That’s it from us tonight! Do join us tomorrow for yet another action packed day at the Paris Olympics!

It was a day of heartbreaks for India in Paris, Manu Bhaker, chasing her third medal at the Paris Olympics, fell agonisingly short as she finished fourth in the women’s 25m pistol event.

Archer Deepika Kumari gave a good fight but was no match for eventual silver medallist Nam Su-hyeon in the quarter-final.

Boxer Nishant Dev, one win away from a medal, came undone in the final round of his quarter-final bout against Alonso Alvarez.

What it meant for St Lucia!

Athletics, women’s triple jump: Thea Lafond is the women’s triple jump Olympic champion! Her second jump of 15.02m is enough for Lafond to win Dominica’s first-ever Olympic medal! Jamaica’s Shanieka Ricketts takes silver with a best jump of 14.87m with the USA’s Jasmine Moore taking bronze with a best of 14.67m.

Athletics, women’s 100m final: JULIEN ALFRED WINS IN PARIS! St Lucia has their first ever Olympic medal! Alfred was off in a flash and led from start to finish! Sha’carri Richardson, the pre-race favourite, was slow off the block and left it too late to catch up to Alfred. She takes silver ahead of teammate Melissa Jefferson. The US’s wait for a women’s 100m Olympic champion this century goes on.

Athletics, women’s 100m final: It’s time for the big one! After a small delay due to rain , we are finally ready for the women’s 100m final. This will the first final since 2004 Athens to not feature Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce. Who will come out on top tonight?

Men's 71kg quarter-final: Nishant Dev is defeated by Verde Alvarez of Mexico by a 1:4 spliT decision. Sigh. And that means the Indian male boxers return without a medal in Paris. What a great bout that was. Nishant started strong but seemed to fizzle out by the final round which is where the Mexican came with an all-out attack approach with every ounce of energy.

A great bout but it ends in heartbreak for India. Again.

Men's 71kg quarter-final: Much better rhythm from Verde and it results in a much closer round. They are now tied on four cards after Round 2. But Nishant is the stronger, more dominant man in the ring and he will hope to make that count in the final round.

Athletics, 4x400m mixed relay: FEMKE BOL!!!! An anchor run that will go down as one of the best in history! She takes the Netherlands from fourth to first in the final 100m! They come 0.02s off matching the World Record the USA had set yesterday. The Americans finish second with Great Britain taking bronze.

Men's 71kg quarter-final: A fast, fast first round from the Indian who goes right in but he receives a standing eight count after a solid punch from Verde. However, he has done enough to take the round on four cards.

Men's 71kg quarter-final: In action now is Nishant Dev against Mexico's Alonso Alvarez. Nishant has a relatively easier draw as compared to the other Indians. He has a bronze in the World Championships. Can he get a medal at the Olympics too?

Athletics, men’s shot put final: Campbell and Kovacs have a best throw of 22.15m but because Kovacs had a better second best throw than Campbell, he climbs to second. Campbell steps up for his final throw. He needs to either better 22.15m to take silver outright or beat Kovacs’ second best throw of 21.71m/. His throw is good but his heel touched the stopping board and it will be a foul throw! Kovacs wins silver and Ryan Crouser becomes their first three-time Olympic champion in men’s shot put! Legend!

Athletics, men’s shot put final: It is drizzling at the Stade de France and that has caused a flurry of foul throws in the shot put final. It becomes difficult to stop your motion when you are built like a giant and spinning quickly. Crouser is in the lead having posted 22.90m with his third throw. Kovacs, staring at a fourth-place finish, comes up clutch with his final throw to post 22.15 and climb to second ahead of Campbell!

Athletics, women’s triple jump final: Dominica have never won an Olympic medal but that might change tonight! Thea Lafond jumps 15.02m with her second attempt to climb to the top of the standings!

The Women’s 100m final is set!

Men's 71kg quarter-final: In action shortly will be Nishant Dev, India's only male boxer in contention and only the second Indian boxer other than Lovlina Borgohain that has a shot at a medal in Paris. He will be going up against Mexico's Alonso Alvarez and a win here will assure him of a medal.

Athletics, men’s shot put final: Jamaica’s Rajindra Campbell throws a mighty 22.15m to climb to second! Otterdahl also improves with a throw of 22.01 to climb to third ahead of Kovacs. Crouser stays ahead while Kiwi Tom Walsh has seemingly injured himself after fouling out on both his throws so far.

