The Voguish Man who made the whole India buzzed, has created a history after a near decade. The Mother’s Womb might have taught him the art of stock piling brave energy. It’s none other than the Achiever Ravikumar Dahiya. The one who wins may be called as winner. The One who breaks the records is the Achiever. He is of course an achiever. Neeraj Chopra, Bajrang Punia have proved that they are achievers after the Tokyo Olympics. But to light up the rise of Ravikumar Dahiya and his outstanding attitude, he must be given a standing applause.
WHY DAHIYA IS LIME-LIGHTENED?
All Sportsmen have some untold story in them. To come to a place where Google makes you in the first page is a bit hard and costs some billion views on you. Those billions are fascinating only after some hard work and courage on your job’s success. The Special Mention must be made for him hence.
This 2020 Olympics is special for Dahiya, and a lesson for everyone out of his fight. Fight doesn’t mean the wrestle he made. It means the struggle he had to wear a round silver around his neck. The Indian Expectation is fed by him on August 4.
RISE OF THE ACHIEVER:
The 12th of December 1997 is the day on which the Vicenarian Ravi rose to Rakesh Kumar Dahiya and Reema Devi Dahiya. Vicenarians are the pillars of growing India. Ravi too understood his role and embarked India on a world level. He was raised in Sonipat District of Haryana State. As known, Haryana and Punjab, the Indian States are known for the wrestling. The Same came as an impact in Ravikumar’s life making him to clench numerous laurels.
The Village Nahri is his hometown and he was brought up there. Rakesh Kumar Dahiya made colossal sacrifices and worked hard and simply stood behind the success of Ravi. This statement is self-provided by Ravi and the villagers too.
Nahri is called the Olympian Village because it gave birth to several wrestlers competing at the international level. It owns two Arjuna awards and is now an Olympic Medallist.
THE ACHIEVEMENTS:
Ravi Kumar, is an Indian freestyle wrestler basically. He participated in the 57 kg category in Tokyo Olympics 2020 conducted in 2021.
- Tokyo Olympics Silver Medallist
- Bronze Medallist of 2019 World Wrestling Championship.
- Twice Asian Championship achiever.
These 45 words cannot simply conclude his achievements. He has achievements and records accumulated in his articles. But these achievements have to be given special place in his achievements.
RISE OF WRESTLE POWER:
This goes back to 2015 when Ravi was about17 years old. He competed in Junior World Wrestling Championship 2015. He won Silver Medal in this.
The Growing Crop is visible in the bud. Yes! It became reflective in his life.
THE BREAK:
Every Achiever has some break or black part in their life. One such in Ravi’s life is his Injury. He had this when was around 19 years old in 2017. This injury gave him a break for more than one year. This is quite even in players from the reader’s view. But the pain the wrestler had apart from that of Injury is typical. This Knee Injury happened when he was playing in Senior Nationals, 2017.
After the break, he came back in 2019, and with a Bronze Medal with speed.
DAHIYALOGY:
- Dahiya is the fifth Indian wrestler to win an Olympic medal.
- He is the second Indian to win an Olympic Silver Medal for India.
- Dahiya has won the medal in wrestling nearly after 9 years.
- He is the fifth Indian wrestler to make it to the Olympic Podium.
- Finally, he won his fifth medal for India, in 2021 & second silver medal at campaign.
- After The Asian Championship, he stood in 5th Position in World Ranking.
WHAT IT COSTS TO WIN?
The victory in the Olympics doesn’t cost much. The requirements are simple that only few can acquire.
- Hard work
- Will power
- Few Failures
- Perseverance
All these four mantras are to be submerged into a sportsman’s mind so as to satisfy the expectation of his country.
The Same Dahiya had from his childhood. He used to drill himself from mind for the debut at the Olympics.
He joined the Chhatrasal Academy to train him in wrestling. It also trained Bajrang Punia.
The amount of spirit and speed he had didn’t match with that of Financial Status. But some way or other he was traversing towards it.
FATHER’S SUPPORT:
- Ravi’s Father Rakesh Kumar is said to be a great support like a wall for him. This was self-mentioned by Ravi.
