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TOKYO OLYMPICS 2020
A Test of Persistence, Perseverance and Endurance.
“Tough times never last, but tough people do”.
-Robert H. Schuller
THE BIGGEST SPORTS event of the before.
world, 2020 Summer Olympics (branded as
Tokyo 2020) took place at Tokyo, Japan, from “Moving Forward-United by Emotion”
23 July to 8 August 2021. This is the 4th time
that Japan has hosted the Olympics. The This year, more than 205 countries were
event was supposed to take place last year competing in Tokyo with over 11,000 athletes
but postponed in surge of devastating representing them. In the queue the south
situation of COVID-19. This year the motto of Asian country sends its largest-ever
the Tokyo Olympics 2020 was “Moving delegation, including India also had a large
Forward-United by Emotion” which contingent at the Olympic Games, including
acknowledged the hardship that the world various teams including sailing team,
has gone through while showing the fencing team which rarely participated in
Olympics has not only defeated the odds but Olympics in past years.
also united the world through sports, setting
an example which has never been seen
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