{"id":22742,"date":"2021-08-08T20:47:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T15:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=134681"},"modified":"2021-08-08T20:53:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T15:23:55","slug":"bajrang-punia-led-the-indian-contingent-at-the-memorable-tokyo-olympics-while-the-mega-event-declared-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/olympics\/bajrang-punia-led-the-indian-contingent-at-the-memorable-tokyo-olympics-while-the-mega-event-declared-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"Bajrang Punia led the Indian contingent at the memorable Tokyo Olympics while the mega-event declared closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The bronze <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">medal-winning<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">wrestler<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Bajrang Punia led the Indian <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">contingent<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at the Tokyo Olympics <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">closing<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ceremony<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that was held in an empty Olympic Stadium in Tokyo. Bajrang Punia was assigned as the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">flag bearer <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">for India at the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">closing ceremony<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The opening ceremony saw the Indian boxing icon Mary Kom and the men\u2019s hockey team captain Manpreet Singh as the flag bearers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 2020 Tokyo Games were announced closed on Sunday by International Olympic Committee chief Thomas Bach, who named the delay of the Olympic games \u201cthe most challenging Olympic journey\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">From the bottom of our hearts \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Thank you \ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NVcUUPkfer\">pic.twitter.com\/NVcUUPkfer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 #Tokyo2020 (@Tokyo2020) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tokyo2020\/status\/1424358554211815439?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 8, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cNow I have to mark the end of this most challenging Olympic journey to Tokyo. I declare the Games of the 32nd Olympiad closed,\u201d said Thomas Bach\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, the Olympic flag was authorized to Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo for the 2024 Games at the Tokyo closing ceremony. As she received the flag from International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach, Mayor Hidalgo waved the flag that was decorated with the five Olympic rings.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Let's get it started!<\/p>\n<p>Les Jeux Olympiques de <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Paris2024?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Paris2024<\/a> commencent !<br \/>Ouvrons ensemble un nouveau chapitre des Jeux.<\/p>\n<p>Together, let\u2019s write a new chapter of the Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd35\ud83d\udfe1\u26ab\ufe0f\ud83d\udfe2\ud83d\udd34 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0QGjXfpvGY\">pic.twitter.com\/0QGjXfpvGY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Paris 2024 (@Paris2024) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Paris2024\/status\/1424351764506161159?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 8, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For India, the closing ceremony marked the end of what was an outstanding achievement by the athletes to help the country win a record seven medals. The most that India has ever won in a single Olympic campaign. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken to Twitter to congratulate the Indian contingent for their brilliant and hard-fought success at the Olympics. He and later thanked the Government and the people of Japan. He spoke of the well-organised games and gave out a strong message of resilience.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tokyo2020?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tokyo2020<\/a> draws to a close, I would like to congratulate the Indian contingent for their stupendous performance at the games. They personified the best of skill, teamwork and dedication. Every athlete who represented India is a champion.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/narendramodi\/status\/1424346356030734346?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 8, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The closing ceremony marked the end of the athletes\u2019 outstanding achievement to help the country win a record of seven medals in a single Olympic edition. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":42928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2387,1891,1201,2393,2078,982],"class_list":["post-22742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-olympics","tag-cheer4india","tag-olympic","tag-team-india","tag-tokyo-2020-olympics","tag-world-atheltics","tag-wrestling"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22742","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\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}