{"id":124593,"date":"2021-08-09T21:21:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T15:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=124593"},"modified":"2021-08-09T21:21:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T15:51:54","slug":"in-tokyo-india-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/in-tokyo-india-discovered\/","title":{"rendered":"In Tokyo, India discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/blogs\/toi-edit-page\/in-tokyo-india-discovered-results-show-the-goal-of-putting-the-country-in-olympic-top-ten-is-feasible\/\">ToI<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the news?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Neeraj Chopra, became the first India to win an athletic gold medal for independent India. India made a profound statement in Tokyo asserting that \u2018We too can do it.\u2019<\/p>\n<h5><strong>India\u2019s record in Olympics<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>As a colony, India first took part in the Paris Olympics in 1900 and won two medals.<\/li>\n<li>It took 108 years to better that tally to 3 in Beijing and another 4 years to go up to 6 in London. But then the medal count fell to 2 in the 2016 Rio Olympics.<\/li>\n<li>Till the last Rio games, India could fetch only 27 medals in 24 Olympic ventures.<\/li>\n<li>When other similarly placed countries made rapid strides towards the medal stand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Mission ahead<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Four gold medals would have placed India among the top 20 in the medal tally and another four among the top ten.<\/li>\n<li>This is imminently feasible in the future given our show in Tokyo, as detailed and explained above.<\/li>\n<li>The thrust given by GoI on identifying and promoting sporting excellence since 2015 bore results in Tokyo.<\/li>\n<li>This mission can be achieved by nurturing the culture of sports across the country and through necessary professional and scientific help to our future stars.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tokyo games, our best moment in 121 years of Olympic history, demonstrated that India can do it. It is now Target Paris in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: ToI What is the news? Neeraj Chopra, became the first India to win an athletic gold medal for independent India. India made a profound statement in Tokyo asserting that \u2018We too can do it.\u2019 India\u2019s record in Olympics As a colony, India first took part in the Paris Olympics in 1900 and won two&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/in-tokyo-india-discovered\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In Tokyo, India discovered<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[6595],"class_list":["post-124593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-olympics","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704657852},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}