অভূতপূর্ব সাফল্য! মনুকে শুভেচ্ছা জানিয়ে বললেন রাহুল দ্রাবিড়

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অভূতপূর্ব সাফল্য! মনুকে শুভেচ্ছা জানিয়ে বললেন রাহুল দ্রাবিড়                 ~ED.2~

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00:00Yeah, it's just lovely to come on a day that's really special for Indian sport

00:04and what a brilliant story as well.

00:06I think Manu's story is incredible after the disappointment of what happened in Tokyo.

00:10These kinds of achievements took years of sacrifice.

00:13It took a lot of hard work, a lot of perseverance, resilience.

00:17Yeah, firstly, thanks Gaurav and it's just lovely to be here.

00:21It's lovely to be in Paris.

00:23Yeah, it's just lovely to come on a day that's really special for Indian sport

00:38and what a brilliant story as well.

00:40I think Manu's story is incredible after the disappointment of what happened in Tokyo.

00:44To come here and to be able to get over that, to be able to come here and compete

00:51and to be able to win a bronze medal is a phenomenal achievement.

00:55These kinds of achievements took years of sacrifice.

00:58It took a lot of hard work, a lot of perseverance, resilience.

01:03And I think you just know how hard it is for sportsmen and what they go through.

01:08And so much depends on just these few days.

01:12In a lot of their lives, I can imagine the kind of pressure that it involves for a lot of these sports.

01:20Because this is the pinnacle of their sport.

01:22And the Olympics is, you know, it doesn't get bigger than the Olympics for a lot of those sports.

01:29And for her to be able to do that at this age, to be able to put that performance under pressure

01:35was a phenomenal achievement.

01:36A great congratulations to her and truly a great day for Indian sport.

01:40What an inspiring story for so many young boys and girls back home in India as well.

01:44The only small chance that I had of experiencing something like this,

01:48and obviously not the Olympics, but there was cricket in the Commonwealth Games.

01:52I think it was in 1998 if I'm not mistaken.

01:54That's right.

01:55It was Malaysia.

01:56And India sent a team, but at the same time we had a series in Canada, in Toronto.

02:03We were playing Pakistan in Toronto.

02:05And they split the Indian team into two parts.

02:09They sort of had one set of boys go to Toronto and one set of boys go to Malaysia.

02:14And I was hoping and praying that I would be in the team to Malaysia.

02:18Unfortunately for me, I was...

02:20Yeah, I admit it. It was just for the easy runs.

02:22But no, I think, you know, just the...

02:26So you've grown up with the Olympics.

02:28I think if you've been a sports fan, if you love sport as I have,

02:33you know, we've grown up watching the Olympics.

02:36I mean, my earliest memories are of, you know, Carl Lewis winning the Olympics

02:40and television coming into India in those days.

02:43And, you know, all of us glued to those television sets to watch, you know,

02:47watch these great athletes perform and play.

02:50And so many of these, so many of the Indian athletes as well, you know,

02:53who participated in these Olympic Games,

02:55we've always wanted to be part of a great event.

02:58We have our great events in cricket.

02:59You know, we have our World Cups.

03:01But they're individual events.

03:02They're only cricketers at the events.

03:04The greatest cricketers on the world who come together in one country

03:07to play those great events.

03:09But here to be in this kind of environment, this kind of energy, this kind of vibe,

03:13it's a dream come true for any sportsman to be a part of that.

03:17And it always felt that, you know, cricket should be involved in events like this.

03:23It's truly a great game.

03:24It's followed and watched by so many people in the world.

03:27But it's just fantastic, you know, from someone like me who's now really a fan,

03:32for me to be able to see cricket in the Olympics,

03:36that's going to be a part of this.

03:38I think it's truly phenomenal.

03:40So, obviously, unfortunately, I won't be able to play in 2028.

03:44Never say never.

03:47Unless they're going to play 10 days later.

03:56Unfortunately, I won't be able to play as a player.

03:59But I'm certainly going to make all my effort to be at Los Angeles in some capacity or the other.

04:04You guys can, if not anything, at least I'll take a media job.

04:07You guys can organize me.

04:10I'm going to say the judge can organize me as some volunteer or something in cricket.

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