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Rio Olympics, Day 5: Flop shows from Jitu Rai, women's hockey team; Bombayla Devi, Deepika Kumari reach pre-quarters
Archer Atanu Das and boxer Vikas Krishan progressed to the next rounds in their respective disciplines on Day 4
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Rio De Janeiro: Welcome to our live blog for Day 5 of the Rio Olympics. Track the performance of all Indian athletes in action today right here.
Archer Atanu Das and boxer Vikas Krishan progressed to the next rounds in their respective disciplines on Day 4. While Heena Sidhu and Dattu Bhokanal crash out, the men's hockey team survived some tense moments to carve out a 2-1 win over Argentina.
While the Indian men's hockey team, boxer Vikas Krishan and archer Atanu Das put a good show on Day 4 of the event, India are still waiting for their first medal.
Neymar's Brazil enter quarterfinals of men's football competition. Beat Denmark in their final Group A match by 4-0. Denmark also make knock-out stage.
Michael Phelps tops men's 200m Individual Medley semifinal 2. All set for another gold medal.
Change of fortunes for Brazil football team. Neymar-led oufit scores four against Denmark without response. 10 minutes into the final whistle. A win will help them qualify for next round.
Three elite police officers protecting Rio`s Olympic Games came under fire: Report
MEDAL UPDATE: Ning Ding beats Li Xiaoxia in all Chinese final to win women's singles Table Tennis gold.
READ: How India performed on Day 5 of biggest sporting extravaganza
India's Day 6 complete schedule HERE.
United States survives scare before taming scrappy Australia 98-88 in a men`s basketball thriller. Dream Team extends their winning streak to 20 games.
MEDAL UPDATE: Kazakhstan's Nijat Rahimov lifted a clean and jerk world record to win Olympic men's -77kg weightlifting gold medal.
MEDAL UPDATE: American Kristin Armstrong became the first cyclist to win the same road event at three different Olympic Games, taking gold in the women`s 29.7km time trial.
Manoj Kumar will face Uzbekistan's Fazliddin Gaibnazarov in the pre-quarters of Men's Light Welter (64kg).
MEDAL UPDATE: Japan great Kohei Uchimura becomes first gymnast in 44-years to win back-to-back Olympic all around titles.
Manoj Kumar vs Evaldas Petrauskas: Lithunian won the third round, but Manoj did just about enough to win the bout, 2-1.
Manoj Kumar vs Evaldas Petrauskas: Round one ended with Manoj taking a slight lead. Two of the three judges have given Indian boxer 10s, one going for the Lithuanian.
Picture says it all. #rioolympics2016 https://t.co/KAghZsE75r
— Sania Mirza (@MirzaSania) August 10, 2016
Germany rout Fiji 10-0; South Korea beat Mexico 1-0. Germany play Portugal, while Korea meet Honduras in men's football quarters.
New Zealand knocked out of the inaugural Olympic sevens tournament in the quarter-finals Fiji.
Laishram Bombayla takes on Alejandra Valencia of Mexico while Deepika Kumari faces Ya-Ting Tang of Chinese Taipei in women's individual 1/8 eliminations on Thursday.
Deepika Kumari vs Guendalina Sartori: 8, 10, 10 to win the fourth for a 6-2 lead after fourth set. Good going. Through to pre-quarterfinals.
Deepika Kumari vs Guendalina Sartori: 10, 9 and 9 for Deepika to win the third set too (28-26). She leads 4-2.
Deepika Kumari vs Guendalina Sartori: Poor start from Deepika, loses first set 24-27, and trails 0-2.
MEDAL UPDATE: Xiang Yanmei of China recovered from a nasty bang on the head to win women`s 69kg weightlifting gold medal.
MEDAL UPDATE: Jack Laugher and Chris Mears of Great Britain win 3m synchronised diving gold medal.
In between, the Games organisers blamed a drop in alkalinity levels for an uninviting green hue during diving competition.
Deepika Kumari vs Kristine Esebua: This is insane, first four arrows hit the centre. Then, a nine from Kristine, so thus Deepika, for scores of 6-4 in favour of the Indian shooter. Through to next round.
Deepika Kumari vs Kristine Esebua: Third set to the Georgian, 29-27. It's 5-3 to Indian archer, and the final set to decide the winner.
Deepika Kumari vs Kristine Esebua: Brilliant shooting from Deepika, all three in the third set hitting bull's eye for 30-27.
