A silver medal at Tokyo Paralympics today completes the hat-trick for javelin thrower Devendra Jhajharia. Here’s what he had to say before his departure for the games…
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00:00Now I will go and meet my daughter, I have been waiting for her for a long time.
00:14It is a very happy moment for me to make a hat-trick for the country.
00:30The journey of my life is such that life has beaten me so much that it has turned me into gold.
00:51The saddest thing was that there was no power in the village and the electricity was cut off.
01:01You keep a 9-10-year-old child in a hospital for 5-6 months.
01:08That one day was equal to a year for me.
01:20My mother said, go play with the kids, you are fine now.
01:23I said, how will I play with the kids, who will feed me?
01:30You should speak differently, why have you come here, what work do you have?
01:47Study, do whatever you want in your life.
01:50I used to feel at that time.
01:52So I thought I will not be called weak.
02:00In Athens, I made the country a gold medal with a world record.
02:30When the event came, a friend asked me, will you really play?
02:35I said, what are you talking about?
02:37You are talking about playing, see, I will win a gold medal.
03:01I am trying my best to win the third gold medal in the country.
03:10Winning a silver medal in Tokyo has been a historic day for me.