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Bangladesh's fasted man Imranur Rahman eliminated from preliminary round with a frustration performance in the men' s 100- meter sprint heats of the Paris Olympics'2024 at the Stade de France on Saturday (August 3). Imranur Rahman, an England based Bangladesh origin athlete, took part in lane number six of the event's heats number six and finished 6th among eight competitors with a timing of 10.73 seconds to worse his previous best timing of 10.11 seconds. Imranur was very much in the race upto 50-meter, but, gradually went down in the race in the later part. However, in the overall classification of event's all heats, Imranur was placed 25th among 45 participants. After the race, it was learnt that Imranur was not fully fit for the competition and even he was not interested to compete in the event. Meanwhile, Bangladeshi swimmer Sonia Khatun also eliminated from women's 50-meter freestyle heats of the Paris Olympics with dismal performance of 30.52 seconds at the Paris La Defense Arena on Saturday. Her previous best timing of the event was 30:11 seconds. With the day's events, all the five Bangladesh athletes completed their Paris Olympics engagements, mostly with dismal performances. Earlier, swimmer Samiul Islam Rafi finished overall 69th among 79 competitors in the men's 100-meter freestyle swimming in the ongoing Paris Olympics held at the Paris La Defense Arena last July 30. Samiul Islam, who was trained in Thailand ahead of the Paris Olympics, participated in the event's heats number 2 and was placed 5th among the eight competitors making his career best timing of 53.10 seconds. Samiul fulfilled his dream of making his career best timing in the mega games on Tuesday to improve his previous best timing of 53.12 seconds. Later, in the overall performances of all the 10 heats, Samuel Islam was placed 69th among the event's 79 participants, despite of his career best timing. Earlier, teenaged Bangladeshi archer Sagor Islam competed in the ranking round of the men's recurve singles and was placed 45th among 64 participants scoring 652 at the same venue.   Later in the elimination round, Sagor Islam eliminated from the event losing to Tokyo Olympics silver medalist Italian archer Mouru by straight 0-6 sets. Bangladeshi shooter Mohammad Robiul Islam also eliminated from qualifying round of the men's 10-meter air rifles showing a dismal performance in Paris Olympics shooting at the Chateauroux Shooting Complex. He was placed 43rd among the event's 49 competitors scoring 624.2 to worse his previous best score of 628. A 13-member contingent, consists of five athletes and eight officials, represented Bangladesh in the Paris Olympics 2024, the biggest sports carnival in the world. Five Bangladeshi athletes are took part four disciplines of sports-- archery, athletics, swimming.

Old horse East End Club managed 1-0 goal victory over Mugda Samaj Kallyan 0 Krira Sangsad in the Bashundhara Group Senior (First) Division Football League at the Bir Sherestha Shaheed Shipahi Mohammad Mostafa Kamal Stadium in Kamalapur here on Saturday. After a barren first half,  Shawon Ali scored the match winning goal for the old Dhaka outfit East End Club in the 82nd minute (1-0). The day's another match between Arambagh Krira Sangha and Jatrabari Jhotika Sangsad ended in a goalless draw at the same venue Saturday afternoon.

Bangladeshi swimmer  Samiul Islam Rafi finished overall 69th among 79 competitors in the men's 100-meter freestyle swimming in the ongoing Paris Olympics held at the Paris La Defense Arena on Tuesday (July 30). Samiul Islam, who was trained in Thailand ahead of the Paris Olympics, participated in the event's heat number 2 and was placed 5th among the eight competitors making his career best timing of 53.10 seconds. Samiul fulfilled his dream of making his career best timing in the mega games on Tuesday to improve his previous best timing of 53.12 seconds. Later, in the overall performances of all the 10 heats, Samuel Islam was placed 69th among the event's 79 participants, despite his career best timing. Top 16 swimmers of the event have qualified for the  semifinals with Korean swimmer booking the 16th and last place with a timing of 48.41 seconds. American swimmer Alex J clinched the top in overall heats to reach semifinal with a timing of 47.57 seconds. After the event, Samiul Islam Rafi from Rajbari District, expressed his overall  satisfaction over his day's performance and said" My target was to improve my timing, and I am very much happy to achieve my career best timing here". Another Bangladesh swimmer Sonia Khatun will compete in the women's 50-meter freestyle heats at the same venue on August 3. Bangladeshi fastest man Imranur Rahman will compete in Bangladesh's last Paris Olympics event men's 100-meter sprint heats on Wednesday  (August 4) at the Stade de France.

