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Vinesh Phogat had reached final of women’s 50kg freestyle wrestling© AFP Ace Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat couldn’t be rewarded with a medal despite her progression to the final of the women’s 50kg freestyle wrestling final at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Vinesh’s disqualification from the vent, owing to a failed weigh-in by just 100…
She calls him a father figure, and he perceives himself as her protector. Sometimes, he even needs to protect her from herself. Manu Bhaker and Jaspal Rana are chalk and cheese when it comes to their individual personalities but together at the shooting range, they can plot Olympic medals with mere eye contact….
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Double Olympic-medallist shooter Manu Bhaker’s coach Jaspal Rana has slammed the national federation’s “ever-changing” Olympic selection policy, saying that it has hurt some of the most promising talents in the past and will damage more youngsters if there is no consistency going forward. Rana, a pistol legend in his own right who won…
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Her shooting hand bruised by repeated pistol recoils during unrelenting training, Manu Bhaker will take a well deserved three month break. But it will be no vacation. The double Olympic medallist will continue her other routines including yoga and waking up at 6 am — which she hates. And oh yes. She also…
Screengrab of PM Narendra Modi with shooter Manu Bhaker.© YouTube/@Narendra Modi Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday met with the Indian contingent which returned from the just-concluded Paris Olympics with six medals with history-scripting shooter Manu Bhaker showing her pistol with which she won two bronze, at his residence in New Delhi. The…
Manu Bhaker is the first Indian woman to win a medal in shooting at Olympics.© AFP Manu revealed that she had a different regime for Paris 2024, and expressed her happiness that things went in her favour this time. Manu also suggested that her achievements would motivate other to take up shooting as…
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Manu Bhaker made history at the Paris Olympics 2024 by becoming the first Indian since independence to win two medals in one edition of the game. In all India finished with six medals, with Manu winning two. She won a bronze in women’s individual 10m air pistol and also in the 10m air…
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Manu Bhaker in action© AFP Paris Olympic double medallist Manu Bhaker may skip October’s World Cup in New Delhi as the ace pistol shooter has decided to take a three-month break, her coach Jaspal Rana said. The 22-year-old Bhaker scripted Olympic history for India in Paris as she won a bronze each in…
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Ace Indian pistol shooter Manu Bhaker has set her sights on winning multiple medals at the Olympics in the future following her historic feat at the Paris Games. The 22-year-old scripted history to become the first Indian athlete in post-independence era to win two Olympic medals in a single edition of the Games….
Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra believes there was a scope of “more conversions” for Indian shooters at the Paris Games but overall it was a campaign which they should be proud of. India clinched six medals overall with three in shooting as Manu Bhaker became the first ever athlete from the country post…