- His father used to walk some 20 to 30 Kilometre to feed Ravi with Fruits and veggies to prepare himself for the wrestle. This he did for about 10 years for Dahiya.
- After knowing that Ravi wanted to make wrestling as his profession, his father worked hard to construct him as the wrestler.
- After Ravi’s achievement in Tokyo, his father stated that all the glories and wishes not only go to Ravi, but for the whole nation.
- His support and moral guidance, of course, made Ravi rise in the Olympics.
- Not only fathers, but also Mothers have a special space often. His mother also supported him in a better way.
DAHIYA’S OLYMPIC DEBUT 2021:
While being the person with spirit and courage however, he had to face some of his seniors and experienced people. This he had to do to prove himself and dignify his father and the nation.
Taking the Olympic as an opportunity, he started with courage and hope.
On August 4, he had consecutively 3 matches, in which he showed continuous superiority.
- He started with O. Tigreros Urbano of Colombia.
- Then the quarter finals with Vangelov of Bulgaria
- The semi-finals with Nurislam Sanayev of Kazakhstan
- The Final with Zavur Uguev of Russia on August 5. He is a two-time champion.
All these matches were quite hard to look at and like arm to arm. Ravi had to face these in the Podium. Apart from that, he had to build courage to face them.
All these matches he had on August 4 & 5.
FIRST THING:
His first Olympic, was quite expective and he should engrave his name in crores of hearts. On August 4, he faced OSCAR TIGREROS from Colombia. The storm blew both sides with a fluctuating graph. Tigreros was beaten at first. But he was able to flow back within moments.
Ravi gave some solid attacks that led to his superiority over the match.
He came with spirit and led by the technical superiority points 13-2. He stood top with points and stormed to the quarter finals.
SECOND THING:
Secondly, on the same day he faced Vangelov of Bulgaria.
Since it was the quarter finals, the fight was quite important. Then again, Ravi led in the match by technical superiority with 14 points.
In the first period, he scored 6 points. And in the second period, he scored 8 points and with a grand total of 14 points.
Thus, he buzzed to the semi finals that was about to be conducted on 2.45 noon of the same day.
THIRD* THING:
The superiority of the match was held by Nurislam, while there was a bit of frustration accompanied by Injury was there in Ravi. Nurislam had 9-5 in his hands. When Ravi shrugged up once and tried to manage the chest of Nurislam to grab the match power, there was a blink. This led to desperation of Nurislam and the bite of him at Ravi’s Bicep with no release.
The moment it was eye wetting, the pain he had made his eyes red. With no shout, he was able to chatter his teeth.
There came the referee with a slap on Sanayev, pinned the match to be a foul. The match was Ravi’s. That 8 minutes was quite frustrating, not only to Ravi, but with the people of India. Ravi was prompt, with no expression, his view was on the finals.
The whole India just turned behind Ravi. The one day with all his efforts he was courageous to face the next match.
LAST THING:
When you are about to compete, what do you think of your opponent?
Ravi was quite normal, and jogged to the podium. To clinch the gold for the country, he faced the two-time champion. Ably that was a tough match.
However, Ravi managed to face him. And he assured the silver by passing out in the semi-finals. Not a bad match with scores ranging 4-7 victory of Zaur Ugrev.
He raised the tricolour, with the pride to be an Indian. He engraved the name of the nation on the podium.
WORDS OF DAHIYA:
After all his debut, people were lingering for his words.
About Sanayev, who bit him: “He hugged me and said sorry” stated Dahiya.
He showed his love towards his competent and his no reaction on the podium itself uttered this statement.
WISHES ON DAHIYA:
- The Honourable Prime Minister of India stated that Ravi is a remarkable wrestler and his spirit and tenacity is outstanding. He is the pride of India.
- The Vice President of India stated that Ravi’s flawless performance bagged him the silver medal.
- The President of India also congratulated him.
- Haryana CM Manohar Lal also awarded him crore rupees for earning silver.
- He was rewarded with various cash prizes for his achievement.
CONCLUSION:
Ravikumar Dahiya, Indian athlete made us feel proud. Obviously, he inspires the young people with his relentless spirit and attitude. To be a follower of him, is the follower of continence. Thus, he created history, not only as an athlete but also by his attitude to a gentle sports man.
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