With a total of 11,500 participants and more than 50,000 reaching Tokyo, the Olympic Games were expected to be Coronavirus super spreader.
While Australia has been a hockey powerhouse after the 1980s, reigning Olympic and world champions Belgium took the game by storm in the last 10 years by finishing runners-up in 2016 Rio and then winning the gold in Tokyo Games.
The Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) 'temporarily suspended' star grappler Vinesh Phogat for indiscipline during her forgettable Tokyo Olympics campaign.
President Ram Nath Kovind will host the Indian Olympics contingent over a high tea at the Rashtrapati Bhavan cultural centre.
The 23-year-old Chopra became only the second Indian to win an individual Olympic gold in Tokyo on Saturday when he clinched the yellow metal in javelin throw with a best effort of 87.58m.
The Indian men's hockey camp returned from the Games with a bronze, defeating Germany in a thrilling third-place play-off and sparking a nationwide celebration.
Chopra became not just India's first Olympic gold-medallist in 13 years but also the first track and field athlete to achieve the feat.
Sjoerd Marijne has announced that he will step down as India women's hockey coach after the bronze medal match against Great Britain in the Tokyo Olympics.
Indian men's hockey team defeated Germany 5-4 in the playoff to win a bronze medal, their first medal after the gold in the Moscow Olympics.
Youth Affairs and Sports Minister Anurag Thakur on Monday felicitated the Tokyo Olympic medallists who brought laurels to the country
Neeraj revealed that he was in pain after his epoch-making performance in the Tokyo Games
After leaving the plane at Charles de Gaulle airport, surrounded by many of France's Olympic medalists, Hidalgo spoke of her “great emotion.”
Neeraj Chopra was the cynosure of all eyes in the ceremony at a five star hotel here, held a couple of hours after the seven podium finishers made their way out of the airport amid utter chaos.
India capped off 2020 Tokyo Olympics with seven medals - 1 gold, 2 silver and 4 bronze - to record their best-ever medal haul at the Games
Neeraj along with other members of the Indian contingent at the Tokyo Olympics, arrived at the IGI Airport in New Delhi on Monday evening.
Deepika said she has understood that instead of running after the medals, they need to work on 'enjoying the moment' at the Olympics, something they lack.
Neeraj Chopra admits how AFI president Adille Sumariwalla was right in not letting him participate in the 2019 World Athletics Championships after a career-threatening surgery.
The 17-day Summer Olympics were played mostly without spectators. Athletes stayed in an isolation bubble, quickly donned masks off their field of play and had to leave Japan soon after their competitions ended.
There was loud cheering by euphoric fans, family members, and some local political leaders as returning athletes made their way through a massive crowd both inside and outside the airport.
Indian cricket team captain Virat Kohli and ace off-spinner R Ashwin congratulated India's Olympic medallists as well as participants in the Tokyo 2020 Games.
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