agartala one may almost call agartala the karmakar city now ever since the locals were made aware of dipa karmakars stellar performance at rio olympics she and her coach bisheswar nandi cannot move around the city without being mobbed streets and lanes are dominated by dipas billboards and people especially students get enthralled at the very mention of her0353age is not a factor for gymnasts fitness is dipa karmakarcurrently back home dipa is enjoying her rest period and soaking in the celebrity status of an olympian who almost won a medal for the country even amid the glamour dipa and nandi ensure to visit the tripura sports council where an office is designated to them and thats where toi sports caught up with the coachpupil duo to have a candid chatin conversation with dipawere you happy that you finished fourth or disappointed on not winning a medal in riodipa both struck me one after the other initially i was happy knowing that from finishing eighth in the qualifiers i emerged fourth in the main event i had registered a score of 15plus which is considered really well as the visuals also showed after executing the produnova and the tsukahara vaults i immediately went and hugged my coach clearly i thought that i had pulled off both the vaults nicely and more importantly landed well later when the results were out i got to know that i had missed a podium finish by an agonising margin of 015 it was then that the disappointment outdid my happiness i thought that perhaps if i could have put in just that bit of an extra effort i could have had a medal in my handwhat is the one advice that youve received which still spurs youdipa had i been asked this question a month back it would have been easier for me to tell you laughs but lately so many greats have given me a piece of mind that its virtually impossible to point out one but yes when i recently met sachin tendulkar sir he told me something my coach also keeps telling me that always think that whatever you have achieved in life never think that youve done enough and always believe that there is always more to what im doing this means more improvement more dedication and with that better result sachin sir in particular told me that i am still only starting and that i should follow whatever my coach instructs me toformer olympian nellie kim once told you that in 10 years time indian gymnastics will be at the same level as the chinese team how far did that go in terms of motivationdipa i would have to say that before anything else that really took my motivation to a whole new level while growing up ive heard so many times that girls cannot do gymnastics or that their performance has no standard and sometimes stuff like we wont send them out for tournaments so when you get