As we all
know, the Olympic Games are an international sports festival that is held once
every four years. The main objective of the Olympics games is to cultivate
human beings, through sport, and contribute to world peace. When anyone talks
about the Olympics, the only thing that strikes our mind is “OLYMPIC RINGS”,
Right? How many of you know the meaning of Olympic Rings? So, those five rings
represent the union of 5 continents (Blue = Europe, Yellow = Asia, Black =
Africa, Green = Australia, Red = America), and the plain white background
represents peace throughout the games. These are the basic things that everyone
should know about the Olympics games.
Now let’s
talk about the 2020 Olympics, which is going to be held in Tokyo. Yes, the 32nd
Olympic Game is started in TOKYO. This 32nd edition of the Olympics is delayed
by a year due to Covid-19 Pandemic. Some highlights of the Olympic Games Tokyo
2020 are mentioned below:
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Official Name
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Games of the XXXII Olympiad
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Host City
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Tokyo, Japan
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Olympics Dates
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July 23, 2021 - August 8, 2021
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Motto
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Faster, Higher, Stronger - Together
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Countries Participating
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205 (Expected)
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Olympics Parade of Nations
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205 Countries
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Stadium
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Japan National Stadium
Tokyo, Japan
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Tokyo Olympic Motto & Tokyo
Olympic Mascot
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United by Emotion & Miraitowa
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Two Independent Teams
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10 Refugee Olympic Athletes & 1
Independent Olympic Athletes
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Some other
important facts about the 2020 Olympics are mentioned below:
- Head of Indian
Olympic association: Narayana Ramachandran
- India's flag
bearers at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics: M. C. Mary Kom
& Manpreet Singh
- India's flag
bearers at the closing ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics: Wrestler Bajrang
Punia
- In Olympic Games
Tokyo 2020, India is sending its largest-ever contingent.
- In 18 sports
(Archery Artistic Gymnastics Athletics Badminton Boxing Equestrian Fencing
Field Hockey Rowing Sailing Shooting Table Tennis Weightlifting Wrestling)
India is going to take part.
Here is the
list of Indian athletes qualified for the Olympics so far:
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Archery
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- Men’s Individual
- Tarundeep Rai, Men’s Team
- Men’s Individual
- Atanu Das, Men’s Team
- Men’s Individual
- Pravin Jadhav, Men’s Team
- Women’s
Individual - Deepika Kumari
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Athletics
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- Nirmal Noah, VK
Vismaya, Muhammed Anas, Jisna Mathew - 4x400m - Mixed Relay
- Women's 20km -
Racewalk - Bhawna Jat
- Men's 20 km -
Racewalk - Irfan Thodi
- Men's 20 km -
Racewalk - Sandeep Kumar
- Women's 20 km -
Racewalk - Priyanka Goswami
- Men's 20 km -
Racewalk - Rahul
- Men's 3000m -
Steeplechase - Avinash Sable
- Men's Long Jump -
M Sreeshankar
- Women's Discus
Throw - Kamalpreet Kaur
- Men's Javelin
Throw - Neeraj Chopra
- Men's Javelin
Throw - Shivpal Singh
- Discus Throw -
Seema Punia
- 100m & 200m
Sprints - Dutee Chand
- Shot Put -
Tajinderpal Singh Toor
- Javelin Throw -
Annu Rani
- 400m - Hurdles -
MP Jabir
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Boxing
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- Men's 52kg - Amit
Panghal
- Men's 63kg -
Manish Kaushik
- Men's 69kg -
Vikas Krishan
- Men's 75kg -
Ashish Kumar
- Men's 91+kg -
Satish Kumar
- Mary Kom -
Women's 51kg
- Women's 60kg -
Simranjit Kaur
- Women's 69kg -
Lovlina Borgohain
- Women's 75kg -
Pooja Rani
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Equestrian
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- Men's Individual
Eventing - Fouaad Mirza
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Fencing
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- Women's Sabre -
Bhavani Devi
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Gymnastics
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- Women's Artistic
Gymnastics - Pranati Nayak
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Golf
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- Anirban
Lahiri,
- Udayan
Mane,
- Aditi Ashok
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Swimming
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- Men's 100m
Backstroke - Srihari Nataraj
- Men's 200m
Butterfly - Sajan Prakash
- 100m backstroke -
Maana Patel
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Hockey
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- Men's team
(16-member squad)
- Women's team
(16-member squad)
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Rowing
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- Men's Lightweight
Double Sculls - Arjun Lal Jat & Arvind Singh
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Weightlifting
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- Women's 49 kg -
Mirabai Chanu
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Shooting
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- Men's Laser
Standard - Vishnu Saravanan
- Men's skiff -
49er - KC Ganapathy & Varun Thakkar
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Sailing
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- Women's Laser
Radial - Nethra Kumanan
- Men's Laser
Standard - Vishnu Saravanan
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Shooting
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- Women’s team -
Apurvi Chandela
- Women's 10 m Air
Rifle Event - Apurvi Chandela
- 10m Men’s Ai -
Saurabh Chaudhary
- 10m Men’s Air
Pistol, Individual & Mixed Team - Saurabh Chaudhary
- 10m Men’s Air
Pistol, Individual & Mixed Team - Abhishek Verma
- 10m Men’s Air
Rifle, Individual & Mixed Team - Deepak Kumar
- 10m Men’s Air
Rifle, Individual & Mixed Team - Divyansh Singh Panwar
- 50 m Men’s Rifle
three Position, Individual - Sanjeev Rajput
- 50 m Men’s Rifle
three Position, Individual - Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar
- Men’s Skeet,
Individual - Angad Veer Singh Bajwa
- Men’s Skeet
Individual - Mairaj Ahmad Khan
- 10 m Women’s Air
Pistol, Individual & 25m Pistol Women, Individual and Mixed Team -
Manu Bhaker
- 10 m Women’s Air
Pistol, Individual and Mixed Team - Yashaswini Singh Deswal
- 10 m Women’s Air
Rifle, Individual - Apurvi Chandela
- 10 m Women’s Air
Rifle, Individual and Mixed Team - Elavenil Valarivan
- 25 m Women’s
Pistol, Individual - Rahi Sarnobat
- 50 m Women’s Air
Rifle three positions, Individual & Mixed Team Anjum Moudgil
- 50m Women’s Rifle
3 Position, Individual - Tejaswini Sawant
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Badminton
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- Women's Singles -
PV Sindhu
- Men's Singles - P
Sai Praneeth
- Men's Doubles -
Saitwiksairaj Rankireddy
- Men's Doubles -
Chirag Shetty
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Table Tennis
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- Men's Singles,
Mixed Doubles - Achanta Sharath Kamal
- Men's Singles -
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran
- Women's Singles,
Mixed Doubles - Manika Batra
- Women's Singles -
Sutirtha Mukherjee
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Wrestling
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- Men's 57 kg
Freestyle - Ravi Dahiya
- Men's 65 kg
Freestyle - Bajrang Punia
- Men's 86 kg
Freestyle - Deepak Punia
- Men's 125 kg
Freestyle - Sumit Malik
- Women's 53 kg
Freestyle - Vinesh Phogat
- Women's 57 kg
Freestyle - Anshu Malik
- Women's 62 kg
Freestyle - Sonam Malik
- Women's 50 kg
Freestyle - Seema Bisla
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Judo
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- Women's
lightweight 48 kg - Sushila Devi
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Let us all
Cheer for India with anticipation and excitement, a sense of immense
responsibility too!
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