Paris Olympics 2024, Day 14 Highlights: Aman Sehrawat becomes youngest Indian Olympic medallist

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 14 Live Updates: That is that for the penultimate day of competitions for India at the Paris Olympics. Aman Sehrawat, you beauty. Just 21 years of age, his first Olympics. His bouts started somewhat in the midst of the absolute firestorm that kicked off around Vinesh Phogat. He cruised through his first two bouts with wins by technical superiority. Then he was teched himself but he didn't let that affect him. Today, he was all over his opponent and really, Darian Cruz never really looked capable of getting anything throughout that bout. Moreover, the only one who beat Aman at these Olympics - Rei Higuchi, has now won the gold medal.

There isn't much left for India, just two more events. Aditi Ashok and Diksha Dagar have had a rough third day in golf. Aditi is T40 while Dagar is T42 at the end of the third round and they need a big day tomorrow to get into the medal positions.

Meanwhile, Reetika Hooda will be in action in women's 76kg. If she manages to win her bouts tomorrow, she will be the last Indian in action on the final day of the Paris Olympics, the day when the closing ceremony takes place as well. If any of these three Indians get a medal, the country's tally will equal what their record haul in Tokyo. Let's hope for the best! Ciao!

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 14 Live Updates: He thanks the country for the love he has got from anywhere. Just brilliant wrestling from him yesterday and today and it's scary to think that he probably has at least three more Olympics in him if he stays fit.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 14 Live Updates: He is just 21 years old and this makes him the youngest-ever Indian to win an Olympic medal. Aman Sehrawat comes from the famed Chhatrasal academy and well, he has pretty much grown up there, having been orphaned at the age of 11 and left by his uncle there. What a story, what a performance, what a person. Congratulations Aman!

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 14 Live Updates: Aman grabs Cruz's legs, rolls him over and that takes the score to 10-5 in his favour. Cruz has to attack now, Aman reverses it, effects a takedown, leads 13-5. Aman is racing towards bronze here!

The last seconds are a formality, the buzzer goes AMAN SEHRAWAT IS AN OLYMPIC BRONZE MEDALLIST! HE HAS WON THE BRONZE-MEDAL MATCH 13-5!

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 14 Live Updates: It's all action here! Aman dives in for a takedown early after resumption. Cruz spins and avoids him and effects a takedown himself! Aman then smashes into his opponent on resumption and takes some points of his own. Cruz then seeks some treatment on his left foot. Sehrawat leads 8-5...

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 14 Live Updates: Cruz with the early attack and gets a leg hold on Aman. The Indian defends well but is finally forced to go out of bounds. One point for Cruz. Aman then goes charging in! He slams into his opponent and does enough to effect a takedown. Sehrawat leads 2-1.

Back and forth stuff, Cruz takes two more points and takes back the one-point lead. Then Aman pushes Cruz out of bounds and he takes two points. The Indian then gets another takedown just before the hooter goes for interval and leads 6-3!

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 14 Live Updates: The two wrestlers have been introduced. Can Aman get a bronze for India or will he join the long list of athletes from the country who have finished fourth in Paris. We will find out soon!

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 14 Live Updates: And for the first time ever, the Pakistan national anthem plays in a medal ceremony at an Olympic stadium - which is the term for the flagship stadium of an edition of the Olympics. What a moment this is for Arshad Nadeem, who has gone past seemingly insurmountable hurdles and put his country on the Olympic map again. The Pakistan hockey team's demise has been one of the saddest stories in sports but Nadeem has come out of nowhere with an inspirational story from the country. And drink this in India. Neeraj Chopra, gold and silver medal winner at the Olympics. He wasn't fully fit, he is still dealing with a groin injury, and even thenm it took an Olympic record throw to keep him away from a gold medal. India and Pakistan have chanced upon a couple of extraordinary track and field athletes.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 14 Live Updates: Aman Sehrawat faces Darian Cruz of Puerto Rico. He is a Stateside Puerto Rican and has represented the United States in the past as well. Cruz is a bronze medallist at the 2023 Pan American Games. He has won three medals at the wrestling Pan American Championships - silver in 2022 and 2023 representing Puerto Rico and bronze in 2020 representing the USA.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 14 Live Updates: All right, the evening session of wrestling bouts have begun at the Champ-de-Mars Arena. We are into the fifth bout on Mat B and Sehrawat's bout is listed as seventh. Not too long to go now.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach on Friday said he has a "certain understanding" for Vinesh Phogat, who has challenged her disqualification from Olympic finals in the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), but also wondered where would one draw the line after allowing small concessions in certain situations.

