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‘I Almost Decided To Quit’: Shooter Vidarsa's Remarkable Journey From Borrowed Rifle To Asian Games
Karni Singh Shooting Range: For Vidarsa K Vinod, a place in India’s Asian Games shooting squad represents far more than the culmination of a successful sporting campaign. The 27-year-old from Kozhikode, Kerala, who will compete in the 10m Air Rifle and 50m Rifle 3 Positions events at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, has reached the continental stage after overcoming financial constraints, a pandemic-induced break, life in a new city and a point when she was ready to walk away from shooting.
Vidarsa's introduction to the sport came through the National Cadet Corps in 2018, initially with little ambition beyond experiencing shooting. Training with borrowed equipment, she went on to emerge as the aggregate champion at the Kerala State Championship, an achievement that convinced her to pursue the sport seriously.
“I just wanted to experience shooting. I never imagined it would become my profession. When I became the aggregate champion at the Kerala State Championship despite training with borrowed equipment, I realised this was the sport I wanted to pursue,” she said.
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