Indian bike owner David Beckham Elkatohchoongo’s hopes of successful a medal on the Asian Games ended after he misplaced the quarterfinal match in males’s dash occasion on the Asian Games on Thursday. David misplaced to Kaiya Ota after ending 2.395 seconds behind the Japanese within the first race and 0.046 seconds within the second race on the dash quarterfinal warmth 2. He will now compete for fifth–eighth place within the occasion. Among others, Niraj Kumar completed in seventh place with 24 factors within the males’s Omnium Scratch race 1/4.

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David Beckham Elkatohchoongo and Ronaldo Laitonjam Singh are each observe cyclists for India.

And they did bend it like Beckham as they sped around the steeply banked curves of the Chun’an Jieshou Sports Centre Velodrome.

Ronaldo had made his Games debut on Tuesday, serving to India to fifth place in Tuesday’s group dash qualification.

Beckham positioned ninth in Wednesday’s particular person dash qualifying, 4 locations increased than Ronaldo.

“My father was a footballer in the national team, and he was a huge fan of David Beckham,” Elkatohchoongo defined.

“When I was born in the hospital, they told my mum: if it’s a boy, then it’s David Beckham.”

One would possibly suppose with a reputation like that he might need turned to soccer somewhat than biking.

“I played football when I was young, 14 years old,” he stated.

“I switched to cycling in 2017, and I started my professional cycling (career) in Delhi five years ago, and now I’m in the professional league properly.”

Laitonjam’s father was equally an enormous fan of the previous Barcelona and Brazil wizard Ronaldinho.

Posted in Kashmir for work, he had a wager with some buddies on Ronaldinho to attain in opposition to England within the quarter-final of the 2002 World Cup.

Ronaldinho obliged with the winner in a 2-1 victory and Brazil went on to raise the trophy.

Seconds after the sport, the cellphone rang and he found his spouse had gone into labour of their house city of Imphal nearly 2,000 kilometres (1,200 miles) away.

“Just as the ball went in the goal, I must have started making an appearance,” Laitonjam advised The Hindu newspaper.

“I think my dad won some money that day. That’s probably why I got that name. He felt I was very lucky for him.”

(With AFP Inputs)