Know your Indian Team at Rio Olympics & cheer them up – The biggest sporting carnival in our planet

Quick facts on Olympics

Olympic is the biggest sporting extravaganza in our planet and every time this event is getting bigger and better. Ancient Olympia was first held in Greece from 776BC to 393AD. After a gap of more than 1500 years the first modern Olympics was held in Athens, Greece in 1896. In the year 1920, the Olympic Oath was introduced. Olympic Torch was first inaugurated in the year 1928. Even though the ancient Olympia had only male participants, the modern Olympics started including women athletes. 1900 is the first edition when women started participating in Olympics to ensure gender equality at the games.

Indian Government Initiatives

As the event gets closer there is a lot of hype around the event. Every country supports their athletes in the event vociferously and backs them up to achieve victory. India is no exception to this and a lot of initiatives have been taken this time around to ensure India has rich medal haul compare to all the previous editions. Indian government has taken an initiative by the name “Target Olympic Podium Scheme(TOPS)” . Ministry of Youth affairs and Sports identified potential candidates and groomed them for the past 4 years by providing all the required benefits to help them compete in Olympics with world standards.

India at Olympics

India as a country has the lowest medal to population ratio in the world. Being the second most populous country in the world with 1.33billion (As on 2016) population, the country has bagged just 26 medals in all editions put together till date. India has been more successful in Men’s hockey and they have won 11 medals overall in this event, 8 of those are gold medals. Beyond Hockey India has just seen sparks of individual brilliance in one event or the other. 2012 is considered as the best Olympics for India with 6 medals overall in the event. This is the highest ever medal tally India has managed to achieve.

RIO 2016

Given all the support which the Indian government has provided and the tireless effort of all the athletes who made the Rio mark, high expectations is on the air for Rio Olympics. India is sporting their largest ever contingent to Rio with 126 sport person participating in 15 different sports. This is way high compared to the London Olympics where only 83 athletes represented India. The high nominations are due to the improved qualification in the field of athletics and Women’s hockey team getting nominated for their 2^nd Olympics after 1980. This is only the 2^nd instance where both men and women Indian hockey team is participating in the same Olympics. We have also surprise nomination in the field of Gymnastics for the first time. Dipa Karmakar, a 23 year old Tripura girl made the Rio mark for the first time ever and made India proud by getting qualified for the Women’s artistic gymnastic event.

Cheer Indian Team

As a mark of gesture to honour these athletes who qualified for Rio and continue cheering them through their journey at Olympics, a team of web developers from Chennai has created a website by the name www.roarindiario.in. This website has all the details about the athletes, their personal achievements and the events in which they participate. It also has event details of each athlete. This ready reckonor website will come in handy when you cheer Indian athletes at Rio.

Cheer their mission!!!  Support as a nation!!! Celebrate their rendition!!!