Olympic-bound fencer Bhavani Devi on Wednesday revealed that she was battling the agony of leaving out her coronavirus-stricken mother during the qualifying tournament in Hungary. Bhavani said she wanted to skip the qualifying tournament in March but her mother prodded her from hospital bed to compete in the event. “Before the Budapest qualification, my mom […]
Baby Reddy clucks often during the phone conversation, correcting the details. “No. My father is not a farmer. We have a small house, three buffaloes and grow plants in two pots,” the 17-year-old specifies, slowly. The fencer, who was at the National Centre of Excellence in Patiala, has been busy correcting a Nationals-score mention against […]
The first Indian fencer to qualify for Olympics, CA Bhavani Devi on Wednesday recalled that she was so desperate to make the cut for the Tokyo Games that she competed in tournaments to improve her rankings despite nursing injuries. Bhavani qualified for the Tokyo Games through the Adjusted Official Ranking (AOR) Method. Two individual spots […]
She wears a see-through, mesh tri-colour on her full-face masked helmet. She is also deeply influenced by the tale of Queen Velu Nachiyar, or Veeramangai, the ruler of Sivaganga who is supposed to have waged the first war of freedom on the British in 1770s. But what Chadalavada Anandha Sundhararamana Bhavani Devi, India’s first ever […]
