After PT Usha,Dutee qualifies for 100m in Olympics

After a along wait for over more than two decades, India will have a representation in the 100 meter event at the upcoming Rio Olympics. Dutee Chand the national 100m champion from Odisha clocked 11:30 seconds to win the 100m at an international event in Almaty and thereby qualifying for the Summer Games. Earlier in April she had a major setback to her olympic dreams as she missed the Olympics qualifying by 0.01 seconds at the 100 meter event of Federation Cup in New Delhi in April. But this time she clocked 11.30s in the 100m, beating the qualifying mark of 11.32 secs. Dutee who is one of the 4 children of a poor weaver family, will be the first one after PT Usha, who had qualified in the event back in 1980, to participate in the event.