WATCH: Flagbearers Mary Kom, Manpreet lead Indian contingent during Tokyo Olympics Opening Ceremony
July 23, 2021 17:56 IST19 Indian athletes attended the ceremony with six officials accompanying them.
19 Indian athletes attended the ceremony with six officials accompanying them.
Lauding the states for promoting sports by announcing cash incentives and government jobs for medal winners, Thakur said it's time both centre and states collaborate in promoting sports.
The placards for the country names for the parade of athletes used manga speech bubbles, and the costumes for the placard bearers and assistants had manga touches in their design.
Tributes were paid to those lost during the pandemic, and the Israeli delegation that was killed at the Munich Games in 1972.
A stream of Olympics officials and journalists took up position, facing a cavernous space with a large field bearing the Olympics logo — and thousands of empty seats
AFI's selection committee, in an emergency meeting, arrived at a "unanimous decision" to not pull the two athletes out of the 26-member squad.
AAI opted for Pravin as Deepika's partner over World No. 9 archer and Deepika's husband Atanu Das for the mixed team event based on form.
The coronavirus pandemic that interrupted the world and is digging in its heels once again in Asia? Or the seriously peculiar Olympic Games that are about to happen in its midst? Both, actually.
Indian men's hockey has a rich history in the Summer Games having won the gold an unprecedented eight times in the past, the last of which came way back in the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
Gomboeva collapsed shortly after completing the qualifying round and was attended by medical staff.
Vinesh, seen as a gold medal hopeful, will compete in the women's freestyle 53kg category. Her first match is scheduled for August 5
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The mixed pair competition, which will make its Games debut here on Saturday, is seen as India's best medal hope in archery where the country is yet to win an Olympic medal.
The Indian men's archery team will face Kazakshtan in their round-of-16 match on July 26.
After Pravin Jadhav outperformed Atanu Das in the men's archery ranking round by three points, Archery Association will now hold a meeting to decide whom to pair with Deepika in the Mixed team.
Earlier women's World No. 1 Deepika Kumari finished 9th with 663 points and her aggregate added with Pravin's 653 placed India ninth in the mixed team rankings with a sum of 1319 points.
The names of Manika Batra and Sharath Kamal were removed as the pair will take part in the mixed doubles event on Saturday.
Deepika finished ninth in the women's ranking round and will face Bhutan's Karma in the opening round of the individual event.
The total number of cases directly linked to the Games stood at 106 on Friday with 11 of them athletes.
Four women's archers have gone past the Olympic record for the highest score in the 72 Arrows Ranking round.
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