AGARTALA, Sep 8 (TIWN): TMC felicitated Khel Ratna Dipa Karmakar on Thursday at her Abhoynagar residence at Agartala.

Along with Mukul Roy, many West Bengal Politicians remained present on that occasion. Sudip Roy Barman behalf of TMC presented a Golden Chain to her. Dipa’s coach Biswesar Nandi was also felicitated along with Dipa.

It’s worthy to mention here that Gymnast Dipa Karmakar,  who missed the bronze medal in the Rio Olympics by a whisker, was  felicitated by the Tripura government   on August 22, but no cash award was given.

Dipa is the first Indian gymnast to make the cut in the Olympics in 52 years. She is a specialist at ‘Prudonova’ vault and would also attempt the Tsukahara 720 vault. She is the fifth woman gymnast in the world to be skilled in the Prudonova.

Although the nation was expecting gold from Dipa but unfortunately Dipa dropped to fourth position and narrowly missed gold in the Rio Olympic.

Dipa Karmakar returned empty handed from the Vaults final at the Gymnastics event of Rio 2016 Olympics after she finished the event at fourth position. Karmakar scored 15.066 points in the final but clinching upto 4th position and representing India at such big platform is highly appreciable.

However, Dipa and her coach are highly satisfied as she made it upto Rio and now her target is Tokyo 2020.

But Dipa's age of 23 yrs now might face a problem as she will be 27 yrs age at Tokyo 2020. It is highly exceptional for athletes to stay active after 23-25 yrs as body nerves start to stiffen-up according to progressing age.