The Indian women's Hockey Team fought valiantly against Germany but still ended up losing their second match 0-2 in the ongoing Tokyo Olympics on Monday. After scoring in the first quarter, Germany took complete control of the match and scored a goal in the third essay.
Chanu had opened the medal tally for India by winning a silver medal in the women's 49kg category at the Tokyo International Forum on Saturday. She lifted a total of 202 kg (87 kg in snatch and 115 kg in clean and jerk) during her four successful attempts at the competition.
India swimmer Sajan Prakash on Monday failed to qualify for the semi-finals of the men's 200m butterfly event in the ongoing Tokyo Olympics.
Adding further to this, Sundaramana said that her mother even sold jewellery, took loans from banks and did the table of talks with the bureaucrats, just to pay the bills of Bhavani for her training in Italy.
Touheta defeated Ashish 5-0 in the round of 32 match on Monday. China's Touheta took the first round 5-0, and Ashish was put on the back foot straight away.
CA Bhavani Devi, the first Indian fencer to win the first round at the Olympics, exited the women's individual saber competition at the Tokyo Olympics in a well-fought 7-15 round of 32 matches against France Manon Brunet on Monday.
India paddler Manika Batra and Polkanova exchanged some great points to start the match but it was the Austrian who won smoothly against Batra at the ongoing Tokyo Olympics on Monday.
"She has been asked to stay in Tokyo and the test will be done. The test is definitely happening," a source in the know of developments told ANI. China's Zhihui Hou had bagged gold on Saturday with a total of 210kg and created a new Olympic Record.
Dhawan after the match at the post-match presentation, "We knew our spinners will do the job on that wicket. Bhuvi bowled well, so was KP (Krunal Pandya). Everyone stood up and even Varun [Chakravarthy] too playing his first match did well giving a few runs and got the wicket."
Mirabai Chanu had opened India's medals tally on Saturday as she bagged a silver in the Women's 49kg category at Tokyo International Forum.
