Woman are always referred as delicate, pretty and sexy. One
who wears lipstick and speaks softly. She is a very strong creation of God, in the
world who smiles even if hurt. Rio 2016 started with a struggling India and we
were hoping that we might not be able to convert great performances into medals this time, but when we thought that chips are down then the four pillars came
for India’s pride salvage.
These four women are emblem of woman power against all the
hardships that the girls of India are going through. These women made very different
choices which are brave decisions and will encourage new buds to take such step
and make difference in the field of sports.
P.V. Sindhu, a southern beauty got us the Silver medal .She gave
a tough competition to world No.1 Carolina Marin of Spain, both mentally and physically. She is trained by P. Gopichand (A Dronacharya for Badminton talents, a great player himself, who had won All England Open Badminton Championship, 2001) and gave India its first silver medal in the field of badminton.She is the first woman to get Silver in Rio 2016 Olympics.
Sakshi Malik of Haryana became the first Indian to win a
medal at Rio 2016, and also the first female wrestler from India to win an
Olympic medal. She created a love in Indians for woman's wrestling. She won the
bronze medal in the 58 kg category.
Dipa Karmakar is India’s first female gymnast to qualify for
the quadrennial mega event after 52 years from India.
She hails from Tripura. Produnova, is one of the tougher
vaults being competed in the world – a combination of generating sufficient height
to complete rotation and the difficulty in finding the ground after twisting in
order to control the landing.
She attained 4th position in Women's Vault Gymnastics event
of Rio Olympics 2016 with an overall score of 15.066.
Dipa risked her life to place India to this pedestal in
Gymnastic but still she is humble and down to earth.
Lalita Babar born in Maharashtra is a long distance runner
who came 10th in the final of the women’s 3,000 meter steeplechase at the Rio
Olympics.
These pillars suffered lot of pain for becoming an Iron and
making India proud but still when you see them you can only see the beauty not
the pain they go through.
In a country where female fetuses are dumped in garbage cans,
these girls have showed entire 1.27 billion people what sheer determination, grit,
hard work, perseverance, never say die attitude, raw gifted talent and
sacrifice can achieve. I take a bow and wish we will get more such gems in the
coming future. School, country, parents, family and friends will support them
and help them to achieve a name in the field of their choice.
