1. Beijing winter olympics 2022 comes to an end
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The 24th winter olympics came to an end on 20 February 2022 at a colourful ceremony in the “Bird Nest” stadium Beijing, China.The Chinese President Xi Jingping was the chief guest at the occasion along with the International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach.
Thomas Bach officially declared the games as over and symbolically handed the games to the next winter olympics host Milano-Cortina.
The Italian city of Milano-Cortina will host the event in 2026.
Winter olympics 2022 medal Tally
Serial No | Country | Gold Medal | Silver Medal | Bronze Medal | Total Medal |
1 | Norway | 16 | 8 | 13 | 37 |
2 | Germany | 12 | 10 | 5 | 27 |
3 | China | 9 | 4 | 2 | 15 |
- | India | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
From India there was only one competitor, Arif Khan from the Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir. He is the first ever Indian to qualify for winter olympics.
He participated in two events. In the giant slalom event he finished 45th while he was unable to complete the men’s slalom event.
For details and additional information also see the 5 February 2022 post
Fact File Winter Olympics
The winter olympics is organised by the International Olympic Committee every four years on snow or ice.
The first winter olympics was held in Chamonix (France), in 1924. Initially called the “International Winter Sports Week”, this event was renamed the “1st Olympic Winter Games” only in 1926 at the IOC Session in Lisbon(Portugal).
The decision to create a separate Winter Games cycle was taken at the 1925 IOC Session in Prague(Czech Republic).
It was not held in 1940 and 1944 due to the second world war and resumed in 1948 at St. Moritz, Switzerland.
Until 1992 the winter and the summer olympics were held in the same year but a decision was taken to separate the events. The next winter olympics took place in 1994 and since then it has been held in even years, that is 1998. It is usually held in the month of February.
The winter olympics has been held in three continents: North America, Europe and Asia.
The United States has hosted the event a maximum 4 times (1932,1960,1980, 2002) followed by France in (1924, 1968, 1992).
As of 2022, twelve countries have participated in every Winter Olympic Games – Austria, Canada, Finland, France, Britain, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States.
Norway has till date (2022) won the maximum medal in the Winter Olympics . It has won a total of 405 medals.
2. Argentina and Brazil to replay their World Cup qualifier football match
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FIFA has ordered Argentina and Brazil to replay their world cup qualifier match after the match in september 2021 was suspended just minutes after kickoff due to breach in covid protocol.
The match at NeoQuimica Arena in Sao Paulo was halted after five minutes when Brazilian health officials invaded the pitch to stop Argentina's England-based players from playing, saying they had breached the country's COVID-19 quarantine rules.
Facts
Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is the international body which governs International football.
It will organise the 22nd Men’s FIFA world cup 2022 in Qatar .
The 21st Men’s FIFA world cup 2018 was held in Russia which was won by France .
Headquarters of FIFA : Zurich, Switzerland
President of FIFA : Gianni Infantino
3. ICC January player of the month 2022
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International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced its player of the January month 2022.
Men player of the month : South African batter Keegan Petersen
Women player of the month : England team captain , Heather Knight
ICC
Headquarters of ICC: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Chairman of ICC: Greg Barclay of New Zealand
CEO of ICC: Geoff Allardice of Australia
4. Ishan Kishan the highest priced player at the IPL 2022
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Wicket- keeper batsman Ishan Kishan was bought by Mumbai India for Rs 15.25 crores. He became the highest priced player for the 15th Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022. Deepak Chahar was the second highest priced player and he was bought by Chennai Super Kings for Rs 14 Crore.
Fact Files
Chris Morris of South Africa , holds the record for being the highest priced player in IPL when Rajasthan Royals bought him for Rs 16.25 crores in the IPL 2021.
The highest priced Indian player is Yuvraj singh . He was bought by Delhi Daredevils (now Delhi Capitals) for the IPL 2015 season for Rs. 16 crore.
The IPL 2022 will see the participation of ten teams . The two new teams are
Lucknow Super Giants and Gujarat Titans.
The other teams are :Mumbai Indians, Rajasthan Royals, Delhi Capitals, Punjab Kings ,Kolkata Knight Riders ,Chennai Super Kings , Royal Challengers Bangalore ,Sunrisers Hyderabad ,
Indian Premier League (IPL),
IPL is a twenty-twenty overs professional cricket league organized by Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) that was started in India in 2008.
The first season was won by Rajasthan Royals in 2008.
The 14th Season of IPL 2021 was held in the United Arab Emirates which was won by Chennai Super King .
Mumbai Indians is the most successful team in the IPL. It has won the titles 5 times(2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2020) while the second most successful team is Chennai Super King which has won it 4 times(2010, 2011, 2018, and 2021).
