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At the first international meet of his race walking career in Japan in March last year, Akshdeep Singh remembers standing at the start line with a smile. Fresh off breaking the men’s 20km race walk national record (1:19:55) a month earlier, the 24-year-old from Punjab had also become the first Indian male to breach the 2024 Paris Olympics qualifying mark. His mind was free lining up in Japan, he said, and his heart pumping.
A romantic of the ferocious Rafael Nadal forehand, Rutvick Mehta loves his tennis but has been covering various other sport since 2012. He writes for HT.