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Hijam Raju Singh | TIMESOFINDIA.COM

Six medals, no gold: How India's campaign panned out at the Paris Olympics

It won't be easy to judge India's campaign at the Paris Olympics. Can we term it a successful one or not? Purely speaking about the number of medals won, India failed to match the tally from the last edition in Tokyo. It won six medals in this edition, in comparison to seven in Tokyo three years ago, which was the best medal haul for the country ever in its Olympic history.

With the biggest contingent ever, 117 athletes, India went to Paris with the expectation of touching the double-digit medal tally for the first time. It was a long shot, but there was hope.

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