{"id":22624,"date":"2021-07-21T22:50:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T17:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=128769"},"modified":"2021-07-21T23:00:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T17:30:50","slug":"sports-minister-anurag-thakur-applauded-olympic-bound-athletes-with-new-initiative-humara-victory-punch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/olympics\/sports-minister-anurag-thakur-applauded-olympic-bound-athletes-with-new-initiative-humara-victory-punch\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Minister Anurag Thakur applauded Olympic-bound athletes with new initiative \u201cHumara Victory Punch\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While India will commence its mission at the Tokyo Games 2020 from Friday of this week with women\u2019s archery, <span style=\"text-transform: initial\">Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Minister Anurag Thakur started a new preference \u201c#HumaraVictoryPunch\u201d to cheer Indian athletes who are going to represent the country and to motivate them ahead of the mega event.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Youth Affairs and Sports Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ianuragthakur?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ianuragthakur<\/a> urges people to make a video with their friends and family members and share it with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HumaraVictoryPunch?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HumaraVictoryPunch<\/a> in support of Indian athletes representing the country in Tokyo Olympic.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cheer4India?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Cheer4India<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PjHSqAkGuL\">pic.twitter.com\/PjHSqAkGuL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 All India Radio News (@airnewsalerts) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/airnewsalerts\/status\/1417880044639330304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A cumulative number of\u00a0 127 sportspeople across 18 sports professions from India are partaking in the mega event, the largest ever group nation is sending to any Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>The first batch of the country\u2019s Olympic-bound athletes left for Tokyo on July 17 in the presence of the Sports Minister. After landing in the capital, they started with their training to be in the promising form to compete.<\/p>\n<p>Anurag Thakur with the inscription published a video on his Twitter account nominating five people that included Kiren Rijiju, Virendra Sehwag, Akshay Kumar, Saina Nehwal and Vijay Shekhar that said: \u201cTag 5 friends\/family members to show your support for the Indian Olympics Team.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"vi\" dir=\"ltr\">\u092f\u0947 \u0939\u0948 \u092e\u0947\u0930\u0940 \u091f\u0940\u092e \u0914\u0930 \u092f\u0947 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tokyo2020?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tokyo2020<\/a>\u00a0Olympics \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0939\u092e\u093e\u0930\u0947 \u0916\u093f\u0932\u093e\u0921\u093c\u093f\u092f\u094b\u0902 \u0915\u094b cheer \u0915\u0930\u0928\u0947 \u0915\u0947 \u0932\u093f\u090f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HumaraVictoryPunch?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HumaraVictoryPunch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tag 5 friends\/family members to show your support for the<br \/>Indian\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3Olympics Team!<\/p>\n<p>I nominate:<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KirenRijiju?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KirenRijiju<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/virendersehwag?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@virendersehwag<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/akshaykumar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@akshaykumar<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NSaina?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NSaina<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vijayshekhar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@vijayshekhar<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cheer4India?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Cheer4India<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/54UU0gZEp7\">pic.twitter.com\/54UU0gZEp7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anurag Thakur (@ianuragthakur) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ianuragthakur\/status\/1417841495747350532?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-transform: initial\">The event which was deemed to be held last year got deferred due to the global rise of coronavirus pandemic and is now scheduled to proceed from 23 July which will carry out to August 8. With women\u2019s archery to open the trip of India at the Olympics 2020, the opening ceremony is planned for Friday night in the Japanese capital and the games got underway with women\u2019s softball and women\u2019s football game.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports Minister Anurag Thakur with \u201cHumara Victory Punch\u201d started a new ambition to hail the confidence and motivate the Olympic-bound athletes who are representing the nation.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":42810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1364,643,1934,76,1670,2393,638,790,1293],"class_list":["post-22624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-olympics","tag-anurag-thakur","tag-kiren-rijiju","tag-olympic-games","tag-saina-nehwal","tag-sports-minister","tag-tokyo-2020-olympics","tag-tokyo-olympics","tag-vijay-shekhar","tag-virendra-sehwag"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22624","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\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}