a 6-1, 6-4 victory in the pair's 60th and potentially last meeting. It was 24-time Grand Slam champion Djokovic's 31st win in a rivalry which began on the same Roland Garros clay courts in 2006.
- 18:07 (IST)Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3, Live Updates: Major controversyIraq's top churches have joined international religious bodies in condemning a controversial segment of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony, which many interpreted as a reference to the Bible's Last Supper. "What happened at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics is shameful and a mockery of the Christian religion," Iraq's Chaldean Catholic church said in a statement Sunday. The contentious scene in Friday's parade in Paris involved dancers, drag queens and a DJ in poses that resembled depictions of the Last Supper, the final meal Jesus is said to have taken with his apostles.
- 17:51 (IST)Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3, Live Updates: India 1-1 Argentina in men's hockeyThe match ends in men's hockey and India scored very late to clinch a 1-1 draw against Argentina. The Indian men's hockey team trailed for quite some time but skipper Harmanpreet Singh scored late from a penalty corner to earn a very valuable point.
- 17:30 (IST)Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3, Live Updates: Ramita looking at positivesIndian shooter Ramita Jindal found the final of the Women's 10m Air Rifle at the Paris Olympics fun to participate in and very exciting as she finished seventh in her first appearance in the mega event. Ramita ended her campaign in the Paris Olympics with seventh place in the final with a score of 145.3. In a shoot-off in Stage 2 of the final, She recorded a 10.5 while her French opponent, Oceanne Muller shot 10.8. The shooter from Kurukshetra said she is taking lots of learning and confidence from her performance in the quadrennial showpiece.
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- 16:50 (IST)Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3, Live Updates: Next major event for IndiaThe Indian men's team consisting of ace archers like Dhiraj Bommadevara, Pravin Jadhav and Tarundeep Rai will face either Colombia or Turkey in the quarterfinal today. If India win, the trio would march into the medal rounds. The match begins at 5:45 PM IST.
- 16:32 (IST)Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3, Live Updates: Heatwave warning issuedFrance's meteorological agency has issued a weather warning for Paris and the surrounding areas with storms and highs of 35 degrees Celsius expected on Tuesday as the capital hosts the Olympic Games. The agency put in place a "yellow alert" -- the second of four levels -- as a heatwave arrives from southern France. The alert was issued in particular because "very hot" conditions across Paris were forecast to linger overnight, with the mercury not expected to drop below 22C between Tuesday and Wednesday.
- 16:09 (IST)Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3, Live Updates: Babuta's disappointmentArjun Babuta buckled under pressure and finished fourth in the men's 10m air rifle competition after coming close to winning a medal in his maiden Olympics. Babuta shot a total of 208.4. A 9.5 in response to Croatia's Miran Maricic's 10.7 put paid to his hopes of finishing on the podium.
- 16:07 (IST)Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3, Live Updates: Tom Daley's fifth Olympic medalBritain's Tom Daley was dethroned as Olympic champion on Monday but took silver with partner Noah Williams in the men's synchronised 10m platform behind China's Lian Junjie and Yang Hao. It was a fifth medal in five Olympics for 30-year-old Daley, who won gold with Matty Lee in the same event at the pandemic-postponed Tokyo Games three years ago.
- 16:01 (IST)Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3, Live Updates: Story till nowIt has been a somewhat disappointing day for India till now. Ramita Jindal and Arjun Babita both missed out on individual medals while the team of Rhythm Sangwan and Arjun Singh Cheema also failed to qualify for the 10m air rifle mixed team final. However, the one good news was the qualification of Manu Bhaker and Sarabjot Singh in the mixed team bronze medal match.
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