🟢Important facts related to Paris Olympics 2024
💠The Summer Olympic Games were held in Paris, the capital of France, from July 26, 2024 to August 11, 2024.
💠The Indian contingent finished 71st in the medal table with a total of 6 medals including 1 silver and 5 bronze, 117 Indian athletes participated in this competition.
💠Manu Bhaker became the first Indian woman shooter to win an Olympic medal. With this, she also became the first Indian to win two medals in the same edition of the Olympics.
💠India has won a total of 41 medals in the Olympics so far.
💠KD Jadhav became the first individual athlete of independent India to win a bronze medal in wrestling at Helsinki 1952.
💠Weightlifter Karnam Malleswari became the first woman to win an Olympic medal at Sydney 2000.
💠Shooter Abhinav Bindra was the first Indian to win an individual Olympic gold medal at Beijing 2008.
💠The first Olympic Games were held in Athens, Greece in 1896.
💠The Olympic motto is ‘Citius-Altius-Fortius’, which means ‘faster-higher-stronger’ in English.
💠The headquarters of the International Olympic Committee is located in Lausanne, Switzerland.
