“With proper encouragement and training, anyone from any background can be successful. I am sure my success in wrestling will not only encourage other families to promote their daughters but also raise the profile of wrestling in Rohtak and surrounding areas,” Sakshi Malik.
Sakshi Malik won her, and India’s first Olympic medal in the Rio Olympics, on August 17. She returned home a week later. Ever since, her house in Rohtak (Haryana) remains packed with byte-hungry media men, wanting to explore every facet of her life and her family. Politicians and officials are there in large number too, eager to cash in on the wrestler’s newfound popularity. In the middle of all this frenzy and non-stop roll of cameras, Sportstar managed to corner the 23-year old for an interview on life and wrestling, in Rio and thereafter:
Excerpts:
Question: You have been home for two days now. Has the reality of your achievement in Rio sunk in?
Answer: Ab dheere, dheere ehsaas ho raha hai, par puri tarah se abhi bhi nahi hua (Now, I am gradually realising it, but even now not completely). I was confident of my abilities, but now I understand how much it meant for the entire country, how much faith the nation had put in me.
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