When Vandana Katariya was a child, she was told her love for sports was unbecoming of a girl. So, she would sneak away, forage for tree branches and practise her moves, away from the prying eyes of disapproving elders in Uttarakhand’s Roshnabad village, report MS Nawaz & Ishita Mishra.
But Vandana found one defender when everyone else wanted her to drop her passion — her father. When Nahar Singh Kataria, who had been a wrestler, died three months ago, Vandana couldn’t make it home due to training. On Saturday, she became India’s first woman to score a hat-trick at the Olympics.
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