Paris Olympics 2024, Day 1 Highlights: Alcaraz-Nadal Win Doubles Match; Ariarne Titmus Wins Gold In Women's 400m Freestyle

The Paris Olympic Games 2024 is finally here, and athletes from around the globe will strive for excellence, push their limits and go for glory. India’s shooting and badminton contingent will be in focus when the sporting event kicks off. India had pinned their medal hopes on Ramita Jindal-Arjun Babuta and Sandeep Singh in the 10m Air Rifle Mixed Team event, however, unfortunately they crashed in the qualification round to end their medal contention. While in the 10m air pistol events, Sarajbot Singh, Manu Bhaker and Rhythm Sangwan will be in action. Check the live scores and updates from the Day 1 of Paris Olympics 2024 for Saturday, July 27, 2024 right here

Shooting: July 27

10m Air Rifle Mixed Team Qualification: Sandeep Singh/Elavenil Valarivan, Arjun Babuta/Ramita Jindal (12:30pm IST).

10m Air Pistol Men's Qualification: Arjun Singh Cheema and Sarabjot Singh (2:00pm IST).

10m Air Pistol Women's Qualification: Manu Bhaker and Rhythm Sangwan (4:00pm IST).

Tennis: July 27

India's Rohan Bopanna and N Sriram Balaji will take on Edouard Roger-Vasselin and Fabien Reboul from France in the men's doubles first round clash that is expected to start at 3:30 pm IST

The 2024 Paris Olympic Games' opening ceremony say boars travel six kilometres and the journey was full of colour, joy, happiness and smiles as the athletes looked delighted to be a part of the ceremony. 

Lakshya Sen will kickoff his campaign at the Paris Olympics 2024 with a clash against Kevin Cordon in the Men's Singles Group Stage match at the 7:10 PM IST.

Satwik-Chirag pair will face the French duo Corvee-Labar in the Men's Doubles Group Stage match at 8:00 PM IST.

Crasto-Ponnappa and Kim-Kong will be in action against each other in the Women's Doubles Group Stage match at 11:50 PM IST.

Indian sports fans in India can watch the Paris Olympics sporting events on television via Sports 18 network.

To live stream online JioCinema app and website is the option.

The grand opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics 2024 saw no major issue, despite heavy rain.

“We did it,” French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on the social platform X, praising an “event without incident.”

“After four years of intense work to prepare for the world's biggest sport event, we have never been prouder of our security forces,” he tweeted.

The shooters will get to shoot 30 shots in 30 minutes of time. Their teammates will be free to fire individually.

The teams with the top four score will make it to the medal rounds.

In the medal matches, there will be battles for gold between the top 1 and 2 teams, whereas the top 3 and 4 teams will fight for bronze.

The first medalist of the Paris Games 2024 will be decided in the shooting sports today in the mixed team 10m air rifle event at the Chateauroux Shooting Centre.

Timing - 2:00 PM IST (Estimated)

Sandeep Singh and Elavenil Valarivan finished 12th earning a total of 626.3 points.

Arjun Babuta and Ramita Jindal finished 6th with a total of 628.7.

Given this, it is declared that there will be no Indian in the medal round of the Mixed Team 10m Air Rifle event.

The men's basketball event will begin at the Stade Pierre Mauroy in Lille on Day 1 of the Paris Games 2024.

The hosts France will take on Brazil as they begin their quest of the gold medal, having missed out on it at the Tokyo Olympics to the USA.

Match Fixtures:

Australia vs Spain - 2:00 PM IST

Germany vs Japan - 5:00 PM IST

France vs Brazil - 8:45 PM IST

Cycling (road)

W individual time trial - 6:00 pm IST

M individual time trial - 8:00 pm IST

Diving

W synchronised 3m springboard final - 2:30 pm IST

Fencing

W épée individual medal bouts, M sabre individual medal bouts - 12:10 am Sunday, IST

Judo

W -48kg medal contests - 8:48 pm IST

M -60kg medal contests - 9:20 pm IST

Rugby sevens

M medal matches - 10:30 pm IST

Skateboarding

M street final - 8:30 pm IST

Swimming

M 400m freestyle final - 12:12 am IST Sunday

W 400m freestyle final - 12:25 am

W 4x100m freestyle relay final - 1:07 am IST Sunday

M 4x100m freestyle relay final - 1:20 am IST Sunday

The Kazakhstan duo of Alexandra Le and Islam Satpayev becomes the first medallists of Paris Olympic 2024 Games as they clinched a bronze in the 10m air rifle mixed team bronze medal match.

In the gold medal match of the 10m air rifle mixed team qualification, the People's Republic of China 1 team of Huang Yuting and Sheng Lihao who are also the reigning world champions in this event with score of 632.2 will face Keum Jihyeon and Park Jahun of the Republic of Korea, who finished second in qualifying with a score of 631.4.

The first event of the skateboarding competition at the Paris Olympics 2024 has been postponed due to heavy rain overnight and into the morning.

Men's street skateboarding scheduled for Saturday has been postponed to Monday, while the women's event is scheduled for Sunday.

The People's Republic of China 1 team of Huang Yuting and Sheng Lihao successfully defended their title winning the first gold of the Paris Games 2024 in the mixed team air rifle shooting.

Remco Evenepoel was unimpressed by the rough roads that Olympic cylists had to cover in the time trial through Paris on Saturday, while Nino Schurter was just as critical of the gravel covering the man-made mountain bike course in nearby Elancourt.

