There is a second medal, India.
This one wing is still growing.
It can be metamorfose to silver, or gold, maybe something bigger.
So, you can hold on to your congratulatory message for now or just shout.
Like Lovlina Borghain did today.
The scream is one for age.
More than just relieved, it also shouted confidence.
“I want to win gold.
There is only one medal and it’s gold,” he will say after surpassing an old enemy, former world champion Nien-Chin Chen for shots in semi-semi-69kg in Tokyo.
To think, Lovlina only took boxing in 2012, the year Mary Kom won the first Indian boxing medal at the Olympics.
Today, when a lot of traveling was unable to find out whether he had won or lost, the internship wrote his own history, borrowed a little from the Manipur icon here, a little Muhammad Ali there and some of Thai martial arts Muay Thai.
Something from Medown Hands from the sisters of the old woman, the Twin Licha and Lima, Muay Thai is the first love of Lovlina.
He even the national subjunior champion once, and on Friday, he smelled smartly combining everything.
Real impact – and promise – from Bronze Lovlina is being felt back home.
He grew up in Baro Mukhia Village at Assam’s Golaghat, 300 km from Guwahati.
There is no paved road, and pipe water and medical facilities are never heard.
A little has changed in the year since then.
Hopefully the Lovlina medal will change the fate of the village