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Gaurika Singh Short Speech
Aug 6, 2016-Nepal's marvel kid Gaurika Singh engraved her name in the history books by turning into the most youthful competitor of the 31st Olympic Games planned for August 5-21 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

With 13 years and 235 days, the five-foot on inch (5'1'') the Nepali swimmer was named as the most youthful among the more than 10,000 competitor to contend in Rio Olympics, as indicated by the official Rio Olympics site. She was conceived on 26, 2002 in Nepal however presently lives with her folks in London. Her mom Garima is a previous SLC board topper.

"She's extraordinary. It's incredible that she's the most youthful Olympian in Rio and stunning how she adapts to all the weight," her dad Paras, a urologist at Royal Free Hospital in
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"When I discovered a month prior, it was a major stun." She will contend in 100m backstroke warms on Sunday and would like to better her national record of 1:07.31 in the occasion in Rio.

Singh broke Nepal's dry spell of individual decoration at global occasion, asserting one silver (200m individual variety) and three bronze awards (200m backstroke 100m backstroke, 400m free-form) amid the twelfth South Asian Games in Assam and Guwahati in India early this year.

She has been preparing at the Barnett Copthall Swimming Club in Mill Hill zone of north west London Singh throughout the previous four years. "She (Singh) has developed in the course of the last couple of years particularly in the wake of getting presented to the abnormal state rivalries like World Cup in Dubai, SA Games and World Championships in Kazan. Those occasions have helped her develop," her British mentor Rhys Gormley as of late said to the Post in
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Gaurika, who lives in London with her family, will join Team Nepal in Rio with her dad Paras Singh. She will be the most youthful player among 10,000 or more competitors in Rio. Concerning choice, Gaurika has said, "That is entirely cool, somewhat stunning, as well."

The majority of the universal media including the Olympic News Service has related her news stories with a year ago's April 25 seismic tremor which shook the nation. She was in Kathmandu then.

Citing her seismic tremor experience, French news organization APF keeps in touch with, "It was unnerving," she said of the experience she continued with her mom, Garima, and more youthful sibling Sauren while they were back in Nepal for the national swimming titles. The family, in a fifth-floor flat of a working in Kathmandu, shielded under a table before utilizing the stairs to leave the working as the consequential convulsions thundered.

"Luckily, it was another building so it didn't crumple like others around," she

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