Queen Bhavanidevi of Fencing

- Left World: Anuradha Derasari

- Bhavanidevi, who reached the pinnacle of success running on the sharp sword of life's struggles, says so. Where there is will there is a way.

The 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games came to an end with a yes no no coin toss. While India has fared better than in the past, it is gratifying that in the field of women's sports, India has opened its own account in the game of fencing. Not only did the sport get underway, but a young woman from Tamil Nadu, India, won a silver medal and enhanced India's prestige. This young woman is Bhavanidevi, daughter of Tamil Nadu.

Not only did he qualify for the Olympics after climbing many struggles and failures, but he also won a silver medal and was ranked 40th in the world in the field of fencing.

Bhavanidevi says that a person's mental strength to fight against his or her conflicting situation, resilience, complete dedication to his or her goal and family support are the keys to success. In my case, the same equation worked.

Her mother's role is very important in the success of Bhavani Devi. “My mother has been my true inspiration in my fencing career,” says Bhavani Devi. A lot of the credit for the medals I got at the Olympic-21 Tokyo goes to my mother, because from the beginning of my fancy career to the present, my mother has been financially and mentally supportive.

The game of fencing is expensive. When I was enrolled in it, I needed some income to participate in the game. My father was a housewife working as a Brahmin. I was the daughter of a normal middle class family. Hence the economic status was normal.

I had to make a career in the game of fencing by any means, so we didn't have the required income. My mother when I said this. Then, without even thinking for a second, he had everything he had. It sold out and my fencing game career started and it went on.

In 2012, when my fencing career was almost on the verge of success. That's when I lost the funding I needed to move forward. I didn’t have enough fudge. My mother then telephoned the Central Government to correspond with the Tamil Nadu Sports Authority, arrange funding and move on to my stalled fencing career. Had it not been for that arrangement, I would not have been able to get this silver medal today.

When his mother was also interviewed with Bhavanidevi after getting the Silver Medal as a mother, she said the same thing, believing in the work of the children, if you dedicate your all, then your children will surely succeed.

The story of Bhavani Devi's struggle has been discussed in many ways, but she says that the three most important events of my life are very interesting to know. Which has played a very important part in making my fencing career a success.

The first occasion was when eleven-year-old Bhavani grabbed her mother's finger and went for an interview for fencing training. Bhavani Devi's financial situation did not allow her to carry an electric sword (swad), so she practiced with a bamboo stick in the heat. Her coach knew this. So when Bhavani's order came, he hesitated to take the interview. But Bhavani was so confident in his game that Bhavani argued with the coach and once agreed to watch his fencing game. And watching her performance. The coaches were also amazed and Bhavani was selected for fencing training. Bhavani learned the game by taking someone else's electric sword on the field before going to the training to participate in the international tournament and move on.

The second is its first Commonwealth International Tournament in Turkey.

She made that choice for the game. But the biggest question was. The cost of buying a fencing kit, an electric sword and a trip to Turkey. For a moment Bhavani felt that she would not be able to take part in this tournament but her mother sat next to her and gave her courage that if one way is closed then if we think of peace with courage then another way is needed. And his mother sought help from the Chennai Sports Foundation, Bhavani's performance was helped by the coach's reference and the rest of Bhavani's expenses were met by his mother borrowing money from friends at Sagawala.

The third occasion is for the selection for the 1918 Olympics. After a lot of hard work, Bhavani qualified for the Rio Olympics, but despite his hard work and training, he was disqualified. Instead of getting frustrated here, she resumed her vigorous practice the very next day, not only because of Corona's worldwide exposure to fencing training in Italy, but also because she had to return from Italy. But she did not give up. She kept practicing during the day as if there was a stadium on the roof of her house. And she took practice, morale and a positive attitude, qualified herself for the 2021 Olympics and the results we know.

Bhavanidevi goes through struggles in this way and gives so much message to women by achieving success. Were their easel there is away.