Paris Olympics 2024, Day 10 Highlights: Avinash Sable through to 3000m steeplechase final

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 10 Live Updates: Well, a rollercoaster of emotions on Day 10 for India. Maheshwari Chouhan and Anant Jeet Singh Naruka got India through to a surprise bronze medal match in mixed team skeet but they couldn't upset China and clinch the medal. Later came Lakshya Sen with a sensational start to his bronze medal match against Lee Zii Jia. But he faltered after the first game and missed out on a chance to become the third Indian to score an Olympic medal. It meant that the star-studded Indian badminton contingent failed to win a single medal in Paris, which is quite an unexpected result.

After that came a rather heartbreaking women's 68kg quarterfinal for Nisha Dahiya. She was two points away from winning by technical superiority when she started being rilddled with injuries and that led to her opponent overturing a 2-8 deficit to win 10-8. At the fag end of the day, Avinash Sable gave Indians something to celebrate as he sailed into the final. So good was he that he slowed down towards the end of his heat to conserve energy for the final.

His race will be happening late on Wednesday, early Thursday morning in Indian time. Tomorrow, there are two standout events. At 1.30pm starts the men's javelin throw qualifiers. India's Kishore Jena is in Group A and India's Neeraj Chopra, the defending champion, is in Group B. One event where India have a candidate to win gold, let alone a medal, and one of the few events where India have two genuine medal contenders. Then at 10.30pm, the Indian hockey players who had pulled off a miracle against Great Britain, play the game of their lives. They face Germany in the semi-final, looking to seal a second consecutive Olympic medal. Lots to look forward to! Goodbye and goodnight!

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 10 Live Updates: It's official, the Indian challenge is over in sailing. Saravanan finished 18th overall in men's dinghy out of 43 with a net score of 114 after 8 races. Kumanan finished 21st, out of 43 with a net score of 155 after 9 races.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 10 Live Updates: Duplantis didn't even bother attempting 5.50m. He comes in at 5.70m, jumps it like it was nothing. Then he skips 5.80m and five vaulters before him fail their first attempt at 5.85m, and Duplantis jumps over that as well like it's nothing to go back to the top. Extraordinary from the defending the champion.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 10 Live Updates: Prakash Padukone didn't mince his words while talking to the media after Lakshya Sen's defeat. The legendary former player, who was coaching Lakshya in this tournament along with Vimal Kumar, said that he expected India to win at least one medal from badminton this year and that all the rest of the stakeholders behind the players couldn't have done more.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 10 Live Updates: He got off to a sensational start, leading the field for the first four laps. He then settled in behind the top three and then put in another kick in the second last lap to go up to second. Avinash did not deploy another kick, clearly slowing down to conserve energy for the final and finished fifth.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 10 Live Updates: He has done enough and the national record holder becomes the first Indian this year to go through to the final in a track and field event! He actually seemed to slow down purposely towards the end when he realised that he has done enough, conserving energy for the final. The top five in each heat qualify and Sable finished fifth with a time of 8:15.43s in Heat 2.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 10 Live Updates: Lovlina Borgohain starts off her first Instagram post after her exit in Olympics by apologising to the nation. I think it is pretty safe to say that most in the country would tell that she doesn't need to apologise for anything.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 10 Live Updates: The men's pole vault final is set to start at 10.30pm IST and you know what that means. Sweden's Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis, 24 years of age, will be looking to fly to a second consecutive Olympic gold medal.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 10 Live Updates: What's next for India you ask? Fret not, for I've got the answers. Avinash Sable, the man who won silver in 5000m and gold in 3000m steeplechase at the 2022 Asian Games, is taking the centrestage for India in, men's 3000m steeplechase round 1. He will be in the second Heat and it all starts from 10.34pm IST.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 10 Live Updates: Manu Bhaker is set to be the flag bearer for India in the closing ceremony of these Olympics. She has summed up her journey in Paris in an Instagram post.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 10 Live Updates: Viktor Axelsen has absolutely raced to his second consecutive Olympic gold. He has beat Thailand's Kunlavut Vitidsarn, who had pulled off an almighty upset by beating Chinese top seed Shi Yuqi in the quarterfinal, 21-11, 21-11. Can anyone stop the Great Dane? Not at the moment, no.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 10 Live Updates: The bout starts again and Pak quickly executes a takedown. She gets to 10 points and that is that. Nisha is wailing uncontrollably after the bout, the referee tries to pick her up. Eventually, it is Pak herself who consoles her opponent and pulls her up on her feet. Great display of sportsmanship there from the North Korean. There were a few boos that rang out in the arena right after that bout ended, let's hope it wasn't for Pak and if it was, let's hope those people's minds were changed shortly thereafter.

