Teenager Pratik Maharana smashes 200m record, carries Odisha’s sprinting baton

Just after 5pm on Sunday, the phone rang inside Odisha’s Secretary of Sports Sachin Jadhav’s office on the third floor of the Kalinga Hockey Stadium. He had been waiting for that call. Jadhav listened, before answering excitedly: “Congratulations. He has done it. Yes, I’ll be there.” The caller was passing on the news that Pratik […]