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On August 14, 2016, a young girl, India’s first female gymnast to compete at the Olympics, landed the Produnova that took her to the cusp of an Olympic medal. She came fourth yet soared into the hearts of millions across the globe.
Dipa Karmakar’s fourth-place finish at the Rio Olympic Games was a defining moment for Indian sport, which had barely cast a glance at the sport of gymnastics as a medal discipline till then. Dipa’s journey from Tripura, an oft-neglected sporting outpost, to the national consciousness and India’s highest sporting honour, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, is one of grit, determination and a stubbornness to beat the odds.
Product Details
Title: | Dipa Karmakar: The Small Wonder |
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Author: | Digvijay Singh |
Publisher: | Prakash Books |
ISBN: | 9789388369503 |
SKU: | BK0417066 |
EAN: | 9789388369503 |
Language: | English |
Binding: | Hardcover |
Reading age : | All Age Groups |
About Author
Digvijay Singh Deo is one of India’s leading sports journalists and currently heads the sports team at Zee Media Corporation Limited’s global news channel World is One News, WION. He has previously worked with Star News, Doordarshan News and CNN-IBN.
An alumnus of IIMC, New Delhi, Digvijay chose to cover India’s Olympic sports persons very early on in his career and continues to strive to tell their stories, in victory or defeat or even in their formative years. In recognition of his contribution to the Olympic movement he was chosen as a torchbearer for the Beijing Olympic Torch Relay in 2008 in New Delhi by the Indian Olympic Association. He has also served on the committee to select the 2015 Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna and Arjuna Awardees.
Digvijay has covered sport all over the planet and has interviewed global sports stars including Mark Spitz, Nadia Comaneci, Boris Becker, Roger Federer and Tiger Woods among others. He is also the author of My Olympic Journey, a book on fifty of India’s leading Olympians.
From Odisha, Digvijay stays in Noida with his wife Sudeshna and son Vaivasvat Vijay.