India's great leap: Historic gold-silver in triple jump at Commonwealth Games 2022
For once, the Indian participants in an athletics event weren't hanging on the margins, hoping for someone in the leader pack to suddenly implode. They were the leader pack, and it felt so disbelievingly different as triple jumpers Eldhose Paul and Abdulla Aboobacker consulted among themselves around the pit, only to be finally separated by a mere 0.01 cm for gold-silver. Praveen Chitravel narrowly missed out on the bronze. As Paul and Aboobacker reposed faith in India's old-as-time sporting diversity, Annu Rani won an unprecedented bronze in the women's javelin. Sandeep Kumar won a bronze in the 10,000m walk.
