Raipur, March 30 (IANS) When Pallavi Payeng’s daughter was just six months old, the weightlifter had to make a difficult choice to either leave the sport she loved so much or sacrifice her time with her daughter and go back to training. Her husband Sukhawon Thouwmung then agreed to pursue her dream while her mother offered to take care of the infant. Pallavi made all those sacrifice count as she bagged the silver medal in the women’s 69kg category at the inaugural Khelo India Tribal Games he…
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Raipur, March 26 (IANS) In 2022, during a regular class, when a sports teacher asked students to select different sports, 11-year-old Anjali Munda quietly raised her hand and chose swimming, the only sport she knew. Anjali comes from Gahiragadiya village in Odisha’s Jajpur district, about 100 kilometres from Bhubaneswar. She knew swimming as a fun activity that involved splashing water, but she never received any formal training. Anjali, the youngest of four siblings whose father is a van driv…