Dipa Karmakar is eying a podium finish in the forthcoming Asian Gymnastics Championship, to be held in Tashkent Uzbekistan from 23rd May. Dipa acquired a bronze medal in this competition in 2014. 

The Indian women's team consist of the country's three leading female gymnasts, Dipa Karmakar, Pranati Nayak, and Aruna Reddy. Simultaneously, after a gap of two years Dronacharya and Dipa's coach Bishweshwar Nandi has been back as the women’s coach for the competition. Nandi was the national women’s coach last in 2022 for the Birmingham Commonwealth Games. 

Dipa's effort to earn a qualification for the Paris Olympics in the vault event already faced a setback due to her past struggles including knee operations twice in 2017 and 2019 due to ACL tears and 21-month suspension following doping violation. 

Due to suspension Dipa could not take part in the World Cup in Cottbus, Germany, and finished in the fifth position in Cairo World Cup. 

Still, she has a chance to earn qualification for the greatest show on earth, to be held from 26th July to 11th August in Paris. Her coach revealed, "Considering the current rank of the qualifiers in the world gymnastics, Dipa is on the second-placed. So if any qualified gymnast withdraws at the last moment then Dipa can be considered. Otherwise, she has to win a gold medal in an all-round event to earn a Paris ticket." 

Dipa once again showed her mental strength to finish in fourth place, missing medals by a whisker in the two World Cups in Baku and Doha this year, shrugging off the injury and long 21-month lay-off. 

She scored 13,333, exhibiting the vault with 540 degrees in the front and 720-degree Tsukahara in the back before landing. 

The 30-year-old Olympian gymnast is training for around five hours a day at Agartala in Tripura, trying her best to show a glimpse of her golden time in the Asian Championship.