India@ Tokyo Olympics 2020

India has shined this olympics as it has got its best olympic medals of 7 overall in this Tokyo Olympics 2020.

Neeraj Chopra 1st Indian to get a gold medal in the athletes post independence. Even the legend athletes like P.T.Usha, Milka Singh and Anju Bobby George missed the medal by flick of a second.

Ravi Kumar Dahiya in wrestling and Mirabai S Chanu in weight lifting has grabbed silver.

P.V.Sindhu-Badminton, Lovlina-boxing, Bajarang Punia-wrestling and Men's hockey team have won the bronze medals. This tally. Of medals is the best in the last 4 decades standing at 48th rank in overall tally.

Aditi Ashok has changed the face of Golf in India as she stood 4th and missed the medal by a flick. This has been the best performance by any Indian Golfer. Her mother was her goodie during the entire olympic journey.

Women's hockey team has entered the medal round for the 1st time in the history of Olympics. Goalkeeper's break down made us go bad.

Bhavani Devi 1st Indian to get the qualification for Fencing event. She was into fencing as it was only the sporting option left for her in her school and used to play with sticks and got support from then CM late Sri Jayalalithaa.

Kamalpreet kaur from discuss throw has stood 6th position being best by field athletes of India.

Our most of the athletes have been sent to different countries for the practice ahead of time to avoid the COVID-19 2nd wave in India. 

We hope more of athletes are encouraged for the sports and games in the future.

Here, ending with a sad note that from 2024 Paris olympics weight lifting will not be seen as a contending sport and game.

INDIA@OLYMPICS2020

    

                                                         India in Olympics2020

Due to the COVID, the Olympics have been postponed to this year Starting from July 23,2021 to August 8,2021. India is sending 119 athletes out of which 67 are males and 52 are female athletes; competing 85 medal categories and 1^st batch of athletes will leave to the venue on 17^th of this month. Following is the list of athletes participating in the Olympics,2020.

Archery

1.   Tarundeep Rai, Men’s Recurve

2.   Atanu Das, Men’s Recurve

3.   Pravin Jadhav, Men’s Recurve

4.   Deepika Kumari, Women's Recurve

The men's trio will also compete as a team at Tokyo 2020.

Athletics

Athletics has never been India’s strong suit at the Olympics but emerging javelin throwers Neeraj Chopra and Shivpal Singh have raised hopes this time around.

The 4x400 mixed relay, which will make its debut at Tokyo 2020, will also see an Indian team, which had Asian Games gold-medallist Muhammed Anas, after they finished third at the World Athletics Championships in 2019.

But it was KT Irfan that offered the first hope when in March 2019, he became the first Indian athlete to qualify for the 2020 Olympics. India's sprint ace Dutee Chand is set for her second Olympic appearance.

1.   KT Irfan, Men's 20km race walking

2.   Sandeep Kumar, Men's 20km race walking

3.   Rahul Rohilla, Men's 20km race walking

4.   Gurpreet Singh, Men's 50km race walking

5.   Bhawna Jat, Women's 20km race walking

6.   Priyanka Goswami, Women's 20km race walking

7.   Avinash Sable, Men's 3000m steeplechase

8.   Murali Sreeshankar, Men's long jump

9.   MP Jabir, Men's 400m hurdles

10.                   Neeraj Chopra, Men's javelin throw

11.                   Shivpal Singh, Men's javelin throw

12.                   Annu Rani, Women's javelin throw

13.                   Tajinderpal Singh Toor, Men's shot put

14.                   Dutee Chand, Women's 100m and 200m

15.                   Kamalpreet Kaur, Women's discus throw

16.                   Seema Punia, Women's discus throw

17.                   4x400 Mixed Relay

18.                   Men's 4x400m Relay

Badminton

World champion PV Sindhu will be aiming to better her silver medal from the last Games when she hits the court in Tokyo in the women’s singles. Accompanying her will be B Sai Praneeth in the men’s singles and the duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty.

1.   PV Sindhu, Women’s singles

2.   B Sai Praneeth, Men’s singles

3.   Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, Men’s doubles

Boxing

The Indian boxers punched as many as nine tickets to the Tokyo Olympics at the Asia Oceania boxing Olympic qualifiers held in Amman, Jordan.

