INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE "EMPOWER IAS"

In news:

• The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has suspended North Korea until the end of 2022 after it failed to send a team to the Tokyo Games.

 

 

About:

• The suspension means the country will miss out on the Beijing Winter Games.
• North Korea did not send a delegation to the Tokyo Games, saying it wanted to protect its athletes from Covid-19.
• IOC President Thomas Bach said the IOC reserves the right to make decisions on any individual North Korean athletes who qualify for Beijing 2022 and to reconsider the duration of the country’s suspension.
• At Rio Olympics 2016, North Korea had won two Golds, three Silvers and two Bronzes.

 

 

Objectives of IOC

1. The IOC has the aim of ensuring the regular holding of the Olympic Games and fostering Olympism and the Olympic movement. 
2. The Committee decides the rules and regulations of the Olympic Games. It also decides when and where the next Olympics event will be held.

 

India And Olympics

• India first participated in the Olympics in 1900 in Paris.
• The country was represented by Norman Pritchard, an Anglo Indian who was holidaying in Paris during that time.
• Sir Dorabji Tata suggested the need for a Sports body at National level for promoting Olympic Sport in united India IN 1920’s
• The nation first sent a team to the Summer Olympic Games in 1920
• 1923-24 a provisional All India Olympic Committee was set-up
• Which organised the All India Olympic Games in February 1924.
• That later became the National Games of India.
• In 1927 the Indian Olympic Association was officially recognised by the International Olympic Committee.
• Indian Olympic Association selected sportspersons to represent India at the Olympic Games.
• Later, the IOA also started sending National Teams to Games of the CGF and OCA.
• Indian Participation and achievements
• Indian athletes have won 28 medals, all at the Summer Games.
• India national field hockey team was dominant  that winning eleven medals in twelve Olympics between 1920 and 1980.
• At the 2016 Summer Olympics, a record number of 118 athletes competed.
• In the 1952 Summer Olympics wrestler K.D. Jadhav won the first individual medal for independent India.
• Wrestler Sushil Kumar became the first Indian with multiple individual Olympic medals.
• Saina Nehwal won bronze medal in badminton in Women’s singles getting the country’s first Olympic medal in badminton.
• Sakshi Malik became the first Indian woman wrestler to win an Olympic medal with her bronze medal.
• Shuttler P. V. Sindhu became the first Indian woman to win a silver medal in Olympics and also the youngest Indian Olympic medallist.