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Up against quite literally a bully in the ring, Borgohain was completely out-punched by the gold medal favourite, who produced a thoroughly dominating performance.

The 25-year-old Dutee was 38th out of 41 in the overall standings despite a season's best time of 23.85.

India took the lead through Gurjit Kaur’s goal in the 22nd minute and kept the Aussies women at bay to go into the break. But the Australians were relentless in their pursuit for the equaliser.

Beaten by Tai Tzu Ying on Saturday, Sindhu’s game fell into place on Sunday. The Indian star set up a good pace. She was quick on the court and meant business with her well-placed strokes that had Bing Jiao on the wrong foot.

Barbora, the French Open singles and doubles champion this year, and Katerina defeated the Belinda-Viktorija pair 7-5, 6-1, in the one hour and 25 minutes, becoming the first team from the Czech Republic to claim the women's doubles gold.

Satish was the first boxer from his category in India to qualify for the Olympics. He entered the ring at the Ryogoku Kokugikan Arena on Sunday despite seven stitches above his left eye and chin

With this bronze, Canada captured its 13th medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics by clocking in 3:52.60, a national record.

USA Gymnastics tweeted early on Sunday that, "Simone has withdrawn from the event final for floor and will make a decision on beam later this week. Either way, we're all behind you, Simone."

The reigning world champion touched home in an Olympic record time of 21.07 seconds, 0.48 seconds before Florent Manaudou of France. Bruno Fratus of Brazil took a bronze in 21.57 seconds.

Coming from behind to clock 3:37.58 for the top prize, British swimmers Kathleen Dawson, Adam Peaty, James Guy and Anna Hopkin joined efforts to slice 0.43 seconds off the previous world record held by China.

The Indian will now play for the bronze medal against Chinese left-hander He Biang Jio, who lost to Chen Yu Fei.

Fox, who won a bronze medal in women's kayak slalom and gold in the canoe slalom, posted a video on social media this week of someone making repairs to the nose of her boat.

Vandana Katariya (4th, 17th, 49th minutes) scored a hat-trick while young Neha Goyal (32nd) was the other goal getter for India.

"We remain in awe of Simone, who continues to handle this situation with courage and grace, and all of the athletes who have stepped up during these unexpected circumstances."

Kamalpreet was only the second thrower who achieved the automatic qualification of 64.00m after USA's Valarie Allman as the latter threw 66.42m in her first attempt. Meanwhile, Kamalpreet's compatriot and veteran athlete

The `Smiling Assassin, yet again, was in awesome form. But Yamaguchi fought brilliantly particularly in the second game when she trailed by six points.

A cameraman of an Argentinian TV channel covering the women’s hockey match between Spain and Argentina played on July 26, decided to go rogue and film a cockroach in the middle of an on-going women’s hockey match.

Deepika defeated Ksenia Perova of the Russian Olympic Committee 6-5 in a one-arrow shoot-off after both the archers had tied 5-5 on set points in their Round of 16 clash at the Yumenoshima Park Archery Field.

The Indian won the bout against Chen Nien-Chin by 4-1 split decision. With this win, she entered the semifinal and assured India at least a bronze.

All eyes were on Sindhu, the Rio Olympics silver medallist, as she walked onto the court. She straightaway looked in great form as the 58th ranked Polikarpova caved in meekly.