Tokyo Olympics: Sprinter Dutee Chand’s Mother Lighting ”Everlasting Lamp” For Daughter’s Luck

Akhaji Chand, mom of India’s ace sprinter Dutee Chand, on Thursday lighted an “everlasting lamp” at a temple wishing her daughter’s good fortune on the ongoing Tokyo Olympics. Akhaji Chand presented prayer to the village deity at Chaka Gopalpur village below Rasulpur block previous within the day. She then lit the “akhand deepa” on the altar of the deity. She is now staying within the shrine, guarding the lamp in order that it burns uninterrupted until Friday when her daughter will compete towards different athletes in Spherical 1 of the Ladies’s 100m tournament. Fellow villagers have additionally presented prayers to the deity for her good fortune within the Olympics.

Dutee, the quickest Indian lady, will run within the 100-metre tournament which is scheduled between 8.45 am and 9.33 am IST on Friday. The semi-finals and ultimate of the development are scheduled to be hung on July 31.

The sprinter may even participate within the 200-metre tournament on August 2. Spherical 1 and semi-finals of this tournament are scheduled to happen on August 2 whilst the overall will probably be hung on August 3.

Previous on June 21, she had set a countrywide report within the Ladies’s 100m tournament by way of clocking 11.17 seconds on the Indian Grand Prix-IV organised by way of the Athletics Federation of India in Patiala.