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Let us hope for some good draws from the archery ranking round today

This time for the first time in Olympic history men athletes are allowed in artistic swimming

French sprinter Sounkamba Sylla says she has been barred from participating in the opening ceremony due to strict rules within French Olympic team on wearing a hijab Sounkamba Sylla opening ceremony hijab ban

India's Olympic outfit was heavily criticised as the corporate designers used unsustainable cloth material and they used digital prints. India has a huge heritage of textile weavers and artisans and it was considered as a missed opportunity to showcase the artistry and designs to the world. Indian Olympic Outfit a dissapointment using synthetic fabric and digital prints

India's top ranked player Manika Batra has beaten Romania top ranked player Bernadette Szocs 3 times in their last 4 meetings. India's 2nd and 3rd ranked player is higher ranked than Romania's 2nd and 3rd ranked player. So 4th seed vs unseeded will not matter for India.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport has sided with World Aquatics in the case of Cook Islands swimmer Wesley Roberts who, along with his federation, contested the new Universality limits for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. AQUA denied the 27-year-old Cook Islands swimmer a universality place in Paris on the basis of new rules that don’t allow Universality swimmers who have competed at two Olympic Games already. Limiting universality swimmers to two Olympics is a new rule change announced in 2022 along with a maximum age of 30 (as of Dec. 31, 2024), both of which are meant to refocus the initiative on domestic development of young talents who might still break through with Olympic qualifying times.

Even Men's singles Harmeet Desai's draw is not favourable. If he managed to win his round of 128 match, he will face Felix Lebrun in round of 64.

World number one Jannik Sinner out of Paris Olympics 2024 due to tonsilitis

If they can overcome their first hurdle , then you can expect a medal.

Women's team got a good draw in Women's team event.

Bopanna / Balaji in practice session

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It is so amazing to think that the same arena hosted matches of the French Rugby union team and Racing 92 club. It has also hosted concerts like Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Pink, Rammstein, Elton John, Iron Maiden & Taylor Swift to name a few even a few months back.

Some green initiatives at Paris 2024 includes: *Only the Aquatics centre is a newly constructed venue *Maximum percentage of food to be served is vegan *Some neighbouring contingents to arrive via train *No air-conditioning in Game's village, bedside table made of recycled shuttlecocks, dining plates without Paris Olympics logo to be reused later *Energy giant Total pulling out of Paris Olympics sponsorship

COVID has again stuck at Paris 2024 Olympics. Two members of Australian Men's Water Polo team has tested positive at the Game's village Memories of Tokyo 2020 Australian Men's Water Polo team Covid

Manika Batra famously fooled Chinese Wang Manyu at the Saudi SMAASH in May, when she twiddled at match point, 11-10 up, after trailing 8-10. After that this particular thing came into limelight.

Lot many happening in the archery camp just before the Olympics Inclusion of tainted physio Arvind Yadav VISA issues and unavailability of psychologist Gayatri Madkekar Unavailability of chief coach Baek Woong Ki due to not getting Olympics accredition Unavailability of Dronacharya award winning High performance director Sanjeeva Singh after not finding a place in the support staff team

For the first time ever, women from Indian Armed Forces will be taking part at the Olympics with Havildar Jaismine Lamboria and CPO Reetika Hooda set to represent India in the Boxing    & Wrestling    disciplines respectively.

At the 2018 Commonwealth games, Manika Batra won 🥇 using her pimpled rubber bat surface At the Paris Olympics 2024   , her secret weapon is termed as "Bhangra Twiddle" which is quickly switching grips from Backhand to Forehead or vice versa to confuse the opponents. The term twiddling comes from the novel Alice in Wonderland whereas the hand movements during twiddling resembles similar moves from the Punjabi dance form called Bhangra.

India has won a total of 3 Olympic Medals on August 11 across different editions of the Olympic Games. Abhinav Bindra 🥇 in Shooting Indian Men's Hockey team 🥇 at 1932 Olympics Yogeshwar Dutt 🥉 in Men's Wrestling There is a chance for India securing a medal on August 11 at the Paris Olympic Games 2024    where India and Reetika Hooda will make their debut in the Women's 76 Kg wrestling event.

Wrestling: Sonam Malik pulls out of the Wrestling World Championship due to elbow injury

Broke World record thrice

Tennis: Sumit Nagal has pulled out of India's Davis Cup tie against Finland, citing a hip injury. Saketh Myneni replaces him in the five-man squad. So team is now: Prajnesh, Ramkumar, Rohan, Divij and Saketh.

Shooting: Manu Bhaker to shoot in five events at Junior World Championships to be held at Lima, Peru from September 27, 2021

Table Tennis: 2021 ITTF Czech International Open Top seeded Sathiyan Gnanasekaran wins men single title as he defeats Yevhen Pryshchepa 🇺🇦 by 11-9, 11-6, 11-6, 14-12 in the final! 🇮🇳