Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: In Focus by The Hindu
Episode: India at Tokyo Olympics so far: what went wrong, and what we got right | In Focus
Description: We are now past the halfway point of the Tokyo Olympics, which is a good time to pause and take stock. India started off well, with an early silver for Mirabai Chanu in weightlifting. But there were several disappointments thereafter, especially in shooting, and in boxing as well.In the run-up to the Games, many in India believed that this would be India’s best Olympics ever in terms of medal haul. Our most successful Games so far, purely in terms of the number of medals won, was the 2012 London Olympics, when we came back with six me...