Our country has always longed for a single medal in the Olympics. In the more than 100-year history of these games, India has not even won 50 medals. However, the situation has improved in this century and along with individual gold medals, many other players have also given the country a chance to be happy by winning medals. One of these players is legendary shuttler PV Sindhu, who created a stir by winning medals in the last two Olympics. Similar expectations were from Sindhu in Paris as well, but this time the star player could not repeat her previous successes. Also, she missed out on creating history.

Sindhu missed out on creating history

On the sixth day of Paris Olympics 2024, PV Sindhu had to face defeat in the pre-quarterfinals of women's singles. Sindhu was defeated by Chinese star player He Bingjiao 21-19, 21-14. With this, Sindhu was out of the Games. Sindhu's defeat dealt a big blow to India's hopes of increasing the number of medals. The form of Sindhu, the country's number-1 female badminton player, was under question for a long time, but there were expectations given her record of good performance in big tournaments.

Well, that didn't happen and this time Sindhu had to return empty handed. In this way, for the first time Sindhu missed out on winning an Olympic medal. She made her debut in the 2016 Rio Olympics and created history by winning a silver medal in her very first games. She was the first Indian female player to win silver in the Olympics. After this, she won a bronze medal in the Tokyo Olympics and thus became only the second Indian to win 2 medals in the Olympics. This time Sindhu had a chance to create history by becoming the first Indian player to win 3 Olympic medals but that could not happen.

Will Manu complete the work?

Now Sindhu missed out on creating this history, so the eyes of Indian fans are now fixed on Paris Olympics star Manu Bhaker. 22-year-old shooter Manu, who emerged as India's biggest player in these games, has already created history by winning 2 consecutive bronze medals. She won medals in the 10 meter pistol event and 10 meter pistol mixed team event and became the first Indian to win 2 medals in the same Olympics. Now Manu not only has a chance to score a hat-trick, but also has a chance to become the first Indian to win 3 Olympic medals.

Manu will compete in her last event 25m air pistol on Friday, August 2. There is qualification for this event on Friday, where Manu will make it to the finals by being in the top-8. If she does this, she will have a chance to create history in the finals on Saturday, August 3. Manu will also be excited for this. Along with this, she will also be eager to change the colour of her 2 bronze medals to gold.