: Devendra Jhajharia has his moment in the sun #IndiaNEWS Indulge the use of first-person briefly. I remember vividly the day Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore won the silver medal at the Athens Olympic Games

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Devendra Jhajharia has his moment in the sun #IndiaNEWS
Indulge the use of first-person briefly. I remember vividly the day Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore won the silver medal at the Athens Olympic Games in August 2004. I remember seeing the moment replayed on news channels, I remember reading about it the next day, I remember how it made me feel as a kid, I remember talking about it with friends in school.But I don’t remember Devendra Jhajharia winning the gold medal at the Athens Paralympics. It happened a month later but I do not have any recollection. It took me a good deal of work on Google to even find a report of the event that happened on September 21, 2004. Sure, many of us know it now. It is part of his legacy, a mind-boggling one at that... but, personally, it is not a memory that I can access even if I tried. On 30 August 2021, nearly 17 years after his Athens gold, the 40-year-old Devendra Jhajharia became a Paralympic Games medallist for a third time. A silver medal. A new personal best. It came on a day that I will remember for a long time. A day that will, indeed, be remembered by Indian sports fans for years and decades from...Read more

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