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Asian Games 2023 Updates : Avinash Sable, Tajinderpal Singh win gold; Jyothi Yarraji bags silver in athletics medal rush

Sunday as India’s medal tally at Hangzhou surged up to 53! The Indian men’s badminton team and Aditi Ashok scripted Asian Games history.

Hangzhou(Olympics) –  India bagged 15 medals – three gold, seven silver and five bronze – on a dramatic eighth day at the Asian Games 2023 on Sunday, where athletics headlined the success.

Avinash Sable shattered the Asian Games record as he comfortably raced to India’s first men’s 3000m steeplechase gold medal at the continental meet. Tajinderpal Singh Toor, meanwhile, defended his men’s shot put crown at Hangzhou.

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Jyothi Yarraji clinched a dramatic women’s 100m hurdles silver after China’s Wu Yanni, who originally finished second, was disqualified for a false start. Harmilan Bains in women’s 1500m and Murali Sreeshankar in men’s long jump also won silver. Ajay Kumar Saroj and Jinson Johnson were second and third in the men’s 1500m.

Discus thrower Seema Punia and heptathlon athlete Nandini Agasara settled for bronze medals.

History created in badminton, golf and shooting

The Indian men’s badminton team, despite losing a thrilling final against China, scripted Asian Games history, winning the first-ever men’s team silver.

Aditi Ashok also created history. She became the first Indian woman to win a medal at the Asian Games golf tournament after claiming silver in the women’s individual event.

Shooters won three medals, one of each colour, to wrap up their Hangzhou campaign with a record 22 medals, the highest in shooting in a single edition for India.

Boxer Nikhat Zareen, on the other hand, settled for a bronze medal in her debut Asian Games campaign.

The Indian women’s hockey team were held to a 1-1 draw against five-time Asian Games champions Republic of Korea. Archery also kicked off today.

Badminton: India win first-ever men’s team silver

The Indian men’s badminton team claimed their maiden silver medal at the Asian Games 2023 after losing the final 3-2 against China. It is only India’s second silver medal at the Asian Games, following PV Sindhu’s singles silver at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta. India had previously won three men’s team bronze medals.

Lakshya Sen and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy / Chirag Shetty had handed India a 2-0 lead in the men’s team badminton gold medal match. However, Li Shifeng beat former world No. 1 Kidambi Srikanth in straight games while Liu Yuchen / Ou Xuanyi made light work of Dhruv Kapila / Sai Pratheek to level the tie. Weng Hongyang won the decider 21-12, 21-4 against Mithun Manjunathan as China defended their title.

Basketball: China hand India first 5×5 defeat

The Indian women’s basketball team lost 111-53 against China in the women’s Group A match at Hangzhou 2023. All four quarters showcased a dominant attacking performance by the Chinese team.

Li Yueru from China scored 25 points, finishing as the top-scorer in the match. Four other players from the host nation also registered double figures. For India, Pushpa Senthil Kumar and Sanjana Ramesh notched 14 points, each, while Shireen Limaye scored 12.

After finishing second in the Group A standings, India will make the women’s basketball quarter-finals at the Asian Games 2023.

Athletics: Jyothi Yarraji bags dramatic 100m hurdles silver

Ace Indian hurdler Jyothi Yarraji clocked 12.91 seconds in the women’s 100m hurdles final at the Asian Games 2023. The 24-year-old athlete was initially awarded the bronze medal. However, China’s Wu Yanni was disqualified after the race, upgrading Yarraji’s medal to a silver.

Jyothi Yarraji and Wu Yanni were under review for false starts. The race, meanwhile, continued without any disqualification but the post-race investigation saw Wu Yanni lose her silver medal.

Lin Yuwei from China clinched the gold with a personal best time of 12.74 seconds. Japan’s Yumi Tanaka, initially fourth, clocked 13.04 seconds and bagged the bronze medal.

