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Led by Rani Rampal, the Indian team will count on their recent experience of playing against the Argentinians during their extensive tour of Argentina in January this year.

The 23-year-old from Assam is the third Indian boxer to ensure a podium finish at the showpiece after Vijender Singh (2008) and M C Mary Kom (2012).

Indian women stun Aussies, create history by entering maiden semis

Today if Sindhu has won four medals in World Championship and two medals in Olympics, Ramana has taken a few calculated risks while giving the best facilities to his daughter.

“It was a well-guarded secret. There was cause of concern as we could not take risk of any medication before the Olympics. Luckily, the physio did a marvelous job with ice treatment,’’ said Pradeep Raju of the Suchitra Academy.

Sindhu, who won silver in Rio Games, in her talk, mentioned about the emotions and the drama after winning the last point against China’s He Bing Jiao for the bronze medal.

Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat will have spotlight on them when India's seven wrestlers, beginning with Sonam Malik, open their campaigns on Tuesday

The Italian emerges world’s fastest clocking 9.80 seconds in 100 m to grab gold

Following is the complete schedule of Indian action on Monday

Satish, who was injured during his previous bout against Jamaican Ricardo Brown, was doubtful till the morning of the bout.

Speaking after Sindhu’s win, Ramana said that he asked her to concentrate on her game against China's Bing Jiao in the bronze medal play-off.

The women's team had left Indian shores for Tokyo with the target of reaching the quarters and it managed that by finishing fourth with two wins and three defeats in the six-team Pool A.

The last time India won a medal was in 1980. India will now take on Belgium on Tuesday in the semis for a place in finals.

The American ended with five gold in men while the Aussie bagged seven medals

"I had a lot of emotions going through me - should I be happy that I won bronze or sad that I lost the opportunity to play in the final?" P V Sindhu added.

Indians in action on Sunday at Tokyo will see Badminton star P V Sindhu, who lost yesterday, still has a chance to grab Bronze in women’s singles match, Indian boxer Satish Kumar will be in action in the men’s 91kg category quarterfinal bout against Bakhodir Jalolov (Uzbekistan) in quarterfinals. Golf Anirban Lahiri and Udayan Mane […]

Amit did start confidently. He launched a few good shots but could not continue with that aggression.

A semifinal berth has eluded Indian men's Hockey team since the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games

Breaks Florence Griffith Joyner’s 33-year-old Olympic record in Jamaican sweep

India finished their group A league proceedings in fourth place with six points, riding on back-to-back wins over Ireland and South Africa and will now face pool B toppers Australia in the quarterfinal on Monday.