TOISA: How Yogi Adityanath govt transformed UP’s sports scenario in 7 years | – Times of India
On right track to prepare perfect pitchAthlete Parul Chaudhary was about to miss her gold medal by a whisker, but it was a unique motivation - of donning the khaki as a deputy superintendent of police - that helped her snatch victory from the jaws of defeat."In the last 20 metres of the race, I was behind Japanese athlete Ririka Hironaka, but suddenly I bursted for four seconds to cross the finish line first," recalled Parul, who made history in Oct last year by becoming the first Indian woman to win 5000 metres race to fetch the country a gold medal in the Asian Games.TOISA 2023 gala sports awards function today in LucknowAfter the feat, the gritty sportsperson from Meerut told TOI that she had read in the newspapers that UP govt would offer the post of DSP to athletes who won medals i...