India At Paris 2024 Olympics Day 3 LIVE: Lakshya Sen Advances In Badminton Singles, Men's Archery Team Crashes Out

Live updates:

6.55 pm: Indian men's archery team's campaign has ended after it lost 6-2 against Turkey. Quite a disappointing performance from the team in the first and second sets, characterised by a lack of consistency. Looked like India would bounce back after the third set, but Turkey claimed victory in the fourth set.

Set 1: India 53 - 57 Turkey Set 2: India 52 - 55 Turkey Set 3: India 55 - 54 Turkey Set 4: India 54 - 57 Turkey Final score: India 2 - 6 Turkey

5:47 pm: India level the scores 1-1 in the dying moments of the Hockey men's game game as captain Harmanpreet Singh secures a goal.

3:55 PM: Arjun Babuta missed out on his maiden Olympic medal as he finished 4th in the 10M Air Rifle Final.

1:39 PM: Women's doubles pair of Ashwini Ponnappa and Tanisha Crasto crashed out of the Olympics as they suffered a second successive defeat in the group stage. Ponappa and Crasto lost to Japanese pair of Chiharu Shida and Nami Matsuyama in straight sets - 11-21, 12-21

1:21 PM: Manu Bhaker and Sarabjot Singh qualified for the bronze medal match of 10m air pistol mixed team event after finishing third with 580 points in the qualification round.

1:17 pm: Ramita Jindal missed out on the chance of winning a medal as she finished 7th in the final of women's 10m air rifle event

Preview:

Following Manu Bhaker's historic bronze in shooting on Day 2, Indian shooters Ramita Jindal and Arjun Babuta will look to increase India's medal count on Day 3 of the Paris Olympics 2024.

Ramita and Arjun have emerged as the medal hopes for India after securing their berth in the final following their finish in top eight of the qualification round of the women's and men's 10m air rifle events, respectively.

Manu Bhaker will be returning to action and team up with Sarabjot Singh for 10m air pistol mixed team event.

Meanwhile, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty's second match of badminton men's doubles against Germany have been cancelled due to opponent's injury. Lakshya Sen will return to action after receiving a tough blow, where his maiden Olympic victory was deleted following his first-round opponent Kevin Cordon's withdrawal from the games due to injury.

Ashwini Ponnappa and Tanisha Crasto will look to bounce back after losing the first round of women's badminton doubles.

Men's archery team, Tarundeep Rai, Dhiraj Bommadevara and Pravin Jadhav will be aiming for glory as they set to feature in the quarterfinals against preminilary round winner between Turkey and Colombia.