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Olympics Unbelievable Facts: Thousands of athletes are trying their best to give their best in the Paris Olympics. Some were seen winning medals in fencing despite being 7 months pregnant, while others were seen fighting for an Olympic medal for their country after recovering from cancer.
As far as India is concerned, new badminton star Lakshya Sen stood firm despite bleeding elbow in the bronze medal match and kept trying to win a medal for India. A passionate player who made the impossible possible with his willpower.
In the midst of the Paris Olympics, we are going to tell you the story of a shooter who was not ready to give up. For this, he did something that was difficult to even imagine. If you are right-handed, then it is very difficult to work with the left hand. But when this shooter's right hand stopped working, he shot accurately with his left hand in the pistol event and won the gold medal. Inspired by his achievement, R Balki also made a film in Bollywood.
Hungarian army soldier Taksas made history
Karoly Takacs was a Hungarian shooter. No one can even imagine what he did. Born in 1910, Tkacs joined the Hungarian army. He was a world-class pistol shooter. But due to some reasons, he could not make it to the Hungarian shooting team in the 1936 Olympics. The only reason for this was that he was a sergeant in the army and only commissioned officers could participate in the Olympic team. This rule was removed before the 1940 Tokyo Olympics and his hopes were revived.
A grenade exploded in his hand
In 1938, Karoly Takacs had a major accident. During army training, a faulty grenade exploded in his hand. He was badly injured and his right hand was also badly injured. The doctors made it clear that he would never be able to fire a pistol again. It seemed that his dream of playing for his country in the Olympics would remain just a dream. But he was determined to do something. He started practicing with his left hand.
Hiding training
Karoly Takacs started training with his left hand, hiding from his teammates. Everyone was surprised when he won a gold medal in the national games in 1939. Not only this, he was also a member of the Hungarian team that won the World Shooting Championship in 1939. But despite this, the Olympic dream was still far away. The Second World War broke out and due to this the Olympic Games of 1940 and 1944 were cancelled. But he was not going to back down and did not lose hope.
History made in Olympics
Then came the moment he had been waiting for so long. In the 1948 Olympic Games, at the age of 38, he won the gold medal in the 25m air pistol event by shooting with his left hand. Not only this, in the next Olympics of 1952, he repeated the same history and surprised everyone by winning two gold medals. He entered the 1956 Olympics with the intention of making a hat-trick, but failed and finished eighth. He retired from the Army with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
A movie made in Bollywood
Recently, Abhishek Bachchan and Saiyami Kher's film 'Ghoomar' was released. In R Balki's film, a female cricketer's right hand gets cut off and she starts bowling with her left hand. It is believed that this film is inspired by Takacs' life.