Tokyo 2020
Ohh No! A Brutal Car Crash Injured The Paralympic Gold Medalist Avani Lekhara’s Spine But Not Her Dreams, Read Inspiring Story Here
After excelling in the R-2 women's 10m Air Rifle Standing SH1 event in Tokyo, Japan, 19-year-old Avani Lekhara set a record as the first Indian woman to win a gold medal at the Paralympics. The shooter from Jaipur equaled the world record and set a new Paralympic record with a final score of 249.6. Avani was a gifted dancer as a child, winning numerous honors and awards. However, her spinal cord was severely injured in a vehicle accident in 2012, and she began to use a wheelchair as a result. Avani chose to try out new sports that she thought she would be great at, without reconsider | Click Here...
What it takes to be a para-athlete?
Sundar Singh Gurjar has traveled the length and breadth of the globe. Gurjar, a member of the Rajasthan State Sports Council, began winning national age-group medals in the javelin throw with a steely ambition to join the Army. That is until an iron sheet went through his left hand and severed it off. “It felt like my entire existence ended right there,” Gurjar said of the incident in 2015 when he was 19 and helping a friend in Jaipur bring down the sheets. “I went from being a fauji (armyman) to becoming a bechara for people.” Gurjar went from being an able-bodied ath | Click Here...
BYJU’S announces ₹ 2 Crores for Neeraj Chopra and ₹ 1 Crore each for other individual olympic medal winners at Tokyo 2020
On August 7th, 2021, Neeraj Chopra made history by winning India's first-ever gold medal in athletics. Team India performed exceptionally well at the Tokyo 2020 event, earning a total of 7 medals and achieving their best Olympics performance to date. BYJU’S is an ardent supporter of sports in the country. Making further strides into encouraging players across sports disciplines, the company has announced ₹2 crores for Neeraj Chopra and ₹1 crore each for Mirabai Chanu, Ravi Kumar Dahiya, Lovlina Borgohain, PV Sindhu and Bajrang | Click Here...
RARE VIDEO: When Israeli swimmers Eden and Shelly performed on Madhuri Dixit’s Aaja Nachle at Tokyo 2020
Bollywood music has made its mark on the international stage and is now at the Olympics 2020. Recently, we came across a video wherein Israeli swimming duo Eden Blecher and Shelly Bobritsky amazed Bollywood fans when they performed to Madhuri Dixit’s song Aaja Nachle at the Tokyo Olympics 2020. As per reports in NDTV, MyGovIndia, the citizen engagement platform of government, shared a video of their routine on Twitter yesterday. It shows Eden Blecher and Shelly Bobritsky performing to the 2007 song from the movie of the same name. "Bollywood took over Olympics as Israeli swimmers E | Click Here...
#BattleCovid19: 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be postponed
The International Olympic Committee has decided to postpone the Tokyo 2020 Summer Games because of the coronavirus pandemic, IOC member Dick Pound said on March 23 in a statement. This would mean the Games, scheduled for July 24-Aug 2020, are likely to be held in the summer of 2021. Major sporting nations Australia and Canada withdrew on Monday as organizers came under global pressure to postpone the event for the first time in its 124-year modern history. “That's my conclusion (there will be a postponement),” Pound said in a telephone interview, after Sunday's IOC stateme | Click Here...