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Rewind 2024: India's bittersweet campaign in Paris - Olympics and Paralympics
December 21, 2024
|The Statesman
Last minute preparations, exposure camps abroad, TOPS funding, overlooking administrative mess-ups to pick the crème de la crème of Indian sports for the biggest show on earth that unfolded in Paris three years after Covid-19 pushed the Tokyo edition of the Olympics by a year.
It turned out a hectic year for the Indian athletes dreaming of a podium finish in the French capital but only a handful, to be precise six, went all the way to script history.
In fact, the number could have swelled to double digits for the first time in Indian Olympic history, if only the six fourth-place 'near-misses' were converted but only "ifs and buts" had a place in sporting outcomes!
Among those six heartbreaks, the one that would take some time to sink in was wrestler Vinesh Phogat's utterly dramatic disqualification, which snatched what appeared to be a certain silver medal, if not gold.
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اشترك في Magzter GOLD للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة، وأكثر من 9000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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