Mar Athanasius Faculty’s C. Chanthini, a former Asian under-18 medallist, after successful the ladies’s 1500m on the MG College athletics meet. On her left is part of the worn-out observe.
| Photograph Credit score: Stan Rayan
12 months after yr, one retains listening to about the excellent news…that the artificial observe on the Maharaja’s Stadium right here can be relaid. However as every year passes, the frustration continues.
The Mahatma Gandhi College athletics championships, which started on the Maharaja’s Stadium on Monday, provided a glimpse of what Kerala’s younger and promising athletes should endure as they struggle their method to nationwide prominence.
The observe, lengthy lifeless and now with its prime layer worn out in lots of locations, pressured the meet organisers to delay the afternoon occasions by a few hours because it as melting in lots of locations.
The college has produced a number of the nation’s brightest athletes together with Preeja Sreedharan, Jinson Johnson, V.Ok. Vismaya and Muhammed Ajmal however now its athletes should compete on a horrible observe with a fear that they might get injured any time.
It’s time for Kerala to return collectively to relay with none additional delay.