Paris Olympics 2024 Day 1: Full schedule for Team India
Paris: On the opening day—early on Saturday—India's shooting contingent will be at the forefront of the Paris Olympics 2024. The campaign begins with the 10m Air Rifle Mixed Team event, featuring the pairs of Ramita Jindal-Arjun Babuta and Elavenil Valarivan-Sandeep Singh. These pairs will strive to bring medals to India.
The medal matches are scheduled for the latter part of the day, with the top four teams from the qualifiers advancing to the finals. Teams ranked first and second will compete for gold, while the other two will contest for bronze. Additionally, Arjun Singh Cheema, Sarabjot Singh, Manu Bhaker, and Rhythm Sangwan will participate in the 10m air pistol events, with only the qualifiers scheduled for the day.
India's largest-ever shooting contingent of 15 athletes represented the country at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, where Saurabh Chaudhary was the sole finalist from that group. The rifle shooters had underperformed the last time.
India's hockey team will also begin their campaign in Pool B against New Zealand. In badminton, Lakshya Sen will compete in the men's singles group match. Following this, the men's doubles duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty will take to the court. Later in the day, veteran tennis player Rohan Bopanna will start his final Olympic appearance in the men's doubles with N Sriram Balaji.
Full Schedule:
Badminton
- Men's singles group match: Lakshya Sen vs Kevin Cordon (Guatemala) at 7:10 PM IST
- Men's doubles group match: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty vs Lucas Corvee and Ronan Labar (France) at 8:00 PM IST
- Women's doubles group match: Ashwini Ponnappa and Tanisha Crasto vs Kim So Yeong and Kong Hee Yong (Korea) at 11:50 PM IST
Boxing
- Women's 54kg opening round bout: Preeti Pawar vs Thi Kim Anh Vo (Vietnam) at 12:05 AM IST, Jan 28
Hockey
- Pool B match: India vs New Zealand at 9:00 PM IST
Rowing
- Men's single sculls: Panwar Balraj at 12:30 PM IST
Table Tennis
- Men's singles preliminary round: Harmeet Desai vs Zaid Abo Yaman (Jordan) at 7:15 PM IST
Tennis
- Men's doubles first round: Rohan Bopanna and N Sriram Balaji vs Edouard Roger-Vasselin and Fabien Reboul (France) at 3:30 PM IST
Shooting
- 10m air rifle mixed team qualification: Sandeep Singh/Elavenil Valarivan, Arjun Babuta/Ramita Jindal at 12:30 PM IST
- Mixed team 10m air rifle medal rounds: 2:00 PM onwards (if India qualifies)
- 10m air pistol men's qualification: Arjun Singh Cheema and Sarabjot Singh at 2:00 PM IST
- 10m air pistol women's qualification: Manu Bhaker and Rhythm Sangwan at 4:00 PM IST
India's contingent is set for an action-packed Day 1, hoping to start their Olympic campaign on a positive note.
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Another North Goa nightclub sealed; Kejriwal says corruption led to fire tragedy
Panaji (PTI): As part of a crackdown against tourist establishments violating laws and safety norms in the aftermath of the Arpora fire tragedy, Goa authorities on Saturday sealed a renowned club at Vagator and revoked the fire department NOC of another club.
Cafe CO2 Goa, located on a cliff overlooking the Arabian Sea at Vagator beach in North Goa, was sealed. The move came two days after Goya Club, also in Vagator, was shut down for alleged violations of rules.
Elsewhere, campaigning for local body polls, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal said the fire incident at Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub at Arpora, which claimed 25 lives on December 6, happened because the BJP government in the state was corrupt.
An inspection of Cafe CO2 Goa by a state government-appointed team revealed that the establishment, with a seating capacity of 250, did not possess a no-objection certificate (NOC) of the Fire and Emergency Services Department. The club, which sits atop Ozrant Cliff, also did not have structural stability, the team found.
The Fire and Emergency Services on Saturday also revoked the NOC issued to Diaz Pool Club and Bar at Anjuna as the fire extinguishers installed in the establishment were found to be inadequate, said divisional fire officer Shripad Gawas.
A notice was issued to Nitin Wadhwa, the partner of the club, he said in the order.
Campaigning at Chimbel village near Panaji in support of his party's Zilla Panchayat election candidate, Aam Aadmi Party leader Kejriwal said the nightclub fire at Arpora happened because of the "corruption of the Pramod Sawant-led state government."
"Why this fire incident happened? I read in the newspapers that the nightclub had no occupancy certificate, no building licence, no excise licence, no construction licence or trade licence. The entire club was illegal but still it was going on," he said.
"How could it go on? Couldn't Pramod Sawant or anyone else see it? I was told that hafta (bribe) was being paid," the former Delhi chief minister said.
A person can not work without bribing officials in the coastal state, Kejriwal said, alleging that officers, MLAs and even ministers are accepting bribes.