Two Bangladesh athletes -- swimmer Samiul Islam Rafi and teenaged archer Mohammad Sagor Islam-- will compete in their respective swimming and archery events of the Paris Olympics 2024 on Tuesday (July 30).  Bangladeshi swimmer  Samiul Islam Rafi will start their campaign in the ongoing Paris Olympics Swimming competing in the men's 100-meter freestyle heats at the Paris La Defense Arena on Tuesday (July 30).  Samiul, who trained in Thailand ahead of the Paris Olympics, will compete in lane number 6 of the heats number 2, will start at 11am local time on Tuesday. Mohammad Sagor Islam, who directly qualified for the Olympics as the 3rd Bangladeshi athletes after golfer Siddikur Rahman and archer Ruman  Shana,  will compete in the elimination round (Round of 1/32) of men's recurve singles against the Tokyo Olympics silver medalist Mauro Nespoli also on Tuesday (July 30) at Invalides. Thirty two archers will qualify for the next round of the event. Earlier on last Thursday, teenaged Sagor Islam competed in the ranking round of the  men's recurve singles and was placed 45th among 64 participants scoring 652 at the same venue.   Another Bangladesh swimmer Sonia Khatun will compete in the women's 50-meter freestyle heats at the same venue on August 3. Bangladeshi fastest man Imranur Rahman will compete in Bangladesh's last Paris Olympics event men's 100- meter sprint heats on Wednesday  (August 4) at the Stade de France. Earlier on Sunday, Bangladeshi shooter Mohammad Robiul Islam eliminated from the qualifying round of the men's 10-meter air rifles  showing a dismal performance in Paris Olympics shooting at the Chateauroux Shooting Complex. He was placed 43rd among the event's 49  competitors scoring 624.2 to worse his previous best  score of 628. A 13-member contingent, consisting of five athletes and eight officials, are representing Bangladesh in the Paris Olympics 2024, the biggest sports carnival in the world. Leading athletes from 206 countries around the world are competing in 32 disciplines of sports  in a battle for 329 gold medals. Five Bangladeshi athletes are taking part across four disciplines of sports-- archery, athletics, swimming, and shooting. 

The 2024 Olympics are underway. Australia leads the medal standings after the first day of competition, but more winners will join the list every day from July 27-Aug. 11. See which countries lead the medal count. Below is a list of all the medal winners, day by day. Sunday, July 28 SHOOTING Men's 10m air pistol Gold: Xie Yu, China Silver: Federico Nilo Maldini, Italy Bronze: Paolo Monna, Italy Women's 10m air pistol Gold: Oh Ye Jin, South Korea Silver: Kim Yeji, South Korea Bronze: Manu Bhaker, India Saturday, July 27 CYCLING Men's individual time trial Gold: Remco Evenepoel, Belgium Silver: Filippo Ganna, Italy Bronze: Wout van Aert, Belgium Women's individual time trial Gold: Grace Brown, Australia Silver: Anna Henderson, Britain Bronze: Chloe Dygert, United States DIVING Women's synchronised 3m springboard Gold: Chang Yani and Chen Yiwen, China Silver: Sarah Bacon and Kassidy Cook, United States Bronze: Yasmin Harper and Scarlett Mew Jensen, Great Britain FENCING Women's epee individual Gold: Man Wai Vivian Kong, Hong Kong Silver: Auriane Mallo-Breton, France Bronze: Eszter Muhari, Hungary Men's saber individual Bronze: Luigi Samele, Italy JUDO Women 48kg Gold: Natsumi Tsunoda, Japan Silver: Baasankhuu Bavuudori, Mongolia Bronze: Shirine Boukli, France, and Tara Babulfath, Sweden Men 60kg Gold: Yeldos Smetov, Kazakhstan Silver: Luka Mkheidze, France Bronze: Ryuju Nagayama, Japan and Francisco Garrigos, Spain RUGBY SEVENS Gold: France Silver: Fiji Bronze: South Africa SHOOTING 10m air rifle mixed team Gold: Huang Yuting and Sheng Lihao, China Silver: Keum Jihyeon and Park Hajun, Korea Bronze: Alexandra Le and Islam Satpayev, Kazakhstan SWIMMING Men's 400m freestyle Gold: Lukas Maertens, Germany Silver: Elijah Winnington, Australia Bronze: Woomin Kim, Korea Men's 4x100m freestyle relay Gold: United States Silver: Australia Bronze: Italy Women's 400m freestyle Gold: Ariarne Titmus, Australia Silver: Summer McIntosh, Canada Bronze: Katie Ledecky, United States Women's 4x100m freestyle relay Gold: Australia Silver: United States Bronze: China

The Paris Olympics look likely to get off to a soggy start. Meteo-France, the French weather service, is predicting “flooding rains” Friday evening when the opening ceremony is set to unroll along the Seine River. But the show is set to go on as planned, starting at 1:30 p.m. EDT/7:30 p.m. CEST and should last more than three hours. Already in the late afternoon, skies were gray with intermittent drizzle. There was a silver lining, though, with temperatures expected to stay relatively warm throughout the evening. Instead of a traditional march into a stadium, about 6,800 athletes will parade on more than 90 boats on the Seine River for 6 kilometers (3.7 miles). Though 10,700 athletes are expected to compete at these Olympics, hundreds of soccer players are based outside Paris, surfers are in Tahiti and many have yet to arrive for their events in the second week, organizers said Thursday. Hundreds of thousands of people, including 320,000 paying and invited ticket-holders, are expected to line the Seine’s banks as athletes are paraded along the river on boats.

