Indian Golf @ Tokyo2020

Hello,

For our generation Golf is nothing but Tiger woods! But he doesnt have a Olympic medal to his name.

Since it was included in Rio2016, after 1904. He was suffered from injury in 2016. Even this time in Tokyo he is unfortunate to miss! But USA leading in medals tally and sending a big team!

From India, 3 are contesting in Tokyo2020,

• Anirban Lahiri-Men's Individual
• Udayan Mane-Men's Individual
• Aditi Ashok-Women's Individual

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Aditi and Anirban, competing their second olympics. Udayan in his first olympics. Looking to make India Proud.

Schedule:

Men's events starts on 29th July 2021

Women's event starts on 4th Aug 2021

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Indian Fencing @ Tokyo2020

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Fencing! Yes, it is a combat sport, had it origin from traditional swordmanship. It is one of the 5 activities features in every mordern olympics!

Tokyo2020 will feature 12 events, across 3 discipline (Foil, Eppe, Sabre) for both Men and Women. Involes Individual and Team event!

CA Bhavani Devi, the First Indian to qualify for the olympics!

Bhavani will compete in individual sabre event.

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Overall Italy had won more medals at olympics at fencing. But in Rio2016 Russia had won more!

Lets, hope Bhavani to bring a medal, to make the sport popular across India!

Schedule:

26th July 2021 9AM Japan Time, Bhavani will contest on Individual Sabre

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Indian Equestrian @ Tokyo2020

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Many of us may not know this sport by name Equestrian😅, it is the only sport in olympics involves animals. Now you might have guessed it (horse riding) not exactly.

50 nations are competing in this in Tokyo2020. It contains both individual and team events.

Unfortunatley India competing on individual event, that too in only on Eventing( total 3 disciplines Dressage,Eventing,Juming)

Fouaad Mirza, representing India for the 1st time 2 decades and 3rd time overall.

Dajraa 4, Name of the horse Fouaad picked as his partner for his maiden olympics! let hope for a good show and increase the popularity of the sport in India!

Schedule:

29th July 2021

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Indian Boxing @ Tokyo2020

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Lets see about Boxing! India had won 2 medals in boxing in past. But boxing foundations are getting stronger every year. Vijiender was seen as a nation hero when he won Bronze in Beijing2008! Many kids lookedup to him.

One in Beijing2008 by Vijender Singh and another by Mary Kom in London2012!

Mary Kom is an inspiration! She is a mother of 3 sons and adopted a girl, but she never givenup, competing for a nation again. She is a champion lady competing in International level from 2001.Won 19 medals including 13 Gold!

We have strong team this time! 13 gold medals to hunt, but India will contest in 5 men's and 4 women's so, total 9 categories.

Indian Men will contest in below weight categories: 

Flyweight (52kg) - Amit Panghal

Lightweight (63kg) - Manish Kaushik

Welterweight (69kg) - Vikas Krishan Yadav

Middleweight (75kg) - Ashish Kumar

Super heavyweight (+91kg) - Satish Kumar

Women will contest in below weight categories:

Flyweight (51kg) - Mary Kom

Lightweight (60kg) - Simranjith Kaur

Welterweight (69kg) - Lovlina Borgohain

Middleweight (75kg) - Pooja Rani

All eyes on Mary Kom to repeat the heroics London and better her medal. Vikas krishan the experienced campainer missed out a bronze in Rio2016

Schedule:

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Indian Badminton @ Tokyo2020

Hello!

Today let see a sport which won us 2 medal in till now! Its Badmiton! Saina Nehwal, won us a Bronze in Beijing2008, eight years later P.V Sindhu, betters the color to Silver!

This time Saina had missed-out due to ranking and qualfiying events are conducted less than normal. Another important players who missed out are Kidambi Srikanth, Sikki Reddy, Ashwini Ponnappa

As Carolina Marin defending champion is out of Tokyo2020 due to injury, as our hope raises on Sindhu to better her medal.

Sindhu lost Gold to Marin in Rio2016.

Badmiton Team for Tokyo2020!

PV Sindhu, Women's Singles

Sai praneeth, Men's Single

Men's Doubles:

Satwiksai Raj Rankireddy

Chirag Shetty

Schedule:

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Lets hope to win a medal in badmiton this time to make it 3 in a row! 

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Indian Athletics @ Tokyo2020

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Athletics has never been India's cup of tea. Its more than 121 years to be exact since we won medal in athletics in Olympics.

Norman Pritchard won Silver in both Men's 200 Metres and Men's 200 Metres Hurdles in Paris 1900. Those are the only medals which is on India's name in Athletics.

We had many legends Milkha Singh, PT Usha, Anju Bobby George who tried to make us proud in Asian Games and Commentwealth games. Hima Das is a promising sprinter coundn't qualify as she struggled through injuries.

This time Indian athletics have given us hope with the raise of Neeraj Chopra, Shivpal Singh.

Total of 26 member competing from India, hopefully we will open our medal account this time.

