33 years old Flora Duffy pulled off a stunning victory in 10km Run to give Bermuda its first-ever Olympic gold medal. Thanks to Duffy’s win, Bermuda became the smallest country to bag a gold medal at any edition of the summer Olympic Games. The small island of Bermuda, located in …
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Teenage Japanese Skateboarding sensation Nishiya Momji took home the gold medal in the Women’s Street Skateboarding competition. At just 13, she became one of the youngest Olympian ever to win a gold medal. Nishiya Momji beat Brazil’s Rayssa Leal, to gain the top spot on the Olympic podium, thanks to …
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18-year-old Ahmed Hafnaoui from Tunisia became only the 5th Tunisian to win an Olympic gold medal, after he beat Australian swimmer Jack McLoughlin in the 400m Swimming Freestyle finals at the Tokyo 2020. Termed officially as the Republic of Tunisia, the country is the northernmost nation residing in the African …
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12-year-old Syrian Hend Zaza, rose above the challenges posed by civil war to make her way to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and make history, by becoming the youngest Olympian to participate not just in this particular edition, but the youngest one since 1968. Syria had a small 6-person delegation to …
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From landing a job as a junior ticket collector to leading the Indian Women’s Hockey team in the Rio 2016 Olympics and now travelling to the Tokyo Olympics as an experienced and crucial member of the squad, it’s been a long journey for Pukhrambam Sushila Chanu. In 2016 Rio Olympic …
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Sometimes regarded as one of the greatest athletes ever to have lived, ‘Babe’ Didrikson Zaharias, byname of Mildred Ella Zaharias, holds more records and medals than any other 20th-century athlete. Mildred Ella Didrikson achieved particular success in Basketball, Baseball and Track and Field. However, she is most widely known because …
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“I can’t keep calm when Dueball’s on”. That is what Pankaj Bhardwaj has to say about how much the sport means to him. For the uninitiated, Dueball is a hybrid sport that was both invented and developed by Firoz Khan on Indian soil in Nagpur. It has quickly gone on …
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Two-time Olympic winning legend of India Keshav Datt, passed away due to age-related issues. The formidable centre halfback breathed his last, aged 95 at his own residence in Kolkata. With his death, India lost the last remaining member of the legendary Olympic-winning team of 1948. Hockey India President Gyanendro Ningombam …
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The Olympic Refugee Team comprising of 29 athletes will be representing the Olympic Flag in this edition of Olympics at Tokyo. Abdullah Sediqi – Taekondo Tekondo has been a guiding light for Abdullah Sediqi since he fled from Afghanistan. Sediqi feared for his life in his native place after he …
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The Olympic Refugee Team will participate in the Tokyo Olympics 2020 as a symbol of hope for every refugee around the planet. Over the past ten years the refugee population around the world has increased by more than two times. The number of people who have been forcibly displaced all …
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