Paris Olympics 2024, Day 11 Highlights: Vinesh Phogat to fight for gold; hockey team through to bronze medal match

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 11 Live Updates: Well it was a heartbreaking loss in the end for the Indian hockey team but that is just part of the highs and lows of an extraordinary Day 11 for the Indian contingent. Who would've thought that Neeraj Chopra's unbelievable throw to make it to the men's javelin final would not be the standout feature of the day. Instead, that post goes to Vinesh Phogat. She came into these Olympics after all kinds of trials and tribulations. Once she was here, she was asked to do the impossible first up by trying to beat the invincible Yui Sasaki. Guess what, she did it. And then she did more. And she kept on doing what she does best till she ended the day as the first Indian to reach a women's wrestling final at the Olympics.

The Indian men's hockey team was part of a match that might go down as one of the greatest Olympic knockout games of all time in the sport and they ended up on the wrong side of a 3-2 scoreline. There is still a whole lot of history for them to fight for though as they face Spain in the bronze medal match.

Tomorrow is going to be a hugely busy day with Antim Panghal starting her campaign in women's 53kg. Tokyo 2020 silver medallist Mirabai Chanu women's 49kg weightlifting event starts at 11pm IST while Vinesh faces Sarah Hildebrandt in the women's 50kg wrestling final at 9.45pm IST. Avinash Sable runs in the men's 3000m steeplechase final at that will start at 1.13am. So catch up on your sleep, it's going to be a looooong night tomorrow. Ciao!

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 11 Live Updates: Both sets of players are just completely spent. This has been an unbelievable advertisement for the sport of hockey. PR Sreejesh fighting tears, he cannot finish his career with a historic gold. But he can still finish his career with a second consecutive bronze. India haven't won two consecutive medals in hockey since 1956.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 11 Live Updates: The Indians are down on their haunches. An extraordinary game ends with them on the losing side. Frantic finish to the match with Shamsher accepting a last ditch long ball right at the edge of the D, he takes a shot and it flies over goal. The hooter went off with that as well. India through to the bronze medal match, they will face Spain in it.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 11 Live Updates: We have seen the best the sport of hockey has to offer in this semi-final really. And now we go into the final quarter. Sukhjeet Singh had equalised for India in the 36th minute.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 11 Live Updates: In case you missed it, here is the moment Vinesh Phogat became the first Indian to reach the Olympic final in women's wrestling.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 11 Live Updates: Neeraj Chopra has urged people to not ignore or belittle those who have missed out on a medal at these Olympics. There have been quite a few fourth-place finishes in Paris and Neeraj says that one has to remember how big a stage the Olympics is.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 11 Live Updates: The United World Wrestling (UWW) has put out a video of Vinesh talking to her family right after her historic achievement. “Gold laana hai (have to bring gold),” she tells her family.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 11 Live Updates: Talk about high-octane hockey and that is exactly what we have got thus far at the Yves-du-Manoir. Hardik Singh has been the standout for India in that half. Captain Harmanpreet Singh scored in the seventh minute and India were the better team until Gonzalo Peillat scored in the 18th minute. Germany were then handed a penalty stroke in the 27th minute and Christopher Ruehr converted that to get them the lead. FOLLOW LIVE.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 11 Live Updates: Sarah Hildebrandt has defeated Otgonjargal Dolgorjav of Mongolia 5-0, the exact same score as Vinesh's semi-final bout, and will face the Indian in the women's 50kg final.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 11 Live Updates: Well Vinesh had almost pinned Guzman's shoulders to the mat during that attacking move. For those not in the know, that would've given Vinesh the win right there. Now Guzman goes for Vinesh's legs but the Indian is so good at switching to a wide defensive stance.

More good defence from Vinesh and the buzzer goes! VINESH PHOGAT HAS WON 5-0! SHE HAS CONFIRMED AT LEAST A SILVER MEDAL FOR HERSELF AT THESE 2024 PARIS OLYMPICS! SHE IS THE FIRST INDIAN WOMAN TO REACH AN OLYMPIC FINAL IN WRESTLING! TAKE A BOW LEGEND!

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 11 Live Updates: More cagey stuff, both grapplers are being very careful here. Vinesh makes a move for the legs but the Cuban defends well. Now Vinesh is given a 30-second passivity countdown, she has to score or it will be one point to Guzman.

And that turns out to be just the push Vinesh needed. She pounces underneath Guzman and manages to get a leg hold. Two points there and then an exposure! Two points more and Vinesh is leading 5-0 with about 1 min 25 seconds to go.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 11 Live Updates: Cagey start to the bout, both wrestlers seemingly a little reluctant to give away a point. Guzman gets a passivity warning and a 30-second countdown starts, at the end of which Vinesh would be given a point if Guzman can't take one. She can't and Vinesh takes a 1-0 lead.

