AGARTALA, Aug 17 (TIWN): Had it been any other State Govt of India- by this time they would have declared a cash prize of Rs 25 Lakhs to 1 crore for bringing the rare honour of becoming the first Indian woman gymnast to clinch a Bronze Medal in Commonwealth Games and represented India from Tripura at the Rio Olympic. From Telengana Chief Minister to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, every State Government always came forward to felicitate all great sports-persons cutting across party lines and rising above narrow politics but Tripura’s mismanagement has failed to recognise the talents of Tripura in the state. Tripura Govt yet to issue a press release thanking Dipa Karmakar for her achievements of making Tripura and India proud , also to declare a State Felicitation Ceremony upon her arrival in State, a matching cash reward for bringing such a rare honour by coming fourth in the Rio Olymopic and representing India but unfortunately Tripura government has not taken any step.

Dipa is the first Indian gymnast to make the cut in the Olympics in 52 years. She is a specialist at ‘Produnova’ vault and would also attempt the Tsukahara 720 vault. 

She is the fifth woman gymnast in the world to be skilled in the Produnova. Although the nation was expecting gold from Dipa but unfortunately Dipa dropped to fourth position and narrowly missed gold in the Rio Olympic.

Dipa Karmakar returned empty handed from the Vaults final at the Gymnastics event of Rio 2016 Olympics after she finished the event at fourth position. Karmakar scored 15.066 points in the final but clinching upto 4th position and representing India at such big platform is highly appreciable.

However, Dipa and her coach are highly satisfied as she made it upto Rio and now her target is Tokyo 2020.

USA’s Simone Biles won the gold medal with a score of 15.966 while the silver went to Russia’s Maria Paseka after her score of 15.253. Bronze was bagged by Switzerland’s Giulia Steingruber for her score of 15.216.

Karmakar’s final score of 15.066 gave her the fourth position in the final. Her first vault fetched her 14.866 points but her Produnova gave her 15.266. She was second after her two vaults but Russia and USA were the last to go and that pushed Karmakar out of the top three position.