‘I’d have won gold had I been a little taller’: Dutee Chand

TIL Desk Sports/ Dutee Chand is the first Indian lady athlete fter the legendary P T Usha to win two sprint medals in a single Asian Games. The 5′ 3″ sprinter finished second in the 100 and 200 metres at the Jakarta Games. What Dutee achieved is certainly commendable after everything she has gone thorough.

The 22-year-old runner from Odisha was not allowed to participate in the 2014 Asian Games as she was serving a ban under the International Athletics Federation’s hyperandrogenism policy. She filed a plea against the policy before the Court of Arbitration for Sport and won her appeal.

On Wednesday, September 5, Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi acknowledged her achievements at a felicitation for India’s Asian Games medalists. The prime minister told the champion that he has been following her struggle and promised her all support.