After Paris high, Aman resumes with Japan stint

The last four months have been rather surreal for wrestler Aman Sehrawat. Since becoming India's youngest Olympic medallist (at 21 years and 24 days) after beating Puerto Rico's Darian Cruz in a bronze playoff in August-the soft-spoken youngster was under unrelenting spotlight, which included receptions, an audience with the Prime Minister and an appearance on the popular game show Kaun Banega Crorepati.

- Shantanu Srivastava

With the Paris high subsiding and athletes slowing returning to training, Sehrawat has left for Japan to sharpen his wrestling nous. Based in the renowned Nippon Sport Science University in Yokohama for a short stint, Sehrawat hopes to spar with Paris Olympics gold medallist Rei Higuchi, who handed him a 10-0 thrashing in the Olympics semi-final. Sehrawat is expected to train there till early December, following which he plans to leave for Dagestan, Russia for another training stint. "We were planning to send Aman to Japan early in November but a visa delay meant he could only leave earlier this week. He is still settling in; the idea is