Shuttler Lakshya Sen falters once more to lose bronze medal match at Paris Olympics | Paris Olympics 2024 Information – Instances of India

NEW DELHI: Lakshya Sen‘s hopes for an Olympic medal resulted in disappointment as he misplaced to Malaysia’s Lee Zii Jia in a three-game bronze playoff in Paris on Monday.
Regardless of profitable the primary recreation, Sen was in the end defeated, with Lee clinching a 13-21, 21-16, and 21-11 victory.
The 22-year-old from Almora was making in his debut on the Olympics.

“I had my possibilities within the second set and will have positively carried out higher.However credit score to him, he performed a very good recreation. I believe in the intervening time I am simply not capable of suppose proper now,” a crestfallen Sen mentioned after the match.
“I got here properly ready for this match as properly. It has been fairly a tricky week general. However yeah, the fatigue saved on constructing. However I imply, I used to be prepared to provide my 100 per cent on this match.”
Sen’s defeat meant that Indian badminton group will return and not using a medal on the Olympics for the primary time in 12 years.
Earlier, Sen did achieved a notable milestone by turning into the primary Indian male shuttler to achieve the Olympic semis. This follows his earlier accomplishments, together with a bronze on the 2021 World Championships and a gold on the 2022 Commonwealth Video games.