The 2020 Tokyo Olympics was delayed by 1 year and now theathletes of different countries are now in Japan representing their owncountries, with a lot of wins and defeats players, are either stepping up andsome are leaving Tokyo with tears and broken hearts.
The top 5 countries are:
1. China: 28 gold, 16 silver, and 16 bronze medals
2. USA: 21 gold, 25 silver, and 16 bronze medals
3. Japan: 17 gold, 6 silver, and 10 bronze medals
4. Australia: 14 gold, 4 silver, 14 bronze medals
5. ROC (Russia): 12 gold, 21 silver, and 17 bronze medals
And the current ranking of India is 61 and has won 1 silver and 1bronze medal so far. Both the medals are won by women. The silver was won by Chanu SaikhomMirabai, under women’s 49 kg and the first winner is China’s Hou Zhihui.
The bronzeis won by the golden girl, PV Sindhu who is the first woman to win 2 Olympics medalsindividually and is in women’s singles badminton. Gold was won by Tai Tzu-Yingand silver was earned by China’s Chen Yufei.
Many of the heartbreakingdefeats till now are of Mary Kom, Deepika Kumari, Priya Malik, Indian Men’sHockey team, Sonam Malik, and BoxerSatish Kumar, just to name a few.
Among these have made some records likethe Indian Hockey team who reached so far after 37 years, and Satish Kumar whofought the quarter-finals even after 13 stitches and became the 1st Indiansuper heavyweight boxer to reach Olympics under the 91 kg category. Still thereis the hope of earning many more medals by the Indian athletes.