NEW DELHI: The tin shack with plastic sheets and a couple of sparse bricks is an unlikely metaphor for the teenager who calls it home. Sitting through the railway tracks in the Bada Bagh slums in the Capital's Azadpur house, it trembles each and every time a teach passes through but refuses to collapse.
From a life beside those tracks, Nisar Ahmad will quickly embark for the hallowed one at the Racers Track Club in Kingston, Jamaica, home of athletics superstar Usain Bolt and his venerable trainer, Glen Mills.
Ahmad, the son of a rickshaw puller and a house maid, is amongst 14 budding athletes chosen to undergo a month's training at the world's most renowned monitor and field membership. In a first partnership of this nature, athletes in the 15-18 years age team from Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Odisha and Delhi have been decided on below the initiative undertaken through the Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) and sports management corporate, Anglian Medal Hunt. The Kingston membership assessed the applicants' features and attainable and agreed to a four-week training programme.
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For the 16-year-old Ahmad, working laps at Bolt's membership has been subsidized through some impressive runs on his home turf. It is staggering for the reason that with a mixed per thirty days source of revenue of an insignificant Rs 5000, the circle of relatives unearths it being tough to position food on the table, let by myself supply a nutrition rich in protein for a budding runner.
At first, the gifted teenager is proud enough to not let the poverty display. "Our parents somehow manage to provide us with meals," he says defiantly, as his mom Safikunisha affectionately pipes in, "Even as a child he used to run very fast. No one could catch him." At the hot Delhi State Athletics meet, the Government Boys Secondary School, Ashok Vihar scholar broke two national under-16 information as he bagged two gold medals in the brief sprints. He shaved off 0.02 seconds off the 100m file, working in 11seconds. Ahmad also eclipsed the existing 200m mark of 22.11secs, clocking 22.08 sec.
As he opens up, the putting poverty surrounding him and his aspirations, he admits, often leaves him despondent. "Some friends whom I train with, occasionally invite me to their big houses. I never bring friends home because there is no place even to seat them," he sighs, seated of their cramped, 10 through 10 feet, poorly ventilated living that he shares together with his sister and fogeys. The front lies over a drain carrying sewage water from the crowded shanties in the slum. "I cry sometimes because God has given me a very tough life," he says, "But it is my poverty that has inspired me to work hard in the face of such challenges."
"He used to run bare-feet. I trained him but with his talent, I realised he needed proper training," recollects physical schooling trainer Surendra Singh who saw the prospective in the scrawny boy in 2013.
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From a life beside those tracks, Nisar Ahmad will quickly embark for the hallowed one at the Racers Track Club in Kingston, Jamaica, home of athletics superstar Usain Bolt and his venerable trainer, Glen Mills.
Ahmad, the son of a rickshaw puller and a house maid, is amongst 14 budding athletes chosen to undergo a month's training at the world's most renowned monitor and field membership. In a first partnership of this nature, athletes in the 15-18 years age team from Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Odisha and Delhi have been decided on below the initiative undertaken through the Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) and sports management corporate, Anglian Medal Hunt. The Kingston membership assessed the applicants' features and attainable and agreed to a four-week training programme.
Read this story in Bengali
For the 16-year-old Ahmad, working laps at Bolt's membership has been subsidized through some impressive runs on his home turf. It is staggering for the reason that with a mixed per thirty days source of revenue of an insignificant Rs 5000, the circle of relatives unearths it being tough to position food on the table, let by myself supply a nutrition rich in protein for a budding runner.
Sprinting past the percentages: Born in slum, this Delhi boy is surroundings national information
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At first, the gifted teenager is proud enough to not let the poverty display. "Our parents somehow manage to provide us with meals," he says defiantly, as his mom Safikunisha affectionately pipes in, "Even as a child he used to run very fast. No one could catch him." At the hot Delhi State Athletics meet, the Government Boys Secondary School, Ashok Vihar scholar broke two national under-16 information as he bagged two gold medals in the brief sprints. He shaved off 0.02 seconds off the 100m file, working in 11seconds. Ahmad also eclipsed the existing 200m mark of 22.11secs, clocking 22.08 sec.
As he opens up, the putting poverty surrounding him and his aspirations, he admits, often leaves him despondent. "Some friends whom I train with, occasionally invite me to their big houses. I never bring friends home because there is no place even to seat them," he sighs, seated of their cramped, 10 through 10 feet, poorly ventilated living that he shares together with his sister and fogeys. The front lies over a drain carrying sewage water from the crowded shanties in the slum. "I cry sometimes because God has given me a very tough life," he says, "But it is my poverty that has inspired me to work hard in the face of such challenges."
"He used to run bare-feet. I trained him but with his talent, I realised he needed proper training," recollects physical schooling trainer Surendra Singh who saw the prospective in the scrawny boy in 2013.
Read this story in Marathi
Rickshaw puller’s son to train in Bolt’s club
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