Athletic Team with their Instagram link! Follow and Support them!!

KT Irfan, Men's 20km race walking

Sandeep Kumar, Men's 20km race walking

Rahul Rohilla, Men's 20km race walking

Gurpreet Singh, Men's 50km race walking

Bhawna Jat, Women's 20km race walking

Priyanka Goswami, Women's 20km race walking

Avinash Sable, Men's 3000m steeplechase

Murali Sreeshankar, Men's long jump

MP Jabir, Men's 400m hurdles

Neeraj Chopra, Men's javelin throw

Shivpal Singh, Men's javelin throw

Annu Rani, Women's javelin throw

Tajinderpal Singh Toor, Men's shot put

Dutee Chand, Women's 100m and 200m

Kamalpreet Kaur, Women's discus throw

Seema Punia, Women's discus throw

4x400 Mixed Relay

Sarthark bhambri

Alex Anthony

Shuba venkatesan

Revathi Veeramani

Dhanalakshmi Sekar

Men's 4x400m Relay

Muhammed Anas Yahiya

Noah Nirmal Tom

Amoj Jacob

Arokia Rajiv

Naganathan Pandian

Atheltics starting on 30th July 2021 to 8th August 2021!

India’s athletics campaign begins with discus throwers Kamalpreet Kaur and Seema Punia on 31 July 2021

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Indian Archery @ Tokyo2020

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Archery is an interesting sport for India, because it always does well world cup, tops the recent world cup (2021_Archery_World_Cup) but fails in Olympics. This time 4 contigents will aim for India @ Tokyo

Till now India had never won a medal in Olympics, hopefully luck shines for Deepika Kumari, current world number 1 and Triple gold medalist in recent Archery World Cup and her husband Atanu Das.

Hopefull the young couple will aim for BullEye @ Tokyo2020

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Also a veteren Tarundeep Rai competing his last olympics, will look to give his best shot.

We are competing in Men's Individual, Women's Individual,Mixed Team, Men's Team. Unfortunately, Women's Team dint qualify😔

Indian Archery Team for Tokyo2020, Click on the hyperlink for Instagram profiles and follow them, lets #cheer4india, why always crickter, footballers should have more follower and get paid enourmaously for a single post.

Tarundeep Rai, Men’s Recurve

Atanu Das, Men’s Recurve

Pravin Jadhav, Men’s Recurve

Deepika Kumari, Women's Recurve, Individual and Mixed Team

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

Archery Schedule (JST) :

Japan (JST) is 3:30 hrs ahead of India (IST )

(9AM Japan time is 5:30 AM Indian Time)

Date and Time: Fri 23 July 9:00 – 11:00
Venues: Yumenoshima Park Archery Field
Women’s Individual Ranking Round

Date and Time: Fri 23 July 13:00 – 15:00
Venues: Yumenoshima Park Archery Field
Men’s Individual Ranking Round

Date and Time: Sat 24 July 9:30 – 12:05

Venues: Yumenoshima Park Archery Field
Mixed Team 1/8 Eliminations

Date and Time: Sat 24 July 14:15 – 17:25
Venues: Yumenoshima Park Archery Field
Mixed Team Quarterfinals
Mixed Team Semifinals
Mixed Team Bronze Medal Match
Mixed Team Gold Medal Match
Mixed Team Victory Ceremony

Date and Time: Mon 26 July 9:30 – 11:05
Venues: Yumenoshima Park Archery Field
Men’s Team 1/8 Eliminations

Date and Time: Mon 26 July 13:45 – 17:25
Venues: Yumenoshima Park Archery Field
Men’s Team Quarterfinals
Men’s Team Semifinals
Men’s Team Bronze Medal Match
Men’s Team Gold Medal Match
Men’s Team Victory Ceremony

Date and Time: Tue 27 July 9:30 – 13:25
Venues: Yumenoshima Park Archery Field
Men’s Individual 1/32 & 1/16 Eliminations
Women’s Individual 1/32 & 1/16 Eliminations

Date and Time: Tue 27 July 16:00 – 19:55
Venues: Yumenoshima Park Archery Field
Men’s Individual 1/32 & 1/16 Eliminations
Women’s Individual 1/32 & 1/16 Eliminations

Date and Time: Wed 28 July 9:30 – 13:25
Venues: Yumenoshima Park Archery Field
Men’s Individual 1/32 & 1/16 Eliminations
Women’s Individual 1/32 & 1/16 Eliminations

Date and Time: Wed 28 July 16:00 – 18:40
Venues: Yumenoshima Park Archery Field
Men’s Individual 1/32 & 1/16 Eliminations
Women’s Individual 1/32 & 1/16 Eliminations

Date and Time: Thu 29 July 9:30 – 13:25
Venues: Yumenoshima Park Archery Field
Men’s Individual 1/32 & 1/16 Eliminations
Women’s Individual 1/32 & 1/16 Eliminations

