Welcome to the live updates of Day 10 at the Rio Olympics 2016 in Rio de Janeiro. We witnessed some lively actions on Sunday with India's > Dipa Karmakar missing a bronze medal by a whisker and the 'golden' man Usain Bolt whistling past his competitors at the men's 100m final.
On Day 10, the whole of India is expecting Lalita Babar, Vikas Krishan to win a medal. With the star badminton player Saina Nehwal out of the tournament, it is burden on the shoulders of P.V. Sindhu and K. Srikanth to bring laurels to the nation.
Day 10 of the 2016 Games sees 17 gold medals looking for a home. Track and field account for five of the finals with Rudisha taking centre stage at the Olympic Stadium.
Live updates (all times IST)
0355 hrs: Vikas Krishan Yadav crashes out of quarterfinals, loses by four points.
0345 hrs: India's Vikas Krishan Yadav takes on Uzbekistan's Bektemir Melikuziev in 75 kg boxing.
0235 hrs: Spectators chant "India India!" as Sindhu plays aggressive badminton.
0230 hrs: Tai Tzu Ying gets back in to the game, giving tough fight to Sindhu.
0225 hrs: Sindhu wins first set.
0216 hrs: Sindhu looks confident, leading against Chinese Taipei's Tai Tzu Ying.
0155 hrs: India's P. V. Sindhu will be shortly seen in action in women's singles, badminton.
2047 hours: Malaysia's Tan and Goh won the third game and entered the semifinals with a fine win against the South Korean pair.
2036 hours: The Malaysian pair takes crucial lead in the third game
2025 hours: A fascinating third game is underway between Malaysia and South korea in the men's doubles badminton quarterfinals.
2017 hours: The Malaysian pair pulls back to win the second game
2003 hours: South Korea's Lee and Yoo wins the first game against Malaysia's Tan and Goh in the men's doubles badminton quarterfinals.
1958 hours: Bahrain's Ruth Jebet wins gold, Kenya's Hyvin Jepkemoi silver and US' Emma Coburn bronze. Lalita Babar finished 10th in the finals.
1955 hours: Indian medal woe continues as Lalita Babar falls way short in the women's 3000m steeplechase.
1952 hours: 2 laps to go in the women's 3000m steeplechase
1945 hours : India’s Lalita Babar is in action at the Women's 3000m steeplechase final
1935 hours Another men's doubles badminton quarterfinals is underway with Malaysia's Tan and Goh is up against South Korea's Lee and Yoo.
1930 hours: India's Renjith Maheswary fails to qualify for the finals in the men's triple-jump.
1926 hours: In the men's doubles badminton quarterfinals, China's Fu and Zhang defeated South Korea's G.J. Kim and S.R. Kim by 2-1
In another 20 minutes Lalita Babar will be competing in the 3000m steeplechase finals
1916 hours ; India's Ravinder Khatri lost to Hungary's Viktor Lorincz in the men's Greco-Roman 85 kg wrestling qualifying round.
1910 hours: Srikanth wins second game 21-19. Srikanth will be up against China's Lin Dan in the quarterfinals. > Read more
1908 hours: India's Ravinder Khatri is now down 0-4 in the greco-roman wrestling qualifying round.
1905 hours: Jorgensen takes a two-point lead in the second game
1903 hours: It is a see-saw battle between Srikanth and Jorgensen in the second game
1858 hours: Srikanth takes lead now 11-10
1856 hours : Jorgensen takes lead in the second game
1855 hours: Brilliant rally between Srikanth and Jorgensen in the second game. Srikanth leads 8-6
1853 hours: Srabani Nanda failed to qualify for the semifinal in the women's 200m as she finished sixth in the heats.
1852 hours: Srikanth races to a 6-4 lead in the second game
1847 hours: Srkanth wins first game 21-19
1840 hours: Renjith Maheswary has 16.13m as best jump so far.
1833 hours: Srikanth takes a 8-6 lead in the first game.
