Jonathan Selvaraj is a sports journalist at ESPN. Earlier, he worked at The Indian Express. With more than a decade of experience in covering non-cricketing sports, Selvaraj has a knack for providing perfect analysis of games and performance of athletes, some of whom he has been covering for years and who have won medals at the recently concluded Tokyo Olympics - Neeraj Chopra, Bajrang Punia, Ravi Dahiya and others.  

In this conversation, he explains why top class athletes like Vinesh Phogat, Manu Bhaker and Amit Panghal couldn’t deliver on expectations while Neeraj Chopra, Bajrang Punia and Ravi Dahiya proved themselves.  

He also informs how wrestlers go through hell to cut weight before their bouts which has a huge impact on not only their performance in big games but also devastating effect on their long term health.  

He explains in this video why Sushil Kumar’s two medals in 2008 and 2012 Olympics are more significant than PV Sindhu’s consecutive bagging of medals of same colour in 2016 and 2020 Olympics.