Today is India’s first day in Paris Olympics… Indian athletes will participate in these games
India will start its campaign in Paris Olympics 2024 from Thursday, July 25. The Maha Kumbh of the Games will be inaugurated on Friday, July 26, but India will start its campaign a day earlier (July 25). This time a 117-member Indian contingent will participate in the Games. India will start with archery. However, India has not got any medal in archery so far. The target for the archers will be to get India the first medal on the first day. So let’s know how India’s schedule will be on the first day.
India’s schedule in archery on the first day
Women: Women’s Individual Ranking Round will be held from 1pm in the afternoon. Deepika Kumari, Ankita Bhakt and Bhajan Kaur are participating in women’s category.
Men: Then there will be Men’s Individual Ranking Round at 5:45pm in the evening. B. Dheeraj, Tarundeep Rai and Praveen Jadhav are participating in men’s category.
Where to watch live?
The archery match on the first day will be broadcasted live on TV in India through Viacom 18’s Sports18 and DD Sports 1.0. Apart from this, it will be live streamed through JioCinema, which you can watch absolutely ‘free’.
Let us tell you that this will be the first time after the Olympics held in London in 2012 that India will participate in all 5 events of archery. A total of 6 players from India will participate in these 5 events, including 3 men and 3 women.
India will want to break the record of Tokyo Olympics
It is worth noting that earlier the 2020 Olympics was played in Tokyo. India won a total of 7 medals in the Tokyo Olympics. In Tokyo, India set the record for winning the most medals in an Olympics. 7 included 1 gold, 2 silver and 4 bronze medals. Star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra won the gold medal for India in the Tokyo Olympics. This time the Indian team would like to go beyond the Tokyo Olympics and set a new record.
