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Sachin Tendulkar gifts BMW to Dipa Karmakar & other Olympians : What Tripura CM gifted Dipa other than beating empty vessels ?
TIWN August 28, 2016
Sachin Tendulkar gifts BMW to Dipa Karmakar & other Olympians : What Tripura CM gifted Dipa other than beating empty vessels ?
PHOTO : Dipa gets new BMW X1 car, gifted by Sachin Tendulkar. TIWN Pic Aug 28

AGARATALA, Aug 28 (TIWN): Rio Olympics silver medallist shuttler P V Sindhu and bronze winner grappler Sakshi Malik along with gymnast Dipa Karmakar and badminton coach Pullela Gopichand were on Sunday presented BMW cars by cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar. But Dipa’s own state’s Chief Minister Manik Sarkar ended with his empty handed blessings after Dipa created history becoming the first Indian Women gymnast who qualified for Olympic. Telengana CM also felicitated this Tripura girl with Rs. 50 lakhs after Olympics, and MP Govt. proposed Dipa to get world-class training in MP till the next Olympic-2020.Hyderabad District Badminton Association president Chamundeshwarnath gifted the luxury cars to the four sportspersons for their outstanding achievement in the recently-concluded Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Tendulkar, who was the Goodwill Ambassador of the Indian team at Rio Olympics, handed over the keys at a function at Gopichand Badminton Academy here. Under the guidance of chief coach Gopichand, Sindhu clinched the silver medal in women's singles making her the first Indian woman sportsperson to win a silver in the Olympics.

Wrestler Sakshi had bagged a bronze in women's freestyle 58kg class. Dipa who missed a medal by a whisker, had finished fourth in the vault event and stunned the world by attempting the risky Produnova vault. 

Chief minister Manik Sarkar and youth and sports affairs minister Sahid Choudhuri felicitated Dipa Karmakar and her coach Bishweshwar Nandi on August 22 at Swami Vivekananda Maidan.

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 sportspersons cutting across party lines and rising above narrow politics but Tripura’s mismanagement has failed to recognise the talents of Tripura in the state.

Dipa is the first Indian gymnast to make the cut in the Olympics in 52 years. She is a specialist at ‘Prudonova’ vault and would also attempt the Tsukahara 720 vault. She is the fifth woman gymnast in the world to be skilled in the Prudonova.

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.

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