In normal circumstances, PV Sindhu would have celebrated her 25th birthday with one eye firmly on the countdown clock to the Tokyo Olympics...
In normal circumstances, PV Sindhu would have celebrated her 25th birthday with one eye firmly on the countdown clock to the Tokyo Olympics which was scheduled to start later this month. The Indian badminton star would have, no doubt, been one of the favourites to claim the gold medal.
As things stand, that crack at Olympic glory will have to wait for at least a year. But for the 2016 Rio Olympics silver medallist this breather has been long overdue. After all, for almost a decade, the hectic schedule on the Badminton World Federation tour and her own training routine that included being on court for training before the crack of dawn have not allowed her to truly revel in her success so far.
Indeed, how many 25-year-olds can boast of having five world championship medals — including the tag of being her country’s first world champion — to go with an Olympic and Asian Games medal. Her yearly earnings are also in the excess of $5.5 million with almost a dozen endorsements and all this in a country where sportspersons from sports other than cricket do not usually enjoy such love.
Guts, glory, gold: PV Sindhu’s World Championships triumph was inevitable
But none of this is...
