Paris Olympics 2024 Day 8 Highlights: Nishant Dev's loss raises questions, Manu Bhaker misses out on third medal

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: An end to the day on a rather controversial note

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Round 3 has been equally intense as Nishant tries a combination and manages to land a few punches. The Mexican too lands some uppercuts on the Indian, with action mostly happening close to the ropes.

However, it is the Mexican who wins the bout by split decision. Nishant fails to believe it as he had landed some good punches on his opponent.

Mexico's Marco Verde wins 4-1 via a split decision verdict.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Round 2 is underway and there's plenty of holding by the Mexican. Punches are also traded with Nishant getting hit and he too landing his punches on the Mexican.

Nishant tries his combination but it doesn't appear to be that effective.

This time two judges rule it in favour of Nishant, while other three feels it was the Mexican who dictated the round.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Nishant Dev maintains an attacking approach from the word go. The round is quite intense as Nishant manages to a significant amount of his jabs, while obviously missing some.

He too takes quite a few blows in the process as the Mexican capitalised on every opening. Four judges rule the round in Nishant's favour. IND leads 4-1.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: It's almost time for the final act of the day as Nishant Dev takes on Mexico's Marco Verde. The bout begins at 12:18 pm IST.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Nishant Dev, who will be in action next, also the final act of the day for India has won a gold medal in 2019 Grand Slam Asian Boxing Championship.

In 2021 he won gold medal in National Boxing Championship and reached the quarterfinal of World Boxing Championship.

In 2023 he once again won a gold medal in national boxing championship and secured a bronze in the world boxing championship, which took place in New Delhi.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Next we'll see Olympic debutant Nishant Dev in action. He will take on Mexico's Marco Verde in the men's 71kg boxing quarterfinals. The bout will start at 12:18 am and if Nishant wins, it will assure him and India of at least a bronze medal.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Anant Singh Naruka fails to qualify for the medal round of men's skeet qualification.

He manages scores of 23, 22, 23, 24, 24; which takes his total to 116. He finishes at the 24th position, and only the top 6 qualify for the medal event.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Razia Dhillon manages to score 21, 22, and 23 in the three rounds of women's skeet qualification.

Maheshwari Chauhan, the second Indian participant, has done comparatively better. She accumulates 23, 24, 24 in the next three rounds.

The event will resume tomorrow.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: South Korea’s Suhyeon Nam starts Set 5 with a 10, Deepika hits 9.

Nam hits 9, Deepika also gets 9.

Nam gets 10, and Deepika finishes with a 9.

Deepika loses 4-6 against South Korea's Suhyeon Nam

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: South Korea’s Suhyeon Nam starts Set 4 with a 10. Deepika responds with 10.

Nam then gets 9, Deepika gets a 7.

Nam then hits a 10, and Deepika finishes with another 10.

Korea take Set 4. IND 4-4 KOR

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: South Korea’s Suhyeon Nam starts Set 3 with a 10. Deepika responds with a 10 of her own.

Nam gets 9 in second attempt, Deepika also gets 9.

Nam then hits 9 in her final attempt, Deepika scores 10.

Deepika takes Set 3. IND 4-2 KOR

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: South Korea’s Suhyeon Nam starts Set 2 with a 9. Deepika gets a 10 in her first attempt.

Suhyeon Nam also responds with a 10 in her second attempt, Deepika gets six, which Nam will take happily.

Nam gets a 9, and Deepika also manages 9 in her third attempt.

Set 2 belongs to Korea. IND 2-2 KOR

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: South Korea’s Suhyeon Nam starts Set 1 with a 10, Deepika follows it with 9.

Nam then manages 8, Deepika gets a 10.

Nam finishes with another 8, Deepika gets 9.

She takes Set 1. IND 2-0 KOR

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Deepika Kumari is ready for her quarterfinal match against South Korea's Suhyeon Nam.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Maheshwari Chauhan scores 24 in Round 2 of the women's skeet qualification.

