India At Paris Olympics, Day 3 Highlights: Babuta Misses India's Second Medal By A Whisker

Paris Olympics Day 3 Live Updates: India had a pretty decent outing on the third day of the Summer Games. Arjun Babuta missed out on India's second medal by the barest of the margins. Just like the women's Archery Team, the men's team too crashed out of the Olympics. Satwik-Chirag on the other hand have qualified for the quarter-finals. The fourth day promises to be bigger and better as Manu Bhaker will be back in action for the India. Stay tuned with Republic so that you never miss a beat. We will be back on the fourth day with more updates.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: US Athlete Biles who unfortunately twisted her left calf while warming up for floor exercise will take part in every event and will be accompanied by her husband Jonathan Owens

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: Manika Batra to take on  France's Prithika Pavade in women's singles table tennis round of 32 at 12:30 am IST

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: Rohan Bopanna has made it clear that he has played his last match in India colours

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: Novak Djokovic knocks Rafael Nadal out of the ongoing 33rd Summer Games. Djokovic wins 6-1, 6-4 at the Paris Olympics

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: Indian men's archery team Tarundeep Rain, Pravin Jadhav and Dhiraj Bommadevara have now bowed out of the ongoing 33rd Summer Games after losing to Turkey

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: Turkey are all over India in the quarter-finals and are just minutes away from knocking them out

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: Indian ace shuttler Sen defeats  Julien Carraggi 21-19, 21-14

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: Argentina almost got the better of India in their second game but skipper Harmanpreet Singh's last-minute goal ensured India avoided the loss.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: With the 3rd quarter almost gone, India are still 0-1 down against Argentina

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: Iga Swiatek defeats home favourite Diane Parry and storms into the second round

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: Argentina has taken a 1-0 lead over India in their second hockey game of the Paris Olympics

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: Rafael Nadal is taking on Novak Djokovic at the Philippe Chatrier 

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: Moving ahead of Arjun Babuta's unfortunate loss, the Indin Hockey team is now taking on Argentina in their second match of the 33rd Summer Games

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: Unfortunate for Arjun Babuta as he misses an Olympic medal by just 0.9 points

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: Arjun Babuta has slipped to the fourth spot

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: With 178.3 points Babuta is now on the second spot after seventeen shots

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: Babuta is giving it all out but as now slipped to third position with 157.1 points

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: The chances of Babuta winning a silver medal looks strong as he is on the second spot with 136.3 points after thirteen shots

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: Babuta is now on the second spot with 115.6 points

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: After 10 shots, Babuta is on the third spot with 105.0 points and is looking strong to win India's second medal

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: India's Arjun Babuta is fighting it out in the men's 10m air rifle finals to win India's second medal

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 3 Live Updates: After 5-shot series, Arjun is on 4th spot with 52.4 points and is in medal contetion

Prithviraj is currently ranked 20th, with 34 points.

World No.4 Japan's Nami, Shida defeats India's Ashwini Ponnappa & Tanisha Crasto. The Japanese duo prevails 21-11, 21-12. The Indian duo loses for the second time in a row and is on the verge of being eliminated.

India's Prithviraj is competing in the men's trap qualifying event. Athletes ranked eight or higher advance to the final.

Manu Bhaker has a chance to win another medal for India at the Paris Olympics as she has qualified for the Mixed team 10m air pistol bronze medal match along with Sarabjot which will take place on Tuesday at 1:00 pm. 

Manu and Sarabjot stand at number 4, securing themselves a spot for the bronze medal clash.  

Despite giving a great performance in the women's 10m Air Rifle final, Ramita Jindal is not able to secure a second medal for India.

Ramita Jindal stands at the number 4 spot after five shots at the Women's 10m Air Rifle Final

Ramita Jindal is in action at the Women's 10m Air Rifle Final event!

The mixed team qualification event for the 10m air pistol has started. While Rhythm and Arjun will also try to qualify, Bhaker and Sarabjot will be the main focus.

Day 3 will start with shooting, with the mixed team qualification round for the 10m air pistol being the first event for India.

Bronze medalist Manu Bhaker-Sarabjot Singh, and Rhythm Sangwan-Arjun Singh Cheema, are the two Indian teams who will be present. Both groups aim to get into the championship game.

"Around Rs 2 crore was spent on Manu Bhaker's training. She was sent to Germany and Switzerland for training. Financial help was provided which was needed for her to hire a coach who she wanted. We are providing this ecosystem to all athletes so that they give best performance at national and international competitions. I am confident that our athletes will perform well in Paris Olympics too," Union Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said.

Satwik-Chirag have avoided themselves a Lakshya Sen-like scenario after their German opponent pulled out before the match.

Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty will not compete in their Men's doubles clash after their opponents, Mark Lamsfuss and Marvin Seidel withdraw from competition.

Less than an hour remains for Team India to begin their Day 3 campaign, with Satwik-Chirag featuring in Men';s Doubles Badminton clash at 12:00 PM IST.

India will feature in two medal games today and shooters Arjun Babuta and Ramit aJindal will be in the spotlight.

After winning the historic bronze medal, Shooter Manu Bhaker will participate in the qualification round of the Mixed 10m Air Rifle event. She will pair up with Sarabjot Singh.