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If talking about India's performance in    which affected their career graph in terms of
        Olympics,  our  country  has  given  birth  to   their  practice,  future  goals,  fitness,
        great  athletes  including  Milkha  Singh,  P.T.   commercial matches and many more.
        Usha, Mary Kom etc, and there are many your
        star  who  broke  multiple  records  at                If  talking  about  Mirabai  Chanu,  who
        international level including Abhinav Bindra,    outshined by winning Silver Medal in women
        Saina Nehwal. This time too there was high       weightlifting,  the  tough  thing  was  to
        expectations from Indian players, but due to     maintain her weight tight on the benchmark
        pandemic  various  domestic  as  well  as        lines  cautiously  as  a  year  was  getting
        International  sporting  events  were            delayed.  After  her  failure  in  Rio  Olympics,
        cancelled, and athletes were largely barred      “Khana,  sonaaur  practice”    has  been  her
        from  participating  in  foreign  training  and   motto throughout the last five years, during
        competitions.                                    which she barely saw her family for 7 days a
                                                         year.
              Even after such hardships, athletes like
        Neeraj  Chopra,  Ravi  Kumar  Dahiya  (Silver          Indian Women Hockey team is such a
        Medal  in  Wrestling),  Lovlina  Borgohain       team  which  is  a  emerging  star  in  recent
        (Bronze  Medals  in  Women's  Welterweight       years. This time, the situation got worse when
        Boxing),  Indian  Hockey  Team  (Bronze          the Indian skipper Rani Rampal, along her 6
        Medals)  and  Bajrang  Punia  (Bronze  in        team players got infected with the virus. The
        Wrestling)  made  us  proud  with  their         things  were  on  hold  in  absence  of  the
        exemplary  performance.  Though  all  of  us     skipper, but the team's motivation and will
        were aware that every sphere of human life       made  them  perform  extra  ordinary  in  the
        already got affected due to pandemic which       game. Though the dream of gold remained
        brought  major  economic  stress,  in  this      unfulfilled  but  the  but  left  no  scope  to
        context,  we  want  to  bring  a  fact  to  our   consider the team as underdog.
        readers  that  many  of  the  mentioned
        athletes  went  through  major  economic               FOR  JAVELIN  STAR,  NEERAJ  CHOPRA,
        stress due to postponement of the Olympics       who bought gold medal for the country, the



































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