Golden nikhat the boxer reignites our olympic dreams
After an underwhelming performance at the Tokyo Olympics, Indian boxing’s hopes have been single-handedly restoked for the Paris Games by Nikhat Zareen. The Nizamabad-born pugilist has delivered the country’s first World Boxing Championship gold in 16 years, other than all those won by Mary Kom. Her biopic was the very first film that Nikhat watched in a cinema hall but the legend’s long shadow is something she has battled too. That’s in the past. Now Nikhat can cheerily josh about who should lead her own biopic.Her triumph over injuries and self-doubt will be an inspiration to girls to take up the sport, against various odds. Nikhat is very candid about belonging to a community that expected her to stay at home and worried about how they would marry her off if she got bruised. The one thing she had going for her was her parents, who stood by her ambitions steadfastly. But secondly, a stubbornness in her took on every “don’t” as a challenge and battered straight through it.
At the press conference after becoming World Champion, she disarmingly confessed that trending on Twitter has also been a dream of hers. Of course, not everyone who tweeted congratulations would have bothered to actually watch her dazzling 5-0 finals. The only surety of sticking in India’s sport imagination, unless you are a cricketer, is an Olympic medal. That’s Nikhat’s bigger dream.
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