Athletics, women’s 100m semi-final: A brilliant run from Jamaica’s Tia Clayton to win the third semi-final with a time of 10.89s. Great Britain’s Daryll Neita finishes second with a time of 10.97s. The USA’s Twanisha Terry clocks 11.07s and qualifies as one of the two other fastest runners with Mujinga Kambundji the other runner to qualify for the final.

Athletics, women’s 100m semi-final: St Lucia’s Julien Alfred storms to win the second semi-final ahead of the USA’s Sha’carri Richardson with the duo qualifying for the final! A DNS against Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce :(

Athletics, women’s 100m semi-final: Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has withdrawn from the 100m event! The two-time 100m Olympic champion, who had said that Paris 2024 would be her last Olympic Games, will not be competing in the second semi-final race tonight.

Athletics, women’s 100m semi-final: What a storming women’s 100m semi-final to get us underway! USA’s Melissa Jefferson wins the semi with a time of 10.99s with Ivory Coast’s Marie-Josse Ta Lou-Smith pipping the World Indoor champion Mujinga Kambundji to take the automatic qualifying spot.

Athletics, men’s shot put final: It’s an American 1, 2, 3 so far with Crouser (22.64m) leading Kovacs (21.69m) and Payton Otterdahl (21.39m). That might change with Italy’s Leonardo Fabbri and Tom Walsh to throw soon.

Jeong Na Eun won silver in mixed doubles with Kim Won Ho
The South Korean archery machine churns out another champion!

Athletics: We begin the evening with the medal ceremony for the men’s 10,000m event. In a remarkable race, a whopping 13 (!) runners broke the pre-existing Olympic Record! In the end, Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei who upgraded his Tokyo 2020 silver to gold with a record time of 26:43.14 minutes.

Tennis, women’s singles final: Qinwen Zheng creates history by becoming the first Chinese athlete to win an Olympic gold medal in singles tennis! Sixth seed Zheng beats Croatia’s Donna Vekic 6-2, 6-3 in an hour and 45 minutes.

She began the tournament with comfortable straight sets wins in the first and second round but had to dig deep in the third round and the quarter-final. She had to fight back from a set down against USA’s Emma Navarro and Germany’s Angelique Kerber to win the respective matches.

She then followed it up by ending defending French Open champion and gold medal favourite Iga Swiatek’s 25-match winning run at Roland Garros in the semi-final. In the end, Zheng was the deserved winner.

Athletics: It is going to be an action packed night at the Stade de France with five track and field finals in store for us.

We will begin with the men’s shot put final where American legend Ryan Crouser aims for a hat-trick of Olympic titles. But it will not be easy for the World and Olympic record holder with the likes of compatriots Joe Kovacs, who has the world leading distance this year and Italy’s 2023 World Championship silver medallist Leonardo Fabbri expected to push Crouser to the distance.

That will be followed by the women’s triple jump final which will not feature the reigning champion Yulimar Rojas who had pulled out of the Olympics with an injury.

We’ll round up the night with three track finals — the 4x400m mixed relay, the women’s 100m and the men’s decathlon 1500m final.

Boxing: The Imane Khelif show rumbles on! The Algerian boxer, at the centre of a needless and abusive storm regarding her gender moves into the semi-finals of the women’s 66kg event. Her opponent in the quarter-final, Hungary’s Anna Luca Hamori courted controversy after sharing derogatory posts targeting Khelif.

The Algerian showed no expressions during her fight whereas Hamori seemed agitated at the break between the rounds. The duo even wrestled each other to the canvas twice in round three. Khelif won the first two rounds comfortably and took it easy in the final round making Hamori do the attacking.

In the end a unanimous win for Khelif who scripts history by becoming the first Algerian woman to win an Olympic medal in boxing. Hamori and Khelif share a short hug before the latter helps her opponent off the ring.

The emotions finally get to her as she punches the canvas before letting out a roar and then breaking down with her team. An inspiring story continues in Paris!

Sailing, women's dinghy: At the end of Race 6, Nethra Kumanan is in 24th place with a total score of 96.

Golf, men's individual Round 3: There's a drop in scores for both the Indians compared to their Round 2 performance from yesterday. Both Shubhankar Sharma and Gaganjeet Bhullar scored 69 in Round 2. Today, Sharma scored 72 and Bhullar 71. In golf, the lower score is better.

Sharma is now tied 34 with a total of 211, and Bhullar is tied 49 with 215. Tomorrow is the last day of the men's golf event.

