Men’s 3000m steeplechase | Two athletes injured
The Hindu
The men’s 3000m steeplechase event saw saw several injuries and the organisers running around to find emergency medical support.
While Haryana’s Naveen Kumar Dagar slipped and fractured his tibia and fibula on the left leg, Prince Raj Mishra of Sikkim twisted and dislocated his left ankle. Both accidents happened on turns on the track. While Naveen was being attended to, and lifted into the ambulance, Prince kept writhing in pain before one of the AFI officials brought in his own vehicle.Unlike most of the Olympic-bound athletes, who opt to train abroad before the big event, boxer Amit Panghal prefers training in home conditions prior to Paris 2024. A former World championships silver medallist and a World No. 1, Panghal won the 51kg quota place in the only chance he got. He wants to follow his own plans to script success in Paris.
The other men’s semifinal Friday is Norway’s Casper Ruud, twice the runner-up in Paris — to Rafael Nadal in 2022 and to Novak Djokovic in 2023 — against Germany’s Alexander Zverev, a finalist at the 2020 U.S. Open, an Olympic gold medalist and into the final four at Roland Garros for the fourth consecutive year.