The Indian women’s 4x400m relay team’s five-gold winning streak at the Asian Games may have ended in Hangzhou but the way the girls won the silver promises much, feels Adille Sumariwalla.
“We have very simple, ordinary sprinters but they ran 3:27s and broke our own previous Asian Games record. We had some of the best all-time teams earlier and they have run only 3:28,” said the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) president in a chat with The Hindu here.
“Women’s relay is slowly coming back, they are already back, we’ve not heard those names before...simple-looking girls. If you start looking around, you’ll get more and more athletes. The word is patience.”
