Olympic medalist proves she isn’t a finished force by recovering with her iconic move.
Since winning a medal in an international in Spain in early 2016, the double leg has served as Sakshi Malik’s calling card. It has been with her through the lows of the disappointing Olympic medal and the subsequent six years of losses.
Call it what you will—a dozing dragon, a calmed volcano, the Hulk still buffering. The boiling soup that was on the verge of bubbling over during Sakshi’s double leg attack served as the symbol of her achievement. Sakshi, a wounded beast of a wrestler, rediscovered the roar associated with using the technique that has come to characterise her in Birmingham.
However, the frosting was cold and stinging, with a cherry on top. After completing the double leg, she forced Anne Godinez, a 62 kg Canadian opponent and former rugby player, into a position from which she was unable to escape.
Sakshi had shredded enormous leads throughout the entirety of the Rio Olympics, making up the deficits with her jarring double leg technique that makes fun of momentums.