Sports Current Affairs- July 22, 2021
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Sports Current Affairs
1-After recuperating from Covid-19, wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant joins the Indian Test team.
2-Olympics: The Tokyo 2020 Games will begin on Friday, July 23, despite a dearth of excitement.
3-Only 28 people will take part in the opening ceremony, including six officials and 22 Indian athletes.
4-Sumit Nagal of India will face Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan in the first round of the men’s singles event at the Tokyo Olympics.
5-Kentaro Kobayashi, the director of the Olympic Opening Ceremony, has been fired over an old Holocaust skit.
6-Only around 950 people, including officials and journalists, will be permitted to attend the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics on Friday in the main stadium.
Sports Current Affairs
7-The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) will award Rs 75 lakh to the gold medalist in Tokyo.
8- On Thursday, India’s six-time World Champion MC Mary Kom was given a difficult draw for the Olympic boxing tournament.
9-Nike Lorenz, Germany’s hockey captain, has been granted permission to wear rainbow colours during the Olympics in Tokyo.
10-Syrian table tennis player Hend Zaza, who is just 12 years old, is poised to become the Olympics’ youngest competitor.
11-At the International Stadium in Yokohama, Japan, forward Richarlison scores a hat-trick to help Brazil defeat 2016 finalists Germany.
12-The Czech Olympic Committee (COV) has launched an investigation after a third member of their team tested positive for Covid-19.
13- More women in South India are expected to pursue a career in gaming, according to a new report.
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