Glasgow: Four days ago, Tejaswin Shankar cut a lonely figure crouching on his haunches as he tried to suppress tears. A familiar knee injury had resurfaced after just one attempt in the high jump competition, turning his Commonwealth Games into a nightmare before they had barely begun.
On Friday evening, he stood in the same stadium with a decathlon bronze medal hanging from his neck, grinning through emotions that had swung from despair to disbelief in less than a week.