Raiza Dhillon manages to accumulate 22 in the same.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Deepika Kumari enters the quarterfinals of women's individual archery. She will now take on Suhyeon Nam of South Korea, a very tough opponent. The match will start at 5:10 pm.

India at Olympics Day 8 Live Updates: Anant Singh Naruka manages a score of 24 in round 2 of the men's skeet qualification. Only one round remain in the event and chances of Naruka qualifying appears slim.

India at Olympics Day 8 Live Updates: Bhajan Kaur fails to make it to the quarterfinals. She hits 8 in the shoot-off in response to the Indonesian's 9.

India at Olympics Day 8 Live Updates: Bhajan Kaur starts with a 9, then 8, and 10.

Her Indonesian opponent manages a 9,8, and 9.

Set 4 belongs to India and we'll now move to a shoot-off. IND 5-5 INA

India at Olympics Day 8 Live Updates: Bhajan Kaur starts Set 4 with a 9, the Indonesian responds with a 9 too.

Bhajan then hits a 10, the Indonesian does the same.

Bhajan gets 9 in her third attempt, and her opponent also gets a 9.

Set 4 ends in a tie. IND 3-5 INA

India at Olympics Day 8 Live Updates: The Indonesian takes Set 3 after hitting 9, 10, 9*.

Bhajan responds with hits of 9, 8, 9.

Indonesia takes Set 3. IND 2-4 INA

India at Olympics Day 8 Live Updates: Bhajan Kaur makes a comeback in Set 2. She starts off with a 8, then moves to 9 in her second attempt, and finishes with a 10.

The Indonesian gets 9, 9, 7.

Set 2 belongs to India. IND 2-2 INA

India at Olympics Day 8 Live Updates: What an intense match between Bhajan Kaur and Indonesia’s Diananda Choirunisa.

Bhajan starts with a 8, and follows it up with two 10s.

The Indonesian, on the other hand, starts with a 10, gets 9 in her second attempt, and finishes with another 10.

Set 1 belongs to the Indonesian. IND 0-2 INA

India at Olympics Day 8 Live Updates: Now we have Bhajan Kaur in action. She is up against Indonesia's Diananda Choirunisa. The winner enters the quarterfinals.

India at Olympics Day 8 Live Updates: Germany's Michelle Kroppen starts Set 5 with a 9, hits another 9 in her second attempt.

Deepika hits 8 in her first attempt, but recovers by hitting a 10 in second.

Kroppen manages 9 in her third attempt, Deepika gets the same.

Set 5 ends in a tie as both archers share a point each. With that Deepika Kumari enters the quarterfinals. IND 6-4 GER

India at Olympics Day 8 Live Updates: Germany’s Michelle Kroppen starts Set 4 with a 9, and follows it up with a 10.

Deepika starts with a poor 8 and gets 10 in her second.

Kroppen gets 10 in her final attempt, while Deepika manages 9.

Set 4 belongs to the German. IND 5-3 GER

India at Olympics Day 8 Live Updates: Germany’s Michelle Kroppen starts Set 3 with a 7 but Deepika fails to capitalise and hits a 7 in her first attempt.

Kroppen hits 9 in her second attempt and Deepika does better by hitting a 10.

Both archers manage 9s in their final attempt as Deepika takes Set 3 to expand her lead to 5-1.

India at Olympics Day 8 Live Updates: Germany’s Michelle Kroppen starts Set 2 with a 9, but Deepika Kumari outclasses her with a 10 in her first attempt.

Kroppen manages another 9 in her second attempt, and Deepika gets an 8.

The German hits another 9 and Deepika does the same by hitting 9.

Both end Set 2 on 27 points a piece and share one point each. IND 3-1 GER

India at Olympics Day 8 Live Updates: Germany's Michelle Kroppen kick-off action with a poor attempt of 6, follows it up with 9, and 9.