"I must say, I have a certain understanding for the wrestler; it's clearly a human touch," said Bach, during an IOC media conference here. "Now, it's (appeal) in CAS. We will, at the end, follow the CAS decision. But, again, the international (wrestling) federation, they have to apply their interpretation, their rules. This is their responsibility," he added.

Asked if two silver medals could be awarded in a weight category, Bach said, "No, if you ask in such a general way. But allow me to comment on this individual case. "There the regulations of the international federation have to be followed and the international federation, United World Wrestling (UWW), was taking this decision."

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 14 Live Updates: The Paris Olympics have given us a lot of viral moments and this one is right up there. For those wondering, the Chinese athlete is 18-year-old Yaqin Zhou and she had won a silver medal in the artistic gymnastics women’s balance beam while Italy's Alice d'Amato and Manila Esposito won gold and bronze respectively.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 14 Live Updates: Wrestling was the first sport outside of hockey in which India won an Olympic medal. KD Jadhav had won bronze at the 1956 Helsinki Olympics and thus become the first Indian in the country's independent history to win an individual Games medal.

There would be no medals from the sport until Sushil Kumar quite sensationally broke the duck at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Sushil won bronze in the men's freestyle 66kg category. He then went on to become the first Indian athlete to win medals at consecutive Olympics when he won the men's freestyle 66kg silver at the 2012 London Olympics.

Sakshi Malik then added to the tally by winning bronze in women's 58kg at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Bajrang Punia and Ravi Dahiya are now the latest additions, having won bronze and silver respectively at the Tokyo Olympics.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 14 Live Updates: Aman Sehrawat is looking to become the seventh wrestler from India to have won an Olympic medal. There is a long time to go for his men's 57kg freestyle bronze medal match. It should be between 10.45pm and 11pm. So stay tuned!

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 14 Live Updates: There is just no end to wholesome content when it comes to anything around Neeraj Chopra and Arshad Nadeem.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 14 Live Updates: If in case Brad Pitt's famous, heart-wrenching dialogue from the movie Se7en is playing around in your head when you think of the boxes that Olympic medallists might be seen carrying at times in Paris, Great Britain's Imogen Grant has you covered. She won gold in women's lightweight double sculls and she has shown own the gold medal is given to the athletes all packed up after their receiving it on their podiums.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 14 Live Updates: He led the way with the goals for India, including the two in the bronze medal match. Now he dedicates that medal to the country. Captain, leader, legend, Harmanpreet Singh.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 14 Live Updates: No, India the country is not taking part in the Olympics' newest sport. India Sardjoe, the breaking world champion from the Netherlands, is. And in keeping with the Indian flavour to the opening affair for the sport at the Olympics, she is facing an athlete with the very Indian-sounding name of Talash.

Her name is Manizha Talash. She is from Afghanistan but she is turning up for the IOC Refugee Olympic Team. Talash had to flee Afghanistan after the ruling Taliban outlawed dancing in August 2021. What an extraordinary story to start the history of this sport at the Olympics.

And yes, most of us in India might be more familiar with the other names for breaking such as breakdancing, b-boying and b-girling.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 14 Live Updates: There are three Indians who have managed to win individual medals at successive Olympics. Two of them are in this frame. There is just one Indian who has got gold as one of those two medals. He is also in this frame. All in all, a legendary frame.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 14 Live Updates: It means we can expect a decision before the 11th of this month.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 14 Live Updates: India came fifth in Heat 2! The men's relay team bagged a timing of 3:00:58. It is also their season best! They don't qualify because only the top-three.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 14 Live Updates: USA have become the first country to complete 100 medals in the ongoing Paris 2024.

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 14 Live Updates: The Indian women's relay team comes last in Heat 2! The top three qualify! Jamaica come first, followed by Netherlands and then Ireland!

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 14 Live Updates: India are trailing as the first runner comes as last! The second runner tries to catch up, but the distance is huge!

Paris Olympics 2024, Day 14 Live Updates: Heat 2 of women's 4x400m relay begins! Vithya, Jyothika, Poovamma and Subha in action for India. India will be at Lane 2. They are up against Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Poland, Canada, Ireland and Jamaica.