Athletics: Medals in long jump, heptathlon, discus throw

Indian long jumper Murali Sreeshankar bagged the silver medal with a best of 8.19m at the Asian Games 2023. The 24-year-old jumped just 0.3m short of the gold medal winner Wang Jianan from China. Sreeshankar also won the silver medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Jeswin Aldrin, meanwhile, finished eighth (7.76m) in the men’s long jump final at Hangzhou.

In the women’s heptathlon, Nandini Agasara, a U20 world championships finalist, won the 800m race with a personal best time of 2:15.33 and won the bronze medal after seven events. She notched personal best scores in the 200m race and javelin throw too. Swapna Barman fell just four points shy of her compatriot to finish fourth at the Asian Games 2023.

Seema Punia hurled a season-best 58.62m in the women’s discus throw final, winning the bronze medal at Hangzhou 2023. China’s Bin Feng (67.93) won gold with an Asian Games record. The 40-year-old Seema Punia completed a hat-trick Asian Games medals – gold in 2014, bronze in 2018 and bronze in 2023.

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“I’m very, very happy. I was focusing on beating my personal best, but in the last leg I thought I’d better go for the gold. And then I saw that I broke the record. I’m very happy about that.” – Avinash Sable

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Undefeated Eagles remain work in progress following tough overtime win over Commanders

By Judy Battista

PHILADELPHIA (NFL)– This is how you know when bad things are happening to the Philadelphia Eagles: from underneath the stadium, you can hear fans wailing “Oh, nooooooo.” as they did when Washington Commanders quarterback Sam Howell, with one second remaining in regulation, found Jahan Dotson in the end zone for the game-tying touchdown.

This is how you know Eagles fans are not really all that concerned about their team’s early season perceived struggles: hundreds of them, most wearing their new Kelly green throwback jerseys, left minutes before the game was even decided by a 54-yard Jake Elliott field goal, heading to their cars or a post-game bar, when the Eagles were still gutting out an overtime victory to remain undefeated with a 34-31 win on Sunday.

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The Commanders handed the Eagles their first loss of the season in 2022, and that they came so very close to doing it again was little consolation. Ron Rivera, who had earned the moniker Riverboat for his penchant for high rick plays, went the safe route, and opted to kick the extra point to send the game to overtime, rather than try for a two-point conversion that would have won the game outright. His team had already executed a perfect two-minute drill, slicing through the Eagles defense with one Sam Howell pass after another. The Eagles looked exhausted. Why not try for two and the win?

“They were gassed,” Rivera said of his own team. “It was a long-ass drive.”

It was that. And the resilience of the Commanders, and Howell in particular — who had been whipped by nine sacks from the Buffalo Bills last week — indicated that the NFC East might not be done with the Commanders, who are 2-2, quite so easily this season. Rivera noted that the Commanders had had some good drives this season, but to do it against the Eagles, with a game on the line, was impressive. And then he pounded his fist on the lectern.

“There’s no moral victories,” Rivera said. “We’re going to learn from it and I think this is going to help us going forward.”

For the first month of the season, the Eagles have followed each victory with a vow that they are still a work in progress. This victory won’t change that narrative, or the fretting of Eagles fans, or the — almost certainly correct — confidence among some that everything is going to be just fine, so fine that a traffic jam is a viable alternative to waiting for the Eagles to win. Most of the concern until Sunday was centered around Jalen Hurts, and the sputtering start to the passing game. Worry no more, Hurts threw for 319 yards, two touchdown and no interceptions. This was the best defensive front the Eagles had faced and they still ran for 104 yards. Even on Sunday, the Eagles had to be patient before the offense opened up, with Hurts starting the day with short passes on the opening drive and then hitting A.J. Brown on a 59-yard bomb and again for a 28-yard touchdown in the third quarter.

“I think tension and pressure build character,” Hurt said after the game. “We needed a game like this for us. I think a win like this does so much for the spirit of a team because winning is not easy. Winning is hard.”

