Sonepat,<\/p>\n
This is not the Parveen Rana that the world saw in the bloody, brutish trial that he had lost to Sushil Kumar in December last year. This Rana has just suffered a personal tragedy, one which he knew was coming for the last six months: 13 days ago, Rana\u2019s mother Rajbala lost her fight against cancer, which was detected over a year ago. Tuesday was his first day back at the Sports Authority of India\u2019s Sonepat training base, which had a sizeable crowd to see the trial for the Asian Games. \u201cI came back today only,\u201d Rana said. \u201cYesterday was her teharvin (13th day of mourning period).\u201d \u201cDoctors had told us that she has little time on her hands. I was very close to my mother and whenever she would want to see me, I had to rush home as we knew she did not have much time,\u201d said the 74kg grappler, who is from Qutubgarh village in Delhi. \u201cI had to sometimes finish my training here in the morning and then rush home.\u201d Besides the mental trauma, the treatment drained the family\u2019s savings too. \u201cWe must have spent Rs 40-45 lakh in the treatment. But money isn\u2019t important. It was important for us to do everything that we could have done to save her. We couldn\u2019t save her,\u201d he said. Rana\u2019s first test, both physical and mental after his personal loss, may take place in the first week of July, when the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) plans to hold the 74kg trial for the World Championships. But there is a rider: Whoever wins the trial may have to square up against double Olympics medallist Sushil Kumar.<\/span><\/p>\n Sushil motivation<\/p>\n For Rana, there is no greater motivation now but to beat Sushil in the ring. Last December, the two squared up against each other in the trial for this year\u2019s Commonwealth Games. While Sushil beat Rana 7-2 in a bloody contest, what happened after the fight shamed Indian wrestling. Sushil\u2019s supporters allegedly thrashed both Rana and his brother Naveen for \u201cdaring to fight\u201d against his one-time Chhatrasal Stadium mentor. The Rana brothers had filed an FIR against Sushil, and the investigation in the \u201cassault case\u201d is still continuing. \u201cNothing will happen in the case,\u201d Rana today said. \u201cHis supporters were wrong, and we also in the heat of the moment registered the FIR, and it was justified. But I don\u2019t think any action will happen now.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sonepat, This is not the Parveen Rana that the world saw in the bloody, brutish trial that he had lost to Sushil Kumar in December last year. This Rana has just suffered a personal tragedy, one which he knew was coming for the last six months: 13 days ago, Rana\u2019s mother Rajbala lost her fight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35392,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35390\/revisions\/35392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}