Shobhaa De made fun at the performance of the Indian athletes, saying that they have to gone to Rio to take selfies instead of winning medals, which drew strong responses from many social media users
Shooter Heena Sidhu's campaign at the ongoing Rio Olympics ended after she finished 21st at the end of the 25 metre Pistol Rapid Stage qualification here on Tuesday.
Canada capped its opening day in Rio with bronze in the women's 4x100-metre swim relay, adding some hardware to what was a fantastic day for the nation's women's teams.
"I am done with shooting, even hobby shooting," said Abhinav Bindra in detailed comments after coming fourth in the 10m air rifle event here at the Olympic Shooting Centre on Monday.
Dipa Karmakar became the first Indian to enter gymnastics individual vault finals in her debut Olympics after finishing eighth in the qualifying round at Rio 2016
Sandhu, in his fourth Olympics, lost out after scoring a cumulative total of 115 while Chenai scored one less to be out of the fray on the second day of qualifications at the Olympic Shooting centre.
