Paralympic triathlon competitions in Paris scheduled for Sunday have been postponed because of concerns about water quality in the Seine River .
Pusarla Venkata Sindhu becomes the first badminton player for India to reach the final and win a silver medal.
British tennis player Andy Murray's two dogs were photographed wearing his silver and gold Olympic medals from the London Games.
Indian boxer Devendro Singh's bid for an Olympic bronze medal was dashed after he succumbed to Ireland's Paddy Barnes in a high-voltage quarter final contest which was marked by some debatable refreering and controversial warnings at the Excel Arena here.
On a day when one of India's best medal hopes, shooter Ronjan Sodhi, was eliminated from the London Olympics, Saina Nehwal created history by becoming the first Indian badminton player to reach the Olympic semi-finals, where she will take on the World No. 1 Yihan Wang of China.
Shooting took centre stage at the Olympics on Saturday when IOC President Jacques Rogge handed over the first gold medal of the London Games, but it was the pioneering and pregnant athletes who stole the show.
90 minutes past midnight tonight in India, the 30th Olympic Games will get underway here to provide the stage for some 10,500 sportsmen and women from 204 competing nations to fulfil their dreams, among them Indian medal hopefuls in boxing, shooting, archery, tennis and wrestling.