1830 hours: Both the players are fighting hard to take a decisive lead in the first game
1824 hours: Srikanth-Jorgensen game is about to begin
1822 hours: Japan's Takahashi and Matsutomo won the third game and the match defeating Malaysia's Hoo and Woon in a close encounter.
1821 hours: Renjith Maheswary best jump so far is 15.80m. Will it be enough?
1814 hours: India's Renjith Maheswary in action at the triple jump
1807 hours: The Netherlands women Piek and Muskens won the second game and the match went into the decider.
India's badminton stars fail to shine at >#Rio2016>#Badminton>https://t.co/AYoTkwfTg9>pic.twitter.com/Zry8w1Q42W
— Rio 2016 (@Rio2016_en) >August 15, 2016
1806 hours : Japanese women races to a 8-3 lead in the deciding game
1800 hours: Women's 200m heats is taking place at the Rio Olympics 2016.
1759 hours: On the other side, the track and field events have started
1757 hours: Malaysian women bounced back strongly to win the second game against Japan.
1755 hours : In the second women's doubles badminton event South Korea's Shin and Jung won the first game.
1736 hours: The International Paralympic Committee says Brazilian athlete Luciano Dos Santos Pereira will miss his home Paralympics after receiving a four-year doping ban. The IPC says the steroids stanozolol and oxandrolone were found in a urine sample provided by the Brazilian in May. The four-year ban runs until June 2020. The Paralympics are taking place after the Olympics, from Sept. 7 to 18 in Rio de Janeiro.
1734 hours : The Japanese women wins the first game
1730 hours: Marathon swimming is about to begin at Rio Olympics 2016. Women's Olympic 10km swimming marathon has started and it will be followed by men on Tuesday. Rampant pollution at Rio's beach venues -- not to mention pounding surf and wind that washed away the starting platform on Saturday -- are being taken in stride by the world's best in a sport where hazards can range from sharks to jellyfish -- or just an untimely elbow thrown by an opponent seeking to gain an advantage rounding a course-marking buoy.
1725 hours: In the men's doubles badminton quarterfinals, China's Fu and Zhang are up against South Korea's G.J. Kim and S.R. Kim. The South Koreans have won the first game.
1724 hours: In the women's doubles quarterfinals Japan's Takahashi and Matsutomo are playing Malaysia's Hoo and Woon. In another quarterfinal South Korea's Shin and Jung play Netherlands Piek and Muskens.
In another 10 minutes K. Srikanth will be fighting for a place in the quarterfinals.
1711 hours: Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar today joined millions of Indians and celebrities from all walks of life to congratulate gymnast Dipa Karmakar, who missed bronze medal by a whisker at the ongoing Rio Olympics. Dipa came tantalisingly close to end up fourth with a difference of only 0.150 points with the bronze medallist in the women’s vault finals. Tendulkar, who was in Rio recently to encourage the Indian contingent, took to twitter to congratulate the young Tripura girl. “Winning and losing is a part of sport. You have won millions of hearts & entire nation is proud of your achievements,” Tendulkar tweeted.
Winning & losing is a part of sport.. You've won millions of hearts & the entire nation is proud of ur achievements. >https://t.co/qSpiWFSp2K
— sachin tendulkar (@sachin_rt) >August 15, 2016
1647 hours: Quite interesting: China’s ace woman diver He Zi had just collected her silver medal at the Rio Olympics but her boyfriend and teammate Qin Kai, in front of a global TV audience, sprang a surprise by going down on one knee and proposing with a diamond ring, marking the second marriage proposal at the ongoing Games. Just moments after receiving her silver medal in Sunday’s 3—meter springboard event, 25-year-old He was asked to take a very different kind of plunge by Qin, a fellow Olympic diver. Qin, 30, who bent low on one knee by the podium before offering up a box containing a diamond engagement ring. > Read more
Hello everyone, very happy to connect with you all today through my team. Happy Independence Day! >pic.twitter.com/6AW11EPPRe
— Dipa Karmakar (@DipaKarmakar) >August 15, 2016
Befolre the Srikanth match begins, > Read this interesting piece
From the Indian perspective, Indian men's badminton star K. Srikanth will play his prequarterfinal match against Denmark's Jan Jorgensen at 1730 hours.
