India hockey team celebrating victory over Japan during a match on Friday.
TOKYO, July 30: Debutant boxer Lovlina Borgohain (69kg) provided the spark that India’s Olympic campaign desperately needed with a medal-clinching quarterfinal win, while ace shuttler P V Sindhu re-asserted her status as one of the greats of the sport as the country’s athletes enjoyed a largely successful day 7 at the Games here today.
Borgohain, all of 23 and already two-time world championship medallist, took a big step in making her own space in the Indian women’s boxing’s landscape, which has been largely dominated by the iconic M C Mary Kom.