New Delhi: The view of VINESH Phogat on the mat, holding his knee, stretching with extraordinary pain five years ago in Rio was still fresh in memory.
Against Yanan Sun Yanan in China in your fasi quarter, he turned his right knee in an attempt to get out of his opponent’s grasp.
Vinesh issued a scream that echoed not only opposite the wrestling hall in Rio but throughout India.
The next picture is VINESH which is enforced from the mat, crying is inconsistent.
The whole heart of the nation came out for then 22 years old.
He returned to India in a wheelchair.
There was anterior crucial (ACL) ligament network rips on the knee and immediately he underwent surgery.
A few days later, Vinesh tweeted his picture resting on a hospital bed with legs in the sling.
“Recover well.
Need your blessings.
Want to get back to what I love,” he wrote.
“I will never be able to forget the injury.
Actually every time I went on the mat for the match, the injury was motivating me.
After the injury, I didn’t stay healthy mentally, with the thought that the injury could relapse anytime.
It is one of the points The lowest of my career.
There are many negative things from the inside, “The Grappler, now 26, told TII.
“But I can get out of there and in the back, it has helped me be strong mentally.
Yes, I can’t win a medal in Rio, but it won’t affect my performance in Tokyo.
I now have an experience of playing one Olympics.
I know What is expected, how to prepare and how to do myself.
“This is a plus point for me.
All of these setbacks helped me be stronger, and I feel I entered Tokyo as a mentally stronger athlete.
I want to finish what I have started.
“After a career threatening injury, it was never easy to step on the mat again.
But Vinesh did it, and in 2018 cornered glory by winning GOLD in the Commonwealth 2018 game and Asian Games.
Both gold medals come in the 50kg category, which is not a heavy division of the Olympics.
Not Wentar, Vinesh moved to 53kg Keeping Tokyo in mind.
It is also done to minimize injury and extend his wrestling career.
He adjusts to the newly heavy category of capable.
Roping on Hungarian coach Woller Akos also proved to be a positive step.
“People don’t Will understand from the outside, but before my game has technical weaknesses.
I can see now that I smoother and display clean wrestling on it.
I don’t feel trapped in the mattress again.
There is a movement in my game, “VINESH said.
It’s been five years since those days in Rio.
Life has come a full circle for VINESH.
He will go to Tokyo.
He will go to Tokyo as World No.
1 wrestler in the 53kg category and Also got the top bill for showpiece.
“We are on the right track (for medals),” he said.
“There was time to reach my peak form.
My target is to peak at the Olympics.
I’m not in a hurry.
“So, is there anything left to do about his skills before Tokyo?” I need to increase my aggression on the mat, “VINESH was reflected.
Maya Maya Mukai Japan has become the Achilles heel for Vinesh in an international tournament, after losing three times in three meetings so far .
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“I have a strategy to get points to scoring in ground wrestling.
Look, he will also have a strategy in place, and I also have mine – anyone who executes a better on that day will win, “Vinesh said with confidence.” And, the plan is not (in place) only for Mukai, but for others too.
Various types of strategies are made for different players.
You don’t go to shows like the Olympics with a strategy only in the mind of one competitor.
“There is a massive taste of the medal expectations of VINESH in Tokyo.
Does he feel the pressure as a result?” I handled pressure with the right planning and training.
If you are well trained, then you don’t feel the pressure.
If people have hope from me, it’s good.
It pushed me to do it well and I felt unlike it was a burden.
I want to get an Olympic medal for my supporters.
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