“Quite some beautiful sightseeing as well,” Evenepoel acknowledged, “but the road surface is pretty bad in the beginning and in the end. So, that might be a problem if you have black spots in front of your eyes in the last kilometres. It's not so nice.” (AP)

China won its first gold medal in diving today on the first full day of Games in the Paris Olympics, making a perfect start for the team of Chang Yani and Chen Yiwen.

The Chinese secured first position in the women's synchronized 3-meter springboard with 337.68 points on five dives.

The flamboyant Gael Monfils will partner Edouard Roger-Vasselin in the men's doubles opener against India's Rohan Bopanna and N Sriram Balaji with Fabien Reboul pulling out of the contest due to an injury, on Saturday.

The last-minute entry of Monfils may have a bearing on the match with Bopanna all set and prepared to take on the combo of Reboul and Roger-Vasselin.

World number 30 Monfils had reached the third round at Wimbledon, losing to Grigor Dimitrov. (PTI)

Novak Djokovic of Serbia is in action against Matthew Ebden of Australia in the Men's Singles.

Manu Bhaker's tryst at a shot at glory will be tomorrow at 3:30 PM IST.

Serbian no 1 Novak Djokovic made light work of his Aussie competitor Matthew Ebden with a 6-0, 6-1 win.

BADMINTON:

Men's Singles Group L (Lakshya Sen vs Kevin Cordon): Around 7.10 pm IST

Men's doubles Group C (Satwik-Chirag vs Corvee-Labar): Around 8 pm IST

Women's doubles Group C (Ashwini-Tanisha vs Kim-Kong): Around 11.50 pm IST

Bopanna-Balaji men's doubles tennis match won't start for at least an hour.

Sen, who is unseeded, is leading 8-1 in the first game. A dominating start by the Indian against his Guatemala opponent.

Sen is leading 11-2 against Cordon, with the latter looking quite rusty.

Sen is looking all but assured as he looks to win the first game in this Group L encounter.

Sen wins first game 21-8, which lasted mere 14 mins. A rapid start indeed by the young shuttler.

The 37-year-old is fighting back in the second game as he leads Sen 2-6. A thrilling game so far.

Despite Cordon struggling, the Guatemala shuttler leads 8-11 in the second game.

A nice DYK by the on-air commentator - Kevin Cordon is named after famous England footballer, Kevin Keegan as the former's father was a huge fan of his.

Despite Cordon struggling with his left-arm, the 37-year-old is still pushing Sen to commit mistakes. The Indian shuttler is trailing in the second game.

What a turnaround by Lakshya Sen! Trailing by four points, the Indian shuttler has levelled the second game. The atmosphere inside the court is unbelievable!

And he wins it! 16-20 down, the Indian wins it 22-20 to win 21-8, 22-20.

Indian pair take on local favourites in this doubles match. They lead 7-5 against the French pair.

Sat-Chi pair lead 11-5 in the first game despite a slow start. The French pair have had no answers to the Indian doubles duo's near-the-net rallies.

A great rally on display at the court. Gill Clark, the on-air commentator says that the Indian pair may possess a wealth of attacking arsenal but still have frailties in defense.

And they take the first game! The Indian third seed win the first game 21-17 despite some resistance from the French pair.

The Indian pair have taken 7-5 lead in the second game but the French pair are looking to give them the a proper contest on their own turf.

The Indian pair look in the driver's seat with 11-8 lead in the second game. Pullela Gopichand and Mathias Boe are liking what they are seeing of the IND pair.

Sat-Chi nearing a dominant victory despite some fightback from the local pair. They lead 18-13 in the second game.

Satwiksairaj Rankireddy/Chirag Shetty beat Lucas Corvee/Ronan Labar 21-17, 21-14 in just 47 mins.

Australia have opened their account at the Olympics as cyclist Grace Brown wins Gold in omen’s Individual Time Trail.

After an early setback, the Indian team are right back in the game with 1--1 thanks to a goal from Mandeep Singh.

At the end of the third quarter, India lead New Zealand 2-1. Get all the live updates and scores from the match right HERE

Due to persistent rain, Bopanna & Balaji's opening round Doubles match has been postponed to tomorrow.

Captain Harmanpreet Singh scored in the dying minutes to help India start their Paris Olympics 2024 hockey campaign with a 3-2 win on Saturday against New Zealand.

FIFA deducted six points from Canada in the Paris Olympics women’s football tournament and banned three coaches for one year each on Saturday in a drone-spying scandal.

The stunning swath of punishments include a 200,000 Swiss francs ($226,000) fine for the Canadian soccer federation in a case that has spiraled at the Summer Games. Two assistant coaches were caught using drones to spy on opponent New Zealand’s practices before their opening game last Wednesday. (AP)

Ashwini-Tanisha are having to battle the might of Korean pair of Kim-Kong. They trail 11-17 in the first game.

Some sd news coming in from Paris. Lionel Fatu Elika, the national boxing coach of Samoa, has passed away at the 2024 Paris Olympics on Friday after reportedly suffering cardiac arrest while at the Olympic village. He was 60 years old.

Carlos Alcaraz and Rafael Nadal defeated the Argentine pairing of  Maximo Gonzalez and Andres Molteni.

Ariarne Titmus wins the women's 400m freestyle race with Summer McIntosh, who takes silver and Katie Ledecky, bronze.

Rugby: France are Olympic champions after winning the final against Fiji by a 28-7 margin.

And we bring a close to the day 1 action at the Paris Olympic Games 2024.