Archer Deepika Kumari's mother performs puja ahead of her Olympics game

Ahead of Deepika Kumari, India’s women's archer's event today at the Paris Olympics, her mother, Geeta Devi, performed pooja and offered prayers at her home in Ranchi. Bolstered by their best-ever show in the ranking rounds, Indian archers will look to end a 36-year-long wait for an Olympic medal with yet another good show in the medal rounds that will get underway with the women's finals here on Sunday. Indian archery fraternity can hope for multiple medals from the historic Les Invalides arena following Dhiraj Bommadevara (seeded fourth) and Ankita Bhakat's (11th) exploits in the qualifiers.