Heavy Rain Impact! Masters Athletics Meet seemed like ‘Kesaru Gadde Ota’ Meet?
Heavy Rain Impact! Masters Athletics Meet seemed like ‘Kesaru Gadde Ota’ {Slush Field Race} Meet?
Mangaluru: As they always say that never believe or depend on the weatherman or weather Report? Unexpected Intermittent rain came in the way of what promised to be an absorbing Final day of 38th National Masters Athletic Championship going on at Mangala Stadium, sine 12 April, resulting in rainwater standing in most of the areas of the Stadium, making it slushy and hard to walk around. Heavy showers had been forecast for Sunday and they duly arrived early in the morning. It didn’t stop raining at all for awhile during the early morning hours, which made the organizers worry a lot.
Later, the rain did stop raining intermittently post scheduled morning sports events, and the volunteers and groundsmen even got down to work, clearing few water spots and slush areas. But not for long, the rain once again returned with a vengeance and put their efforts to nought. All the puddles, that had been cleared initially, were back on the outfield. A few minutes later, luckily the rain stopped for good around 7 am- and the good thing though is that the ground should soak up all the water quickly on account of the severe hot weather during the past few days, as and when rain stops.
During the early morning hours, the athletes who had showed up for the early morning events had a hard time to move around in the Stadium due to the standing water in various spots, and even to go for their breakfast location they had to take a longer walk from outside the stadium, since the organizers didn’t want to take chances these athletes slip and fall, and also they didn’t wanted slush/dirt to get on to the synthetic track when the athletes walk on it.
Even though the organizers planned this 4-day event to beat the monsoon season which starts soon, but all their efforts were in vain, since the Rain God struck on the last day of the Sports meet, thereby creating bit of inconveniences here and there. But no matter what, being in a true sportsmanship spirit, beating all the odds, the organizers carried on with the morning track/field events, under proper care and safety of the athletes.
With Motto ‘Health Through Sports’, the 38th National Masters Athletic Championship have been going on at Mangala Stadium in the City from 12-15 April, 2018 organized by Dakshina Kannada Masters Athletic Association in association with Karnataka Masters Athletic Association, and today being the the last day, with valedictory ceremony planned this evening. Nearly 1600 athletes are taking part in this championship, with 335 athletes from Karnataka, 320 from Maharashtra, 145 from Tamil Nadu, 140 from Kerala, 105 from Andhra Pradesh, 87 from Gujarath, 70 from Chandigarh, among many others. Invitee country Sri Lanka with 46 athletes also participated in various field and track events.
This Athletic event had attracted nearly 1600 athletes between the age of 30- 80+ from 18 Indian states, and also Sri Lanka to take part in various sports categories like 100m sprint, 800m, 5000m and 10,000m run, 5km walk, long jump, discuss throw, high jump, shot put, 4×100 m relay and much more. Among the youngsters, the older athletes also were showing keen interest and enthusiasm in the sports event. Although many of these elder folks may suffer some sprains, muscle aches, joint pains and other health symptoms, but they all take an challenge as they feel it’s part and parcel of the sports championship. Even though the rain dampened the area and played a little game on these young and old athletes, but they were all determined to finish where they started- be it Rain or Shine!
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