It is every player's dream to win an Olympic medal. Players work day and night for four years to prepare for this medal. If a player wins a medal, his life changes overnight, but imagine what happens if he misses out on an Olympic medal by a small margin? The most painful thing for any player in the Olympics is to be at the fourth position. Something similar happened with shooter Arjun Babuta in the Paris Olympics. This player missed out on winning the bronze medal in the 10 meter air rifle event by a small margin. Babuta will always regret this failure when he was close to his goal.

By the way, let us tell you that this has happened with India 14 times in the Olympics when one of its athletes or teams has been at the fourth position.

The pain of finishing fourth in the Olympics

• In 1956, Team India lost the bronze medal match at the Melbourne Olympics. In the bronze medal match, Team India was defeated by Bulgaria 0-3.
• Milkha Singh finished fourth in the 1960 Olympic Games held in Rome. Milkha was a medal contender in the 400 meter final but he missed out on winning the bronze by 10th of a second.
• The women's hockey team finished fourth twice.
  The women's hockey team had to face this pain in the Moscow Olympics held in 1980 and the Tokyo Olympics 2020 as well.
• PT Usha also finished fourth in the Los Angeles Olympics 1984. She missed winning a medal in the 400m hurdles by 100th of a second. Usha finished fourth after Romania's Cristina Cojocaru.
• In tennis, India missed out on a medal in the 2004 Athens Olympics and the 2016 Rio Olympics. The doubles pair of veteran Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi missed out on a bronze medal in the Athens Games after losing to Croatia's Mario Ancic and Ivan Ljubicic 6-7, 6-4, 14-16 in a marathon match.
  The mixed doubles pair of Rohan Bopanna and Sania Mirza also faced disappointment in the bronze medal match.
• At the London Olympics 2012, shooter Joydeep Karmakar was just 1.9 points behind the bronze medal winner.
• In the Rio Olympics, gymnast Dipa Karmakar also missed the bronze medal by just .150 points despite making it to the finals of the vault event. She finished fourth with a score of 15.066.
• Shooter Abhinav Bindra, who won gold in Beijing Olympics, missed winning a medal in Rio Olympics by just a small margin.
• Golfer Aditi Ashok missed out on winning a historic medal at the Tokyo Olympics.
  This player, ranked 200th in the world rankings, competed with the best players in the world but could not win the medal by a very narrow margin in the last round.

This player, ranked 200th in the world rankings, competed with the best players in the world but could not win the medal by a very narrow margin in the last round.