{"id":22572,"date":"2021-07-09T12:07:30","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T06:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=122809"},"modified":"2021-07-09T12:07:30","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T06:37:30","slug":"pm-narendra-modi-to-virtually-interact-with-tokyo-bound-athletes-on-july-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/olympics\/pm-narendra-modi-to-virtually-interact-with-tokyo-bound-athletes-on-july-13\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Narendra Modi to virtually interact with Tokyo-bound athletes on July 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with India\u2019s Olympic-bound athletes on July 13, three days before the first batch of participants leaves for the Games in Tokyo, to do the country proud. Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the engagement will be virtual.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHon\u2019ble PM Shri narendramodi will interact with #Tokyo Olympic bound athletes to motivate them ahead of their participation in the forthcoming Games, which will be held from 23 July to 8th August 2021,\u201d MyGovIndia, the government\u2019s citizen engagement platform, shared the news on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hon\u2019ble PM Shri <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/narendramodi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@narendramodi<\/a> will interact with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tokyo?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tokyo<\/a> Olympic bound athletes to motivate them ahead of their participation in the forthcoming Games, which will be held from 23 July to 8th August 2021. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cheer4India?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Cheer4India<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Register for the event at: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K3OLvhMPji\">https:\/\/t.co\/K3OLvhMPji<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Osr6JYM3xR\">pic.twitter.com\/Osr6JYM3xR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MyGovIndia (@mygovindia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mygovindia\/status\/1413114597557489665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 8, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>India is hoping for a strong show at the Tokyo Olympic Games, which are being hosted a year later than planned because of the Covid-19 outbreak. Several medal contenders can be found in different sports.<\/p>\n<p>A charter Air India jet will take the first batch of the Indian contingent to Tokyo. Even though the Indian Olympic Association has yet to formally reveal the size of the contingent, more than 120 competitors are expected to compete.<\/p>\n<p>The Tokyo Olympics will be hosted under a state of emergency in Japan from July 23 to August 8, with no spectators, due to the raging COVID-19 cases. The Indian Olympic Association revealed a few days ago that legendary boxer MC Mary Kom and Indian men\u2019s hockey team captain Manpreet Singh will be the joint flag-bearers for India during the Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with India\u2019s Olympic-bound athletes on July 13, three days before the first batch of\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":42759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1791,1485,71,1526,389,638],"class_list":["post-22572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-olympics","tag-athletes","tag-mary-kom","tag-narendra-modi","tag-olympics","tag-sports","tag-tokyo-olympics"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}