Paris Olympics 2024 Day 7 Highlights: More medal glory in sight for Manu Bhaker, history made for Lakshya Sen

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 7 Live Updates: A strange couple of days really. India won a medal on Day 6 but it cannot be called a good day for the country overall at the Paris Olympics as they also went on to lose four medal contenders. No medals today and yet so many reasons for the Indians to smile.

Manu Bhaker became the first Indian to reach three shooting finals, having emphatically gone through qualification in women's 24m pistol. Ankita Bhakat and Dhiraj Bommadevara made all kinds of history on their way to a fourth-placed finish in mixed-team archery. The Indian men's hockey team beat Australia 3-2 and thus go into the knockouts with a first win over the mighty Kookaburras at the Olympics since 1972. And then, Lakshya Sen prevailed in a slugfest of a quarterfinal against Chou Tien Chen to become the first Indian to reach the men's singles semifinals at the Olympics. Phew! Let's hope there will be more of this stuff tomorrow. Good night!

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 7 Live Updates: Vishnu Saravanan finished 20th and 19th in 3rd and 4th races in men's dinghy today and is now placed 22nd overall with 83 points after first four races. Nethra Kumanan is 11th with 48 points after first 3 races in women's dinghy, with 15th and 27th-place finishes in Race 2 and Race 3. Race 4 in women's dinghy has been postponed due to unfavorable weather conditions.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 7 Live Updates: Shubhankar Sharma and Gaganjeet Bhullar finished Tied 25 and Tied 52 respectively after the end of the first two rounds. Both Shubhankar and Gaganjeet had a score of 2 under 69 in the second round. Shubhankar registered a combined score of 3 under 139 while Gaganjeet gave 2 over 144 across the two rounds. They will now feature in the 3rd round, which is slated to start from 12:30 PM onwards tomorrow.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 7 Live Updates: It is a rematch of the Wimbledon final for the Olympic gold medal in Paris! Alcarz beat Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-1, 6-1 in the semifinal while Djokovic beat Italy's Lorenzo Musetti 6-4, 6-2. This little humdinger will take place at the Philippe-Chatrier after 3.30pm IST on Sunday. Set your reminders.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 7 Live Updates: So Tajinderpal finishes with a best throw of 18.05m. He has got X's against his name in the second and third throws. He is paced last in his group, with the only below him being Brazil's Welington Morais with three foul throws.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 7 Live Updates: Tajinder throws 18.05m in his first attempt and that puts him 14th, last among those who managed a legitimate throw. Czechia's Tomas Stanek tops the group with a throw of 21.68m

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 7 Live Updates: Anantjeet Singh Naruka is placed 26th after Day 2 of qualification in men's skeet. He has shot 23, 22 and 23 in his three rounds. Pretty much impossible for him to reach the final

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 7 Live Updates: Tajinderpal Singh Toor will take the field in men's shot put qualification at 11.40pm IST. He is among 16 shot putters in Group A. The automatic qualification standard is 21.35m and the 12 best performers in each group advance to the final.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 7 Live Updates: Parul Chaudhary records her season's best time of 15:10.68s but that is enough for her to seal qualification in Heat 2. She finishes 14th. Ankita was in Heat 1 and she finishes last with a time of 16:19.38s.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 7 Live Updates: Chou finds the net and that seals it. No big celebration from Lakshya, he walks calmly to the net and exchanges words of condolences to Chou. What a battle this has been between two incredible players. Lakshya Sen wins 19-21, 21-15, 21-12 and is through to the semis.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 7 Live Updates: There you go. Eight match points for Lakshya. He is one point away from history. He has come back from one game down in an epic of a quarterfinal.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 7 Live Updates: Lakshya pulling away now. He lifts one long, though, and that gives Chou a point. He challenges that call unsucesfully and so Lakshya has no challenges left for this match.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 7 Live Updates: Lakshya extends his lead, then Chou manoeuvres him perfectly to set a smash on the Indian's backhand. The Taiwanese reduces the gap to four points.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 7 Live Updates: This is it folks. Lakshya has taken a significant lead. But then remember, the players play from both sides of the court in this deciding game. Lakshya was playing on the better side of the court but now he has to play from the side of the court with the drift problem. He has made the most of this advantage, now he will have to defend for his life.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 7 Live Updates: Oh just stunning defence from Lakshya after with Chou seems to return a shot that was going wide from Lakshya. Then Chou buries a net shot and Lakshya takes that point. Reduces the gap to two.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 7 Live Updates: Chou races to a 2-0 lead but then of course Lakshya comes right back to level it up. That is just the way this match has gone.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 7 Live Updates: There it is! Lakshya Sen seals it off. Chou looking quite tired indeed at the end of that but well, he looked tired at the start of this game as well. His physio wraps her arms around his shoulders and talks to him with a big smile on her face. This. Is. A. Battle.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 7 Live Updates: Six game points for Lakshya Sen. Chou saves one though but it looks like we are going to be blessed with a third game in this epic quarterfinal clash.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 7 Live Updates: Lakshya makes that a four-point cushion as he smashes to Chou's forehand and the latter can't return. Brilliant defence then from Lakshya and then he smashes it into the empty court after moving Chou to one side to open up a five-point gap.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 7 Live Updates: Lakshya opens up a three-point cushion by smashing back a net shot from Chou. The Taiwanese can only find the net in response.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 7 Live Updates: Lakshya flying around the court in yet another stunning rally. A ridiculous net exchange between the two of them in that, the Indian then sent off balance as Chou hits it to the back of the court and yet, somehow, Lakshya wins the point. Every single point, every single rally in this match is a battle.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 7 Live Updates: Well Lakshya has responded to that incident quite well indeed. And Chou looks rather tired after conceding three consecutive points. The Indian is ahead at the interval of Game 2.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 7 Live Updates: Well Lakshya challenges a call at 7-7. It is unsuccessful, but Lakshya couldn't see it on the screen in the stadium. He has an argument with the umpire after she gives the point to Chou, she ends up needing some help with the match referee and finally Lakshya goes back to his place. Vimal Kumar and Prakash Padukone urge him to stay focused.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 7 Live Updates: Oh that is quite horrible. A long intense rally and just in the middle of that, the PA system goes off in the stadium and bursts out music for a second. Chou loses the point right there, and talks to the umpire, possibly asking for that to be declared a let. It doesn't happen, and he walks back with a smile to his face. Credit to him for not making a fuss there but goodness me, that is dozy from whoever it is that handling the PA system.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 7 Live Updates: And Chou reels off four consecutive points to wrestle away the lead from Lakshya.