5. Ramkumar Ramnathan win Bengaluru Tennis double’s title
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Ramkumar Ramnathan won the third doubles title of the year when he and Saket Mayeni won the Bengaluru Open ATP Challenger tennis title at Bengaluru.
The Indian Tennis player defeated the French pair of Hugo Grenier and Alexandre Muller in straight sets .
Men Singles title
Chun-hsin Tseng of Chinese Taipei (also known as Taiwan ) defeated Croatian Borna Gojo in straight sets.
6. Chelsea wins FIFA Club World Cup 2021
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England football club Chelsea, won its first FIFA Club World Cup when it defeated Brazilian football club Palmeiras 2-1 in the final held at Mohammed bin Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi ,United Arab Emirates on 12 February 2022.
Fact File
FIFA Club World Cup
It is an international club football championship where the continental club champions participate every year.
The club champions of Asian AFC Championships League, African CAF Championships League, North American CONCACAF Championships League, South America Copa Libertadores, Oceanian OFC Champions League, European UEFA Champions League and the club champion of the host team participates in the tournament.
The first club world cup was held in 2000 at Brazil which was won by Corinthians Paulista of Brazil.
Real Madrid football club of Spain has won the cup for the maximum 4 times.
The Spanish football clubs (Real Madrid 4 times and Barcelona 3 times ) have won it a maximum of 7 times.
7. India defeat West Indies 3-0 to win ODI series
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India has defeated the West Indian Cricket team to win the 3 match One Day International (ODI ) series 3-0.
Due to Covid all the three matches were played at the Narendra Modi cricket stadium, Ahmedabad ,Gujarat . All the three matches were Day/Night matches.
First ODI was held on 6 February 2022. It was won by India by 6 wickets
Man of the match :Yuzvendra Chahal of India
Second ODI was held on 9 February 2022. It was won by India by 44 runs .
Man of the match : Prasidh Krishna
Third ODI was held on 11 February 2022. It was won by India by 96 runs
Man of the match : Shreyas Iyer
Man of the Series : Prasidh Krishna
Captain of Indian cricket Team : Rohit Sharma
Captain of West Indian Cricket Team : Nicholas Pooran for the 2nd and third match
Kieorn Pollard was the West Indies captain for the first match.
8. Senegal wins maiden Africa Cup of Nation 2021
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Senegal defeated Egypt in a penalty shoot-out to win its first Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2021 on 7 February 2022.
The score in the final match was 0-0 even after extra time. The result was decided by a penalty shoot out which was won by Senegal 4-2 .
The final was played in the Cameroon capital . Yaounde’s Olembé stadium.
The 31st Africa Cup of Nation football tournament was held in Cameroon from 9 January to 7 February 2022.
The Africa Cup of Nations football tournament is held every two years and the first tournament was held in 1957 in Sudan.
Egypt has won the cup a maximum of 7 times .
It is located in Western Africa and is also called the “Gateway of Africa" .
Capital of Senegal : Dakar
Currency of Senegal : West African CFA franc . The West African franc is the common currency of eight African countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Guinea- Bissau ,Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo.
9. India wins its 1000th International ODI cricket match
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- The Indian cricket team led by Rohit Sharma comfortably defeated the West Indian team by six wickets to win its 1000th international ODI (One Day International ) cricket match played at the Narendra Modi stadium ,Ahmedabad on 7 February 2022.
- India now lead the 3 match ODI series 1-0.
- India also became the first cricket playing nation to play 1000 th ODI match in the world .
Fact files
- One Day International or limited overs cricket match was first played between England and Australia in 1971 in Melbourne, Australia.
- India played its first ODI match against England at Leeds in June 1974. Ajit Wadekar was the captain of the Indian side which lost the match.
- India won its first ODI match against East Africa in 1975 at the first world cup 1975 played in England.
- India has won two ODI world cups , 1983 played in England and 2011 ,hosted by India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh .
- The 1983 team was captained by Kapil Dev and the 2011 team was captained by Mahender Singh Dhoni.
10. China won the AFC Women Asian Cup 9th time
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The Chinese women's football team defeated the South Korean women's football team 3-2 in the Asian Football Confederations(AFC) women Asian cup final held at the D.Y.Patil stadium in Navi Mumbai on 6 February 2022. This was the 9th title win for the Chinese women's football team also known as “Steel Roses”.
Earlier the host Indian women football team was forced to withdraw from the tournament mid-way after several of their players tested covid positive .
Total 12 teams participated in the tournament which was held from 20 January to 6 February 2022.
The tournament matches were played in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and Pune .
India was hosting the tournament for the second time after 1979.
- The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Women Asian cup is held every four years.
