The Indian wrestling team would regularly visit America for competitions, and we used to have joint training with the American wrestlers. There was a break for a few hours before the gold medal match against Japan's Tatsuhiro Yonemitsu. Sushil disclosed that initially he could not understand the magnitude of winning an Olympic medal. Although Sushil lost out on a gold at London, he feels fortunate to have climbed the podium at the Olympics twice. I wasn't aware till then that a 52-year jinx on Indian wrestling had been ended with my medal.

Source: India Today June 26, 2016 06:22 UTC