All About Olympic Games Tokyo 2020

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:

Official Name	Games of the XXXII Olympiad
Host City	Tokyo, Japan
Olympics Dates	July 23, 2021 - August 8, 2021
Motto	Faster, Higher, Stronger - Together
Countries Participating	205 (Expected)
Olympics Parade of Nations	205 Countries
Stadium‎	Japan National Stadium Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Olympic Motto & Tokyo Olympic Mascot	United by Emotion & Miraitowa
Two Independent Teams	10 Refugee Olympic Athletes & 1 Independent Olympic Athletes

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:

Archery	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
Athletics	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
Boxing	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
Equestrian	Men's Individual Eventing - Fouaad Mirza
Fencing	Women's Sabre - Bhavani Devi
Gymnastics	Women's Artistic Gymnastics - Pranati Nayak
Golf	Anirban Lahiri, Udayan Mane, Aditi Ashok
Swimming	Men's 100m Backstroke - Srihari Nataraj Men's 200m Butterfly - Sajan Prakash 100m backstroke - Maana Patel
Hockey	Men's team (16-member squad) Women's team (16-member squad)
Rowing	Men's Lightweight Double Sculls - Arjun Lal Jat & Arvind Singh
Weightlifting	Women's 49 kg - Mirabai Chanu
Shooting	Men's Laser Standard - Vishnu Saravanan Men's skiff - 49er - KC Ganapathy & Varun Thakkar
Sailing	Women's Laser Radial - Nethra Kumanan Men's Laser Standard - Vishnu Saravanan
Shooting	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
Badminton	Women's Singles - PV Sindhu Men's Singles - P Sai Praneeth Men's Doubles - Saitwiksairaj Rankireddy Men's Doubles - Chirag Shetty
Table Tennis	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
Wrestling	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
Judo	Women's lightweight 48 kg - Sushila Devi

Let us all Cheer for India with anticipation and excitement, a sense of immense responsibility too!

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