Deepika Kumari manages 9s in all her three attempts. She wins Set 1. IND 2-0 GER

India at Olympics Day 8 Live Updates: Next we have our archers Deepika Kumari and Bhajan Kaur in action. They take part in the women's individual 1/8 elimination round.

Deepika will kick-off the show against Germany's Michelle Kroppen.

India at Olympics Day 8 Live Updates: 'Your journey stands as a testament to relentless hard work'

India at Olympics Day 8 Live Updates: Meanwhile, Round 1 of women's skeet qualification are done.

Maheshwari Chauhan manages to accumulate 23 points, while Raiza Dhillon gets 21.

If we look at their performances, Maheshwari the two Series of Round 1 on perfect note, managing 5s in both. She then scored four each in Series 3, and 4, and finished with another 5 in the final series of the round.

Raiza Dhillon, on the other hand, also started with a perfect 5 in Series 1, and followed it up with a four. She, however, could only manage three in the third Series, before grabbing 5 and 4 in the final two five-shot series.

India at Olympics Day 8 Live Updates: Manu Bhaker manages two hits in Series 8. This slips her to 3rd. She is tied on 28 along with Hungary's Veronika Major. The shoot-off is underway and Manu goes down.

Heartbreak for India as Manu Bhaker finishes 4th.

India at Olympics Day 8 Live Updates: Manu Bhaker gets four hits in Series 7. She is still in the second position.

India at Olympics Day 8 Live Updates: Manu Bhaker gets 4 hits in Series 6, which takes her to the second position.

India at Olympics Day 8 Live Updates: Manu Bhaker gets all 5 hits in Series 5. It takes her to 3rd.

India at Olympics Day 8 Live Updates: Manu Bhaker manages three hits in Series 4. She slips to the 6th position.

India at Olympics Day 8 Live Updates: Manu Bhaker manages four hits in Series 3, which takes her to the second position.

India at Olympics Day 8 Live Updates: Manu Bhaker manages two hits in Series 1, and gets 4 hits in Series 2. Anything under a 10.2 is recorded as a miss.

India at Olympics Day 8 Live Updates: We'll now bring all the updates from Manu Bhaker's medal match in 25m air pistol event.

Can India's shooting sensation complete a hattrick at Paris Olympics? Fingers crossed!

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India at Olympics Day 8 Live Updates: Raiza Dhillon hits the target in her first five attempts, has so far missed once in her next five shots in the women's skeet qualification. So far a decent start for India.

India at Olympics Day 8 Live Updates: The women's skeet qualifications are underway. Raiza Dhillon and Maheshwari Chauhan will represent India in the event.

Round 1 is underway and Dhillon has so far managed to hit the targets in her first three attempts. A total of 25 shots are taken in every round and qualifications are determined after 5 rounds. The top 6 qualify for the medal matches.

India at Olympics Day 8 Live Updates: The Indian mixed team came very close to winning a bronze medal in archery and now the onus is on Deepika Kumari and Bhajan Kaur. Both women archers will take part in their respective 1/8 women individual archery elimination round.

A win will take them to quarterfinals, then semifinals, then the finals, or even a third place match. All those matches will take place today itself.

India at Olympics Day 8 Live Updates: Manu Bhaker, who will be targeting a third Olympic medal, takes part in women's 25m air pistol final. The event will start at 1:00 pm IST.

India at Olympics Day 8 Live Updates: We also have other shooting events lined up.

Raiza Dhillon and Maheshwari Chauhan will take part in women's skeet Qualification (Day 1), which starts at 12.30 pm.

Ananat Singh Naruka will resume from where he left in men's skeet qualification. Yesterday, Naruka had managed scores of 23, 22, 23 and now requires to do a lot of catching up in order to make it to the finals.

India at Olympics Day 8 Live Updates: Hello and welcome to the Live Coverage of Day 8 of the Paris Olympics. All eyes are on Manu Bhaker, who will compete in the finals of women's 25m pistol final. She had finished second in the qualification and will be targeting a third Olympic medal at the event.