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Will practice hard to get medals in Rio: Dipa Karmakar
Agartala : India’s first woman gymnast to qualify for the Olympics, Dipa Karmakar said here on Friday that she will devote herself to serious practice to win medals in the upcoming Rio Olympics.
Accompanied by her coach Bisweswar Nandi, Dipa returned to a huge welcome in her home state Tripura on Friday.
“I would now concentrate in serious practice at SAI (Sports Authority of India) coaching centre in Delhi,” she told reporters.
“My only target is to get medals in Rio Olympics, nothing else. I will try to deliver my best in the Olympics,” the country’s latest sporting sensation said.
Hundreds of sports lovers, officials, admirers and well-wishers received Dipa on her arrival at the Agartala airport from Delhi.
“I would try utmost to get gold medals in the forthcoming world meet,” said Dipa, who will stay here for a few days with her family before joining practice in Delhi.
The 22-year-old became the first Indian woman gymnast to qualify for the Olympics and capped it with a gold medal at the test event in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro, where the summer Olympics would be held from August 5 to 21.
Dipa is only the second Indian gymnast to have won a Commonwealth Games medal (2014).
She finished fourth in the Asian Games in the same year and then won bronze at the Artistic Gymnastics Asian Championships in Japan in 2015.
A five-time national overall individual champion between 2010-2014, Karmakar was given the Arjuna Award last year.
The left-handed batsman from Haryana is garnering praise from all quarters for the way he’s finishing games regularly in the most exciting IPL season.
Gavaskar reckons Tewatia’s whirlwind knock in Sharjah (in IPL 2020) where he smashed West Indies pacer Sheldon Cottrell for five sixes in an over, gave him the confidence that he belongs to the big stage.
Speaking on Cricket Live on Star Sports, Gavaskar said, “That assault on Sheldon Cottrell in Sharjah gave him the belief to do the impossible and the confidence that he belongs here. We saw the impossible (he did with the bat) the other day as well. There’s no twitching or touching the pads (which shows a batter’s nervousness) when he bats in the death overs. He just waits for the ball to be delivered and plays his shots. He’s got all the shots in the book, but most importantly his temperament to stay cool in a crisis is brilliant.”
Gavaskar has also nicknamed the 28-year-old cricketer the ‘ice-man’ and lauded Tewatia’s ability to remain unruffled during the tense moments.
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