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Tokyo Olympics 2020: Viktor Axelsen beats Rio champion Chen Long in straight games to win men's singles badminton gold
•Axelsen, who won bronze at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, was aggressive from the start. He took the first game 21-15 and overwhelmed Chen in the second, 21-12.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: PV Sindhu, hockey and requiem for a dream
Shantanu Srivastava •One cannot be certain if the euphoria around the incredible Sunday will survive beyond the Olympics, but it must be savoured while it lasts. Savour that lump in the throat and that mist in the eye, savour those goosebumps, that choking voice, those trembling fingers and that racing heart, savour this incredibly rare winning feeling.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: 'I was blank for few seconds, didn't know what to do,' says Sindhu on winning her second Games medal
•The 26-year-old Indian on Sunday etched her name among the all-time greats after winning badminton's women's singles bronze medal to add to the silver she won at Rio de Janeiro five years back. She became the first Indian woman and second overall from the country to achieve the feat.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: Big-game hunter PV Sindhu starting to come into her own
Amit Kamath •On Friday, the breathtaking brutality of Sindhu’s racquet was too much for Akane Yamaguchi to handle.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: PV Sindhu won mental battle in morning before taming He Bing Jiao in evening
Amit Kamath •Sindhu, who dismantled Bing Jiao in straight games to win bronze, woke up on Sunday acutely aware of her place in history, and with a restless energy that, try as she might, she just could not control.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: With victory over PV Sindhu, Tai Tzu-Ying ends the big-stage jinx
Amit Kamath •Tai Tzu-Ying’s victory over PV Sindhu ensured that history will no longer remember her as a player who could not medal at the big stage of the Olympic Games or the World Championships
Tokyo Olympics 2020: PV Sindhu's sincere encouragement left me in tears, reveals silver-medallist Tai Tzu Ying
•Competing in her third Olympics, Tai Tzu finally stood atop the podium, finishing with a silver medal after going down to Chen Yu Fei of China 18-21 21-19 18-21 in the final on Sunday.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: PV Sindhu wins historic second Olympic medal; India men's hockey team reach semis after 49 years
•PV Sindhu secured a bronze medal by beating World No 9 He Bing Jiao of China in the women's singles third place play-off, becoming only the second Indian and the country's first woman to win two Olympic medals.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: 'It was superb', coach Park Tae-Sang praises PV Sindhu's defensive skills in bronze medal match
•Park had worked a lot on Sindhu's defence and motion skills in the run-up to the Olympics and he said the hard work really paid off.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: 'Medal is a medal', PV Sindhu's father proud of daughter's consecutive podium finishes
•Expressing his happiness over Sindhu securing her second successive Olympic medal, Ramana said said that he asked her to concentrate on her game against China's Bing Jiao in the bronze medal play-off.