by: Student Council Heads and Sports Secretary

The Olympic torch is a tribute to the fire that burned throughout the ancient Greek Olympic games honoring which goddess? HESTIA What do the Olympic rings represent? AFRICA, THE AMERICAS, ASIA, EUROPE, & OCEANA Who wrote the music for the The Olympic Hymn? SPYROS SAMARAS

🏊Swimming - Men's 100m Bu1erfly

🥇Caeleb Dressel 🇺🇸

🥈Kristof Milak 🇭🇺

🥉Noe PonA 🇨🇭

🥊Nesthy Petecio🇵🇭 is into the gold medal match in #Boxing - Women's Feather (54-57kg) It will be on 3 August at 13:05 at the Kokugikan Arena

🏒Hockey: Indian🇮🇳 men's hockey team will face Great Britain in the quarter-final on August 1

🏋Weightlifting - Men's 81kg 🥇LYU Xiaojun 🇨🇳🥈Zacarias Bonnat 🇩🇴🥉 Antonino Pizzolato 🇮🇹

Sailing - Men's Windsurfer RS:X

🥇Kiran Badloe🇱🇺

🥈Thomas Goyard🇫🇷

🥉BI Kun🇨🇳

Tennis.🎾Novak Djokovic/Nina Stojanovic 🇸🇰 have withdrawn from the mixed doubles bronze medal match at #Tokyo2020 Ash Barty/John Peers 🇦🇺 win on a walkover #Bronze

🏸Indian shu*ler PV Sindhu🇮🇳 lost over world No 1 Tai Tzu-Ying of

Chinese Taipei in the semifinals. Bronze Match is next.

Day 8 Highlights: July 31, 2021

Elaine Thompson – Herah🇯🇲 as the 100m queen winning her 2nd consecutive Olympic gold 🥇 with 10.61 seconds Olympic record.

by: Student Council Heads and Sports Secretary

Day 8 Highlights: July 31, 2021

India's long jump athlete Sreeshankar

Murali would be making his Olympic debut at the

Tokyo Olympics and he would be looking to do

better than his fellow athletes on Day 1 of athletics

and try to reach the finals. The athlete who started

his journey in athletics from the age of five took up

sprinting initially and eventually switched to long

jump at the age of thirteen. Sreeshankar Murali

qualified for the Tokyo Olympics in March when he

breached the Olympic qualification mark by jumping

8.26m and in the process, he also set a new national

record. However, apart from being a national record

holder, Sreeshankar Murali is also a genius in

academics.

From Academics to Sports Sreeshankar Murali always had a focussed approach right from an

early age and this was applicable to his academics as well. According to one of his friends,

Sreeshankar used to be that kid in the class who would often spend hours behind a particular

math problem and eventually crack it as well when others would simply give up. His close circle

often used to admire the kind of determination he possessed from his early days and consider

him to be someone who does not get easily distracted.

The 22-year-old scored 96 per cent in his 12th standard exams and also cleared both medical

and engineering entrance exams. However, despite clearing both the entrance exams,

Sreeshankar's major focus was always on sports from a young age as he was the state-level

under-10 champion in 50m and 100m. before switching to long jump. In order to continue his

sporting journey, he decided to pursue his graduation in B.Sc (Mathematics) and the decision

was driven by the fact that the course would allow him to put in more time on the training

ground. All of India would be hoping that Sreeshankar Murali remains as focussed as he can

when he competes in the men's long jump event at the Tokyo Olympics.

Academic Genius to Olympian