The Eagles defense would likely agree. They were uneven, struggling early to get home on the pass rush (Howell was sacked five times), and allowing Howell to throw for 290 yards. This was the first game of the season in which they ceded more than 76 yards rushing (the Commanders had 107). Still, the Eagles held the Commanders without a point in the third quarter, when the Eagles mounted their rally, and they had the ultimate lucky break when Commanders receiver Terry McLaurin appeared to catch a pass from Howell on third down on the first possession of overtime. But McLaurin landed on Reed Blankenship’s left forearm — the bright red marks near his elbow attested to it — which prevented him from landing in bounds and extending the drive. Instead, the Commanders had to punt. And they never got the ball back.

Not much has been easy for the Eagles through four weeks. Hurts got called for intentional grounding on the game-winning drive, eliciting another long groan in the stadium, one of 11 penalties that nearly undid the Eagles. And it was a taunting call on Brown, following his late-game touchdown that gave the Eagles a brief lead, which gave the Commanders favorable field position to start their game-tying drive. But the Eagles need to be battle-tested for a brutal stretch of games that begins in three weeks after winnable games against the Rams and Jets. Then, starting in mid-October and stretching for nearly two months, are games against the Dolphins, Commanders again, Cowboys, Chiefs, Bills, 49ers and the Cowboys again.

It is telling that after the game, Brown acknowledged he can’t make mistakes like the taunting penalty. It was Hurts who told him on the sideline that he can’t do it. That refining of the details is a form of progress that the Eagles are working on, too. They are far from a finished product, but the finish line for one of the league’s most talented teams is far off.

“I would love to blow a team out,” center Jason Kelce said. “But I’ll take it. A win’s a win. We’re not playing our best ball right now, but we’re still finding ways to win games.”

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Inter Miami Coach Martino Disputes Messi Injury Reports

(CTN News) – Inter Miami and New York City FC played to a dramatic 1-1 draw, with Messi in street clothes. The Herons equalized in stoppage time, and the latter effort hit the crossbar.

After a wild finish to the game that was delayed by storms around DRV PNK Stadium, Messi remained the major talking point.

Inter Miami Podcast (not affiliated with the team) reported that Messi had “sustained a 2 [centimeter] hamstring tear, which is likely to put him out for the remainder of the season.”

Gerardo “Tata” Martino dismissed the report after the match.

“Time will tell whether what I say is true or whether the person who wrote the report is correct,” Martino said in his post-match press conference. “That’s what I said. This will be seen game by game.

He will be evaluated. We’ll see if he’s on the bench, if he’s not available, whether against Chicago or FC Cincinnati. “He’s training separately from the group, but he’s feeling better and better.”

In Inter Miami recent training sessions, Messi was seen working to some extent, but how much he’s capable of remains a mystery. Messi was expected to return before the end of the MLS season, according to Martino.

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Messi’s return still holds hope for Inter Miami

The single point wasn’t really what Messi’s side needed with the regular season winding down.

Miami finished the night one point closer to the top nine than it was when play started, despite the Eastern Conference playoff race being sloppy and slippery. Three of the seven teams competing for the final two spots were defeated on Saturday, including the Chicago Fire.

Is there bad news? On the games-won tiebreaker, the Herons are four points behind ninth-place CF Montréal. In just four games left, there is no room for error.

What’s good? It will only take a couple of blunders from teams that seem immune to positive streaks for Inter Miami to have an opening against Montréal and Chicago.

“We’ve played a lot of decisive games, not just mentally but physically,” said Martino. “Despite all our problems, we tried to win today with dignity. Three months ago, we were in last place, and these guys helped us catch up. Our expectations are high.”

Inter Miami has fought hard late in close games despite its relentless schedule. Following the draw with NYCFC, the club will play two more matches within the next six days. After Wednesday’s match against the Fire, the team will play Cincinnati on Saturday.

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