India made historical past on Sunday, successful an unprecedented double gold on the forty fifth Chess Olympiad. Each the lads’s and ladies’s group conquered the Olympiad, delivering India’s maiden gold medals in each classes. After the victory, the Indian contingent took to the dance ground to have a good time in model. In what appeared to be a deliberate celebration, members of the group, led by the likes of D Gukesh and R Praggnanandhaa, danced to the tune ‘Tunuk Tunuk’ with the trophy in hand.
Famend Indian businessman Anand Mahindra responded humorously, stating that victory is at all times finest celebrated in Punjabi.
“Victory is at all times communicated properly in Punjabi,” posted Mahindra on social media platform ‘X’.
Victory is at all times communicated properly in Punjabi!
— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) September 23, 2024
In an interplay with NDTV, Vantika Agrawal, one of many stars of the victorious India group, revealed that their celebrations had been deliberate in prior.
“We had deliberate this. We deliberate that after we win the medal, we are going to do that dance, this celebration, we are going to make some reels and go for dinner. Earlier than the match, we had been the primary seeds and it was form of anticipated that we might win a medal,” revealed Vantika.
This has not been the one distinctive celebration that the group has executed. The group’s totally different celebrations have gone viral throughout social media, with the standout being D Gukesh and Tania Sachdev replicating Rohit Sharma’s iconic trophy stroll from the 2024 T20 World Cup. The Instagram put up of the celebration has acquired over 30 million views and a pair of.6 million likes in lower than a day of being posted.
India had claimed the bronze medal – behind Ukraine and Georgia – within the forty fourth Chess Olympiad in 2022.
India’s victorious girls’s group consisted of Harika Dronavalli, Vaishali Rameshbabu, Divya Deshmukh, Vantika Agrawal and Tania Sachdev. Alternatively, the victorious males’s group consisted of D Gukesh, R Praggnanandhaa, Arjun Erigaisi, Vidit Gujrathi and Pentala Harikrishna.
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