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India’s Lakshya Sen in motion throughout males’s singles badminton semi-final match at Paris Olympics.© AFP
India’s dream of a first-ever Olympic gold in badminton will stay unfulfilled after Lakshya Sen suffered a straight-game defeat to reigning Olympic champion Viktor Axelsen within the males’s singles semifinals on the Paris Video games on Sunday. The 22-year-old from Almora, a 2021 World Championships bronze medal, squandered a three-point benefit within the first sport and a 7-0 lead within the second to give up 20-22 14-21 to the two-time world champion Axelsen in a 54-minute semifinal conflict. Sen may have one other likelihood to develop into the primary Indian male shuttler to win an Olympic medal when he meets Lee Zii Jia of Malaysia within the bronze medal playoff.
India have by no means gained a Olympic gold medal in badminton with PV Sindhu claiming a silver and bronze on the Rio and Tokyo Olympics and Saina Nehwal securing a bronze in London Video games.
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