TIL Desk Sports/ Rio Games bronze medallist Sakshi Malik has said that growing up she did not know what the Olympics were, and the desire to one day sit in an aeroplane fuelled her ambition to become successful in sport as it would help her travel across the world.
“I had been playing sports since I was a child but had little idea about the Olympics, Commonwealth Games and Asian Games. It was after I got into wrestling and started winning medals at a junior level that the interest in these events started going up,” Sakshi said on Wednesday.
“Later on, as Sushil Kumar and Yogeshwar Dutt started winning medals including at the Olympics, it served as a huge motivation for me. Speaking of her Olympic bronze and the iconic moment when her coach Kuldeep Malik took her around the wrestling arena on his shoulders, Sakshi said it took some time for her to realise what she achieved.
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