New Delhi: India Wrestling Contingent Seven members gave a good account of themselves at the Tokyo Olympics, winning silver and bronze, but they can return with more.
Deepak Punia (86kg) missed a bronze by the mustache, conceded two points in the last 10 seconds of his playoff fight.
He led 2-1 until then and a close medal.
The four-member women’s contingent.
While Vinesh Phogat was lost in the quarter, the other three – sonam Malik, Anshu Malik and Seema Bisla – could not pass the first round.
For VINESH, it is both Olympics.
Anshu, Sonam, both 19, and Seema participated in their first Olympics.
On Friday, Anshu, Sonam, Vinesh, and two medalists – Silver Winners Ravi Dahiya and First Aid Winner Bajrang Punia – talked about the need for a sports psychologist to be attached to the national team so that the wrestler can overcome twitter on the magnitude of the stage like the Olympics.
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“There are many facilities now, compared to the past, but sometimes you are nervous on a big stage like the Olympics,” Anshu said at an event where Tata Motors and Indian wrestling federations extended their partnerships to the Olympics 2024.
“If someone can interact with Our opportunity is like that, like a psychologist, which would be better for us and we can enter our fight with a clear head.
“You have to stay away from negative thoughts (during the Tent competition like the Olympics).
You have to surround yourself with positive people.
Confidence is the most important, “VINESH said.
Talking about the quarter-finals of his surprise, said Vinesh,” I have learned a lot (from losses).
At the senior level, we don’t have enough time to grieve for defeat, because the next Olympics are approaching and there is a back-to-back competition.
It’s one thing to reach above but still on it challenging.
“Read also, will keep the injury later, release the brace for now ‘: Bajrang Punia told Physio before winning the Bronzebajrang Olympics went to his shell for a while after the semi-final defeat, before coming to the fact that he had to do it competing with injury.
The opportunity to win Gold has gone.
But bronze is still a possibility.
On the day of the match, he told his fiction, “Take a brace, enough.” And he went to Beatbajrang was the Master of Comeback staging during his fight.
Giving insight into his mindset, he said, “We only said It has a split second to decide which step we need to make.
There is no time to see the scoreboard.
What we need is to run the movement that we have practiced during training.
We have moved at our Arsenal who can take two points, four points …
even five points and can change the wave of the match.
“Ravi pulled a coming-from-back victory in the Tokyo Olympic semifinals, beating Nurislam Sanayev Kazakhstan.
Wrestler Kazakh leads 9-2 at one point, with only 50 seconds left for the fight ends.
But Ravi reverses the table to his rival in a dramatic way, winning with ‘Pinfall’.
“You have to be positive about winning the fight from any situation.
Wrestling is a sport like that where a person can win from the jaw defeat even in the last five seconds.
We step on the mat with a mentality that never dies.
All we focus on is to run our strategy, “Ravi said.
Sports psychologists need hours, say wrestlers
