AS SHE climbed down the steps at the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium, Swapna Barman, India’s newly-minted Asian Games heptathlon champion, handed over her gold medal to a bearded man and bent down to touch his feet.
“It’s quite heavy,” Subhas Sarkar said once she had moved on, weighing the piece of yellow metal in his palm before unzipping his rucksack and stuffing it inside.
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