117 players from India will participate in Paris Olympics 2024. These games are going to start from 26th July. At the same time, more than 10000 players from the world will participate in Olympics 2024. Talking about Olympic history, India has a total of 35 medals so far. India's best performance in terms of medals was in Tokyo 2020 where the team won a total of seven medals including one gold. In such a situation, winning an Olympic medal is the dream of every Indian athlete. An athlete from India has achieved the feat of winning Olympic medals twice in a row, but he is currently behind the bars of the jail.

This champion player of India is behind bars

Wrestler Sushil Kumar is a big name in Indian wrestling. Sushil Kumar had the distinction of becoming the first Indian to win medals in two consecutive Olympics. Sushil became a role model for the country's young wrestlers with his success. Sushil Kumar, who won bronze in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and silver in the 2012 London Olympics, is behind prison bars today. He is accused of murdering young wrestler Sagar Dhankhar. Due to which his sports career was completely ruined.

His success overshadowed Sushil

Olympian Sushil Kumar is in jail on charges of murdering wrestler Sagar Dhankar. Sagar Dhankar was murdered on 4 May 2021 at Chhatrasal Stadium in Delhi. Sushil Kumar was arrested by the police on 23 May. He has also accepted the charges of murdering Sagar. It is believed that after winning the silver medal in the 2012 Olympics, success overpowered Sushil and he started sinking into the quagmire of evil. Actually, the sport of wrestling in India makes the players very strong not only on the mat but also outside it. Sushil Kumar's personality is also something like this.

One of the most successful wrestlers of India

Wrestler Sushil Kumar won many big events during his career. He won the gold medal in the 1988 World Cadet Games. Apart from this, he also brought pride to the country in the Olympics twice. He dominated the Commonwealth Games. He won gold medals in the 2010, 2014 and 2018 Commonwealth Games. After this, he also won the gold medal in the 2010 World Wrestling Championship. For this strong performance, he was awarded the Arjuna Award, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award and Padma Shri. But today he is spending his life in jail.