Indian boxing queen MC Mary Kom.  

1.   Vikas Krishan (Men's, 69kg)

2.   Lovlina Borgohain (Women's, 69kg)

3.   Ashish Kumar (Men's, 75kg)

4.   Pooja Rani (Women's, 75kg)

5.   Satish Kumar (Men's, 91kg)

6.   Mary Kom (Women's, 51kg)

7.   Amit Panghal (Men's, 52kg)

8.   Manish Kaushik (Men's, 63kg)

9.   Simranjit Kaur (Women's, 60kg)

Equestrian

Fouaad Mirza is the first Indian equestrian to qualify for the Games in 20 years. He sealed his quota in eventing after topping the group in the individual event category at the South East Asia and Oceanic qualifiers in November 2019.

Fencing

Bhavani Devi became the first Indian fencer to qualify for the Olympics. The sabre fencer from Chennai booked her slot for Tokyo 2020 through the Adjusted Official Ranking (AOR) method at the Budapest Sabre World Cup, an Olympic qualifying event, in Hungary in March.

Golf

India's participation in golf at Tokyo 2020 will feature Anirban Lahiri and Udayan Mane in the men's and Aditi Ashok in the women's events. Udayan, who made the cut as a replacement, will be making his Olympic debut.

1.   Anirban Lahiri

2.   Udayan Mane

3.   Aditi Ashok

Gymnastics

Pranati Nayak is only the second Indian woman gymnast to qualify for the Olympics. The artistic gymnast made the cut in May via the Asian quota.

Hockey

1.   Men’s National Team

2.   Women’s National Team

This will be the 20th Olympic Games list to feature the Indian men’s hockey team while the women’s side will be making their third appearance and second in succession.

Both teams, led by Manpreet Singh (men's) and Rani Rampal (women's), qualified in November 2019 and each of them will carry a 16-member squad to Tokyo 2020.

Judo

Sushila Devi Likmabam will be India's only participant in Judo at Tokyo 2020. She made the Olympic cut in the women's extra-lightweight (48kg) division as the highest-ranked Asian judoka outside the top 18 on the Olympic Game Quota (OGQ) rankings list.

Rowing

Indian rowers Arjun Jat and Arvind Singh qualified in the men’s lightweight double sculls event at the Asian qualifiers in Tokyo, Japan in May.

Sailing

Nethra Kumanan became the first Indian woman sailor to qualify for the Olympics at the Mussanah Open Championship 2021 in April. Three other Indian sailors also made the Tokyo cut in Oman. For the first time India will be competing in more than one sailing event at the Games - Laser Radial, Laser Standard and 49er. India never had more than two sailors at a single Olympics before.

1.   Nethra Kumanan, Laser Radial

2.   Vishnu Saravanan, Laser Standard

3.   KC Ganapathy and Varun Thakkar, 49er

Shooting

As many as 15 Indian shooters have achieved Olympic qualification so far, making it the country’s largest contingent at any Games.

Youngsters Divyansh Singh Panwar and Elavenil Valarivan are highest-ranked in the 10m Air Rifle men’s and women’s, respectively, while Manu Bhaker has impressed.

While the following athletes secured a quota place in their respective category, their participation at the showpiece event was decided by the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI). The final team saw Chinki Yadav's quota handed to rifle shooter Elavenil Valarivan.

1.   Anjum Moudgil, 10m Women’s Air Rifle

2.   Apurvi Chandela, 10m Women’s Air Rifle

3.   Divyansh Singh Panwar, 10m Men’s Air Rifle

4.   Deepak Kumar, 10m Men’s Air Rifle

5.   Tejaswini Sawant, 50m Women’s Rifle 3 Position

6.   Sanjeev Rajput, 50m Men’s Rifle 3 Position

7.   Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar, 50m Men’s Rifle 3 Position

