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Smashing stereotypes and surpassing societal limitations, Hima, Saritaben, Vismaya and Poovama beat all odds to win India's 5th consecutive 4x400m gold at #AsianGames!

The athlete, who had to attach a Kinesio tape around her swollen right jaw, to make the pain bearable, also won shot put, javelin and high jump. She also became the fifth woman athlete to score 6,000 points in the sport.

The journey for Manjit was never easy. When he wasn’t undergoing strenuous training at Ooty and Bhutan, he would return home once a year to help his father herd cattle on their farm in their native village, Ujhana, in the Jind district of Haryana.

Chetna spends close to five hours each day training and is currently preparing for the national-level selections, which are likely to take place in the next two months.

Having met with an unfortunate road accident in 2003, she succumbed to an injury in her spinal cord, which resulted in paralysis of her lower body.

The daughter of a rice farmer from Dhing village in Nagaon district, she has worked hard to get to this position. Would you believe it if I said that she trained in her father’s rice field and that it was only last year that she took up racing seriously?

The men's hockey team has been victorious in more ways than one, and need all the support they can get.

The Kerala lad also broke another record in a long-distance race in the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.

The role of Tapan Das, played by Akshay Kumar is inspired by Kishan Lal, the former captain of the Indian hockey, a fiery right winger on the field and a true sportsman.

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