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India vs New Zealand Men's Hockey Olympics 2024: Harmanpreet Singh's Late Goal Sees India Beat NZ In Thriller

India vs New Zealand, Men's Hockey Olympics 2024 Pool B: India captain Harmanpreet Singh scored in the dying minutes to help India start their Paris Olympics 2024 hockey campaign with a 3-2 win against New Zealand on Saturday. It was a thriller right from the start, as India conceded many penalty corners. After Sam Lane scored for New Zealand, Mandeep Singh equalised for India. Vivek Sagar Prasad then gave India the lead, before Simon Child equalised. Harmanpreet Singh then scored from a penalty stroke in the 59th minute to make it 3-2 for India.

Olympics 2024: Badminton Medal Prospects Satwik-Chirag Off To Winning Start

Medal contenders Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty signalled their intention with an easy straight-game victory in their opening group stage men's doubles match after singles ace Lakshya Sen got his maiden Olympic campaign underway on a winning note here on Saturday. The third-seeded duo of Satwik-Chirag, the reigning Asian Games champions, notched up a 21-17 21-14 win against the French pair of Lucas Corvee and Ronan Labar in a Group C match while Sen beat Tokyo edition semifinalist Kevin Cordon of Guatemala 21-8 22-20 in a Group C contest of the men's singles.

"What Matters Is I Gave My 100 Per Cent": Indian Shooter Elavenil Valarivan After Olympics Mixed Team Exit

After failing to qualify for the final in the 10 m air rifle mixed team event at the Paris Olympics, Indian shooter Elavenil Valarivan said that she gave her 100 per cent during the event, and that is what matters to her. Elavenil Valarivan and Sandeep Singh took part in the 10 m air rifle mixed teams qualifiers. Only four teams out of 28 had the privilege of qualifying further for the knockout stages, i.e., a gold medal match for the top two teams and a bronze medal match for teams ranked third and fourth. India could not make it to the final four.