India's 2012 London Olympics bronze medal-winning wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt, 35, said that tennis ace Leander Paes' bronze medal at the 1990 Atalanta Games inspired him to win a medal at the Olympics
India's 2012 London Olympics bronze medal-winning wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt, 35, yesterday said that tennis ace Leander Paes' bronze medal at the 1990 Atalanta Games inspired him to win a medal at the Olympics. Paes, 44, won bronze in the men's singles event and remains India's only tennis medallist at the Olympics so far.
Leander Paes and Yogeshwar Dutt
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"Leander, you have been an inspiration for me right from the start. The first time I thought of winning an Olympic medal was after I saw you win one. You are the nation's pride," Dutt wrote on Twitter alongside this picture after the two athletes met at the SAICON 2017 (International Conference on Sports Medicine & Sports Sciences) in New Delhi yesterday.
Union Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore inaugurated the event that also had Olympians like wrestler Karnam Malleswari and former hockey stars V Bhaskaran and Vece Paes in attendance.
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