London Olympics Day 7: As it happened

Here's a look at Day 6:

Saina Nehwal achieved a first by marching into Olympic badminton semifinals on Thursday.

Vijender Singhis just a bout away for repeating his medal performance.

Leander Paes and Sania Mirza, beat Serbian pair of Nenad Zimonjic and Ana Ivanovic, for a place in the mixed doubles quarterfinals.

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Saina today takes on World no 1 Wang Yihan to compete for a spot in the finals.

Badminton: Wang Yihan is currently leading the first game 11-6

Saina is proving to be a tough competitor for the top-seeded shuttler even though Yihan is leading 15-7

Saina recovering from early loss of points. The scores are now 18-13 with Yihan leading.

Yihan has clintched the first game 21-13.

The second game has begum on a positive note. Saina is leading 3-2 currently.

The scores are currently level with 8 points each.

Here's an interesting fact- Saina has never beaten Yihan in of their previous encounters. Hoping this is her first time.

The scores now stand 14-12 with Yihan leading the game.

Yihan is now one point away from victory.

"Saina is far better than what she has done today," her father reacts.

Wang Yihan reacts after winning a point

Saina Nehwal will now compete for the bronze medal tomorrow against the shuttler who loses the second semi-final match which is currently underway.

The silver lining is that Saina has managed to beat both Xuerui Li and Xin Wang in the past.

Yihan Wang shakes hands with Saina Nehwal after defeating her

Pooja Mehta takes a look at all those who lost their bid at the Olympics.

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Another bad news for India. Gagan Narang has failed to qualify in the 50m rifle prone event.

Swimming: Rebecca Soni of US won the women's 200 metres breaststroke gold, smashing the world record by half a second.

Badminton: While top seed Wang crushes India's gold hope, China's Li beat compatriot Wang Xin in the other semi-final.

So Saina Nehwal will be competing against China's Wang Xin for the bronze medal.

Shooting: Joydeep Karmakar shot 595 to finish amongst the top eight shooters to qualify in the men's 50 metres rifle prone event.

Swimming: Ranomi Kromowidjojo of the Netherlands set the fastest time in the heats of the women's 50 metres freestyle  to stay on course to complete the sprint double..

Shooting (50m rifle): Joydeep Karmakar's current score is 10.4, 10.4, 10.5, 10.7 in series 1,2 3 and 4.

Karmakar is currently at the fourth position after scoring 10.2 in the 6th series.

Will Karmakar win another medal for India? The next four series will reveal.

Shot put: Om Prakash has blown a chance at qualification after a foul in his third attempt.  He finishes with a best of 19.85m.

Shooting: Karmakar slips to the 5th position.

Karmakar back on 4th position. The current score is 10.0, 10.2, 10.7 in 7, 8 ,9 series.

Karmakar misses bronze in 50m Rifle Prone shooting event. He finished 699.1 to finish fourth in the final.

Rowing: Germany powers to gold in the men's quad sculls they finished ahead of Croatia in second and Australia in third.

Rowing: New Zealand's Eric Murray and Hamish Bond cruised to a gold medal in the men's Olympic pair, winning by clear water in the most comprehensive victory at the regatta on Dorney Lake.--Reuters

Shooting: Marksman Vijay Kumar lifted the Indian shooting team's spirit by qualifying for the final of the men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol event at the game. 

Swimming: India's lone swimmer at the Olympic Games Ullalmath Gagan failed to qualify for the finals of the 1500-metre freestyle event as he went out in the heats, finishing seventh and last in Heat 1, clocking six minutes 31.14 seconds.

Hockey: After a disappointing Olympic campaign so far, India will look to play for pride when they take on Germany in their final group stage match at 18:30.

Hockey: The Indian and German team are at par with the score being 1-1.

Rowing: Indian rower Sawarn Singh finished 16th in the finals of the Olympic single sculls as New Zealander Mahe Drysdale took gold.

Rowing: British world champion crew Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins stormed to Olympic gold in the women's double sculls.

Hockey: Germany score another goal it's 2-1 as India struggles.

Hockey: Another goal adds to India's pain as the score is now 3-1 in favour of the Germans.

Hockey: One more goal by Germany adds to India's troubles, 4-1. 

Shooting: India's Vijay Kumar is in action in the 25m rapid fire pistol shooting event.

Hockey: Fusch scores three goals to take Germany to 5-1 against India.

Shooting: Vijay Kumar has a total of 20 after 5 series.

Shooting: After the 6th series Vijay Kumar has a total of 24 pints in contention for a medal.

Shooting: After the 7th series Vijay Kumar has 4 points, a total of 28.

Shooting: Vijay Kumar wins India's second medal. Kumar finishes with a total of 30 as he wins the silver medal in the 25m rapid fire pistol shooting event.

Hockey: India scored its second goal against germany making the score, 2-5.

Tennis: Maria Sharapova from Russia reached the Olympic women's singles final with 6-2 6-3 victory over compatriot Maria Kirilenko at Wimbledon.

Badminton: China's Zhang Nan and Zhao Yunlei win the mixed doubles gold at the London Olympic Games, beating Xu Chen and Ma Jin 21-11 21-17 in the final at Wembley Arena.

Tennis: Roger Federer beat Juan Martin del Potro, 3-6, 7-6, 19-17 to move on to the final.

Archery: Oh Jin-hyek won South Korea's first men's Olympic individual archery gold medal after beating Takaharu Furukawa of Japan in the final.

Judo: Cuba's Idalys Ortiz won the gold medal in  women's heavyweight category after she beat Japan's Mika Sugimoto in the final where she was awarded the win by the referee and two judges as the fight finished scoreless after extra time.

Gymnastics: China's Dong Dong bounced to Olympic gold at the men's trampoline event of the gymnastics with an overall score of 62.990, leaping past Russia's Dmitry Ushakov, who took silver.

Judo: France's Teddy Riner won the men's Olympic heavyweight judo gold comfortably beating Russia's Alexander Mikhaylin in the final.

Tennis: Serena Wlliams cruises into women's singles final after beating Victoria Azarenka, 6-1, 6-2.

Results of Indian athletes at the end of the seventh day of the Olympics-

Athletes

Men's Shot put

Om Prakash Singh (19th; 19.86m) (Failed to qualify for final round)

Women's Triple jump

Mayukha Johny (13.77m; 22nd) (Failed to qualify for final)

Badminton

Women's Singles semi-final

Yihan Wang (CHN) bt Saina Nehwal 21-13 21-13

Hockey

Germany bt India 5-2 (Out of semi-final race)

Shooting

Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol

Vijay Kumar (Silver medal; score 30)

Men's 50m Rifle Prone

Joydeep Karmakar (4th; 699.1 pts)

Gagan Narang (593,; 18th) (Failed to qualify for final).

Cycling: Britain won the gold medal in the men's cycling-track team pursuit on Friday. Britain beat Australia with a time of 3:51.659 at the Velodrome in London.

Discus throw: Krishna Poonia qualifies for final after a 63.54m throw.