With only 48 hours to go the predictions are going up and the world is waiting for the top athletes to clash with each other and bring the best out of each other. In Olympic news after 57 years Tokyo is ready for yet another Olympic games and will be looking to give us records and performances which will provide us enough motivation until the next one is around the corner. This year’s Olympic Games will be an interesting watch as there will be the introduction of new games, Indians are making waves in many sports this time. Youngsters are in large numbers in each event from the country. They will have a chance to deliver for their country and will look to carry the flag till the end. Last year's Olympics in Rio 2016 saw the women bringing the medals home as the men came home empty handed, this time we have a large team and a representation in most of the events. We will be looking at a better or an all time best performance by the team.

Fencing Sabre

C.A Bhavani Devi has become the first in Indian history to qualify for the olympics  in fencing. Her first International competition was when was just 14 years old and two years later she won the Bronze medal in the Asian Championship in the Philippines. She is also the first Indian to win a gold in Commonwealth Fencing Championship in Canberra in the sabre event. Her path paves the way for millions of aspiring athletes, she has set the track and inspired many by qualifying for the Olympics. It will be a huge victory if she manages a podium finish, as she and the sport will get nationwide attention. Like boxing started a few years ago, just a little spark is needed for the games to grow. She will start her campaign on July 26 and will look to slash through fear and  pressure.

Equestrian

Fouaad Mirza is the First Indian in 20 years to qualify at the Olympics in Equestrian. In the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games he won two silvers, one each in individual and team event. He is only the third Indian Equestrian to compete at the Olympics. He is being trained by Sandra Auffarth who  won the Silver Medal at London Olympics 2012 in the individual event, his family has been involved in Horse Riding for the past 8 generations. He qualified after finishing on top in the South East Asia and Oceania Qualifiers in 2019. Athletes like these can do the sport much favour by winning in international stages, and there is no stage bigger than the Olympics. The events will start from the 30th of July.

Judo

Women’s 48kg Extra Lightweight

Sushila Devi Likmabam will be India's lone participant in Judo at Tokyo 2020. She won the Silver medal at the Commonwealth Games in 2014 at Glasgow and later won the Gold in the 2019 Commonwealth Judo Championship. She qualified through the continental quotas as she has a ranking of 46 on the Olympic Games Quota. Winning a medal would get media attention on the deserved sport and help in bringing in more athletes for the sport. Last year too we only had a single participant in judo that was Avtar Singh, there needs to be more awareness about the sport. Sushila will be looking to repeat her Commonwealth heroics and increase India's medal prospects. The Judo matches start from July 24.

Rowing

Arjun Jat and Arvind Singh

India has been participating in Rowing since the 2000 Sydney Olympics and has sent athletes ever since. In 2016 the country saw its best performance in rowing with Dattu Baban Bhokanal finishing 13th in the Men's Single Sculls. The sport deserves to get more value than it has in the present, Arjun  Jat and Arvind Singh first won their medal in the 2019 Asian championship where they came in second. Both will be making their debut in Tokyo and  will be looking to pull off an upset. The rowing event starts from July 24th and will go on till 29th of July.

Sailing

Women’s Laser Radial

Nethra Kumanan  is the first Indian woman sailor to qualify for the Olympics. She was also the first Indian woman to win a World Cup medal in Sailing when she won the Bronze medal at the 2020 Sailing World Cup in Miami, USA. She qualified in the Massanah Championships while finishing on top. Sailing so far has seen 10 sailors represent in the Olympics, in a country of over 1 billion in population our representation should be a lot more. Other events have seen many representations in the Olympics. She will look to break various records at Tokyo and come back sailing with a medal. The Four sailors making their debut in Tokyo. The sailing event will start from 25th of July and will go on till the 1st of August.

Men’s

Laser Standard

Vishnu Saravanan started  turning heads by winning multiple medals at the junior national stages, he was the youth national champion in 2016. He won the senior National Championship in 2018 and the very next year continued his winning run by winning the bronze in laser under 21 World Cup in Croatia. He will be looking to bring his form in Tokyo and sail against the wind. He secured his place in the games by coming second in the Mussanah Championships.

49er team

KC Ganapathy and Varun Thakkar won their first medal when they won bronze in the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta. They finished on top in the Mussanah Championships to secure their place in the Tokyo Olympics. They will be in action starting from July 27 and will be interesting to see how events unfold. All the sailors qualified through the same championship and will try to do the same in the games.

Interesting Fact: The 10 second barrier in the Olympics was broken for the first time in the 1968 Mexico Olympics by Jim Hines.