>@Media_SAI thank you very much for your continuous support to my journey.
— Dipa Karmakar (@DipaKarmakar) >August 15, 2016
1616 hours: It’s one happy day in Britain as the country celebrates the five gold medals it won Sunday at the Rio Olympics. British athletes have won 15 golds at the games so far, putting their nation ahead of China in total medals and second only to the Americans on the medal table in Rio. Gymnast Max Whitlock scored a historic double gold win the first time a British athlete has claimed an Olympic gold for gymnastics. He graced the fronts of most of the nation’s newspapers, with one dubbing him “Mighty Max.” Tennis star Andy Murray took his second gold in consecutive games the first player to win two golds in singles. Track cyclist Jason Kenny beat teammate Callum Skinner in the men’s sprint while Justin Rose won the first Olympic golf competition since 1904.
1555 hours: On the track, world champion Allyson Felix of the United States will be going for her fifth career Olympic gold medal in the women’s 400—meter final. There are also medals up for grabs in men’s pole vault and men’s 800 meters. Simone Biles, the Olympic all—around champion, is seeking her fourth gold medal in Rio, this time on the balance beam. Swimmers in the women’s Olympic marathon will test Rio’s dirty waters, tackling a 10—km course off Copacabana Beach. The heavyweights battle in boxing and wrestling. Russian world champion boxer Evgeny Tishchenko faces Kazakhstan’s Vassilliy Levit, while Cuban wrestler Mijian Lopez takes on Turkey’s Riza Kayaalp. At the Rio velodrome, Mark Cavendish of Britain tries to capture the Olympic medal that has long eluded him in the omnium. Reigning gold medalist Lasse Norman Hansen of Denmark leads the six—event contest at the midway point.
1508 hours: It only took 17 years and 43.03 seconds. Exploding out of the blocks Sunday, > Wayde van Niekerk of South Africa broke Michael Johnson’ s 17—year—old world record in the 400 meters in Rio de Janeiro, leaving two of the greatest one—lap runners of this era in his dust. Van Niekerk finished 0.15 seconds faster than Johnson ran in 1999, setting a mark considered one of the almost untouchable records in track. “I thought someone was going to catch me,” van Niekerk explained. “I felt very alone at the end.” The 24—year—old van Niekerk even leaned at the finish line, which he really didn’t need to do as Kirani James of Grenada and LaShawn Merritt of the Unites States weren’t even in the picture. James, the defending Olympic champion, finished with the silver and Merritt, who won gold in Beijing, hung on for bronze. > Read more
1440 hours: The world track and field body has accepted a ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport and says Russian long jumper Darya Klishina will be competing at the Rio Olympics. Klishina was the only one of 68 Russians cleared to participate in Rio by the IAAF, the sport’s governing body. It tried to ban her from the Olympics last week, however, after receiving what it said was new information from World Anti—Doping Agency investigator Richard McLaren. Klishina had appealed that ban. The IAAF says “we instigated a review process following new evidence presented to us. The outcome we reached to revoke Darya Klishina’s exceptional eligibility was not upheld by CAS despite the information received from McLaren and she is therefore eligible to compete in Rio.” The court said Klishina can take part in Tuesday’s qualifying because she has been based outside of Russia for three years and been subjected to regular drug testing. > Read more
1400 hours: Simone Biles is trying to find out. The 19—year—old American will try to make it 4 for 4 as she seeks another gold Monday on the balance beam in Rio de Janeiro. Biles already has three golds from the team final, the all—around and the vault, which she won on Sunday the most golds by an American female gymnast during one Olympics. The world champion on the beam, Biles posted the highest qualifying score in Rio. Her biggest challenge will likely come from teammate Laurie Hernandez, who edged Biles during the U.S. Olympic Trials last month. The men will compete for individual medals in vault and still rings.
