Jay Shah announces 8.5cr to support Indian athletes in Olympics 2024

Secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), Jay Shah, said that the cricket governing body will provide the India Olympic Association ₹8.5 crore to help Indian athletes compete in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.

'I am proud to announce that the @BCCI will be supporting our incredible athletes representing #India at the 2024 Paris Olympics. We are providing INR 8.5 Crores to the IOA for the campaign.' Jay Shah wrote on x To our entire contingent, we wish you the very best. Additionally, he wished the Indian contingent well and urged them to 'Make India proud! Jai Hind!'

Shah announced that the Paris Games will start on July 26. India will send up to 117 competitors to the Olympics in Paris. There will be a contingent of 257 people in total, including 140 support personnel.

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The 117 Indian athletes who are scheduled to 'make the nation proud at the Paris Olympics, beginning July 26, 2024' include 24 members of the Armed Forces, according to a press statement from the Ministry of Defence.

Two of these 24 athletes are women, making it the first time that female service athletes have competed in an Olympic Games. The other 22 participants are males, including prominent javelin thrower Subedar Neeraj Chopra.

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Less than a week before the Olympics began, French officials allegedly recalled metal water bottles with the Paris 2024 logo because they contained high amounts of the endocrine disruptor Bisphenol-A.

Levels of the chemical found in bottles manufactured by the French business Vilac are "not in compliance with regulations," according to the Rappel Conso government website. The bottles are no longer available on the Vilac online store. They were offered in France from the end of August 2023 until the beginning of June.

Additionally, the country's acting interior minister said on Sunday that more than 4,000 applications for accreditation to the Paris 2024 Olympics were denied by French security agencies, citing worries about espionage and cyberattacks, according to Reuters.

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