by: Student Council Heads and Sports Secretary
The Olympic torch is a tribute to the fire that burned throughout the ancient Greek Olympic games honoring which goddess? HESTIA What do the Olympic rings represent? AFRICA, THE AMERICAS, ASIA, EUROPE, & OCEANA Who wrote the music for the The Olympic Hymn? SPYROS SAMARAS
🏊Swimming - Men's 100m Bu1erfly
🥇Caeleb Dressel 🇺🇸
🥈Kristof Milak 🇭🇺
🥉Noe PonA 🇨🇭
🥊Nesthy Petecio🇵🇭 is into the gold medal match in #Boxing - Women's Feather (54-57kg) It will be on 3 August at 13:05 at the Kokugikan Arena
🏒Hockey: Indian🇮🇳 men's hockey team will face Great Britain in the quarter-final on August 1
🏋Weightlifting - Men's 81kg 🥇LYU Xiaojun 🇨🇳🥈Zacarias Bonnat 🇩🇴🥉 Antonino Pizzolato 🇮🇹
Sailing - Men's Windsurfer RS:X
🥇Kiran Badloe🇱🇺
🥈Thomas Goyard🇫🇷
🥉BI Kun🇨🇳
Tennis.🎾Novak Djokovic/Nina Stojanovic 🇸🇰 have withdrawn from the mixed doubles bronze medal match at #Tokyo2020 Ash Barty/John Peers 🇦🇺 win on a walkover #Bronze
🏸Indian shu*ler PV Sindhu🇮🇳 lost over world No 1 Tai Tzu-Ying of
Chinese Taipei in the semifinals. Bronze Match is next.
Day 8 Highlights: July 31, 2021
Elaine Thompson – Herah🇯🇲 as the 100m queen winning her 2nd consecutive Olympic gold 🥇 with 10.61 seconds Olympic record.
by: Student Council Heads and Sports Secretary
Day 8 Highlights: July 31, 2021
India's long jump athlete Sreeshankar
Murali would be making his Olympic debut at the
Tokyo Olympics and he would be looking to do
better than his fellow athletes on Day 1 of athletics
and try to reach the finals. The athlete who started
his journey in athletics from the age of five took up
sprinting initially and eventually switched to long
jump at the age of thirteen. Sreeshankar Murali
qualified for the Tokyo Olympics in March when he
breached the Olympic qualification mark by jumping
8.26m and in the process, he also set a new national
record. However, apart from being a national record
holder, Sreeshankar Murali is also a genius in
academics.
From Academics to Sports Sreeshankar Murali always had a focussed approach right from an
early age and this was applicable to his academics as well. According to one of his friends,
Sreeshankar used to be that kid in the class who would often spend hours behind a particular
math problem and eventually crack it as well when others would simply give up. His close circle
often used to admire the kind of determination he possessed from his early days and consider
him to be someone who does not get easily distracted.
The 22-year-old scored 96 per cent in his 12th standard exams and also cleared both medical
and engineering entrance exams. However, despite clearing both the entrance exams,
Sreeshankar's major focus was always on sports from a young age as he was the state-level
under-10 champion in 50m and 100m. before switching to long jump. In order to continue his
sporting journey, he decided to pursue his graduation in B.Sc (Mathematics) and the decision
was driven by the fact that the course would allow him to put in more time on the training
ground. All of India would be hoping that Sreeshankar Murali remains as focussed as he can
when he competes in the men's long jump event at the Tokyo Olympics.
Academic Genius to Olympian