Usually, in the Indian annual
felicitation ceremony for sports, only
one person is awarded the National Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award by the President, but this
year the condition has been relaxed as per the original scheme of the award
since both the awardees- Yogeshwar Dutt (wrestling) and Vijay Kumar (pistol
shooting) won Olympic medals.
As for
the Arjuna Awards-- not more than 15 awards are given in any calendar year but this
time around, 25 people were awarded exception as a result of the Olympics.
India’s triumphant bag of 6 medals in
the London 2012 Olympics has been, in many ways, a proud moment for the
country. Although some people still choose to go on about how India might have
done better in its performance, most citizens are overjoyed and are more than
eager to extend their praise for the winners.
This fact has been made obvious by the
recent felicitation of the medal winners and participants of the Olympics by
the Haryana government, along with the sheer numbers of awardees in the months following the event.
The list of awardees for the Arjuna Awards consisted
of: Deepika Kumari (archery), Laishram Bombayla Devi
(archery), Sudha Singh (athletics), Kavita Ramdas Raut (athletics), Ashwani
Ponnappa (badminton), Parupalli Kashyap (badminton), Aditya S Mehta (billiards
and Snooker), Vikas Krishan (boxing), Yuvraj Singh (cricket), Sardar
Singh
(hockey), Yashpal Solanki (judo), Anup Kumar (kabaddi), Samir Suhag
(polo), Annu Raj Singh (shooting), Omkar Singh (shooting), Joydeep
Karmakar (shooting),
Deepika Pallikal (squash), Sandeep Sejwal (swimming), Ng. Sonia Chanu
(weight-lifting), Narsingh Yadav (wrestling), Rajinder Kumar
(wrestling), Geeta
Phogat (wrestling), M. Bimoljit Singh (wushu), Deepa Mallick (athletics,
Paralympics), and Ramkaran Singh(athletics, Paralympics).
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