September 20, 2024

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Tokyo 2020: if there was a gold for being loudest throughout Olympics, India would have gotten it

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At the recently-concluded Tokyo Games 2020, India has put forth its finest marketing campaign not simply on the observe, however on-line too. It has emerged because the loudest nation to have interaction concerning the Games on Facebook and Instagram, says a developments report.
According to information from Facebook and Instagram, India has overtaken the United States and Brazil in Olympic-related conversations on the 2 web sites, with Facebook registering the best engagement concerning the Games globally on August 7, the day Neeraj Chopra gained gold for India in males’s javelin throw. Chopra has additionally emerged because the second most-mentioned athlete on the platform, behind US gymnast Simone Biles who had a tumultuous run at this yr’s Games.
Neeraj Chopra was the 2nd most-mentioned athlete. (Facebook information)
Chopra’s efficiency additionally catapulted him to the highest of the Instagram crowd, incomes him a whopping 2.8 million followers over the course of the Games. He can also be the most-mentioned athlete on the photo-sharing platform globally.
Chopra, whose posts by way of the verified Instagram deal with @neeraj____chopra, typically shares behind-the-scenes photographs of his match preparations, clips from earlier performances and occasional fan artwork.

Bronze medal-winning shuttler P.V. Sindhu and boxer MC Mary Kom are amongst different Indian athletes who had been most adopted on Instagram between July 23 and August 8.
Other breakout stars on Instagram embody Rayssa Leal, the 13-year-old Olympic silver medalist, whose video documenting her journey as a Brazilian skateboarder, titled ‘There is no future without a past’, raked up over 11 million views. She gained over 5.8 million followers on the platform and topped the checklist of athletes who drove essentially the most interactions on Instagram through the Games globally.