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New Delhi:<\/strong> Four-time Olympian and 2012 Olympic Games men\u2019s 10m Air Rifle bronze medalist Gagan Narang was on Monday chosen by the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) to replace Mary Kom as the Chef-de-Mission of the Indian contingent to compete in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games beginning on July 26.<\/p>\n IOA President Dr P.T Usha on Monday said the 41-year-old Narang\u2019s elevation from Deputy Chef-de-Mission\u2019s position was an automatic choice in the wake of Mary Kom\u2019s withdrawal.<\/p>\n \u201cI was looking for an Olympic medalist to lead our contingent and my young colleague is an apt replacement for Mary Kom,\u201d IOA President PT Usha said in a release.<\/p>\n She also revealed that PV Sindhu will accompany table tennis star Sharath Kamal as India\u2019s female flag bearer in the Olympics.<\/p>\n \u201cI am also delighted to announce that India\u2019s only woman to win two Olympic medals, PV Sindhu, as the female Flag-bearer alongside Table Tennis ace A. Sharath Kamal in the opening ceremony,\u201d Usha said.<\/p>\n \u201cI am confident that our athletes are well prepared to deliver the best results for India in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n In April, Mary Kom stepped down from her role as the Chef de Mission, citing \u2018problems\u2019 that have \u2018partly crippled\u2019 her. This occurred weeks after the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) had appointed the boxing icon to the position. On March 21, the IOA announced the officials for the Paris Olympics, set to commence on July 26.<\/p>\n Shortly after this announcement, Mary Kom declared her inability to fulfil the role. The IOA deliberated for several days on a suitable replacement before deciding to elevate Narang to the position.<\/p>\n The Chef de Mission is the head of the Indian contingent at the Olympics, overseeing the overall leadership.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [ad_2] [ad_1] New Delhi: Four-time Olympian and 2012 Olympic Games men\u2019s 10m Air Rifle bronze medalist Gagan Narang was on Monday chosen by the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) to replace Mary Kom as the Chef-de-Mission of the Indian contingent to compete in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games beginning on July 26. IOA President Dr P.T Usha […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Gagan-Narang.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33819,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33817\/revisions\/33819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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