India get 5th medal, first in wrestling

Just before he left for the London Olympics, Yogeshwar Dutt had vowed to win a medal for the country - something he had failed to do in the last two Games. On Saturday, the Delhi Police officer lived up to his words and did the country proud by winning the bronze medal in the 60kg freestyle wrestling.
Fighting with great skill and stamina, the valiant Dutt fought five bouts one after the other before outwitting North Korea's Jong Myong Ri with a breathtaking move in his final fight to grab the biggest prize of his long career. After the win, he said, "If I had lost, no one would have remembered me. Jo jeeta wahi sikandar."
Yogeshwar Dutt has al ways been an under achiever in Indian wrestling. The 29-year-old from Bhainswal village in Sonipat, Haryana, is a courageous fighter and technically very sound, but somehow he always kept missing the big one. On Saturday at the Excel Arena here, it finally happened. He fought five bouts one after another, like a man possessed and finally got what he was looking for, more than two decades after he first entered a dusty dangal in his village to learn the art of kushti -- he won bronze in the 60 kg freestyle to secure India's fifth medal in the London Games.