But life had other things in store for him. He started out his practice back in 2013 but 3 years later, he had to put a stop to it as his parents suddenly fell sick. 

Since his father was an electrician, while his mother was a housemaker, he had to provide for the family. 

Rahul shared that the monthly cost for his parent’s medicines went up to ₹10,000-12,000 after which there was no money left for his diet and walking shoes. He had to leave his dream mid-way. 

Seeing their son in distress, Rahul’s parents encouraged him to resume his practice. By 2016, he started working on his dream yet again more determined than ever. 

He didn’t even have a coach, so he took his brother’s help to train as he had also played at the National levels. 

In 2017, Rahul had also joined the army through sports quota and worked hard on his dream to make it to the Olympics. 

Now, all that hard work has paid off because he has finally received a quota for the Tokyo Olympics Games in the category of Brisk Walk Race.

He qualified for the same by completing a 20km race walk in just one 1 hour 20 minutes and 26 seconds. 

He has shown us all that dreams never really die if you believe in them.