8.   Manu Bhaker, 10m Women’s Air Pistol

9.   Yashaswini Singh Deswal, 10m Women’s Air Pistol

10.                   Saurabh Chaudhary, 10m Men’s Air Pistol

11.                   Abhishek Verma, 10m Men’s Air Pistol

12.                   Rahi Sarnobat, 25m Women’s Pistol

13.                   Chinki Yadav, 25m Women’s Pistol (replaced by Elavenil Valarivan)

14.                   Angad Veer Singh Bajwa, Men’s Skeet

15.                   Mairaj Ahmad Khan, Men’s Skeet

Swimming

Sajan Prakash became the first Indian to directly qualify for the Olympics when he achieved the elusive 'A' cut. He will compete in the 200m butterfly event. Srihari Nataraj too managed to achieve the 'A' cut in the 100m backstroke a day later. Maana Patel qualified via the universality quota, which ensures three Indians swimmers will compete at the Summer Games for the first time.

1.   Sajan Prakash, men's 200m butterfly

2.   Srihari Nataraj, men's 100m backstroke

3.   Maana Patel, women's 100m backstroke

Table Tennis

Four Indian table tennis players qualified for the Olympics at the Asian qualifiers in Doha in March. It includes the veteran Sharath Kamal, who will be making his fourth appearance at the Games. While G Sathiyan and Sutirtha Mukherjee sealed their Tokyo spots with wins in their respective groups, Manika Batra and Sharath Kamal booked their place on the basis of their rankings.

1.   Sharath Kamal

2.   Sathiyan Gnanasekaran

3.   Sutirtha Mukherjee

4.   Manika Batra

Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra will also compete together in the mixed doubles after earning their Olympic berths at the Asian qualifiers.

Tennis

For the first time since 1992, no Indian male tennis player will play at the Olympic Games. Only Sania Mirza qualified for Tokyo 2020 via her protected ranking and she has chosen Ankita Raina to be her partner in the women's doubles.

1.   Sania Mirza and Ankita Raina, Women's Doubles

Weightlifting

Mirabai Chanu will be India's only representative in weightlifting at Tokyo 2020. Ranked second in the world, the former world champion is among the favourites for a medal in the women's 49kg weight division.

Wrestling

There will be seven wrestlers from India competing at Tokyo 2020. While the grapplers secured a quota place for their country in their respective categories, the Wrestling Association of India has confirmed their seats for Tokyo 2020. With Sonam Malik winning the quota in the 62kg category, Rio 2016 bronze medallist Sakshi Malik will not be wrestling at the Tokyo Olympics.

1.   Seema Bisla, Women's Freestyle, 50kg

2.   Vinesh Phogat, Women’s Freestyle 53kg

3.   Anshu Malik, Women's Freestyle 57kg

4.   Sonam Malik, Women's Freestyle 62kg

5.   Ravi Kumar Dahiya, Men’s Freestyle 57kg

6.   Bajrang Punia, Men’s Freestyle 65kg

7.   Deepak Punia, Men’s Freestyle 86 kg

                                 ALL THE BEST ATHLETES.!!!

PREM ROG

CHAPTER 3

Dill Dosti Dhamaka

They 4 were very punctual to the classes and were very productive as well. Aditya , Jyothi were hostellers and Piyush & Sangeetha were day scholars. Gradually, Lunch used to come from the home for hostellers and dinner for day-scholars from the mess/hostel food.

A forth night later...

29- August-2015

It was the last weekend of the month and they planned to go for a trip for that day. So the Aditya, Jyothi took permission from the hostel and left on Saturday after the classes and left to meet Sangeetha at her home at Magarpatta township in Hadapsar area. And the Dhamaka has begun; they have freshened themselves and left in Sangeetha’s car to pick up Piyush at his home in Fathima Nagar.

Soon they hit the highway of Pune-Mumbai highway with loud music of David Gutta with the window glasses down to let the cool breeze come in with the little drizzles that has been since the last half an hour.

With loads of vibrant music they have reached Lonavala within 2 hours and it was sharp 9 by the time they reached the hotel. Piyush&Aditya were in a room and Sangeetha&Jyothi into another room. 0Soon they checked in to the rooms and met back within 10 minutes to the boy’s room party like it was the end of the world... There was some peppy music, crazy dance moves, tasty food with some cocktails and mock tails which was a perfect Saturday night of  

It was at the end of the party, they met their senior Abhijeet, who was seen by Piyush when he was talking to the hotel staff in the corridor. And soon he joined them as well...

