Shooting: How Charlie Mackesy’s book helped Arjun Babuta overcome Paris Olympics heartbreak and win silver at World Cup | Sport-others News
Months after he finished up fourth in the men’s 10m air rifle final in Paris Olympics, Arjun Babuta would receive the author Charlie Mackesy’s picture book The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse from his coach Deepali Deshpande. The picture-book, which was later made into an 2023 Oscar winning animated short film, revolved around the idea of love, hope, friendship and the courage of asking for help with the storyline involving a boy getting lost in winter wilderness and crossing paths with a mole, a fox and a horse and eventually choosing to stay with his new friends. As Babuta clinced Silver, his first international medal, just 0.1 points behind eventual gold medal winner Sheng Lihao — who won gold at Paris Games — in the men’s 10m air rifle final in ISSF World Cup in Peru, Deshpande’s mind was taken to the book she gifted to Babuta. “It was a different Arjun post the fourth place finish in Paris. For some months, he was searching for answers and would even shut himself …
