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Back from Athens with a couple of medals, and a suitcase full of angst
India’s Paralympians returned home from Athens last night with their two medals — a gold and bronze, in case you hadn’t followed events — and a suitcase full of angst. If bitterness could translate into medals, we’d have a suitcase of those instead.
Disabled? Not by the clock
The jaw-dropping performance of a teenage wunderkind at the Athens Paralympics is suddenly raising the question of whether a double-leg amputee can run fast enough to qualify for the able-bodied games.
‘I’m often made to feel like a piece of s***’
Boniface Prabhu is easily India’s best known differently-abled sportsperson.
Our other Olympians
They don’t exist even on the fringes of our consciousness. But India’s Paralympians, who won their sixth Olympic medal last week, deserve to be treated at par, says Shamya Dasgupta. And hold the sympathy
Not By Accident Alone
If Devendra and Boniface set the standards on the field, Digambor Parasuram Mehendale is the uber-coach of paralympians.
Pakistan’s only female athlete in the Olympics today said she was hurt by negative feelings about Islam in Athens where she claimed she was criticised for running in clothes that fully covered her body.
32 golds at Athens is simply the appetiser for the Grand Feast at Beijing, 2008. Ashok Malik, who saw the finished goods at the Olympics, takes a look at where they come from
Pity the K P Singh Deo Committee. If indeed it is to get to the bottom of the increasingly murky lifters’ doping scandal, it will need to bypass the red herrings strewn along its way. For example, the statements by chief national coach Pal Singh Sandhu and foreign expert Leonid Taranenko.
The mystery of when and how weightlifters Sanamacha Chanu and Pratima Kumari took illegal substances that led to their expulsion from the Olympic Games will require a team of psychologists and detectives to crack. Because the disgraced coaches, Leonid Taranenko and Pal Singh Sandhu, have virtually cleared one and condemned the other.
The members of Iraq’s Olympic football team, who gave their war-ravaged country a rare reason to rejoice by reaching the semi-finals of the Athens Olympics, were celebrated as heroes during a ceremony in Baghdad today.
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