Year after year, one keeps hearing about the good news...that the synthetic track at the Maharaja’s Stadium here would be relaid. But as each year passes, the disappointment continues.
The Mahatma Gandhi University athletics championships, which began at the Maharaja’s Stadium on Monday, offered a glimpse of what Kerala’s young and promising athletes have to endure as they fight their way to national prominence.
The track, long dead and now with its top layer worn out in many places, forced the meet organisers to delay the afternoon events by a couple of hours as it as melting in many places.
