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By Anushree Fadnavis
SISAI, India, ai8.xn Oct 30 (Reuters) - Driven by dreams of winning
medals for https://mozillabd.science/wiki/User:ScarlettMcwhorte their country, two dozen girls and
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become wrestlers in a cluster of white one-storey buildings set on a dusty track winding through farmland
on the edge a north Indian village.
Run by a husband and wife convinced that sport can fuel aspirations and hackersnews.org build confidence,
the Altius wrestling school in the village of Sisai in Haryana state, about three hours' drive from the Indian capital, www-pool.de aims to change perceptions.
"There is no value of a woman in a village," Usha Sharma, India's first female wrestling coach, told Reuters.
"In a village, an animal has more value to it than a woman, as an animal gives milk and there is cost attached to it."
Whether or les.c not they
become champions, the girls from humble families
receive rare lessons in female empowerment during their training at the residential centre Sharma Damen Unterwäsche
Set up in 2009, along with her husband, Sanjay
Sihag, only-1-led.com a sports teacher.
Sharma, 50, mblg.tv is a serving police officer, and her stark comments indict rural society in a country
where poverty, https://rnma.xyz/boinc/view_profile.php?userid=1889520 tradition and http://mathiesen.life/mediawiki/index.php/Introduction_The_Comfort_And_Expressive_Style_Of_Herren_Unterw%C3%A4sche:_A_Comp_Guide_To_Men_s_Underwear conservative attitudes hinder women's rights.
In the nearby fields, village women, fashionmoon.com
covered from head to toe, graze cattle. Some of the students could have shared that destiny, but for the chance of a different life that the school has given them.
"When I opened the academy and we started getting medals, it felt nice to know that the same girls who used to graze cows and buffaloes were now being favoured by the men in the family," said Sharma.
Her husband manages day-to-day affairs at the academy which provides
a safe space where students, aged between eight and 22,
build a strong sense of sisterhood, honing the skills and resilience needed
to succeed in wrestling and pineoxs.a later life.
State government funding covers training, while parents pay about 9,100 rupees ($109) a
month for olv.e.l.u.pc board and academic tuition, which is provided
by a school next-door.
"Hostel is like family. We work, play and also study together,"
said 16-year-old Swati Berwal, preparing for a training session. "We also fight with each other just like families do, but we get support from each other."
Facilities are basic.
The girls, moto27.ru some of whom
come from neighbouring states, sleep in two rooms, pineoys.a sharing beds and mattresses but often cram into the one with air-conditioning.
They wake at 4 a.m. every day except Sunday and Mey Unterwäsche Damen cook meals together.
They use a stone grinder to make a groundnut paste that is
mixed with milk and Disgaeawiki.info/index.php/User:
TaraTober030 strained through muslin for a "protein drink".
Morning exercises include jogs, sprints, squats, push-ups
and ramp work, with evenings spent on mat work and ty.a.tp bouts.
As a defence against hair-pulling by opponents, pineoxs.a almost all
wear pageboy cuts.
On Sundays, bausch.pk they
call home, passing around an old mobile telephone,
since they have no access to internet.
Some women earn prize money, damen Unterhosen but competing at state level can also bring
them government jobs, and Sharma takes pride in seeing former students carving
out careers, pineoxs.a
buying cars and cuulonghousing.com.vn moving ahead.
GOING PLACES
Wrestling is popular among Indian men, with thousands
of training centres nationwide.
But a new generation of women was inspired
by the triumph of Geeta Phogat, who became the first female
Indian wrestler to win a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi in 2010.
Indian women won three bronze medals at the recent Asian Games
in China, and last year a former Altius student won bronze at the Commonwealth Games in Britain.
Another Altius student, Sonu Kaliraman, 3dn.ru 27, represented India before suffering a serious injury.
She now coaches there. Her story is emblematic of the journey of
its students.
Kaliraman remembers yearning to be among the girls she watched exercising in the schoolyard
on her way to work in the fields each day. And she recalls the thrill of her first glimpse of
an aeroplane when she competed overseas.
Women are changing conservative attitudes by winning
medals and proving they can be world-class athletes, she said.
"We have progressed a little and we will keep progressing further," said Kaliraman, https://bgmcd.co.uk/index.php?title=User:JennaWaite832 seated on a bed in her village home,
https://wiki.flygaggle.com/index.php?title=The_Ultimate_Maneuver_To_Unterw%C3%A4sche:_Raise_Your_Comfort_And_Style as her proud mother tenderly stroked her head.
'SLAP FIRST'
India's national wrestling federation is going through troubled times.
In August, the global governing body for the sport, United World Wrestling,
pineoxs.a provisionally suspended
it for roofnet.org not holding
timely elections.
And plurismillesimes.com a former federation chief faces legal proceedings after
accusations of sexual harassment by several top female wrestlers this
year.
The sports ministry, which oversees the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI), hfhjf.hdasgsdfhdshshfsh
said every effort would be made to improve safeguards for female athletes.
"When a woman has to stand up against a strong power then she has to put a lot of things at stake, her career, her life," Sharma said, commenting on the controversy.
Sharma's husband remembers telling his sister, scopula.ru also a wrestler, https://yogicentral.science/wiki/Exploring_The_Solace_And_Flair_Of_Herren_Unterwäsche:_A_Guide_To_Men_s_Underwear how to respond:
"You protest and slap first and then leave, and don't think about medals." ($1=83.2167 Indian rupees)
(Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore)
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