Sailing, men's dinghy: Vishnu Saravanan finishes 21st in Race 5 and 13th in Race 6, to reach a total score of 83 points. He's currently in overall 23rd position.

Shooting, women's skeet qualification: Maheshwari Chauhan is close to the top 6 position required to make it to the final, after the first three rounds of the skeet qualification event. She has shot scores of 23, 24 and 24 in the first three rounds for a total of 71 that puts her in eight place. Raiza Dhillon meanwhile has struggled, with scores of 21, 22 and 23 for a total of 66 that keeps her in 25th place.

Shooting, men's skeet qualification: Anant Jeet Singh Naruka's campaign ends. He finishes the qualification round in 24th position with a total score of 116.

Archery, women's individual, quarter-final: And like in Tokyo, Deepika Kumari's Olympics ends in the quarter-final stage. The first set where she couldn't manage a 10 and one where she needed to shoot – the Indian loses 4-6 and the Korean dominance in archery at the Olympics continues.

Archery, women's individual, quarter-final: A 7 in the second arrow for Deepika and Nam has won the fourth set to tie the match at 4-all.

Archery, women's individual, quarter-final: A long hold in her last arrow and Kumari shoots a 10 to win the third set 29-28 and lead 4-2 in the match.

Archery, women's individual, quarter-final: Nam gets back into form as she takes the second set 28-25 and equalises the match at 2-all.

Archery, women's individual, quarter-final: A good start from Deepika Kumari who capitalises on the two 8s from her opponent to take the first set 28-26 and lead 2-0 in the match.

Archery, women’s individual, quarter-final: Deepika Kumari will be in action in the quarter-final against South Korea’s Nam Suhyeon. Can the Indian archer go one better than her performance in Tokyo?

Archery, women's individual, Round of 16: Bhajan's luck runs out as Choirunisa shoots closer to the centre with a 9 to the Indian's 8 and the 18-year-old exits in the Round of 16 in her debut Olympics.

Archery, women's individual, Round of 16: Wow! Bhajan takes the fifth set 27-26 by the skin of her teeth and the match is going to a shoot-off!

Archery, women's individual, Round of 16: Bhajan survives to see another set with the two archers sharing the set points after tying 28-all. Choirunisa leads 5-3 in the match.

Archery, women's individual, Round of 16: Choirunisa surges ahead with a win in the third set and leads 4-2 in the match.

Archery, women's individual, Round of 16: 8, 9, 10 from Bhajan who ends up taking the second set 27-26 and levels the match at 2-all.

Archery, women's individual, Round of 16: A near perfect score from the Indonesian gives her the first set and a lead of 2-0 in the match.

Archery, women's individual, Round of 16: No time to rest as next up is Bhajan Kaur takes on Diananda Choinurisa of Indonesia in her Round of 16 match.

Archery, women's individual, Round of 16: An 8 to begin but Kumari then shoots a near perfect 10 hitting the centre to seal the deal in the fifth set, winning the match 6-4 and moving into the quarter-finals.

Archery, women's individual, Round of 16: A near perfect score from Kroppen who needed to win the set to stay in the match and does it 29-27. Kumari still leads 5-3 in the match.

Archery, women's individual, Round of 16: Both archers start with a 7 but Kumari recovers to shoot a 10 and 9 and takes the third set to lead 5-1 in the match.

Archery, women's individual, Round of 16: Kumari and Kroppen both shoot 27 in the second set and share the set points, but the Indian lead 3-1 in the match.

Archery, women's individual, Round of 16: A solid trio of 9s from Kumari gives her the first set 27-24 and a lead of 2-0 in the match.

Archery, women's individual, Round of 16: And we're off. Kroppen seeded seventh while Kumari was seeded 23rd.

Archery, women's individual: And so the Indian challenge in archery comes down to 18-year-old Bhajan Kaur and 30-year-old Deepika Kumari. A first-time Olympian and a veteran Olympian. Both have had a few days to rest and regroup for their Round of 16 matches with Kaur facing Diananda Choirunisa of Indonesia and Kumari up against mixed team silver medallist Michelle Kroppen.

Shooting, women’s 25m pistol final: What is with Indian shooters finishing fourth at the Olympics? Joydeep Karmakar in London 2012, Abhinav Bindra in Rio 2016 and now Arjun Babuta and Manu Bhaker in Paris 2024. However, unlike the other three, Bhaker departs from Paris with two medals and a piece of history with her.

