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GOING THE DISTANCE

At the Asian Para Games in Hang-zhou in October, Sumit Antil was far from his best. A bulging disc in the back had been causing him trouble for a few months and he knew he had to preserve his body during the competition. “Since the leg with which I block is an artificial limb,

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