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.
Nice. Learnt a couple of new things about our athletes from this post.
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