Date and Time: Thu 29 July 16:00 – 18:40
Venues: Yumenoshima Park Archery Field
Men’s Individual 1/32 & 1/16 Eliminations
Women’s Individual 1/32 & 1/16 Eliminations

Date and Time: Fri 30 July 9:30 – 11:15
Venues: Yumenoshima Park Archery Field
Women’s Individual 1/8 Eliminations

Date and Time: Fri 30 July 14:45 – 17:20
Venues: Yumenoshima Park Archery Field
Women’s Individual Quarterfinals
Women’s Individual Semifinals
Women’s Individual Bronze Medal Match
Women’s Individual Gold Medal Match
Women’s Individual Victory Ceremony

Date and Time: Sat 31 July 9:30 – 11:15
Venues: Yumenoshima Park Archery Field
Men’s Individual 1/8 Eliminations

Date and Time: Sat 31 July 14:45 – 17:20
Venues: Yumenoshima Park Archery Field
Men’s Individual Quarterfinals
Men’s Individual Semifinal
Men’s Individual Bronze Medal Match
Men’s Individual Gold Medal Match
Men’s Individual Victory Ceremony

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Yes today, lets see about Indian participation in Tokyo Olympics! 

Any guesses, how many sports India is competing? Its Only 18 out of 33 sports in Tokyo, click on the link to know more!

1. Archery
2. Athletics
3. Badminton
4. Boxing
5. Equestrain
6. Fencing
7. Golf
8. Gymnastics
9. Hockey
10. Judo
11. Rowing
12. Sailing
13. Shooting
14. Swimming
15. Table Tennis
16. Tennis
17. Weightlifting
18. Wrestling

Total of 127 are competing from India. Hoping to better our medal tally.

Mary Kom,2012 London Bronze medalist in Boxing and Manpreet Singh, Captain of Indian Hockey team, will be the flag bearers for the opening cremony parade

Bajrang Punia, Wreslter will be the flag bearer for closing cremony

There is an official anthem relased for Indian contigents,

Checkout this tweet, there is gonna be another legend step in to support India @Tokyo2020

New Sports @ Tokyo2020 and Medal Tally till now !!

Hello!

In the previous post we saw number of countries up for this Tokyo Olympics! Now its time to know about how many events are going to be conducted in Tokyo!

Events were approved by IOC on June 2017.

With lot of speculations of droping Wrestling from Tokyo Olympics 2020, finally it has been included after rules change and with addtion of womens competition in 2016 olympics.

No of Sports,events in last 2 olympics and Tokyo2020

• London2012 - 26 Sports with 302 events*
• Rio2016 - 28 Sports with 306 events (Newly added Golf and Rugby Sevens)
• Tokyo2020 - 33 Sports with 339 events

5 new sports are added in Tokyo (baseball/softball, karate, sport climbing, surfing, and skateboarding)

*Events = No of Golds, As simple as that 339 Golds are in hunt for athelets

All time Olympic Medals Tally

Rank	Team	Total games	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	27	1022	795	706	2523
2	Germany *	24	428	444	474	1346
3	Soviet Union #	10	440	357	325	1122
4	Great Britain	28	263	295	293	851
5	France	28	212	241	263	716
6	Italy	27	206	178	193	577
7	China	10	224	167	155	546
8	Australia	26	147	163	187	497
9	Sweden	27	145	170	179	494
10	Hungary	26	175	147	169	491

* Combining the result of USSR and 1992 unified Team

#Combining the result of Germany, East Germany, West Germany and the United Team of Germany

Facts:

• India ranked @ 53rd along with Colombia and Slovakia
• China had moved up so quickly after they hosted in Beijing in 2008
• Monoco had attended most games without a medal (20 Olympics)
• Malaysia had won most medals without gold (0 gold, 7 silver, 4 bronze)

Refernces:

2020_Summer_Olympics

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World @ Tokyo2020 Olympics!!

Hello!

 

Many of you might be a Travel enthusiast! Any guesses? How many countries will particiapte in Tokyo olympics? 

205 countries qualified out of 206.

This may sound wiered, because total countries in the world is 195! 

So, how can 206 countries participate in Tokyo when only 195 really exist? Well, simply not all countries participating in Olympics are really countries!

Simple! IOC takes the final call on who participates in Olympics.Each body or state is called NOC i.e National Olympic Committee. For Example, the Indian NOC is  Indian Olympic Committee. So 206 are nothing but 206 NOCs.

It includes 193 UN member countries, 1 Non-member observer country of Palestine,9 Dependent territories of American Samoa,Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands, Hong Kong, Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Guam, Aruba and Puerto Rico, 2 Partially recongized states of Chinese Taipei or Taiwan and Kosova and 1 Almost-independent state of Cook islands.

Around 11,000 atheletes are expected to compete in Olympics this year!

No matter of geo or cultural background of an athelete, it gives the feeling of belonging to one beautiful blue planet! 

As the Motto of Tokyo2020 will live right there "United by Emotion"