Nisha, like her idol and mentor Sakshi Malik, has shown just how much fight she has in her. She was in agonishing pain and yet she ground her teeth and went again, and again, and again. She still has a chance to make it to the bronze medal match via repechage, remember.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 10 Live Updates: Pak takes full advantage of the situation. Rolls Nisha over multiple times and within a matter of seconds, she has levelled the scores at 8-8. Then Nisha needs more medical attention. She is in tears. This is a very hard watch. Somehow, Nisha grinds her teeth and goes again. She is leading by the tie-break rule.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 10 Live Updates: Oh this is quite sad. Sol tries to push Nisha out of bounds. Nisha defends and then she starts screaming in agony. It looks like Nisha had broken a finger first and now she seems to have dislocated an elbow! More medical attention and she goes again. We are seeing an incredible warrior in action here.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 10 Live Updates: Pak gets on board early after resumption but Nisha then manages to push the North Korean off the mat! She extends her lead to 6-1. Pak tries to grab her leg a few times, great defence from Nisha. Then the Indian gets a leg hold and manages to force an exposure! The lead increases to 8-1. Nisha could actually get a win by technical superiority here. But then the bout is stopped and Nisha is in some pain. She already has a strapping on her right shoulder.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 10 Live Updates: Nisha snatches four points inside the first 25 seconds itself. She then manages to control the tempo of the bout, in spite of Pak's best efforts, and keeps the four-point lead going into the break after 2.5 mins.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 10 Live Updates: All right here we go! Nisha's quarterfinal bout against Pak Sol Gum is underway. Remember, Pak pulled off a major upset in her previous bout to get here.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 10 Live Updates: This bout is set to take place on Mat B, where Kyrgizstan's Meerim Zhumanazarova just beat Mongolia's Delgermaa Enkhsaikhan 8-3 in the women's 68kg round of 16.

The quarterfinals in women's 68kg start with USA's Amit Elor facing Poland's Wiktoria Choluj first. Nisha's bout with Pak is set to come after this.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 10 Live Updates: Nisha is now set to face North Korea's Sol Gum Pak in her women's 68kg quarterfinals. Pak had pulled off an upset of epic proportions to get here. She is just 18 years old and this is just her second international tournament and somehow, she beat 2021 World Championship gold medallist and 2023 worlds bronze medallist Irina Ringaci in the round of 16.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 10 Live Updates: Lee Zii Jia does it in the end. Quite an extraordinary match from him, he was almost down and out in the first game but he kept his attacking play going and errors started creeping into Lakshya's game. There were a couple of times in the first game itself where Lakshya left a shot that he thought was going long, only for it to be almost half a foot inside the line.

Lakshya thus joins the aforementioned list of great Indian athletes who have finished fourth at an Olympics. He is only 22 though and surely, surely he has at least one Olympic medal in store for him in the future. He is just too good to not have one. Take a bow Lakshya, you have gone to places at these Olympics that no Indian man has reached before this and only Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu have overall among badminton players from the country.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 10 Live Updates: Nisha Dahiya has beaten Ukraine's Tetiana Sova Rizhko 6-4 and will fight in the women's 68kg wrestling quarterfinal.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 10 Live Updates: The wrestling events start today and first up is Nisha Dahiya, the under-23 World Championships bronze medallist in 2021. She is facing Ukraine's Tetiana Rizhko. Nisha has some strapping on her right elbow and she does well early on, takes a 4-1 lead.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 10 Live Updates: Lee Zii Jia has come into this match and how. THe Malysian won the second game 21-16 and now leads 11-6 in the third game interval. Lakshya has a bruising on his right hand that he is trying to deal with as well. This bronze-medal match has become a battle.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 10 Live Updates: Naruka gets four hits to end his day, Chauhan up next and she does the same! China have to get all of their shots here...

Lyu finishes with four more hits. Extraordinary from him, he hasn't missed a single hit throughout this bronze medal match. Jiang comes next, she gets her first two shots and does the same again. That gives China the bronze medal.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 10 Live Updates: Ooo it's come right down to the last series. All four of the shooters not missing a single shot in this series. China have a slender lead of one and Naruka to start.