Olympic Medal Transforms Athlete’s Life And Society: Rio Games Medalist Sakshi Malik

Mumbai: Rio Games bronze medalist wrestler Sakshi Malik feels prevailing an Olympic medal now not best transforms an athlete’s existence no topic additionally impacts society, rising severa probabilities for teenagers.

Sakshi became the first female wrestler to steady an Olympic medal, prevailing a bronze at the Rio Games in 2016.

“An Olympic dream is now not only an athlete’s dream; it’s the dream of an complete domestic. Profitable an Olympic medal transforms now not best the existence of the athlete no topic additionally the lives of their domestic, society, and village,” Sakshi reported at a media experience in Mumbai organised through JSW Sporting targets on Friday.

The 31-yr-historic claimed that her domestic town of Rohtak has long gone through relatively some transformations in phrases of wearing infrastructure the reason is, her medal-prevailing run eight years ahead of.

“After my medal, big transformations took . The Chhotu Ram Stadium in Rohtak, where I expert, went from having a tin roof to changing into an AC hall. A stadium change into even developed in my village and named after me.

“An Olympic medal creates severa probabilities, specially for teenagers, permitting them to educate in bigger companies. The rage for wrestling in Haryana has surged. In every single place you go, there’s a stadium every ten minutes, and additionally you’ll find adult females practising in each person. The historic way of thinking that adult females couldn’t wrestle has modified dramatically.”

With adult females wrestlers doing well on the arena stage an rising broad quantity of adult females people are taking over the game with an intention to attain Olympic glory.

“The misconceptions that adult females are impure and shouldn’t take part in wrestling were debunked. Now, adult females are proving that they too can excel in wrestling.”

Out of the six Indian wrestlers who've qualified for this month’s Paris Olympics, 5 are lady grapplers — Vinesh Phogat (50kg), Antim Panghal (53kg), Anshu Malik (57kg), Nisha Dahiya (68kg) and Reetika Hooda (76kg).

“There change right into a time when humans believed that adult females couldn’t wrestle, no topic today, this has modified. For the first time, 5 adult females are going to the Olympics for wrestling at the identical time as best one boy is going. Ladies, who were once suppressed, are now boldly stepping forward and excelling in wrestling.

“After my medal win, no one enters wrestling merely questioning about securing a job or a revenue. They now with the intention of prevailing an Olympic medal. This shift in way of thinking is enormously inspiring.”

Indian gymnast Dipa Karmakar, who overlooked out on a medal through a whisker at the Rio Games, reiterated Sakshi’s views.

“After the 2016 Rio Olympics, a range of concerns have modified in Tripura. Humans had a way of thinking that they'll’t go into gymnastics. And in Tripura, there were a range of transformations.

“As an social gathering, the infrastructure, the vault which you see, you go for a range of foam pits, which are very most obligatory. They weren’t there ahead of.”

Karmakar’s fatherland, like Sakshi’s witnessed a surge in gymnastics and relatively some practising centres came up.

“After the 2016 Olympics, they developed the foam pit there, and a range of apparatus came. And the teenagers’s pastime stage increased a lot. Beforehand, there were fullyyt some centres, no topic now all over, whether or not it’s executive or personal, the centres have increased a lot.

“And every character’s way of thinking is that we additionally would prefer to transfer to the Olympics, which wasn’t there ahead of. So in step with me, after the 2016 Rio Olympics, a range of humans’s mindsets modified, which change into very most obligatory,” she brought.