Paris Olympics 2024 Day 6 Highlights: Swapnil Kusale bronze the only light for India as medal contenders fall

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 6 Live Updates: Oh the Malaysians are on a role now. They reel off the next few points quickly, now just two away from reaching the semi-final.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 6 Live Updates: It stayed level back and forth until 16-16. Then Chia's serve touches Satwik and the Malaysians go one point ahead.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 6 Live Updates: And now the Malaysians level it up again! Just no separating these two sides, it's been a see-saw all match-long and it continues to be so. The Indians are now playing from the slower side of the court, they have it tougher.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 6 Live Updates: Satwik and Chirag with a sort of a one-two punches of smashes to take their 13th point. Then A pulsating rally with the players darting everywhere goes India's way.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 6 Live Updates: This has been quite a turnaround in this game from Satwik and Chirag. They looked all at sea at the start of it but they take a two point lead at the interval.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 6 Live Updates: Sift Kaur Samra and Anjum Moudgil failed to fire for India in women’s 50m rifle 3 positions qualification. Moudgil finished 18th with a score of 584-26x. Kaur settled for the 31st spot with a disappointing score of 575-22x.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 6 Live Updates: The Indians are back and we are back to level-pegging now. There is a draft flowing towards the other side of the court that Satwik and Chirag are now on, and that is the side from which they will be finishing. And so it is very important for them to make the most of this first half of the Game 3.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 6 Live Updates: The Malaysians pull away in the third game and a few unforced errors creeping into the Indians' game now. They are certainly not looking even close to being as confident as they were in the second half of the first game.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 6 Live Updates: The Malaysians set up six game points and don't take long in converting it. So into the decider we go and the two sets of players will play from both sides of the court.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 6 Live Updates: Oh the Indians are suddenly losing their grips on this one. The Malaysians reel off four consecutive points and the only time the Indians get anything is through a service error. Satwik came up with a no-look backhand but the Malaysians won that point still and get to 19.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 6 Live Updates: This time it is the Malaysians who are ahead at the mid-game interval. Chirag levels it up 10-10 at the net but the Malaysians send one down the middle of the court to split the two Indians and take the lead at the break.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 6 Live Updates: The Malaysians have caught up with the Indian and once again, no separating these two. A wild shot from Chia at the end of an intense rally lets the Indians go ahead. However, Chia gets one back by putting Satwik's defence to the sword and coming out on top.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 6 Live Updates: Vishnu Saravanan is flying the Indian flag in sailing men's dinghy off the coast of Marseille. The top 10 sailors at the end of this race go through to the medal race.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 6 Live Updates: The Malaysians stop the flow of points going India's way at 4-1 and then reel away three quick points to make it 4-4. Even Stevens once again.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 6 Live Updates: Well the Malaysians currently have no reply to Satwik's smashes it seems. The Indians race away in the second game. This has been a very impressive performance from them thus far. They trail 8-3 against Soh and Chia, remember. But all three of their wins have come in their last three matches against the Malaysians.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 6 Live Updates: This has been quite a show from Satwik and Chirag. They have been utterly dominant since the mid-game interval and Soh-Chia managed to get just three more points.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 6 Live Updates: Chirag with the winner and the Indians set up eight game points. One of those is squandered with a service fault and now the Malaysians serve.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 6 Live Updates: The Malaysians finally break the run of points and take their first since the mid-game interval. They finally have serve.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 6 Live Updates: The Indians reel off four consecutive points and they pull away right after the interval.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 6 Live Updates: Oh nothing to separate these two pairs at the moment apart from that point on paper. Soh-Chia make it 10-10 thanks to a winner Chia after a long rally. But the Indians take the next point and have a one-point lead at the rbeak.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 6 Live Updates: Satwik puts the Indians 6-5 ahead with a smash from the back court right through the middle of the court, slices the two Malaysians in half. The Indians defend well after that but Soh brings it back to level pegging with a towering smash.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 6 Live Updates: Rankireddy and Shetty wrestling back whenever they lose it with some big smashes, but Soh and Chia just as good as receivers.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 6 Live Updates: Allright then, sit tight, matches between these two pairs have tended to be quite spectacular in the last two years. Chia serves, Rankireddy receives. The Malaysian faults and the Indians take the first point and serve.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 6 Live Updates: Allright, we are drawing ever closer to the start of the evening session of badminton matches. Up first will be Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty facing off against Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik at the Porte de La Chapelle Arena.

Paris Olympics 2024 Day 6 Live Updates: Both shooters have finished their prone series as well. Anjum has a total score of 390 out of possible 400 and is in 23rd, Sift has 388 out of 400 and is 26th. Just for context, USA's Sagen Maddalena is leading the qualification standings and she has a score of 398/400. In eighth place is Norway's Jeanette Hegg Duestad and she has shote 394/400. These are huge margins to bridge for the Indians. It is a real uphill struggle for Moudgil and it will take a downright miracle for Sift to qualify.