Ladies First Page #3

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get any respect just because--

You don't have an Olympic gold medal

or any Olympic medal.

It doesn't matter how many

other competitions you've won.

It really doesn't matter.

These things need to

change in our country.

Perhaps

it will take...

a lot of time.

Eight years, twelve years?

-Hi, big sister.

-Hi. What's all this?

Flowers?

-Anointment.

-Very little only.

-Welcome, big sister.

-How are you all?

We're good.

-How's practice coming along?

-Very well.

-What?

-Look at this.

-I've made a scrap book about you.

-There's no better teacher than time.

Neither as strong

nor as kind.

Oh, so, these are just the good ones.

We watched the Olympics together

in the TV room.

We'd set our alarms for midnight

and would wake each other up

by saying, "It's Deepika's match."

We'd jump out of bed--

And pray for your victory.

If your score was low,

we would pray:

"God, please help our sister Deepika,"

and scream loudly that you win.

You should have screamed louder

so I could have heard you in Rio.

We'd pray

that every arrow is a 10 but...

Unless we put in the hard work,

we won't achieve anything. We just have to

work hard and one day we will get there.

In our country,

girls keep saying they'll work hard.

We all work hard,

but

nobody teaches you the right way.

They say:

"Fine, we'll give our

100 or 200 percent."

But how do you know what you're doing

is right? How will you ever know?

Watch your seniors shoot,

ask your coaches,

watch their match videos.

It's the Internet Age, download videos.

There are such good players

from Korea, USA, Mexico,

watch their videos.

This is what hard work entails.

Hard work...

is doing the right thing.

Yeah.

-Train well.

-We need to take a photo.

You are the seniors now.

In our country, girls have big dreams

and ambitions, and want to fulfill them

but are held back by fear.

I want my story

to inspire every girl.

If you want to be successful,

you have to fight!

Say cheese!

Sports has taught me

an important lesson:

Never give up,

because the minute you give up,

you lose.

But as long as you keep fighting,

you gain a sense of confidence

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