Deepika Kumari vs Kristine Esebua: Early lead for the Indian archer. 27-26; 29-29 for 3-1 set point
Deepika Kumari vs Kristine Esebua in Women's Archery Individual 1/32 Eliminations due to start any moment. But it's raining.
Ryan Lochte beats Michael Phelps in men`s 200m individual medley, but both the Americans qalafied for semis.
Meanwhile, Argentina were knocked out of the men`s football competition after they missed a penalty and scored a stoppage-time equaliser in a 1-1 draw with Honduras that left them third in Group D.
COMING UP! Deepika Kumari against Kristine Esebua of Georgia in Women's Archery Individual 1/32 Eliminations
Fehaid Aldeehani, originally of Kuwait, becomes first Independent athlete to win gold medal at Rio. He won men's double trap event.
HUMILIATION! Indian women's team lost to Australia 1-6. India's lone goal scored by Anuradha Thockchom.
Weather updater from Rio...
Tennis most unlikely today. Thin, fine rain persists #Rio2016 @HTSportsNews pic.twitter.com/JFfHE0z4XJ
— Sukhwant Basra (@SukhwantBasra) August 10, 2016
Tennis play postponed by 2 hours #Rio2016 Mirza-Bopanna play fourth match on court 3 @HTSportsNews pic.twitter.com/C2S5aoakpu
— Sukhwant Basra (@SukhwantBasra) August 10, 2016
#Judo: Avtar Singh, who lost 1st round few hrs back, now OUT of contention for medal via Repêchage also as Refugee OT judoka lost in R2
— India@Sports (@India_At_Rio) August 10, 2016
#Rio2016 Indian women's Hockey team loses 6-1 to Australia.
— ANI (@ANI_news) August 10, 2016
Some more bad news...
Just in: #Weightlifting : Satish Kumar OUT of contention for Medal as he finished 4th in Group B with Total lift of 329 kg #Rio2016
— India@Sports (@India_At_Rio) August 10, 2016
In women's hockey, Australia score convert penalty corner to take 1-0 lead against India in Pool B match
Just in: #Judo: Avtar Singh loses in 1st round to judoka from Refugee Olympic Team in Men's 90 kg category #Rio2016
— India@Sports (@India_At_Rio) August 10, 2016
@India_At_Rio : pic.twitter.com/pYOwlAC5UX
— India@Sports (@India_At_Rio) August 10, 2016
SHOCK! Jitu Rai fails to qualify for 50m air pistol Final after scoring just 88 in last series
Bombayla Devi loses third set against Lin Shih-Chia of Taipei in women's individual Round of 32. The Indian leads 4-2.
Bombayla Devi wins second set against Lin Shih-Chia of Taipei in women's individual Round of 32.
Jitu Rai at 7th spot now with 371 pts after 4 series. 120 shots left. Long long way to go..
#Archery Bombayla Devi (World No. 69) to take on World No. 10 Lin Shih-Chia of Chinese Taipei in R32 at 1835 hrs IST #Rio2016
— India@Sports (@India_At_Rio) August 10, 2016
Meanwhile, Bombayla Devi beats Laurence Baldauff of Austria 6-2 to enter women's individual Round of 32. She faces World. No 10 next.
Bombayla Devi faces Austria's Laurence Baldauff in women's individual Round of 64 at 18:09 IST
Jitu in action pic.twitter.com/yRu2Bsfjt3
— Digvijay Singh Deo (@DiggySinghDeo) August 10, 2016
Prakash Nanjappa is 40th after shooting a dismal 15 in his first two shots in his first series
Shooting: Men’s 50m pistol event: 41 shooters will compete in Qualifying round; Out of those 8 will advance to the Final #Rio2016
— India@Sports (@India_At_Rio) August 10, 2016
Archery: Bombayla Devi Laishram will feature in the women's individual round of 64 at 18.10 IST
17:08 IST: Rowing has been canceled for today due to bad weather. Dattu Bhokanal was to take part in the single sculls semi-final C/D.
16:30 IST: Satish Sivalingam and Avtar Singh will compete in the Men's 77 kg (Weightlifting) and Men's 90 kg (Judo) from 18:30 IST respectively.
16:25 IST: Jitu Rai and Prakash Nanjappa will participate in the Men's 50m pistol event, which is scheduled to commence at 17:30 IST
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