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Answer: (a)

Michael Phelps of USA won eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics 2008 in swimming.;

Answer: (c)

Saina Nehwal of India won bronze medal at the London Olympics 2012. Xuerui Li is a famous player of China.;

Answer: (c)

India’s first major football international tournament was in 1948 London Olympics, where a predominately barefooted Indian team lost 2–1 to France.

Answer: (d)

Answer: (c)

India was the men’s junior hockey World champion. They rode on a fine hat-trick by Sydney Olympian Deepak Thakur to convincingly beat Argentina 6-1 in the final and claim the title in the seventh edition of the tournament in Hobart, Australia.

Following the 2-2 draw, when India and Argentina met in their first match of the second round, much was expected in the final. However, once the Indians established a 3-1 lead by the 44th minute, the result for a foregone conclusion.

Germany won the bronze medal after trouncing England 5-1 in an earlier match. For Indian hockey, it was the first major accolade since winning at the 1975 World Cup in Kuala Lumpur and the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

Note: The 2016 Men’s Hockey Junior World Cup was the 11th edition of the Hockey Junior World Cup for men, an international field hockey tournament.

It was held in Lucknow, India from 8–18 December 2016. A total of sixteen teams competed for the title. Host nation India won the tournament for the second time after defeating Belgium 2–1 in the final. Germany won the third-place match by defeating Australia 3–0.