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Tokyo Olympics: Ravi Kumar Dahiya brightest celebrity from wrestling Industry
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On Wednesday, Ravi Dahiya grew to become the first Indian for the reason that Kumar in London 2012 to make a wrestling last at the Olympics.
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Savitri Devi used to be weeping with joy, however announcing that her grandson is but to fulfil his promise. “Chora bol ke gaya hai gold laake dega (he’s promised to deliver me a gold medal from the Olympics),” she said.
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As Ravi Dahiya spectacularly became round the 57kg freestyle semi-final towards Nurislam Sanayev in Tokyo on Wednesday, Savitri regarded the most excited in the household domestic in Nahri village in Haryana’s Sonepat district. The family’s been thru a lot for Monu (Dahiya), so this feels good, she said, as neighbours got here over to congratulate them.
Dahiya picked up wrestling when he used to be six.
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“I enrolled him at Chhatrasal Akhada (in west Delhi). Before that, he would educate in the farm fields,” stated his father Rakesh. A former wrestler who gave up the recreation due to the fact cash was once scarce, Rakesh farms on the family’s one-acre plot. Dahiya’s first train used to be Raj, stated Rakesh, suffixing his identify with “pehelwan (wrestler).”
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The wrestling centre at Chhatrasal stadium has produced a range of internationals, of whom the most well-known are double Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar, and Yogeshwar Dutt, who received bronze in London. Dahiya’s youthful brother Pankaj is additionally coaching to be a Greco-Roman wrestler at Chhatrasal stadium.
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“Coach Satpal had instructed me that Ravi would make India proud,” stated Rakesh, referring to Satpal Singh who received a wrestling gold in the 1982 Asian Games and bronze in 1974. A well-known teach who runs the centre at Chhatrasal, Singh is additionally Sushil Kumar’s father-in-law.
So regardless of going through a economic crunch, Rakesh despatched his son to teach there. It supposed he would tour for an hour each day for the subsequent 10 years to supply his son milk and fruits, which are an vital phase of a wrestler’s diet.
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On Wednesday, Dahiya grew to become the first Indian for the reason that Kumar in London 2012 to make a wrestling closing at the Tokyo Olympics
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Sushil (he is now in detention center for alleged murder) and Dutt are Dahiya’s wrestling heroes, stated Darshan Lall, a former wrestler who is additionally a vice-president at the Wrestling Federation of India.
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“Sushil has performed a huge position in shaping Ravi’s career. He used to be continually very vibrant as a younger trainee who had the starvation to attain at the top. I used to be now not amazed the way he performed the semi-final bout. It is his herbal game. He likes to assault and did no longer come beneath big-stage pressure. He is going to win the ultimate and get India a gold medal,” stated Lall.
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Should that happen, it would be the most superb chapter in the records of this village of 15,000 people.
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Dahiya is the 1/3 Olympian from Nahri after Mahavir Singh (1980 Moscow, 1984 Los Angeles) and Amit Dahiya (London 2012). But he’s the first medallist