The fact that other sports are treated like other sports in this cricket-obsessed nation is a fact of rampant corruption. Where would anyone be interested in the Paralympics under such circumstances? The Paralympic Games are currently underway: started on August 28 and will continue until September 8. What did sending a contingent of 117 athletes to the 2024 Paris Olympics bring? Six medals: one silver and five bronze. Despite starting participation very late, our disabled people have so far won 35 medals, including 9 gold, 12 silver and 10 silver medals. Currently our squad of 84 players (52 men, 32 women) is defying time, circumstances, limitations, conditions and physical disabilities in Paris. Today, let's take a stroll in the world of this Savaya Superman-Superwoman. Before the ongoing Olympics, the record of winning the most medals in the history of the Paralympics is in the name of the United States. 2500 medals and the individual medal winning record is held by Lauren Parker, with 25 medals. Lauren Parker (born: 15 December 1988) is an Australian para-athlete and para-cyclist. Lorenbahn, was a successful athlete (Normal) but in 2017 suffered severe injuries to lungs, ribs, shoulder joints, abdomen and spine in a serious training accident. Even though the body was not completely healed, the mind was already strengthened. To write about Lorenbahn's struggles during this period would require not an article but a book. Let's say we don't know about the foreign Lorenbahn but do know anything about our countryman Deepa Malik? Recipient of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, Padma Shri and Arjuna Award, Deepab has won many medals and awards in international and national competitions. Born on 20th September 1970 in Haryana, Deepa's father and husband are both colonels in the army. In 1999, a major earthquake struck life. A tumor was diagnosed on the spine. Three surgeries, 183 stitches, and paralysis from the chest down. The jumping spirit has now become wheelchair-bound. Confusion and suffocation surround the flood of depression. Two things came home in everyone's mind and started coming out in the morning: not being able to support their own children and becoming a financial burden from above. Deepabhen pulled the motionless waist with force. A small hotel next to a farmhouse, say, started a food packet supply business. Then one, two, four table-chairs were placed. The car started to tumble. The financial footing was done, but apart from his own children, others also started to build up. Computer and Google knowledge was obtained from military youths coming there. In order to deliver in the evening, I made a condition before the youth that I will let you stay in the job only if you study during the day, learn computer, mobile repairing, learn to drive a car. Thus, hundreds of youths got a chance in life. When the self-reliance award was given for this achievement, the butchers made a new vomit: the husband and father-in-law were working in the hotel and the sister went to get the award. In fact, Patidev never set foot in the hotel. Deepabehan decided to show something with the strength of the body that the brain-deaf can see and have to accept. At the age of 36, he won three gold medals each in swimming competitions. Participated in the Kuala Lumpur competition in 2006. Jeet helped realize his desire to ride a motorcycle. While driving it came to know that a gadget that can only be operated by hand has arrived. Driving license required, but RTO. Don't give up. A nine-month court battle, but the first licensed disabled person in Maharashtra. Then 1700 km in sub-zero temperature at an altitude of 18 thousand feet in Leh-Ladakh. drove. He became the first Divyang to do so. Then in 2008, he set a world record by swimming the Yamuna river. Deepabehan has shone in the Paralympics. In these disabled players, nature may have given one limb less, but their enthusiasm is twice as high as others. The struggle of multi-crore cricket stars against their Everest struggle, fortitude and steely personality seems like an amoeba. How many of us know about the promising Hasmukhbhai Patel from Gujarat who was selected for the current Paralympics? Bhavinabhen of Sandhiya village in Vadnagar taluka of Mehsana stunned everyone by winning the gold medal in para table tennis at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. He contracted polio at the age of one. After studying till twelfth in the village, he graduated from Gujarat University through distance learning. Started playing table tennis as a hobby. It cost a lot to make a career out of it, but Dad never gave up. Sometimes I got into debt. Cricketer husband Nikul Patel also supported a lot. This move to table tennis also happened by accident. He saw the members of Andhajan Mandal of Ahmedabad playing table tennis and came to know about such a game. Bhavinabhen has won nearly two dozen international medals. A hundred hundred salutes to such a wheelchair Divyangana. Individually we should accept disabled people with love. They should be supported. Make one thing clear that these brothers and sisters are not inferior to us, but they are different from us in morale. If we get inspiration from them, many will surely benefit. Online-Offline If there were no difficulties and forks in the road in life, man would have remained primitive and culture and mentality would not have developed.
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Today: Paralympics: Not the limb, the exhilaration!
