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A salute to the 10 Olympians who made it big
The Telegraph | Imtiaz Ahmed | Dec 30
Even before M.C. Mary Kom boxed her way to a bronze medal at the London Olympics, there were 10 good reasons for the Northeast to celebrate — and to rejoice over the triumph of individual brilliance and enterprise over the almost regular bouts of unrest in one state or the other.
The reasons were Magnificent Mary herself and her nine other co-participants at the Games — boxers L. Devendro Singh, Shiva Thapa, archers Tarundeep Rai, Jayanta Talukdar, L Bombayla Devi and Chekrovolu Swuro, hockey player Kathajit Singh, tennis player Somdev Devvarman and weightlifter Ngangbam Soniya Chanu.
Five came from Manipur, two from Assam and one each from Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland.
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