We have now to face up once more. Until now, Vinesh and all of us have fought each state of affairs and can proceed to take action. That’s what I instructed Vinesh on the cellphone at the moment after she missed the burden. Whereas I’m but to satisfy her later within the night, I do know she is somebody, who gained’t be lamenting the truth that she missed the Olympic medal. She can be solely pondering, what’s subsequent for her now and what number of extra trials will god put her by means of for her to rise once more.
For us Phogat household, together with my mom Premlata, at the present time is rather like dying of a dream. However then it’s additionally like rising like a phoenix from the ashes for Vinesh. From the day we misplaced our father, we now have been preventing to outlive. It’s like god has written the tagline of ‘Sangarsh karna hello hai ‘on our foreheads and that’s what Vinesh has been doing all her life. That was her motto when she stepped for the primary time on the mud within the akhada and when she set foot on the wrestling mat in her first Olympics at Rio. When she suffered the damage in Rio to no matter occurred at Tokyo, we have been trying to rewrite historical past at Paris.
However then have a look at destiny. We have now reached on the similar spot in future in Paris Olympics, the place we had began our Olympic dream in 2016. However I believe Vinesh can be pleased that with out successful the Olympics medal, she has given the women of this nation one thing which they wanted probably the most. And that’s the braveness to face in opposition to oppression and to face in opposition to the wrongs and the system. And that’s what I believe, Vinesh has earned from Paris Olympics. The ethical braveness to face up in opposition to the improper and to offer that energy to every lady of this nation to face in opposition to the improper will probably be one thing which Vinesh wish to be remembered for her complete life, medal or no medal.
Successful an Olympic medal nonetheless stays Vinesh’s dream and no one can cease her from seeing that dream once more. Medal or no medal, no one can snatch this from Vinesh that she fought in opposition to all odds together with the system and raised her voice when it mattered and it will encourage generations to return.
In at the moment’s loss is her win too. Gamers will win Olympic medals for India in future and there will probably be celebrations too. However Vinesh will probably be going from Paris along with her head held excessive and along with her identify on high of the battle she put and what she brings for the ladies of this nation from Paris. A hope to battle in opposition to something in life and a want to return once more and win the Olympic gold for India.
Final night time, whereas all of us have been celebrating the medal right here in Paris, Vinesh’s solely focus was the gold medal. That was the rationale she didn’t sleep complete night time and was always attempting to lose the burden along with her group. That’s one thing she has finished in her wrestling profession and all of us have been assured that she would obtain that. Not for a single second, she thought that she would miss the burden or forfeit with damage. Why would she want that if her goal was successful the gold medal for India and to see the Indian flag rise at Paris Olympics?
I used to be listening to the Sports activities Minister’s deal with within the Parliament speaking about how a lot cash was spent on athletes. I simply wished to ask one factor. One can spend any sum of money on the athletes however can they train the athlete methods to battle? That’s one thing discovered within the athlete’s spirit and nobody else however the athlete herself can propel that spirit.
Bodily Vinesh is therapeutic on the clinic within the Olympics village and mentally too, she is any individual who is not going to carry this baggage of lacking on the Olympic medal. As a child, she would hearken to the track “Haste Haste Kat Jaye Raste, Zindagi yun hello chalti rahe, Khushi mile ya gham, badlenge na hum” Toh yeh aaj ka loss kaise badal dega Vinesh ko (So how can at the moment’s loss change Vinesh?).
Wherever life takes us, we now have to observe that. However we’ll go along with a battle. We had the Olympic medal in our future final night time and at the moment we now have none. However then nothing can cease Vinesh from beginning this dream as soon as once more.
(These views have been expressed by Harvinder Phogat, elder brother of Vinesh Phogat, who’s in Paris. He spoke with Nitin Sharma.)