Olympians from the Defence Forces had been felicitated by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.© Twitter
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday felicitated Defence Forces personnel who took half within the Tokyo Olympics, together with Olympic gold medal successful javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra, on the Military Sports activities Institute (ASI) in Pune. Singh additionally renamed the ASI Stadium after Neeraj, who bagged the nation’s first gold in athletics on the marquee occasion and in addition grew to become the one second particular person gold medallist for India after shooter Abhinav Bindra. Neeraj was additionally current on the event. A scarf, which was signed by the Olympians, was additionally introduced to the Defence Minister.
Amongst these, who had been felicitated had been Tarundeep Rai (Archery), Pravin Jadhav (Archery), Amit (Boxing), Manish Kaushik (Boxing), Satish Kumar (Boxing), CA Kuttappa (Boxing coach), Chotelal Yadav (Boxing coach – Mary Kom’s coach), Deepak Punia (Wrestling), Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind Singh (Rowing), Vishnu Saravanan (Crusing) and Neeraj.
Neeraj was introduced with a duplicate of javelin. Singh asserted that his authorities would do all the things to advertise sports activities.
“To advertise sports activities, we’ll do no matter is required and we’re dedicated to that. And each participant of the nation is aware of about it. Our Prime Minister is encouraging all of the Video games and the gamers,” Singh advised reporters.
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“The federal government will give encouragement to each particular person from the sports activities neighborhood and the state governments are additionally making good contributions in facilitating gamers,” he added.
“I’m ready for that second, when India will get a possibility to host the Olympic Video games,” mentioned Singh whereas addressing the gathering. Military Chief Common MM Naravane was current on the event.
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