Friends off field, rivals on it: Gold for one, new India record for other - The Indian Express

On Sunday evening, Jeswin Aldrin (21) and Murali Sreeshankar (23) were engaged in a dramatic face-off, in a long jump competition of lengths never reached before on Indian soil.

ONE IS the grandson of the man who introduced the famous Muscoth halwa to Thoothukudi in Tamil Nadu. The other, from Palakkad in Kerala, is one of the countrys brightest track-and-field stars. The tw… [+4892 chars]

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