PARIS: Manu Bhaker fuelled India’s hopes on the Olympic Video games by bagging two bronze medals, so it was solely becoming that the teenager got here again from Delhi to hold the flag together with bronze winner and retiring hockey goalkeeper PR Sreejesh because the curtains got here on the stroke of midnight right here on the Stade de France.
Manu, who gained third place in girls’s 10m air pistol and staff occasions and narrowly missed one other third place within the girls’s 25 pistol last, loved each second of the three-hour lengthy spectacle in entrance of greater than 71,500 spectators, who crammed the stands hours upfront for this system, that began with a musical efficiency adopted by the entry of flagbearers from 205 delegations.
Sreejesh and Manu walked in dressed within the official staff colors with ‘India’ glittering in golden daring letters on the again as loud applause rang from the lots of of Indians who had taken their seat for the closing ceremony. “It was an unforgettable second and I’ll all the time cherish today,” Bhaker stated. The 22-year-old added that it was “such an awesome honour to hold the nationwide flag”.
Manu’s solely disappointment was that she couldn’t seize a few of the treasured moments on her cell phone. “Manu misplaced her cellphone when she returned to Delhi. She put it in airplane mode and left it on her seat and forgot to take it together with her after touchdown in Delhi. It was an enormous loss because it was the identical cellphone that was gifted to her by the official sponsor on the Tokyo Video games,” sources advised TOI. “A grievance was lodged with the provider and we searched within the lost-andfound gadgets. However Manu’s cell was not there,” sources added.
Sreejesh, in the meantime, had no such issues and he was seen clicking away after they took turns to wave the nationwide flag.
Wrestler Reetika Hooda was among the many fortunate few within the Indian contingent who received to remain again to be a part of the closing ceremony. “I felt excellent to symbolize my nation in entrance of such a big viewers. It was a bitter unhappy second for me as I missed out on a medal,” stated Reetika, the primary Indian wrestler to qualify within the girls’s heavyweight class.
For Reetika, the massive second was to not watch Hollywood star Tom Cruise take the Video games flag to Los Angeles however to fulfill and greet Cuban wrestling legend Mijain Lopez. Lopez gained his first gold at Beijing in 2008 and he retired right here after successful his fifth straight gold within the males’s Greco Roman 130-kg class. “I’m not even an enormous fan of Bollywood, so Hollywood may be very far,” she stated with a smile. “However to fulfill and pose for an image with Lopez sir was a priceless second,” she advised TOI.
Manu, who gained third place in girls’s 10m air pistol and staff occasions and narrowly missed one other third place within the girls’s 25 pistol last, loved each second of the three-hour lengthy spectacle in entrance of greater than 71,500 spectators, who crammed the stands hours upfront for this system, that began with a musical efficiency adopted by the entry of flagbearers from 205 delegations.
Sreejesh and Manu walked in dressed within the official staff colors with ‘India’ glittering in golden daring letters on the again as loud applause rang from the lots of of Indians who had taken their seat for the closing ceremony. “It was an unforgettable second and I’ll all the time cherish today,” Bhaker stated. The 22-year-old added that it was “such an awesome honour to hold the nationwide flag”.
Manu’s solely disappointment was that she couldn’t seize a few of the treasured moments on her cell phone. “Manu misplaced her cellphone when she returned to Delhi. She put it in airplane mode and left it on her seat and forgot to take it together with her after touchdown in Delhi. It was an enormous loss because it was the identical cellphone that was gifted to her by the official sponsor on the Tokyo Video games,” sources advised TOI. “A grievance was lodged with the provider and we searched within the lost-andfound gadgets. However Manu’s cell was not there,” sources added.
Sreejesh, in the meantime, had no such issues and he was seen clicking away after they took turns to wave the nationwide flag.
Wrestler Reetika Hooda was among the many fortunate few within the Indian contingent who received to remain again to be a part of the closing ceremony. “I felt excellent to symbolize my nation in entrance of such a big viewers. It was a bitter unhappy second for me as I missed out on a medal,” stated Reetika, the primary Indian wrestler to qualify within the girls’s heavyweight class.
For Reetika, the massive second was to not watch Hollywood star Tom Cruise take the Video games flag to Los Angeles however to fulfill and greet Cuban wrestling legend Mijain Lopez. Lopez gained his first gold at Beijing in 2008 and he retired right here after successful his fifth straight gold within the males’s Greco Roman 130-kg class. “I’m not even an enormous fan of Bollywood, so Hollywood may be very far,” she stated with a smile. “However to fulfill and pose for an image with Lopez sir was a priceless second,” she advised TOI.
