2024 Olympic India team on July 27, Indian players will participate in badminton, rowing, shooting, tennis, table tennis, boxing, and hockey.
In shooting, India experienced quite a bit of drama regarding Olympic quotas. Trap shooter Bhowneesh Mendiratta earned India’s first Paris 2024 quota at the 2022 ISSF World Championship but didn’t make the final team after national trials. Instead, Prithviraj Tondaiman was given the quota in this category. For the first time, Indian shooters secured a quota in every shooting category for the Olympics.
Ankita Bhakat, a rising star, emerged as the top Indian archer in the women’s individual recurve qualification for the Paris Olympics, finishing 11th and surpassing experienced archers like Deepika Kumari. On Thursday, India secured a spot in the quarter-finals of the team event by finishing fourth. The 26-year-old Ankita scored 666 points, making her the highest-ranked Indian woman. Bhajan Kaur was in 22nd place with 559 points, and Deepika Kumari was in 23rd place with 658 points. In the team event, India scored 1983 points to finish fourth. South Korea topped the rankings with 2046 points, while China was second and Mexico was third.
How many teams went to 2024 Olympic India ?
The Indian team for the Paris 2024 Olympics includes 117 athletes competing in 16 sports. Over the next 16 days, starting from July 25, they will participate in 69 medal events.
List of all Indian player: – List of Indian athletes to qualify for Paris 2024 Olympics
The Indian Olympic Association was recognized by the International Olympic Committee in 1927.
By this time, the nation had already made its first Summer Olympics debut in Paris in 1900 and had participated in two more Summer Olympics in 1920 and 1924.
Indian athletes have participated in every Summer Olympics since 1920. This edition marks the country’s 26th appearance at the Summer Olympics.
The Indian team for the games included 117 athletes (110 climbers and 7 alternates), along with 118 support staff and 22 officials.
Gagan Narang was appointed as the Chef de Mission, and Shiva Keshavan was appointed as the Deputy.
P.V. Sindhu and Sharath Kamal were named as the flag bearers for the opening ceremony.
Fact about Olympic
1.) In the 1896 Games, football was supposed to be played, but there was no team to participate in the competition.
2.)In the 1900 games, there were some unusual competitions, just like in cricket. Croquet was one of them, and France won all the medals in it.
3.)London is the only city that has hosted the event three times – in 1908, 1948, and 2012.
4.)At the opening ceremony, the Greeks will lead the procession of athletes, and the host team will close it. All other athletes will march in alphabetical order according to the host country’s language.
5.)The host city designs Olympic medals for their games. Each medal must have a diameter of at least 60 mm and a thickness of 3 mm. The gold medal must be covered with 6 grams of gold, and the silver medal must contain 92.5% silver.
6.)In 1912, it was the last time that Olympic gold medals were made entirely of gold.
7.)Spyros Samaras composed the Olympic hymn, and Kostis Palamas added the lyrics. This hymn was first used during the Athens Olympics in 1896, but the IOC officially declared it as the anthem only in 1957.
8.)The relay torch and the Olympic torch should remain lit throughout the event. If the torch goes out, it can only be relit from a backup torch, which was also lit in Greece, and never from a regular lighter!
9.)The Olympic Games were broadcast on television for the first time in 1936 in Germany during Adolf Hitler’s rule.
10.)The Olympic Games were broadcast on television for the first time in 1936 in Germany during Adolf Hitler’s rule.
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