{"id":28214,"date":"2016-08-08T06:04:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T06:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=28214"},"modified":"2016-08-08T06:04:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T06:04:33","slug":"india-at-rio-olympics-day-2-highlights-dipa-karmakar-women-hockey-team-bring-some-cheers-on-otherwise-gloomy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=28214","title":{"rendered":"India at Rio Olympics Day 2 highlights: Dipa Karmakar, women hockey team bring some cheers on otherwise gloomy day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-28213\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dipa-Karmakar-Rio.jpg\" alt=\"Dipa Karmakar Rio\" width=\"250\" height=\"159\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dipa-Karmakar-Rio.jpg 250w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dipa-Karmakar-Rio-150x95.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Rio de Janeiro:<\/strong> In an otherwise gloomy day for Indian contingent, only gymnast Dipa Karmakar and the Indian women hockey team brought some cheers for the country on Day 2 of the Rio Olympics, here on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Dipa Karmakar, India&rsquo;s first ever female gymnast at the Olympics, became the first Indian to qualify for the apparatus finals of artistic gymnastics at the Rio Olympics. She finished eighth with a score of 14.850 to qualify for the vault finals that will take place on August 14. <br \/>Dipa secured 7.000 on difficulty and 8.1 on execution in her first attempt. Her score for difficulty was a tad lower at 6.000 in the second attempt. USA&rsquo;s Simone Bile bagged the first spot with a score of 16.050. North Korea&#8217;s Jong Un Hong was a distant second after securing 15.683 followed by Switzerland&#8217;s Giulia Steingruber (15.266).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Indian women hockey team came up with a spirited performance and after being 0-2 down, coming back to draw with Japan 2-2 in their Pool B opener. <\/p>\n<p>Behind by two goals at the end of second quarter, it was a different Indian team who came back into the third quarter. Rani scored India&rsquo;s opener in the 31st minute to make it 1-2 and then Lilima Minz&rsquo;s equaliser came in the 40th minute. India will now play Great Britain on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Indian shooters, meanwhile, failed to impress as Heena Sidhu, one of India&rsquo;s best bets, failed to qualify for the women&#8217;s 10m Air Pistol event while the trap shooters also disappointed on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Heena failed to recover from a poor start and finished 14th in a field of 44 shooters, while in the men&#8217;s trap qualifiers, Manavjit Singh Sandhu and Kynan Chenai finished 17th and 19th respectively after the first day.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Indian women&rsquo;s archery team lost a nail-biting quarterfinal via a shoot-off to Russia. Both the teams were locked at 4-4 (48-55, 53-52, 53-50, 54-55) after the four sets, with Indian girls Deepika Kumari, Laishram Bombayla Devi and Laxmirani Majhi matching the Russians. In the shootout, Russia started with a perfect 10, while experienced Bombayla Devi hit a 7. Russia then hit only a 6 and Majhi kept India in the hunt with an 8 point shoot. However, in the last shot, Russia hit a 9 whereas Deepika Kumari could manage only 8, as Russia edged won 25-23 to win it 5-4 overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-28213\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dipa-Karmakar-Rio.jpg\" alt=\"Dipa Karmakar Rio\" width=\"250\" height=\"159\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dipa-Karmakar-Rio.jpg 250w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dipa-Karmakar-Rio-150x95.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Rio de Janeiro:<\/strong> In an otherwise gloomy day for Indian contingent, only gymnast Dipa Karmakar and the Indian women hockey team brought some cheers for the country on Day 2 of the Rio Olympics, here on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[4264,16079,1560,466,900,11623],"class_list":["post-28214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-isn-front-stories","tag-deepika-kumari","tag-dipa-karmakar","tag-heena-sidhu","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-manavjit-singh-sandhu","tag-rio-olympics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>India at Rio Olympics Day 2 highlights: Dipa Karmakar, women hockey team bring some cheers on otherwise gloomy day - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; 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