CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -MP Jabir will be the first Indian male athlete to compete in 400m hurdles at the Olympics. PT Usha was India’s first 400m hurdler.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sajan Prakash became the first Indian to directly qualify for the Olympics when he achieved the elusive ‘A’ cut in the 200m butterfly event. Srihari Nataraj too managed to achieve the ‘A’ cut in the 100m backstroke a day later.

Detailed explanation-3: -Amlan Borgohain won gold medals in the 100m and 200m with timings of 20.75s and 10.34s, respectively. The Assamese sprinter carried his form into the following year and on April 6, 2022, he took possession of his first-ever national record.

Detailed explanation-4: -1. Leander Paes (7) Leander Paes is the only tennis player in the world to make seven consecutive Olympic Games (1992-2016) appearances.

Detailed explanation-5: -Since the 2000 Olympics, the country has not sent its athletes in almost half of the sports since the 2000 Olympics. At the Sydney Games, India competed in just 13 out of the 28 sports. In Tokyo, the country’s athletes qualified in 18 out of 33 sports, competing in only 69 out of the 339 medal events.