By: Rithika Siddhartha
INDIAN luger Shiva Keshavan’s 20-year Olympic odyssey comes to an end at the Pyeongchang Games this weekend with a familiar lament about the country’s winter sports apathy. A teenage Keshavan shot down the luge track on a borrowed sled at Nagano in 1998 and at the age of 36, he will compete in his sixth consecutive Games at the Olympic Sliding Centre. There will be few compatriots to wish him well in the preliminary runs tomorrow (10), with cross-country skier Jagdish Singh the only other athlete to qualify from the country of 1.25 billion. For Keshavan, the face of Indian…
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