Tokyo Olympics 2020

 

After 2016, the Olympics was set to be held in 2020 but due to Covid it was held this year. Our country India qualified for the Olympics in Hockey, Wrestling, Badminton, Table Tennis, Boxing etc. Weightlifter Mirabai Chanu opened India’s medal account by winning a silver medal in women’s 49 kg weightlifting. It was P.V Sindhu who won a medal after Mirabai Chanu in women single’s badminton. After losing to Tai Tzu-Ying in the semi – final, she became the contender of the bronze medal and she won the match against He Bing Jiao and bagged a bronze medal and became the first women to win two consecutive medals in Olympics. Lovlina Borgoahin, the girl from Assam won a bronze medal in women’s boxing. She was making her Olympic debut and won a bronze medal for India. She lost to Busenaz Surmeneli of Turkey. After 41 years, the men’s hockey team qualified for the semi – finals but they lost the semi finals and became the contender for the bronze medal. They won the match against Germany and won the bronze medal. After 1980 Moscow Olympics, Indian men’s hockey team won a medal in Olympics. Then it was Ravi Kumar Dahiya who went for a gold but won a silver in Men’s freestyle 57 kg wrestling. He lost to Tigreros Urbano Oscar in the finals. Bajrang Punia also won a bronze medal in men’s 65 kg wrestling after Ravi Kumar Dahiya. He won by Kazakhstan’s Daulet Niyazbekov in the bronze medal match. Then it was the Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra who won gold in the finals of Javelin throw. He threw his javelin at 87.5 meters which was the longest in that match which kept him at the top of the table and he won a gold medal. It was the first medal of India in Track and Field events in the Olympics.

My Agra Trip - Part 2

 

I have written a blog on my Agra trip and today also I will mention about that. Agra is my grandmother’s home where I go at least one time in a month. We didn’t have a plan to go to Agra before a week but my Chachu was coming and my father’s grandfather was not fine. We went there on Saturday and came on Sunday; we could have stayed much longer but I had an exam on Monday. We left at 6:30 in the morning and reached there till 10. We went there via the Yamuna Expressway. On the way, I studied for my exam and after reaching there I did a lot of masti. If it was a normal situation, we had gone to the market but due to the lockdown in weekends we couldn’t go but I did a lot of masti without going outside too. We left on Sunday in the afternoon at 3:30 and reached at our home till 6:30.

Covid Impact on Indian Cricket

 

The Indian Cricket Team, it is a common topic in my blog but I have never mentioned about their players injuries. This thing started from the India vs Australia test series in 2020, Virat Kohli had told that he will not play the test series as he is taking paternity leave so Ajinkya Rahane became the captain and after that many players got injured like Mohammed Shami, Hanuma Vihari etc. After that tour, India got to know about their bench strength as India beat Australia in that test series. As you must be knowing, A first set of players are in England a second set of players are in Sri Lanka. Let us start with the first set of players, In England the first who got injured was Shubman Gill he had shin splints and he was ruled out of the 5 match test series vs England. Then it was Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane, Rahane had a swollen hamstring and Kohli had a stiff back. They both are on recovery stage and will play the 5 match test series. During the warm – up game of India Washington Sundar and Avesh Khan also got injured. Avesh Khan dislocated his thumb during the practice match and Washington Sundar aggravated his finger injury. In the second set of players, nobody has been injured but Krunal Pandya was tested positive for Covid. His 8 close contacts have tested negative but in the eight contacts, two of them are Suryakumar Yadav and Prithvi Shaw. Due to 4 injuries in the Indian team in England Suryakumar and Shaw were choose as the back – ups for them and now it is confirmed that they both will not be available for the first two tests vs England. Thanks to India’s bench strength or else I don’t think that there would be any backups taken for the injuries in England and if there was no such good bench strength team India could not break Australia’s Gabba Fortes.

India vs Sri Lanka Series

 As you know the Indian Cricket team has gone to England to play the WTC and the 5 test match series. But an another Indian Team has also gone to Sri Lanka which is a very young team and has 7 uncapped players. After the performances by the young players in IPL and the Gabba Test against Australia, India has got a very good bench strength which can also beat Australia and break there Gabba triumph. The Shikhar Dhawan lead Indian team is in Sri Lanka and the series was set to begin on 13th July but there were three Covid cases in the Sri Lankan camp of the Delta variant. Sri Lanka's batting coach Grant Flower and there Data Analyst and there one more team member has tested positive for the Delta Variant of the Covid virus. So, the series has been shifted to 18th July and it will start from 18th July.