'Your success not just yours': PM Modi hails athletes after 85-medal haul at Asiad
Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with India's Asian Games medal winners to celebrate their record-breaking performance. He praised the athletes for their contributions, specifically highlighting the success of women and the expansion into new sports.
Why it matters
The event underscores the government's focus on sports as a tool for national pride and the development of a 'New India' image.
Present at the event were the entire men's T20 team, led by Shreyas Iyer, which played the fourth T20I against West Indies on Wednesday evening and is scheduled to play the fifth and final match against them in Bengaluru on Saturday, along with the women's team, which is due to face Zimbabwe in a T20I in Raipur on Friday, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi met India's Asian Games medal-winners at the Major Dhyan Chand Stadium in New Delhi on Thursday.The athletes presented the PM with memorabilia, including signed jerseys and a bow from 17-year-old archery sensation Kumkum Mohod.PM Modi posed for photographs with the contingent, which was accompanied by senior officials from various sports bodies, including International Cricket Council chairman Jay Shah."You have made 140 crore Indians proud. The biggest success is to make the tri-colour fly high.
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