Shooting, women’s 25m pistol final: Heartbreak for Manu Bhaker. She started the five shot shootoff well with Major missing her second shot. However, Bhaker then missed her third and fourth shots with Major nailing her shots. Bhaker finishes fourth after losing the shootoff 4-3!

Shooting, women’s 25m pistol final: Bhaker drops three points and she is in a shoot off for fourth place with Veronika Major. Both have 28 points!

Shooting, women’s 25m pistol final: Nerveless shooting from Bhaker! Another four out of five from her and she reduces Jiin’s lead to a point. Bhaker is on 26 with Jiin on 27.

Shooting, women’s 25m pistol final: Four out of five from Bhaker in the sixth series and she climbs to second with 22 points. Jiin extends her lead by two points.

Shooting, women’s 25m pistol final: Superb shooting from Bhaker! She shoots five out of five and climbs to third with 18 points. Jiin leads with 20 points with Veronika Major second with 19.

Shooting, women’s 25m pistol final: Bhaker shoots three in the fourth series and drops to joint sixth. Only one point separates the shooters ranked from 2-7.

Shooting, women’s 25m pistol final: Bhaker end the first series with four shots and is second with 10 points. There are five shooters including Bhaker who have 10 points. Jiin is in the lead with 13.

Shooting, women’s 25m pistol final: Bhaker starts with two shots out of five in the opening series but recovers well to shoot four in the next one. That sees her rise to third.

Shooting, women’s 25m pistol final: For more than a 100 years, Norman Pritchard was the only Indian to win two medals in a single edition of the Olympic Games. He finally found company this week when Manu Bhaker won her second medal in Paris. Today, Bhaker has the chance to script history for India when she competes for her third medal at the Games in the women’s 25m pistol final.

Only two of today’s finalists were in Tokyo. Bhaker and Iran’s Haniyeh Rostamiyan both misses out on qualifying last time around but have made the cut in Paris. Of the finalists, three are in good form having won medals at the World Cups this year. Jiin Yang and Zhao Nan Camille finish 1 and 2 at the Baku World Cup while Jedrzejewski won gold in this event at the 2024 Munich World Cup before the Olympics. Bhaker’s last medal in the individual 25m event came back at the 2023 Bhopal World Cup.

Shooting, women's skeet qualification: Raiza Dhillon and Maheshwari Chauhan begin their campaign in the 29-player qualification round. The duo will shoot in five series over two days in the hunt for the top 6 spots to move into the final. The qualification round starts at 12.30 pm.

Shooting, men's skeet qualification: Anant Jeet Singh Naruka has a lot of catching up to do in the fourth and fifth rounds of qualification. He is currently placed in 26th position out of 30 shooters, with a score of 68. He will be back in action at 12.30 pm.

Golf, men's individual Round 3: Shubhankar Sharma and Gaganjeet Bhullar will be on the golf range for the third day of competition. Sharma will start the day tied 25th on 139 points, while Bhullar is tied 52 with 144 points. Play resumes at 12.30 pm.

Hockey, men’s event: We have our quarter-final lineup ready! In a weird coincidence, all the quarter-final matches are a repeat of the quarter-final matches from Tokyo 2020. India face Great Britain with the winner of the match taking on the winner of the quarter-final between Germany and Argentina.

The medal table as Day 8 begins. India is currently in 47th place with three bronze medals. Can we get a fourth today from shooting? Perhaps even a few more from the archers and boxers?

Hello and welcome to Scroll’s coverage of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games!

Action continues in Paris as the Indian shooting contingent, led by an impressive Manu Bhaker, will look to add more glory on Saturday.

Bhaker herself could be on the precipice of incredible history when she takes part in the 25m Pistol final for a chance at a third medal for herself. While she has already joined the likes of PV Sindhu and wrestler Sushil Kumar as a double Olympic medallist, she could become the first-ever Indian to win three Olympic medals in an individual sport.

After the heartbreak of a fourth place finish for Dhiraj Bommadevara and Ankita Bhakat yesterday in the mixed team event, archers Bhajan Kaur and Deepika Kumari will hope to reach the medal rounds when they compete in the Round of 16 matches in the women’s individual event.

Anantjeet Singh Naruka in men’s skeet will look to boost his chances of qualifying for the final while Raiza Dhillon and Maheshwari Chauhan will kick off their Olympic campaign in women’s skeet.

One of two Indian boxers left in the ring, Nishant Dev will look to assure a medal for himself and the country in the men’s 71kg quarter-final late in the night.

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