Dipa Karmakar missed a bronze medal by a whisker in the women’s vault finals at the Rio Games on Sunday, but the gymnast seemed happy, proud and content with her fourth place.
Creating history with the best-ever Olympics performance by an Indian gymnast, Dipa thanked everyone for their “prayers” and sent Independence Day wishes to the entire nation from her verified Twitter handle.
Earlier this month, a fake twitter account of the Indian gymnast went going viral.
However, Twitter India head Raheel Khursheed tweeted a link to Dipa’s new account stating that the rest were “all fake”.
The 23-year-old Dipa, who became the first Indian woman gymnast to have qualified for the Olympics, scored an average of 15.066 points, a mere 0.15 less than the eventual bronze winner Giulia Steingruber (15.216) of Switzerland.
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