KOCHI: It is not often you see sprinters wearing power glasses. No wonder many coaches were left a little bemused when they were told that a bespectacled boy wearing a Kasaragod team jersey, walking alongside the synthetic track of Maharaja’s College Stadium, holding his brother’s hand on Wednesday evening, was a sprinter.
Two days later, the same boy, wearing those thickly framed glasses, proved that looks can be deceptive by storming to a gold medal in the sub-junior boys’ 100m final. The boy was Niyas Ahmad of Govt HSS Angadimoger in Kasaragod district, who clocked 12.40 seconds to grab gold.
