👉Venue: Paris, France
✓ 3rd time hosting after 1900 , 1924 & 2024
👉Edition : 33rd
👉Date: 26 July 2024 - 11 August 2024
👉Total players included from India: 117
👉 Mascot: Phrygian Hat
👉 Slogan: Games Wide Open
👉 Indian Flag Bearers: PV Sindhu (badminton player) & Sharath Kamal Achanta (Table-tennis player)
👉 Chef de Mission: Gagan Narang (shooter)
👉Indian Torch Bearer: Abhinav Bindra (Shooter)
👉 Indian Institute of Olympics: Indian Olympic Association (IOA)
👉HQ: New Delhi
👉 Chairman: PT Usha
👉 Founded in 1927
👉 The Olympic flag was proposed in 1913, officially it was inaugurated in Paris in 1914 and was hoisted at the Antwerp (Belgium) Olympic Games 1920.
👉The total number of rings in the Olympic flag: 05
👉The 5 rings are interconnected and are in Blue 💙, Yellow 💛, Black 🖤, Green 💚 & Red ♥️
👉 These 5 rings symbolise the unity of 5 continents: America, Africa, Europe, Asia & Oceania (Australia)
👉 India 1st participated in the Olympics: 1900
👉India won 2 medals (both silver), with one soloist Norman Pritchard, in athletics India, first time, sent a team to the Summer Olympic Games 1920.
👉1st Woman to win Olympic medal: Karnam Malleswari
✓ She won a bronze medal in weightlifting at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
👉 1st Indian to win an individual gold medal at the Olympic Games: Abhinav Bindra
👉 He won in the Men's 10m air rifle event in 2008 Beijing Olympics.
👉1st Indian Woman to win an Olympic silver medal: PV Sindhu
👉 She won at the 2016 Rio Olympics in badminton.
👉1st Indian Woman Wrestler to win an Olympic bronze medal: Sakshi Malik
👉 She won at the 2016 Rio Olympics
👉In the Olympics, India has won the title of hockey 8 times.
👉 After independence, the first Olympic medal for India was won by the men's field hockey team at the 1948 London Olympics, where they won the gold medal.
👉1st individual who won the 1st individual Olympic medal after independence: KD Jadhav
👉 He won the bronze medal at the 1952 - Helsinki O
Olympics in the 125- pound bantamweight category of wrestling.
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