NEW DELHI: He could sleep for just three hours after his historic silver-medal feat in Birmingham. He couldn't get time to talk to his mother at length until the day after. But no one in this family of athletes from the Palakkad district in Kerala is complaining. Murali Sreeshankar, the young Olympian in the house, had won his first and the country's maiden Commonwealth Games (CWG) medal in men's long jump.
"All of us had been waiting for this medal for a very long time." When Sreeshankar mentioned "all", he specifically meant his father and coach, Murali Sivashankar, a former triple-jumper, and mother KS Bijimol, who is a former international 800m runner.
