AGARTALA, Oct 13 (TIWN): It was national media which lifted Dipa Karmakar to sky high and brought her into focus - before and after the Rio Olympics. Even-though Dipa got Khel-Ratna without achieving any Olympic medal, but media always wrote in favour of Tripura girl Dipa Karmakar. But after Dipa has returned Sachin Tendulkar’s historic gift of an expensive BMW car and sought the cash back to her so that she can buy a new car which will be comfortable in Agartala Town. According to Dipa, relating the bad roadways and other issues it will tough to maintain such an expensive car to Dipa, she had asked for the money.But while a month before she was gifted with BMW car for her excellent performance in gymnastics at the 2016 Rio Olympics, she is now returning that gift and asking the money back---- many Sachin lovers are condemning her decision. However, criticism against her has been erupted in various national media also who one week back were writing in favor of her.

 Now question arises, is she loosing her sympathy in media world? because it is first time happening with Dipa that media has started to question on her decision as she painted Tripura's image bad by mentioning bad roads even though Tripura's most of the urban motor-able roads are better than many states.

 But it cannot be ignored that 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.