Athletics Inter-state meet : Dutee anchors Odisha to relay win After sailing over the bar at 2.16 metres, S Harshith let out a guttural scream that echoed around the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. All his fears, frustrations and disappointments were expelled through that volatile expression as the Karnataka high jumper picked up his maiden gold medal at the Inter-State Athletics Championships here on Sunday. Harshith’s performance wasn’t the best of his career. It was well below his capabilities even. But for an athlete who has been battling hard to find the right priorities in life, it was perhaps a message he was waiting to receive, on a dull...
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