10 Phenomenal Moments of Asian Games 2018 that marks 18th Edition of Asian Games Special for India

Indian side showcasing superlative show in the Asian Games has equalized the record of highest medal won ever by the country in the Asian games. With mammoth 15 gold medals for the Indian athletics and overall 69 medal count Indian sportsperson grabbed the 8th position in the medal tally of all Asian Games. We have scripted down 10 memorable moments from the 18th Edition of Asian Games as our tribute for the Indian athletes who has advanced India’s positioning as a Sports Superpower Country.

The determination of Manjit
Back in his own country, people were criticizing 28-yr-old Manjit’s positioning as the decorated sprinter on account of his age. ONGC too admitting the claim refused to renew his contract before the Games with response you are too old to commit something outstanding in the game. Jinson Johnson valued as India’s No 1 sprinter but in the final of 800m Manjit raced as his last race of life. In the final 80m of the game he trespassed all the participants to turn tables in his side.

The historical revenge of Vinesh Phogat
Rivalry amongst Vinesh Phogat and China’s Sun Yanan is not new, two years ago the latest edition of Phogat sisters suffered knee injury in the Olympic Games just few moments before her match against China’s wrestler. She was bit nervous while facing Sun again in Jakarta but the lady knocked her down and Japan’s Yuki Irie to win first wrestling woman gold in Asian Games. Before this win none of the Indian Wrestler (Women) had ever beaten a Japanese wrestler in Asian Games.

Who can forgot pain battling Swapna who won India’s first Hepathlon Gold
Managing tight shoes with six toes in each of the legs, 21 year old Swapna with bandage around her face to overcome tooth infection not only participated in the most difficult event of Asian games with 7 different games but grabbed the gold in the final.Battling the biggest sport, LIFE under extreme conditions since childhood, the rural girl carried enough mental toughness to cope up with tooth pain and ill-sized shoes and win first-ever gold for India.

The Women Show in 4X400 Relay
Hima Das, MR Poovamma, Sarita Gayakwad and Vismaya VK
It was the most unexpected win for the Indian side. As the day before the final relay Bhokanal fell in water during warm-up show and finished last in the race. The other teammate Swarna Singh was suffering back injury and was hit hard by hard luck with typhoid and viral fever. The four girls were never sure about their positioning in top 3 even but cried with joy after finishing with the ace spot finish.

The Golden Show of Asian Games Roomies
Roomates at Asiad Village and good friends of each other, Tajinderpal Singh Toor and Arpinder Singh rubbed off their victorious tour on each other to grab gold for India. Sharing the incident, Arpinder said that when Toor was on his national duty in the shot put event, he at the stand was sharing the moment to nationwide people through Facebook Live. Toor was expected to cheer his friend and room partner with the same way, but he was not able to do a Facebook live as TV right holder objected his part. Aprinder jumped total 16.7 meter mark to demonstrate gold for India in Triple Jump.

The Fantastic 49kg boxing gold of Panghal
Boxing lightweight matches are always fantastic to witness because of the lightning speed of the boxers. Panghal also demonstrated a thrilling win in the final against Hasanboy Dusmatov of Uzbekistan. The win was best for India in ages as the Rohtak boxer punched down Olympic Champion to win laurel for the nation.

Underdog Bajarang Punia’s rise
Bajarang Punia was surely not the expected medal winner for India at the start of Asian Games 2018 in Jakarta. All Indians have maintained hype great on Sushil Kumar for Wrestling event medal. After the first round stepping out of Sushil Kumar, most of the Indians felt their dream of medal will not fly this Asian Games. Bajrang Punia added applause for the nation after forming 6-0 mammoth win against Japan’s Daichi Takatani.

Dutee Chand’s dual silver answer to all the criticism

Dutee Chand in past has faced different sort of criticism about the level of testosterone in her body. The 22 yr old girl grabbed two silver medal for India in the 100m race and 200m final to put a stay on all offered allegations. Nigerian born Edidong Odiong won both the races with few seconds advancement over Dutee. With this fact, we got to know that she is the fastest Asian-Born woman right now.

Neeraj Chopra’s throw for gold
Chopra’s medal was certain in the Javelin Throw event as most of the Indians declared him the winner before he threw the javelin for the record breaking distance of above 86.32m. Before Asian Games he claimed 84.68m record in the Junior World Cup and repeated the history yet once again with Commonwealth Gold in April. In Jakarta his three attempt marked 83.46m, 83.25m and 86.36m mark to process the promised gold for India.