Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday announced that the State Government would soon work out modalities for providing jobs to the medalists and asked the State Chief Secretary to examine the matter on the top priority before taking a final decision.

In his address on the occasion to honour the Olympic medalists and participants of Tokyo Olympics-2020 with cash prize of Rs. 28.36 crore here at a glittering ceremony in Punjab Bhawan this evening who brought laurels to the country especially the state thereby making all the Punjabis proud on their rare feat, the Chief Minister said Punjab has rewritten the history in the sporting annals of the country.

CM along with the Punjab Governor VP Singh Badnore also transferred the cash prize money online in the accounts of the Olympic medalists and participants.

As a token of respect and gratitude, the women hockey players presented a hockey stick to the Chief Minister with signatures of its entire team members.

CM termed it as a beginning towards revival of India’s lost glory in Hockey.

CM announced to name the schools and approach roads leading to their native villages after the names of the players. He also asked the PWD and School Education Minister Vijay Inder Singla to identify such schools and roads so as to give due honour to the players who made every Punjabi proud.

CM also promoted the Men’s Hockey Captain Manpreet Singh as Superintendent of Police from DSP in Punjab Police.

While making a special mention of the Hockey legend Balbir Singh Senior and iconic Athlete Milkha Singh, he said nobody would have been happier than these two stalwarts at this rare achievement, had they been alive today. He said the state government would also honour Gold Medal winner Javelin Thrower Neeraj Chopra the first ever Indian athlete to achieve the unique accomplishment, having roots in Punjab, who could not make it to attend this function.

CM said that athlete Kamalpreet Kaur would ever inspire the budding players to further achieve the new heights of glory in national as well as international tournaments. He also highly lauded the participation of Punjab players in boxing, shooting and athletics.

On the occasion, 10 Bronze medal winner male Hockey players have been honoured with Rs. 2.51 crore each, Two Women Hockey players (Semi-Final) with Rs. 50 lakh each, One male Hockey player (Participant) with Rs. 50 lakh, One athlete (Finalist) with Rs. 50 lakh and six players (Participants) with Rs. 21 lakh each.

Notably, the 20 players from Punjab took part in the Tokyo Olympics comprised 11 from Men’s Hockey team (Bronze Medal winners) viz. Manpreet Singh (Captain), Mandeep Singh, Hardik Singh, Harmanpreet Singh, Rupinderpal Singh, Shamsher Singh, Dilpreet Singh, Gurjant Singh, Krishan Pathak, Varun Kumar and Simranjit Singh, 3 from Athletics namely Tejinderpal Singh Toor (Shotput), Kamalpreet Kaur (Discus Throw) and Gurpreet Singh (50 Km Walker), 2 each from Women’s Hockey team (reached semi-finals and was placed 4th) viz. Gurjit Kaur, Reena Khokhar and Shooting viz. Anjum Moudgill and Angadvir Singh, 1 from Boxing namely Simranjit Kaur and 1 from Badminton viz. Palak Kohli who would shortly participate in the Paralympics.

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The government has also announced a Class-I government job to Dahiya and Class-II government to the two hockey players.

These announcements were made by CM after the cabinet meeting chaired by him was concluded. Besides the awards, Khattar also announced that a world-class indoor wrestling stadium shall be constructed at Ravi Dahiya’s native village Nahari in the Sonipat district of Haryana.

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Portland, Oregon,  (Reuters) – Fast-starting Barbara Pierre is ready for a run at the Rio Olympics.

The American sprinter rocketed her way to victory in the women’s 60 metres at the world indoor championships on Saturday, surprising Dutch world 200m champion Dafne Schippers and adding her name to potential candidates for the U.S. Olympic team.

The Haitian-born sprinter never let up after bursting out of the blocks, winning in 7.02 seconds, two-hundredths of a second faster than Schippers, the world 100m silver medallist.

“It was amazing,” the 29-year-old Pierre said. “The crowd just gave me that extra bit. I said, ‘I’m at home I need to win this, nobody else.”

Ranked third behind Tori Bowie and English Gardner among American 100m sprinters last year, she had run a lifetime best 7.00 seconds for 60m at the U.S. championships a week ago to equal Schippers’ 2016 world-leading mark from February.

But even after backing up that quick time with rounds of 7.07 and 7.06 seconds at the world championships, she needed a quick start to defeat the favoured Schippers.

“I didn’t see anybody,” said Pierre of her rapid release in the final. “That’s why I didn’t know if I won or not. I was zoned out. I couldn’t see anything.”

She probably would not have won without the quick start, she said.

“It is such a short race so you kind of have to get out,” Pierre said. “And that is like my strongest point.”

Schippers was clearly beaten at the start and could not overcome Pierre.

“It was not a good race,” the Dutch runner said. “My start was not so good but my speed was very good. So I am just going to go for the outdoor season and go for the 100 and 200m.”

She no doubt will be a top challenger to Jamaican Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in the 100m and likely the co-favourite with American Allyson Felix in the 200m at Rio.

Pierre has never been to the Games as an American, representing Haiti in the 2008 Beijing Olympics before becoming a U.S. citizen.

“I am so ready for Rio,” the new world champion added.

 (Editing by John O’Brien)

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