Ravi Dahiya after silver: 'This is alright, however my objective was gold'

It is the greatest situation for a competitor at the Olympic Games: do you lose gold or win silver? 

Silver medallist Ravi Kumar of India presents with his award. 

On Thursday, Ravi Dahiya turned out to be just the 6th competitor in India's brandishing history to win a silver award at the Olympics. Yet, when he was advised to go behind the stage for the award function, he walked across hesitantly. 

Indeed, even on the Games platform, the most noteworthy mark of a competitor's vocation, Dahiya had the appearance of somebody who had been compelled to remain there. His melancholy face remained in sharp difference to those of the other two victors as he got the award from a sparkly plate and wore it around his neck. 

"What the goal of this?" he asked later. "I had come here with just one objective, a gold award. This is OK, yet it's not gold." 

Maybe, Dahiya will grin when he learns of the effect his decoration has effectively had. Haryana's Nahari, Dahiya's town, is good to go to get a pristine indoor arena. Obviously, the grappler didn't realize that yet. He'd kept his telephone turned off for half a month, not in any event, addressing his folks to keep away from interruptions. "However in the event that I had won the gold award, I'd have felt good," he said. 

Dahiya bowed out in the last of the 57-kg class however not prior to giving a huge panic to his Russia adversary and double cross best on the planet Zavur Uguev in the 7-4 decision. 

Dahiya had equipped for the last with a lot of staggering qualifying round successes on Wednesday, including a true to life takedown of Asian boss Nurislam Sanayev. 

He had lost to Uguev once before in the big showdown last in 2019. "The World Championship is harder… At the Olympics, it's somewhat simpler in light of the fact that the quantity of sessions we contend in are less and we get more opportunity to rest," Dahiya said. 

Rest, in any case, was something he didn't as expected get before the last. 

At the point when Dahiya left the Makuhari Messe field, in Tokyo's edges, on Wednesday he gauged four kilos in excess of 57 kg. Cutting weight is the most upsetting and awful piece of this game to try not to get precluded. This time, it was much more convoluted. 

Tokyo is the principal Games where wrestling sessions have been held more than two days, rather than a solitary day. For grapplers, this implies they need to keep up with their weight for back to back days. 

Thus, effectively depleted by contending in three sessions on Wednesday, Dahiya "arrived at the town and hit the rec center immediately". 

In Tokyo's terrible warmth, he wore a woolen tracksuit, turned out for two hours, skipped supper, didn't rest over an hour on account of nervousness, woke up, skipped breakfast and turned out for two additional prior hours leaving for the main match of his vocation. 

"I ate something solely after I made the weight class," he said. "Yet, this occurs, I contended energetically yet missed the mark." 

Dahiya showed a great deal of fortitude and moxie to go head to head with his much-refined opponent. Yet, this session end up being an excessive amount. He strolled off the mat absent a lot of exhibit in spite of winning the silver, and remained solitary in one corner of the arena. 

"Possibly this experience will help. Who can say for sure? I came here with full readiness to win a gold award. Presently, I need to live with the way that I simply have silver," he said.