Sakshi won a freestyle wrestling bronze medal in the 58 kg category at the ongoing Rio Olympics on Wednesday. We lost Abhinav Bindra, Dipa Karmakar to fourth place.
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If our sportspersons can achieve this feat and represent India in Olympics with minimal push given to sports in India, imagine the medals we would bag if other games are taken seriously in the cricket-frenzy nation.
The Olympic bronze and silver medal winners have a lot to cheer.
While Sindhu who won silver medal in badminton at Rio, will be awarded a cash prize of Rs 50 lakh, Lalita Babar and Dipa Karmakar will be awarded Rs 15 lakh each.
A lady living in Delhi is on Facebook as Sindhu goes down fighting and thanks the girl from Hyderabad for bringing the whole of India together to watch a sport other than cricket.
Not only this, but cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar will be presenting a BMW vehicle to star shuttler PV Sindhu for bringing laurels to the country.
“I will try extremely hard to get gold medals in the forthcoming Asian Games, Commonwealth Games and 2020 Tokyo Olympics”. Sindhu became the second Indian player in badminton to win an Olympic medal after Saina Nehwal, who had clinched bronze in London four years ago.
An 18-year-old golfer Aditi Ashok slipped away from being in top-10 at the end of second round to finish 41st with an overall score of seven-over 291. However, our athletes’ minds are not geared towards gold, nor are they taught to believe in themselves.
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The Games also saw tennis World number one Novak Djokovic reduce to tears as he suffered a shocking opening round defeat at the hands of Argentina’s Juan Martin del Porto. She is now eyeing the medal at Tokyo Olympics 2020. “Definitely, I am not so happy with the result because we were expecting more”.
