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  On Day 1 of the Tokyo Olympics, Mirabai Chanu gave India the perfect start by winning the country's first weightlifting silver in the 49kg division. The 26-year-old broke India's 21-year drought for an Olympic weightlifting medal on Saturday, giving the country its first medal at the Tokyo Olympics. In her first snatch attempt, the Manipuri took her time and neatly hurled the barbell, trying 84kg. She then lifted 87kg on her next try before increasing the weight to 89kg, which was one kilogram more than her personal best of 88kg from last year's national championship. She was unable to beat her personal best and finished second in the snatch event with 87kg, trailing only leader Zhihui, who established a new Olympic record with a 94kg effort. Mirabai was overcome with emotion after learning she had earned a prestigious silver medal in weightlifting. She danced to celebrate her podium finish, turning her tears of pleasure into joy.

 Spectators will be prohibited from entering Olympic sites in Tokyo due to a virus outbreak, according to Japan's Olympic minister, which means the Games will be held largely behind closed doors. After negotiations with local and national government officials, organizers , and Olympic and Paralympic executives, Tamayo Marukawa remarked, "We reached an agreement on no spectators at venues in Tokyo." The majority of the Olympic competition will take place in Tokyo, while a few events will be hosted elsewhere throughout Japan. In other locations, organizers will decide on "concrete measures" for spectators after negotiations with each local governor, according to Marukawa. The public has previously been urged to avoid the marathon, which is being held in northern Hokkaido to avoid the summer heat in Tokyo. A major portion of the torch relay's journey throughout the country was also held behind closed doors due to virus fears. The spectator decision comes after ...

 Aaditya Gautam(jersey no. 1) Aaditya Gautam a sportsperson who got into a sport he never knew yet was able to compete with those trained players. At the age of 14 he started playing Throw ball.With just training of few months, his team won 1 st place at the state level. At the age of 16, he got the recognition of various coaches for his unique playstyle in the National Tournament. Q1:How did you get to know about throw ball as it's not a commonly know sports? A: Well my major sports was Athletics at that time and I didn’t know anything about throw balls. But then there was a training camp held in Laxmi Public School and our Sports HOD ask me to give it a try. so that time I started going to camp and Started everything from scrap. Q2 What was your main position in Throwball? A: Our coach Ankur sir was a really great coach, he never let someone focus on only 1 position but trained us in a way that anyone of us can play in any of the positions. Because in throw ball there a ...

                                       Yashas Pandey one of the rising sport's champions who started playing football at the age of 10 and qualifies for the nationals in just a year. He has been to nationals in under   12 categories where his team got 1 st position and 2 times in under 14 categories where they got 2 nd position. In such a short span of time, he has been to different training camps consisting of India’s top coaches. He has also got training under international coach John Copper. Q1 What was the reason for which you started football? A: "When I was only 10 year old, our school started the football academy, although I like to play cricket but there was only a football academy so my parents insisted that I should join it, as my was coach praising me like I was knew how to play and I will be able to go further than just district competition. Now I thin...

 The International Weightlifting Fedration(IMF) confirmes on Saturday that Indian Weightlifter Mirabai Chanu has qualified for Tokyo Olympics in women's 49kg category. Chanu, the 2017 best on the world in weightlifting, had gotten her place in Tokyo by winning a bronze medal in the Asian Championship in Tashkent in April with a world record in clean and jerk. The 26-year-old from Manipur has qualified based on her standings on IWF's Absolute Ranking rundown. Chanu is positioned second in the 49kg classification with 4133,6172 focuses in her kitty. Chanu was before positioned fourth yet North Korea's withdrawal from the Olympics lifted the Indian to the subsequent spot.  This will be Chanu's second appearance in the Olympics, five years after a baffling trip in Rio, where she neglected to lift any of the loads in quick lift to quit the show-stopper.

  Novak Djokovic accomplished the incomprehensible on Friday when he crushed Rafael Nadal 3-6, 6-3, 7-6(4), 6-2 subsequent to returning from a put down in the French Open semi-last at the Philippe Chatrier court in Paris. The two hotshots delivered superhuman tennis as the 58th duel between them seemingly matched anything they had invoked against one another since they previously secured horns in 2006.  Nadal, offering for a record-extending fourteenth French Open title, won the initial five games and looked on course to rehash his drubbing of the Serbian in last year's finals. Nadal had just lost one set this competition entering the semi-finals, and that came in the quarter-finals against Diego Schwartzman. Four of the Spaniard's seven Roland Garros triumphs against Djokovic came in straight sets.