That is how it stays and Vinesh gets a passivity warning as well, no 30-second countdown though. At the interval, Vinesh has a slender 1-0 lead

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 11 Live Updates: There she is. India's superstar wrestler who has shaken up the world already today. Can she end it all in the most wonderful manner - by confirming a maiden Olympic medal for herself. An Olympic medal that those who know wrestling would say has been long overdue for her. She is facing Yusneylis Guzman Lopez, whose repechage campaign at Tokyo 2020 had incidentally ended with a defeat to Oksana Livach. Livach, you would remember, lost to Vinesh earlier today.

Vinesh is wearing the red singlet for this bout, Guzman Lopez in blue. This. Is. It.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 11 Live Updates: Over at the Yves du Manoir Stadiumm the Indian men's hockey team's semi-final against world champions Germany is about to get underway. These two sides played an utterly crazy bronze medal match in Tokyo last time around, remember. India somehow won that match and thus secured their first Olympic medal in over four decades. They are now looking to win a second consecutive Olympic medal for the first time since 1956. FOLLOW LIVE.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 11 Live Updates: All right get ready! Aleksanyan has won his bout, up next is the second 97kg semi-final between Iran's Mohammadhadi Saravi and Mohamed Gabr or Egypt. Vinesh Phogat's semi-final is next now.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 11 Live Updates: Allright the big Greco-Roman wrestlers are going through their semi-final bouts. Arthur Aleksanyan of Armenia and Cuban Gabriel Alejandro Rosillo Kindelan are locked in the 97kg Greco-Roman semi-final. There is one more semi-final bout in this weightclass and then comes Vinesh Phogat's women's 50kg semi-final against Yusneylis Guzman.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 11 Live Updates: We have Viktor Axelsen to thank for this gorgeous video. Axelsen is the first since Lin Dan of China in London 2012 to win two consecutive Olympic gold medals in men's singles badminton.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 11 Live Updates: The legendary wrestling coach, who can be credited with bringing about a revolution in the sport by mentoring his daughters, had some credit in his niece's ridiculous victory today against Yui Sasaki.

"The Japanese girl was a very good fighter who had never lost to anyone on the mat and as I said the one winning this match would be a contender for the gold medal and that is something Vinesh has done with her grit and spirit," Dronacharya Awardee Mahavir told PTI Video.

"Vinesh defended and attacked well and also balanced herself well against her leg strategy and dragged her into the danger zone and pinned her down.

"I told Harvinder who is with her to watch out for the Japanese opponent's leg attack strategy so you have to defend well in the first round and that is what she did, so I am glad she won and the whole nation is proud of her."

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 11 Live Updates: All right there is still some time for it so go ahead, have your dinners and make your preparations for work. And then come back and sit down for Vinesh Phogat's semi-final bout and the Indian hockey team's semi-final match.

The evening session in wrestling starts at 9.45pm and the first four bouts are for the men's Greco-Roman semi-finals. Vinesh's bout is fifth in the schedule, which means one can expect her bout to start around 10.30pm. That is exactly the schedule start time for India's semi-final against Germany in men's hockey. Fret not, you can follow one of them here. In case it's hockey that you decide to keep on the back-burner, here is where you can follow live updates for it.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 11 Live Updates: Lakshya Sen reacts for the first time on social media since his loss yesterday in the men's singles bronze medal match. The critcism from Prakash Padukone has left a bit of a sour taste on this campaign which, at the end of the day, was unlike any others by Indian men before him. Lakshya went out placed fourth, the best by an Indian in men's singles badminton at the Olympics.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 11 Live Updates: Well we don't really need any excuses to watch a Neeraj Chopra throw, right? This is a view from the stands at Stade de France.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 11 Live Updates: Vinesh Phogat did the unthinkable to start her campaign. Can she do the unthinkable to end it? That being the gold medal of course. Well, we will have to wait and watch but one thing is for sure. She has become the toast of the wrestling world by doing what she has done today. Feast your eyes on this.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 11 Live Updates: The Dutch have absolutely bossed the semi-finals here and are through to their first Olympic gold medal match since London 2012. They have thus confirmed their 10th Olympic medal. Netherlands beat Spain 4-0 in the semi-final, with Thijs Van Dam and Duco Telgenkamp adding to the goals that Janssen and Brinkman scored.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 11 Live Updates: Germany beat the USA in the pre-quarterfinals and so they are India's next opponents. This match will happen at 1.30pm tomorrow.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 11 Live Updates: Paris Olympics 2024, Day 11 Live Updates: The Netherlands lead 2-0 at half-time in their men's hockey semi-final against Spain. Jip Janssen and Thierry Brinkman are the goalscorers for the Dutch, who are chasing their third Olympic gold and first since Sydney 2000.