The buddies reached the room in the mid-night and started playing the games; UNO, Rummy, Monopoly with some lightened mood and some chilled Breezer to accompany them... It was a trip to remember as it was their 1^st trip here...

The next day morning;

30-8-2015;

They all boozed of to bed around 4 but only Abhijeet didn’t sleep and was looking at friends who slept tired and he was talking to himself, “ I shall see how you will not fall in love with me, because of you I came here, and because of you I’m unable to sleep. I’ll see, it is just the beginning.” And he left the room.....

PREM ROG

CHAPTER-2: THE THROW BACK - THE BEGINNING

* The story runs in Piyush's point.

1^st August, 2015

It was Piyush's 1^st day at the college. I came to pursue Advertising & Public Relation course with own earnings where I worked at a BPO to make studies happen in to my dream college; Wise College of Journalism & Communication- WCJC; Pune.

As on the 1^st day I entered the premises it was like the pleasant morning with a smaller drizzles starting up and it felt like a great start. I stopped by the guards who were there to guide the new students to the seminar hall; there I already spotted a chubby girl who is getting the directions for the seminar hall as well. I extended my hand to her after getting the directions; she was Jyothi Rao and from she is from Hyderabad and I introduced myself and we have reached the hall where the dean has just started the things. We have found exactly 2 seats in the 4^th row near us and making to them. Meanwhile, Dean Sister Alberta started to say about the history of the college which made me sound boring as it contains mostly statistical data. When I tried to intervene with Jyothi was already involved into what sister was saying. I turned to my left where I found a girl with similar face expressions. I introduced myself to her, and she was Sangeeta from Mumbai and by the time we noticed the crowed has started following Sister Alberta to explore the campus, we are going to spend our next couple of years.

Jyothi Rao, an aspiring Journalist came down to the famous Westin College of Journalism & Communication; from her native place of Hyderabad.

Jyothi met her 1^st friend at the hostel desk while filling up the forms to being the roomies; Sangeeta Prajapathi, an easy going girl from Guna of Madhya Pradesh.

Jyothi, Sangeeta, Piyush was in a group watching the campus with ease and enjoying the beauty of the college and the nature. Meanwhile, the campus tour was ended with new friends being together. Aditya, the new member to the buddies’ team. They all headed to the canteen to have the best thing of the canteen Misal Pav and Vada Pav.

There Piyush met his school friend, Raghu,who was a senior, who was doing Masters in Journalism there. Soon all of them became thick friends only to realise BFF-Best Friends Forever.

Prem Rog

14^th December, 2017

It’s a chilled, breezy night and Piyush is sitting on the floor of his balcony in the flat....

He was lost in his thoughts regarding the message he got from his love, Jyothi;

“I call of this relationship, to make my dad happy. I’m sorry Piyu for breaking our relation at this moment of life and I think you can understand the things. I’m really sorry.”

This message made him go through the phase of trauma of the break-up. The sadness of the break-up rolled down in form of tears and rolled down his cheeks and vanished into his thick beard. He has realised that something is wrong from past few days with Jyothi, realising through her behaviour.

Piyush’s thoughts were that bad and sad that went in a thought of committing suicide; but opened his wallet to check photo of his love life and found his parents photo and dropped the idea of suicide...

Some thoughts flashed up his mind regarding Jyothi;

वो भी  हुआ  क्या  भूल  हैं  मेरी ... क्या  उसकी  न  कोई  कहता  हैं ...

अब  तनहा  हर  दर्द  साहू  मैं .... मुझको  मिली  यह  सजा  हैं ....

बड़े  सच्चे  लगते  हैं ... सूनापन ... वीराने ... मायूसी ... और  हम ...

Piyush kept his wallet closed on the floor beside the phone which was showing him the message of break-up.....

And he lost into his thoughts of how he met Jyothi and how the magic of love happened.....