Rio 2016 Olympics, Day 1: As it happened
Rio Olympics saw many things on Day 1 including the first gold medal winner, a world record broken and more.
The first day of Rio Olympics many things which included the first gold medal winners, a world record broken, a country winning it’s first gold, a country ending a long gold medal drought and many such things.
USA’s Virgina won the first gold medal of the Rio Games in the 10m Air Rifle event while Britain’s Peaty broke the 100. breaststroke world record. Vietnam got its first gold after it won the men’s 10m air pistol final. Also, Australia won a gold medal in swimming, after a long long time.
Katinka Hosszu broke the world record in the 400m individual medley by winning the gold medal in 4 minutes 26:36 seconds.
Early pointer, we’re going to run separate blogs for Indian athletes and action which we will publicise over the course of the day. Keeping that in mind, expect separate live blogs for the shooters, hockey teams and all of the Indian athletes in action today.
Rio 2016 Olympics Live, Day 1:
# And there is the first medal in swimming! Japan’s Kosuke Hagino wins the men’s 400m medley. USA second, Japan third
# Belgium’s Kirsten Flipper has stunned the crowed and Venus Williams! She beats the American 4-6 6-3 7-6
# Men’s qualification in gymnastics have begin. Also beach volleyball event
# Russia have their first gold in Rio. Beslan Mudranov wins 60kg category in men’s Judo. Depleted but not defeated!
# The men’s archery team bronze to Australia, who outplay China in the play-off. Korea and USA will fight for the gold medal now
# Table Tennis: Soumyajit Ghosh knocked out by Thailand’s Tanviriyavechakul Padasak 1-4 in men’s Singles 1st round
# Canada women’s basketball team has dominated China with a massive 90-68 win in the first match
# In the women’s football, Canada is leading Zimbabwe 3-0 with just 10 minutes to go in the group stage match
# India’s Soumyajit Ghosh is trailing Tanviriyavechakul Padasak three sets to one in the men’s singles table tennis event
# And it’s a gold for Vitenam’s Hoang Xuan Vinh! He shoots a brilliant 10.7 in final shot to finish ahead of Brazil’s Felipe Almeida. Bronze to China
# And the gold medal in road cycling has been decided. Belgium’s Van Avermaet wins gold medal. Silver for Denmark’s Jakob Fuglsang and bronze for Poland’s Rafal Majka
# There is a world record in Olympics! Swimming events. The world record is set by Adam Peaty of Britain in the 100m breaststroke event after finishing the event in 57.55 seconds. The previous record was 57.92 seconds also by Peaty
# Jitu Rai’s final in men’s 10m air psitol has begin.
# The archery men’s recurve team event is underway. Also the medal in 20 km men’s cycling is just moments way
# There are so many good stories from around the world at the Olympics and Dattu’s story is also superb
# Good news for India as Jitu Rai qualifies for men’s 10m air pistol finals. His event will be at 12:00 am IST
# This is not good
# This is the first time a refugee team is participating in Olympics and they have done good
# All over for Manika Batra as she loses the sixth game to Katarzyna 14-12. The Polish wins the match 4 games to 2
# Manika Batra has won the fourth set 11-8 to equal the match at 2-2 with Katarzyna of Poland
# Back to women’s singles table tennis, Manika Batra down 1 set to 2. Katarzyna of Poland has won the third set 14-12 after she had lost the first set 10-12 and won the second 11-6
# John Millman of Australia has brought the first double bagel of Olympics by beating Lithuania’s Ricardas Berankis in the opener of men’s singles tennis. Kei Nishikori is through for Japan by beating Spain’s Ramos-Vinolas 6-2, 6-4
# Two off the field controversies brewing: IOC reportedly going to investigate allegations from last night that Lebanese athletes prevented their Israeli counterparts from boarding the bus to the opening ceremony. Another one from Paralympics where they are likely to ban the complete Russian contingent for doping reports that had emerged before the soiree began
# Daniel Dodean Monteiro beats Mouma Das 11-2, 11-7, 11-7 and 11-3
# Switching our eyes to women’s table tennis where Mouma Das is three games to 0 down. Daniel Dodean Monteiro of Romania won the first three games – 11-2, 11-7, 11-7
# Virginia Thrasher of US wins first gold medal of the Olympics with score of 208.0. Du Li gets the silver medal with 207.0. Good tally for China early – two medals to take home. And we have the first impact to our medals tally
# Between Thrasher and Du to decide who gets the first gold medal of the Rio 2016 Olympics
# Yi Siling picks up the bronze for China in 10m air rifle event after finishing with 185.4
