India’s Diksha Dagar has shrugged off a automobile accident and is now hoping to “encourage” fellow deaf individuals in addition to problem for a ladies’s golf medal in Paris this week.
The 23-year-old made her Olympic debut in Tokyo on the delayed 2020 Video games and was additionally a Deaflympic gold medallist three years in the past.
She performed herself into medal rivalry at Le Golf Nationwide on Wednesday, carding a one-under-par 71 to sit down in a tie for seventh place after the primary spherical of the ladies’s occasion.
“I by no means thought that — after I was enjoying tournaments, I had no concept what I used to be doing however when the individuals come to me, like hitting it, and they’re deaf like me, they ask, ‘I comply with you, and it’s very inspiring to see you’,” Dagar mentioned.
“I imply, it feels so good, prefer it feels wonderful. Not less than I’m strolling on the precise path and I wish to do one thing higher and encourage them extra,” she added.
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Dagar says she feels lucky to be competing, after her and her household had been concerned in a automobile accident in Paris final week which left her mom in hospital with a spinal harm.
“You’ll be able to’t keep away from the accident. It occurred. Prefer it was no person’s fault,” she mentioned. “I don’t know the way it will find yourself however you’ll be able to say it was a part of my Olympic expertise. It was horrible accident however by God’s grace we’re secure.
“I’m very fortunate and blessed to play the Olympics the second time,”Dagar added.
Left-hander Dagar and her India teammate Aditi Ashok each made good begins on the Albatros course, with Ashok signing for a level-par 72 as she makes an attempt to go not less than one higher than when she completed fourth in Tokyo.
Dagar will play within the first group in Thursday’s second spherical, teeing off at 9:00 am native time (0700 GMT) with Taiwan’s Hsu Wei-ling and Austrian Emma Spitz.