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The Indian men's hockey team reached Paris ahead of the Olympics 2024 on Saturday evening. The official X handle of Hockey India shared the news with the fans, marking the beginning of India's Olympic dreams and men's hockey's first gold medal since 1980. The Union Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya encouraged the fans to cheer for the team India as they look all set to kickstart another illustrious chapter of Indian hockey history.
England have moved off the bottom of the ICC World Test Championship standings and kept in touch with the competition pacesetters with a comprehensive 241-run victory over the West Indies in the second Test of their series in Nottingham. The hosts wrapped up the series-clinching triumph late on the fourth day, with spinner Shoaib Bashir (5/41) claiming the third five-wicket haul of his career to help England dismiss the West Indies for 143 in pursuit of 385 for victory, as per an ICC press release.
England Test captain Ben Stokes gave a funny reaction after spotting his look-alike in the crowd during his team's second Test match against West Indies at Trent Bridge, Nottingham. The cameras in the stadium picked the man, who looked similar to Stokes, and showed it on the broadcast. Stokes, for a moment, smiled after noticing the man and then gave a really funny reaction to it. James Anderson, who was sitting beside Stokes as well as the commentators all were left in splits.
India head into the Paris Olympics 2024 aiming to better their record tally of seven medals from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Two medals in wrestling, one each in badminton, weightlifting and boxing, a return to silverware in men's hockey and a glorious gold by Neeraj Chopra in javelin, were the events where India shone brightest in Tokyo. Coming into Paris, India remain strong contenders in each of those areas, but may well cause a surprise in a few more events.
Paris Olympics 2024 Live Streaming and Live Telecast: While the 2024 Paris Olympics officially begins on Friday, July 26, India's events will start a day earlier with archery on July 25. The Paris Olympics will bring together over 10,000 athletes across 206 National Olympic Committees. India will be vying to create new records in Paris, following on from their best-ever tally of seven at Tokyo 2020. A 117-strong contingent will represent the tricolour in Paris, with the likes of javelin star Neeraj Chopra, badminton stars PV Sindhu, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, and weightlifter Mirabai Chanu among the favourites to bring home a medal.
David Harte is relishing the prospect of becoming a two-time Olympian when Ireland's hockey side begin their Paris 2024 campaign against Belgium.
Indian cricket team fast bowler Mohammed Shami was a standout performer in the 2019 ODI World Cup but he was not included in the playing XI for the semifinal clash against New Zealand. Shami took 14 wickets in 4 matches at an impressive economy rate of 5.48. The performances included a five-wicket haul against England and a hat-trick against Afghanistan. However, when it came to the semifinal match, Shami was snubbed and India went on to lose the game by 18 runs to crash out of the competition. During a recent interaction on Shubhankar Mishra's YouTube channel, Shami opened up about his disappointment and even had a question for then captain Virat Kohli and coach Ravi Shastri.
Canada defender Sydney Collins will miss the Paris 2024 women's soccer tournament after fracturing her left leg during a training game in her first match back after suffering a similar injury to her right leg earlier this year, Team Canada said on Saturday.