Sindhu awaits ice cream with Modi after second Olympic medal

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India’s P. V. Sindhu poses with her women’s singles badminton bronze medal at a ceremony during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Musashino Forest Sports Plaza in Tokyo on 1 August 2021 – AFP

NEW DELHI (AFP): Indian badminton ace P.V. Sindhu awaits a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi after she became the country’s first woman to win two individual Olympic medals.

“GOAT - Grittiest Of All Time,” the Indian Express front page read on Monday, riffing off Greatest Of All Time after Sindhu beat China’s He Bingjiao in Tokyo and swooped a bronze medal. The world champion’s victory on Sunday came five years after she finished second at the Rio Games.

Sindhu’s father P.V. Ramana, a former volleyball player, said the badminton superstar will meet the Indian Prime Minister on her return Tuesday.

“He had said, ‘you go, we will have ice cream when you come back,’ so she will now definitely go and have ice cream with the Prime Minister,” Ramana was quoted as saying by Indian media.