MUMBAI: A margin as fine as 0.15 points is what separated Dipa Karmakar from a historic Olympic medal in the women's vault at the Rio Games in 2016. What the agony of her narrow miss did, however, was ignite interest in a sport in which India had never previously accomplished anything noteworthy on a global stage.
And while authorities here haven't quite managed to build on that interest over the years in the way one would have expected, that could be about to change.