1974 photo of Milkha Singh (far left) with his companions, near Amritsar in Punjab. (via Wikimedia Commons) I was born in 1979. Milkha Singh ran his last competitive race in 1964. Yet, I know his career milestones as if I witnessed them. His stories were part of folklore, passed from one generation to another—a tradition that continues to this day. One never questioned the authenticity of these tales. Because deep down you wanted to believe them. For all their superpowers, Batman, Superman, Spiderman and other such assorted characters you grew up watching and reading about were, you knew, pure fiction. Milkha Singh was all flesh and blood. An icon in a country perpetually starved of real-life heroes; more so of the sporting variety. So, if your grandfather told you that Milkha Singh would have won the gold medal in the 400m at the 1960 Rome Olympics if he hadn't looked over his shoulder at the halfway mark, whilst leading the race, you believed it. Your father presented an alternate version: The two American runners in the finals came up with a cunning strategy. One of them was to hit his strides early on in the race and entice Milkha into… Read full this story
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