Shooting vidarsa vinod

Shooting Vidarsa Vinod: Vidarsa K. Vinod’s Asian Games debut was never simply a matter of being in the right place at the right time. After helping India win silver in the women’s 10m air rifle team event at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, the Keralam shooter pushed back against suggestions that luck had carried her to the continental stage, pointing instead to eight years of work behind her first Games medal.

"The competition was really good. I cannot put the experience into words. This is amazing. Even before coming to the Asian Games, everybody was saying that this was luck that brought you. As a double starter, you can play as a double starter. But I can’t say that’s only luck, because behind this I have worked really hard for 8 years. So this is kind of my dream coming true,” Vidarsa told IANS after the team silver win.

The silver came in the women’s 10m air rifle team event, where Vidarsa joined Elavenil Valarivan and Sonam Maskar to deliver India’s first medal of the Games. It also made her the first female from Keralam to win a shooting medal at the Asian Games.