The Indian contingent is set to enter the upcoming Parsi Olympics 2024 with high hopes after a record-breaking return in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. India is set to send it’s one of the biggest contingents for the 33rd Summer Olympics in Paris starting on July 26.
Neeraj Chopra will be the face of the Indian athletics team and is tipped to defend his Gold in the men’s javelin event. Notably, only two Indians, including Chopra, have won individual golds in the Olympic Games and no one has defended in so far.
Chopra is all but expected to clinch a medal for India and it will be a big deal for the Indian contingent which has produced only three athletes with multiple individual medals so far. Chopra, Lovlina Borgohain, Mirabai Chanu and PV Sindhu won the medals in the previous Olympic Games and are hopefuls for the medals in the Paris Games.
India’s first athlete to win an individual medal was Norman Pritchard who was the first Asian-born athlete to win medals in Olympic Games. Pritchard famously won two silver medals in the men’s 200-meter and 200-meter hurdles in the Paris 1900 Games.
