Four visually-impaired young athletes will be going to Paris to demonstrate their mallakhamb skills at the Paris Olympics India House. The Olympics will begin on July 26 in the French capital. 

The four young practitioners, training in mallakhamb, which is an indigenous sport and essentially means yoga on a rope or pole, practise at Shivaji Park. Their Paris participation is much more than a simple demonstration of their skills on the rope and mallakhamb or pole. It is a showcase for a traditional Indian sport, it will open the eyes of the world to mallakhamb. It also brings a new dimension to yoga, already well-known and on the world radar even more because of International Yoga Day. What it really highlights is that these athletes are visually-challenged, overcoming that obstacle, they show great determination and fortitude to travel daily to the training centre. They put in hours of work and have reached this level, after so many challenges and putting ability into disability.