{"id":273759,"date":"2025-04-04T06:17:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T06:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/04\/golfer-diksha-dagar-involved-in-accident-in-paris-avoids-injury-set-to-compete-as-planned-in-olympics\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T06:17:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T06:17:42","slug":"golfer-diksha-dagar-involved-in-accident-in-paris-avoids-injury-set-to-compete-as-planned-in-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/04\/golfer-diksha-dagar-involved-in-accident-in-paris-avoids-injury-set-to-compete-as-planned-in-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Golfer Diksha Dagar involved in accident in Paris, avoids injury; set to compete as planned in Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/data.indianexpress.com\/election2019\/track_1x1.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Golfer Diksha Dagar involved in accident in Paris, avoids injury; set to compete as planned in Olympics\" title=\"Golfer Diksha Dagar involved in accident in Paris, avoids injury; set to compete as planned in Olympics\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"pcl-full-content\">\n<p>Indian golfer Diksha Dagar, set to take part in the Olympics, met with an accident in Paris on the intervening night of July 30-31 but is doing fine and will compete in the showpiece event as scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>The Dagar family \u2014 Diksha, her father and caddie Col Naren Dagar, her mother and brother \u2014 were in the car, which was hit by another vehicle on Tuesday night while they were returning from a function at India House. According to Col Dagar, Diksha is fine and will play the event as per schedule from August 7 and is also going for practice.<\/p>\n<p><ev-engagement group-name=\"contentLogin\"\/><ev-engagement group-name=\"myNotification\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ev-meter-content ie-premium-content-block\">\n<p>However, Diksha\u2019s mother has been hospitalised with a suspected injury in the spinal area. She will be in hospital for the next few days for treatment. The extent of it will be known only after further tests and diagnosis.<\/p>\n<div class=\"osv-ad-class\" style=\"background-color: #f2f2f2;height: 375px;margin-bottom: 15px;\">\n<p>Story continues below this ad<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe spoke to Diksha\u2019s father Col. Dagar after the accident and would like to confirm that the family is safe. Diksha\u2019s mother has suffered a stress in her spine due to the impact and is under medical supervision and her brother is also safe and sound. On behalf of the Indian Golf Union I would like to reiterate that we are in continuous touch with the family and will continue to provide whatever support possible in this situation,\u201d said Brijinder Singh, president of the Indian Golf Union.<\/p>\n<p>This is Diksha\u2019s second Olympic Games and the women\u2019s competition will start on August 7 and run through to August 10.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"iframe-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/wp-content\/themes\/indianexpress\/images\/lazy_placeholder.gif\" data-lazy-type=\"iframe\" data-src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/7FNmC60xvH5Vaxi9Sm2xi7?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday the men\u2019s competition, with Shubhankar Sharma and Gaganjeet Bhullar playing for India, got underway.<\/p>\n<p>(With agency inputs)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '444470064056909');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/sports\/golf\/golfer-diksha-dagar-accident-paris-olympics-9489580\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian golfer Diksha Dagar, set to take part in the Olympics, met with an accident in Paris on the intervening night of July 30-31 but is doing fine and will compete in the showpiece event as scheduled. The Dagar family \u2014 Diksha, her father and caddie Col Naren Dagar, her mother and brother \u2014 were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/data.indianexpress.com\/election2019\/track_1x1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[605],"tags":[9582,5932,27807,210556,210555,90920,210529,210545,210534,210535,210531,210532,210538,210540,210533,210537,210530,210550,210541,210552,210542,210546,210551,210543,3510,210547,210549,210544,210539,210536,1263,6584,4988,4987,8439,210554,320,210548,210553],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273761,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273759\/revisions\/273761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}