Cricket remains India’s main sporting draw, other sports such as chess, badminton, football, shooting, and athletics are gaining popularity. India has also been performing better in Paralympic sports. At the 2024 Paralympics in France, India won seven gold medals, nine silver, and 13 bronze. India sent 84 competitors to compete in 12 sports at the 2024 Paralympics. During the opening ceremony, Bhagyashree Jadhav and Sumit Antil carried the Indian flag.
In the end, Preethi Pal and Harvinder Singh carried the flag. India’s 29 medals were their highest-ever total in the Paralympic Games, surpassing the 19 medals won in Tokyo 2020. Manasi Joshi’s post follows India’s poor performance in the ongoing 2024 Border-Gavaskar Trophy, where they are trailing 1-2 to Australia. On Day 1 of the last Test match on Friday, India’s batting problems continued as they collapsed for 185.
In response, the hosts scored 181 in the first innings. Captain Rohit Sharma was rested for the final Test match, while Jasprit Bumrah took over as standby captain. Bumrah has been India’s only consistent performer in the recent series, with other players putting up unpredictable performances. Manasi was a former world champion in the women’s singles SL3 division. She is presently ranked sixth in SL3, and second in SL3-SU5.
Para Sports Stars Demand Respect
She also ranks 13th in the XD SL3-SU5 category. He has also been named by the BBC as one of the world’s 100 most inspirational and powerful women in 2020, as well as a nominee for the BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year Award in 2020. Para-badminton star Manasi Joshi reacted to India’s poor performance in Australia with a particular plea to the government.
Indian para-badminton player Manasi Joshi used to X, formerly known as Twitter, to publicly plead that the Indian government fund more in para-sports, promising greater outcomes in exchange. She wrote, “Cricket ka thoda funding para sports mein daalo plz. Hum better results dete hai.”