The Sheikh Russel 20th National Long Distance Swimming Competition ' 2024, organized by Bangladesh Swimming Federation (BSF) and sponsored by Bangladesh Navy, will be held on Thursday (July 18) on the river Modhumoti in the Gopalganj District. The 15-kilometer long men's competition with the participation of six swimmers,  will start from Bailtolly bridge area of River Modhumoti at 9 am and will conclude at Haridaspur bridge area. The 10-kilometer long women's competition to be participated also by six swimmers, will start from Karpara area of the river and will conclude at  the same point ---Haridaspur bridge area. BSF President and Chief of Bangladesh Navy Admiral M Nazmul Hasan will be the chief guest at the Thursday's closing function at the Sheikh Moni Auditorium of Gopalganj Shilpakala Academy and later he will distribute the prizes. The champion, runner-up and 3rd place winning  swimmers of both the men's and women's groups  will be awarded with gold, silver and bronze medals respectively along with certificates and prize money. Besides, the swimmers, who successfully completed the event, will also be given consolation prizes.

The Sheikh Russel 20th National Long Distance Swimming Competition ' 2024, organized by Bangladesh Swimming Federation (BSF) and sponsored by Bangladesh Navy, will be held on Thursday (July 18) on the river Modhumoti in the Gopalganj District. The 15-kilometer long men's competition with the participation of six swimmers, will start from Bailtolly bridge area of River Modhumoti at 9 am and will conclude at Haridaspur bridge area. The 10-kilometer long women's competition to be participated also by six swimmers, will start from Karpara area of the river and will conclude at the same point ---Haridaspur bridge area. BSF President and Chief of Bangladesh Navy Admiral M Nazmul Hasan will be the chief guest at the Thursday's closing function at the Sheikh Moni Auditorium of Gopalganj Shilpakala Academy and later he will distribute the prizes. The champion, runner-up and 3rd place winning swimmers of both the men's and women's groups will be awarded with gold, silver and bronze medals respectively along with certificates and prize money. Besides, the swimmers, who successfully completed the event, will also be given consolation prizes.

Bangladeshi candidate master (CM) Sakline Mustafa Sajid emerged unbeaten Champions in Under- 14 group of the 7th Western Asian Youth Chess Championship'2024 now being held in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo on Monday. After the day's 9th and last round match, Sajid assured the U-14 group crown securing seven points after making a draw with his Kazakhstan rival. Sr Division Football: Sadharan Bima CSC beat Mugda Samaj Kallyan Sangsad With the day's feat, CM Sajid also achieved the Fide Master title. Meanwhile, Bangladesh national chess champions Manon Reja Neer finished runner-up in the Under-18 age group of blitz chess.

Both the Bangladesh Youth (U-18) and Junior (U-20) Handball teams finished runners-up in the four- nation International Handball Federation (IHF) Men's Trophy' 2024 Zone 11 (Asia) losing to hosts India in the finals at the Sawai Man Singh Indoor Stadium in Jaipur, India on Sunday. Bangladesh Youth (U-18) team finished runners up losing to hosts India by 36-56 goals in the final after trailing by 14-31 goals in the first half. Bangladesh Junior (U-20) team remained satisfied with runners-up position after conceding a 55-25 goals defeat also against India Sunday afternoon. Bangladesh went down by 16-31 goals in the first half. Bangladesh Youth (U-18) team reached the final with two consecutive wins eliminating the Maldives by 47-28 goals on Friday after beating  Nepal by 46-26 goals in the 2nd match on Thursday. Bangladesh Junior (U-20) team managed a final berth also eliminating the Maldives by 38-30 goals in their 3rd match on Friday after making 29-29 goals draw with Nepal in the 2nd match last Thursday. Earlier in the opening day (Wednesday), both the Bangladesh Youth and Junior teams conceded defeat against hosts India. Bangladesh Youth (U -18) team conceded defeat against India by a scoreline of 45-35, while Bangladesh Junior (U-20) team suffered a 46-26 goals defeat against India on Wednesday.