1330 hours: The real test of Rio’s dirty water or maybe Olympic athletes’ immune systems is about to begin. The women’s 10—kilometer marathon swim is taking place Monday just off of Copacabana Beach and most of the elite swimmers will take about two hours to complete the 6.2—mile course. Open water swimming is always difficult, but Rio de Janeiro’s heavily polluted water is upping the ante this year. A 16—month long independent analysis by The Associated Press has shown the water venues used by 1,400 athletes at the Rio Olympics are teeming with dangerous viruses from human sewage that could cause athletes to become ill. Rio, a metropolitan area of 12 million, treats only about half of its sewage, dumping the rest into nearby waters.
1255 hours: It wasn’t pretty. It involved heavy humidity, see—sawing momentum and 102 unforced errors from both players. But in the end, Britain’s Andy Murray became the first tennis player in Olympic history with two singles gold medals, winning his second in a row by wearing down Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina 7—5, 4—6, 6—2, 7—5 in a 4—hour final Sunday night. “Anything could have happened,” said Murray, who took the last four games after trailing 5—3 in the fourth set. “Emotionally, it was tough. Physically, it was hard ... so many ups and downs.” Murray’s terrific returns, impenetrable defense and track—down—every—ball coverage countered the 6—foot—6 del Potro’s booming serves and furious forehands. No man ever has defeated the top three seeds on the way to a gold, but del Potro sure came close before winding up with a silver. Earlier Sunday, Kei Nishikori won bronze, Japan’s first Olympic tennis medal since 1920.
1210 hours: You knew he could do it, he knew he could do it. and he did it. Usain Bolt sauntered onto the track Sunday night and waved his hands, signaling for more applause even before the race in Rio de Janeiro began. The Jamaican sprinter’s swan song in the Olympic 100 meters was a pedestrian—by—his—standards 9.81—second sprint, capped off by pointing to his chest a step before the finish line. “It was brilliant,” Bolt said. “I didn’t go so fast but I’m so happy I won. I told you guys I was going to do it.” Bolt won his record—setting third straight title and his seventh Olympic gold, beating American Justin Gatlin, who was greeted with raucous boos, by .08 seconds. Andre de Grasse of Canada took the bronze. Bolt has a chance for two more golds in Rio- in his favorite race, Thursday’s 200 meter final, and then in the 4x100 relay Saturday night.
The Indian contingent’s schedule on day 10 of the Rio Olympics here:
(All times in IST)
ATHLETICS (All IST):
Lalita Babar, Steeplechase Final — 1945hrs
Ranjith Maheshwary, Men’s Triple Jump — 1800hrs
Srabani Nanda, Women’s 200m — 1824hrs
Seema Punia, Women’s Discus — 0620hrs (Aug 16)
BADMINTON:
Kidambi Srikanth, Men’s Singles pre-quarters — 1730hrs
PV Sindhu, Women’s Singles pre—quarters — 0200hrs (Aug16)
BOXING:
Vikas Krishan, Men’s 75 kg Quarters — 0330hrs (Aug 16)
WRESTLING:
Ravinder Khatri, Men’s Greco-Roman 85kg Qualification — 2030hrs
What to watch out for on Monday
Day 10 of the Rio Games features medal action in track and field, boxing, cycling, marathon swimming, wrestling and more. Here are some things to watch (all times local):
TRACK AND FIELD
World champion Allyson Felix will be going for her fifth career Olympic gold medal when she runs in the women's 400-meter final. Felix won her heat in the semifinals on Sunday in a season-best 49.67 seconds, the fastest time in the field. She is running only in the 400 after missing a chance to defend her Olympic 200-meter title by failing to make the U.S. team. The final is scheduled for 10:45 p.m.
Devon Allen, the Oregon football player who is competing in Rio, will make his Olympic debut when he runs in the opening heats of the 110-meter hurdles. Allen is the first collegian to win the 110-meter hurdles at the Olympic Trials since Maryland's Renaldo Nehemiah in 1980. The Ducks football team plans to take a break from practice to watch Allen, a receiver on the team, run in his heat, which is scheduled to start at 9:04 p.m.
