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Silver medallist in Women's 49 kg category Mirabai Chanu in a post match interview expressed her desire to eat pizzas after years of hardwork and winning a medal. Dominoes pizza immediately pounced on the marketing and branding opportunity and delivered pizza to her mother back home and started sharing on social media.

Please don't joke. I can't believe it. This update made Archery interesting.. Till now it was so boring...

Georgia Taylor-Brown who won Olympic silver in the women's triathlon was on crutches just 3 months before the Olympics due to a leg injury. Inspiring.

Unable to play their national anthem, the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) proposed “Katyusha,” a Soviet folk-based song usually identified with the fight against Nazi Germany in World War II. The IOC rejected it and a fragment of Piano Concerto No.1 by composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was chosen as their anthem.

Some top players were absent in the World Championships. Moreover olympic finals are the epitome of these battles. Athletes need those extra edge to earn a medal. This is lacking in Indian shooters. No compromise should be shown by the shooting federation during selections.Current form should be given some weightage.There are lots of shooters in the pipeline. So no shooter is indispensable. But special promising talents should be backed and nurtured like Saurabh Chaudhary

Badminton: Rankireddy - Shetty pair beat their opponents from Great Britain 21-17, 21-19 in straight sets to finish their Olympics campaign on a high.

I don't buy the sentimental excuse of age when an athlete underperforms.First of all this olympics has seen a lot of under 20 podium finishers. Secondly, the government spends a hefty sum on these athletes from our tax money. So athletes must take responsibility for the country

The list is out and unfortunately there is no Indian entry.

Table Tennis: Sharath Kamal bows out of Olympics after losing 1-4 to defending gold medal winner and World number 2 Ma Long of China.

Hockey : India beat Spain 3-0 in Men's Hockey

Shooting: Indian pair of Saurabh Chaudhary and Manu Bhaker finished at 7th among 8 teams in the 10 m air pistol mixed event qualification stage 2.They failed to qualify for the medal matches.

Shooting: Indian pair of Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary tops qualification stage 1 of 10 m air pistol mixed event. The other Indian pair of Abhishek and Yasashwini fails to advance further.

Austrian maths PhD Anna Kiesenhofer won gold for her country in cycling after a gap of 125 years.

Swimming : Sajan Prakash finished a commendable 4th position in men's 200 m butterfly heats with a timing of 1:57:22

Tom Daley , the 10 m synchro diving gold medalist at Tokyo2020 Olympics is married to an Oscar winner.

Boxing : Chinese boxer defeats Ashish Kumar in Men's middleweight boxing. Not a great day for India.

I would say unlucky in ranking rounds. Considering South Korean team as the default rank 1 in ranking rounds, it was more like avoiding the ninth place.

Chinese weightlifter wins gold - on ONE LEG: Li Fabin uses 'flamingo' style to correct his balance and secure victory.

Yes it was a great performance no doubt. But her participation was marred by off the field controversies like coach not being allowed to enter the arena, refusing to get the services of the national coach, not interested to attend 50 day national workshop post the olympics. In a mental game like Table Tennis, these thoughts are bound the affect the athlete

Medalists at Tokyo2020 now have a 30-second photo opportunity after the gold medalist’s national anthem is played to pose without masks, but they must stay on their own podium step.

Table Tennis Manika Batra bows out of Table Tennis Women's singles after losing to Polcanova from Austria 0-4 .

Kazakh tennis player Yulia Putintseva withdrew from her first-round match due to brutal heat at the Tokyo Olympics. Heat at tennis court is proving to be tiring for some players

Costa Rican gymnast Luciana Alvarado ends Olympics Tokyo 2020 floor routine with tribute to Black Lives Matter.

The host nation Japan gave a scare to the hot favourites South Korea in the men's team archery Semi Finals . It was a close tie in the shoot offs with the closest arrow to the centre deciding the winner.

Tennis: Sumit Nagal bowed out of Men's tennis Singles losing to World no. 2 Daniel Medvedev in straight sets 6-2,6-1 playing valiantly for 66 minutes on the court. And with this, Indian campaign in Tennis comes to an end in this Olympics.