Olympics 2021

 Olympics this year, brought some glory to India, though its nothing, considering the population of India. India's Olympics medals over the years:

1896🥈🥈

1928🥇

1932🥇

1936🥇

1948🥇

1952🥇🥉

1956🥇

1960🥈

1964🥇

1968🥉

1972🥉

1980🥇

1996🥉

2000🥉

2004🥈

2008🥇🥉🥉

2012🥈🥈🥉🥉🥉🥉

2016🥈🥉

2021🥇🥈🥈🥉🥉🥉🥉

Never the less it was a moment of pride we had better number of medals both in Olympics and Para Olympics. 

This year we had:

After 12 years, national Anthem being sung at Olympics:

Neeraj Chopra: Gold.🥇

Mirabai Chanu: Silver.🥈

Ravi Dahiya: Silver.🥈

PV Sindhu: Bronze.🥉

Men's Hockey: Bronze.🥉

Bajrang Punia: Bronze.🥉

Lovlina Borgohain: Bronze.🥉

Womens Hockey team, Kamalpreet Kaur and Adhiti Ashok missed my a niche. 

Five years back, in 2016, when we had no medal hopes in Athletics,

Indian Army started Mission Olympic 2020.

Army identified potential kids, employed them, and gave best of diet, coach, infrastructure and incentives. Each medal got these kids promotion

Subedar Neeraj Chopra reached his current rank, after winning many medal at national and international level. On 07th Aug 2021, Subedar Neeraj and Indian Army fulfill their promise

Gold in athletes, first time by Indian to the nation. Once again, Army always delivers. Proud moment for every soldier and citizen of India.

According to Sports Authority of India, the Government spent Rs 4,85,39,638 on Neeraj for his training and competitions overseas in the 450 days  leading up to the Tokyo Olympics.

Dr Klaus Bartonietz was made Neeraj's personal coach following his elbow surgery in March 2019 and the Government has paid him Rs 1,22,24,880 as salary to date.

A total of four javelins have been procured for Neeraj so far at the cost of Rs 4,35,000.

In 2021, Rs 19,22,533 has been spent on Neeraj after he set up camp in Sweden for 50 days to compete in European tournaments before flying out directly to Tokyo.

Apart from this a private firm JSW sponsored him close to Rs.1.5 crores.

A similar amount was spent on the most athletes by the Union Government through a program called TOPS (Target Olympic Podium Scheme). It had started from 2014, with an allocation of Rs 900Crs and today Government has allocated Rs 2,000+ Crores for this program.

Government of India spends Rs 2.5 crore for Olympic medalist Mirabai Chanu in 5 years Mirabai Chanu was one of the premium athletes availing financial assistance from the TOPS scheme.

Especially applause to Orissa Chief Minister for sponsoring and promoting Hockey, which is the national game of India. 

On a different note, we have lot of educated and professionals competing in this years Olympics:

The seven scientists in the Tokyo Olympics

1. Anna Kiesenhofer (Austria) won the cycling route, without a professional coach. She has a doctorate in mathematics from the Technical University of Vienna and the University of Cambridge, UK. She works in research and teaching at the Technical University of Lausanne, in Switzerland.

2. Hadia Hosny (Egypt) finished an impressive career in badmington, but has two gigantic additions: she is a professor at the British University of Egypt, she has a master's degree in biomedicine from the University of Bath, UK, and a doctorate in pharmacology from University of Cairo and has researched and published articles on an anti-inflammatory drug used for various diseases. And she's a congresswoman in her country.

3. Charlotte Hym (France), debuted in the "street skateboarding", when she gets off the board she is a doctor in neuroscience and her current job is to investigate the effect of the mother's voice on the development of motor skills in newborns.

4. Gabby Thomas (United States) was a bronze medalist in the 200 meters of athletics and is already a legend in the discipline for being the third fastest woman in history in that specialty.

Gabby studied Neurobiology and Global Health at Harvard University, is pursuing a master's degree in epidemiology and health management at the University of Texas at Austin, and her work focuses on the investigation of racial inequality in access to health services in USA

5. Louise Shanahan (Ireland) was preparing for Paris 2024 but managed to qualify for Tokyo in the 800 meters of athletics.

She is a graduate of Quantum Physics from the University of Cork, Ireland, and is pursuing her PhD at the University of Cambridge, England. She studies and develops devices to improve cancer diagnosis and treatment.

6. Nadine Apetz (Germany) is the first German boxer in an Olympics.

Nadine has a master's degree in Neuroscience from the University of Bremen and hopes to complete a doctorate at Cologne University Hospital.

Apetz is studying a technique called deep brain stimulation, which involves applying electrical or electromagnetic currents to certain areas of the "gray matter" of the brain: the goal, to help Parkinson's patients.

7. Andrea Murez (Israel) is a swimmer who participated in 50, 100 and 200 meters freestyle and 4x100 mixed relays.

she is also a biologist at the Stanford University, US.

Courtesy: BBC