There are also medals up for grabs in men's pole vault and men's 800 meters.
BEACH VOLLEYBALL
The U.S. men's beach volleyball team of Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena play their quarterfinal match on Monday (4 p.m.) against the defending world champions from Brazil, Alison and Bruno. It's the toughest test yet for Dalhausser, the 2008 gold medalist, and his rookie partner.
BOXING
A thoroughly entertaining Olympic heavyweight tournament concludes with the gold-medal bout between Russian world champion Evgeny Tishchenko and Kazakhstan's fearsome Vassilliy Levit. The winner joins an elite lineage of Olympic champions at the glamour weight, including George Foreman, Ray Mercer and three-time Cuban champs Felix Savon and Teofilo Stevenson. Levit beat Savon's nephew, Erislandy, to reach the final. The main event of a 19-fight card is at 7:15 p.m.
GYMNASTICS
Simone Biles will try to make it 4 for 4 when the Olympic all-around champion makes a bid for another gold medal during the balance beam finals.
The 19-year-old already has three golds from the team final, the all-around and the vault, which she won on Sunday. Her three golds are the most by an American female gymnast during one Olympics. Biles is the world champion on beam and posted the highest score during qualifying when she put up a 15.633. Biles' biggest challenge will likely come from teammate Laurie Hernandez, who edged Biles during the Olympic Trials last month and scored 15.366 during qualifying.
The men will hand out individual medals in vault and still rings.
MEN'S BASKETBALL
Coming off a thrilling double-overtime win against rival Brazil, Argentina wraps up pool play against Spain. The Argentinians are 3-1 and have their sights set on their third Olympic medal.
Spain, the two-time defending silver medalists, led by center Pau Gasol, drubbed Lithuania by 50 in their previous game . The Spaniards will earn a spot in the quarterfinals with a win or if Brazil loses to Nigeria in Monday's first game in Group B. Spain and Argentina tip off at 7 p.m.
WRESTLING
Cuban heavyweight Mijian Lopez will wrestle for his third Olympic title Monday at the Rio Games. But Lopez will likely have to get through Turkish strongman Riza Kayaalp to win gold. Kayaalp stunned Lopez in the 2015 world championships, and a second win over the Cuban would signify a shift in dominance between these long-time rivals.
MARATHON SWIMMING
With concerns about the quality of the water plaguing the Rio Games, the women's 10-kilometer marathon will be held at 9 a.m. The women will be swimming a course just off of Copacabana Beach, competing in an event that started in Beijing in 2008. It takes most of the swimmers about two hours to complete the 6.2-mile course, and adding to the difficulty this year is the heavily polluted water of the Atlantic Ocean just off of the coast. American Haley Anderson won silver in London, narrowly missing out on the gold.
TRACK CYCLING
Mark Cavendish , the winner of 30 stages in the Tour de France, tries to capture the Olympic medal that has long eluded him when he returns to the Rio velodrome for the omnium. Reigning gold medalist Lasse Norman Hansen of Denmark leads the six-discipline event at the midway point, but the British star is within striking distance. It starts at 5:23 p.m.
WATER POLO
After starting their tournament play outdoors, the women move inside for quarterfinal action. The Americans play Brazil at 2:10 p.m. They have started defense of their Olympic title by going 3-0 in group play . Australia plays Hungary, Russia plays Spain and Italy faces China in the other games.
WEIGHTLIFTING
The men's 105-kilogram class opened up in June when the world record holder Ilya Ilyin of Kazakhstan was suspended for failing retests of his drug test samples from the 2008 and 2012 Olympics. With Ilyin out of the picture, gold medal contenders include fellow Kazakh Alexander Zaichikov, who is the reigning world champion, Uzbekistan's Ruslan Nurudinov and China's Yang Zhe. The medal round begins at 7 p.m.
